Posted 10:28 AM by Gene

The strange thing about ROGER!!!!!!!!!!'s and PHIL!!!!!!!!!!'s profit centers is this -- from what we can gather they run ads more apt for public-access cable. I mean, how much money can you make from "NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO GET INTO THE MARKET FOR GOLD!!!!!" and "AN INCREDIBLE TOENAIL-FUNGUS REMOVER!!!!!"? Here's the problem: as the vice-presidents of all the Madison Avenue-supporting fiefdoms in Corporate America know, advertising money is fungible. So these two frauds can afford the shills for MIRACLE VITAMIN JUICE MAKER!!!!! or whatever because they've filled their schedules with anodyne news shows crammed with mainstream ads. So the usual gang of idiots does pay for the screaming maniacs, and the fiefdoms can claim a benefit from a halo effect. In short, our money pays for factional incitement. It isn't enough then to call for boycotts of the maniacs; we must call for TOTAL BOYCOTTS of FOX!!!!!!!!!NEWS and the MESS.

And while we're at it, we should hurt the pocketbooks of SLIME and VERY LITTLER JEFFY and BRIAN ROBBER and LOWSY MAYS and every other grand corporate poohbah who'd encourage factional incitement.

Needless to say these don't have the proverbial snowball's chance in Hell of ever happening; but if the talk of the last few days is to be more than a corrupt nation's severe bout with flatulence we should TAKE OUR MONEY FROM WHERE THEIR MOUTHS ARE.

P. S. from last November 5:

Mr. Olbermann's "Countdown" program drew $13.1 million in the first eight months of 2010, according to Kantar Media, up slightly from the nearly $12.4 million "Countdown" drew in the year-earlier period. Many advertisers on the cable-news channels make deals that place their commercials across specific parts of the day – early morning or prime-time, for instance- rather than only in certain shows. In 2009, MSNBC took in approximately $131.5 million in ad revenue, according to Kantar.

Like other TV-news programs, Mr. Olbermann's top sponsors hail largely from the pharmaceutical industry, which often pitches its wares at the older spectrum of TV watchers. For the first ten months of 2010, "Countdown's" top sponsors included Pfizer Inc., Eli Lilly & Co, and Nissan, according to Kantar Media. [Emphasis added]

While we're not so certain now about the sponsorships -- and we'd watch the screaming maniacs only if someone paid us what GLENN!!!!!!!!!! and KEITH!!!!!!!!!! make, combined -- this affirms what we said about the sneakiness of the fiefdoms, and their desire to sponsor insulting programming without appearing to sponsor it.

And we must say we understand Big Pharma's desire to finance the screaming maniacs; if they can inspire enough disease among potentially vulnerable viewers that means more pills to sell.