Obama Buys 30 Minutes Of Primetime On CBS
The Hollywood Reporter's James Hibberd is reporting that the Obama campaign purchased a half-hour of primetime airtime on CBS. A special from the Obama camp, sources tell him, will air on Oct. 29th at 8 pm.
The campaign is also reportedly in talks with NBC and Fox for a similar deal.
Contacted by Horserace, a CBS spokesperson declined to comment on the report. The Obama campaign confirmed the primetime network ad buy, reports CBS News' Maria Gavrilovic, but would not specify which network.
UPDATE: The Obama campaign has now confirmed the report, with spokesman Bill Burton saying the campaign has bought the time from CBS and is negotiating with other networks.
Such purchases are rare in modern politics, though back in 1992 independent candidate Ross Perot, "armed with more than two dozen charts and a metal pointer," made his case in primetime. A 30-minute block on CBS cost the wealthy candidate $380,000, the New York Times reported, and his buy pre-empted the show "Rescue 911."
"In October 1992, Perot drew audiences of 16.5 million and 10.5 million for 30-minute lectures/campaign ad aimed at voters," notes Hibberd. "But in Perot's second run in 1996, the candidate was rebuffed by the Big Four networks in an attempt to sell airtime. The FCC backed the networks in denying Perot airtime, saying that they acted legally in refusing."
The campaign is also reportedly in talks with NBC and Fox for a similar deal.
Contacted by Horserace, a CBS spokesperson declined to comment on the report. The Obama campaign confirmed the primetime network ad buy, reports CBS News' Maria Gavrilovic, but would not specify which network.
UPDATE: The Obama campaign has now confirmed the report, with spokesman Bill Burton saying the campaign has bought the time from CBS and is negotiating with other networks.
Such purchases are rare in modern politics, though back in 1992 independent candidate Ross Perot, "armed with more than two dozen charts and a metal pointer," made his case in primetime. A 30-minute block on CBS cost the wealthy candidate $380,000, the New York Times reported, and his buy pre-empted the show "Rescue 911."
"In October 1992, Perot drew audiences of 16.5 million and 10.5 million for 30-minute lectures/campaign ad aimed at voters," notes Hibberd. "But in Perot's second run in 1996, the candidate was rebuffed by the Big Four networks in an attempt to sell airtime. The FCC backed the networks in denying Perot airtime, saying that they acted legally in refusing."
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See all 58 CommentsTo add to the point, McCain warned of problems with the housing market two years ago as you said, but the democratic controlled congress did nothing about it, because they thought they would be discriminating against those who couldn''t really afford to be in homes and they were really pushing that.
The answers are McCain and Yes.
Banks made sub-prime mortgages and sold most of them to Wall Street firms (Bear-Sterns, etc.). The banks are fairly well regulated by the Fed and FDIC. The SEC regulates Wall Street. Well, they are supposed to anyway, but totally dropped the ball when it came to those mortgages once they were owned by the firms on the Street. They built phony cases as to the quality of the paper then wrapped it all in very complex deals with multiple tranches and created various derivatives to avoid insurance regulators as well. Which brings us to Enron - an earlier example of lax regulatory oversight by the SEC and where we had a chance to learn but didn%u2019t.
The political point is that John McCain long chaired the Senate Commerce Committee and worked against regulation in all but the one instance where he criticized FannyMae and FreddyMac. Now he wants to fire the head of the SEC. A bit late now John.
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Food for thought...in the Muslim culture/faith, if your father is muslim then the children are as well. Also, Hussein is a name that can only be given to children who are muslim. Obama spent time as a child in Indonesia, went to a muslin school...not possible if you''re not muslim.
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He is obligated to do so at any cost, which seems to being fronted by the Darkside (evil) of society and those who want Socialism and Communism to take over America.
Welcome to your Change in America, the part Obama will not discuss with you until it is too late. Then don''t come crying to those of us that have been beating our heads against the wall to make you idiots wake up. It dosen''t matter whether the candidate is black, green, white or what ever. Your only seeing the top 10 percent of his iceburg. The top 10 percent that he and his socialist media want you to see. Communism = How to take over America without firing a shot. Folks you are there, you need to decide which side of the line your on and fast.
Millions of hard working Americans had their life savings wiped out when one savings-and-loan after another went down because of the criminality of repugnant swindlers such as Charles Keating. Keating is a convicted felon who greedily defrauded millions out of their life savings, while at the same time he donated more money to McCain%u2019s campaign than any other contributor in the nation. And what did McCain do when he learned of Keating%u2019s arrest? He illegally tried to use his influence to keep his friend and largest campaign contributor out of jail.
McCain%u2019s involvement as the key figure in the Keating Five scandal is a window into his past, present, and future disregard for middle-class Americans. I urge all decent Americans who are sick and tired of being treated like second class citizens by the reprehensible corporate elite on Wall Street and their enablers such as John McCain, to take a look at KeatingEconomics.com
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see who is giving to whom
Desperation?
Insurance?
Mind conditioning & manipulation of minds to maintain control?
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