Anyone else going to boycott IT tonight, and tune your TV to anything other the CNN Demolition Derby Debate?

[Fred Sanders]

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The Aquarium Channel is more attractive to me than to watch this excercise in mass propaganda and mind control.

CNN is charging 50x the normal rate because they are guaranteeing to corporate advertisers who can afford it that their heavily promoted monster truck rally will attract enough eyeballs to justify the rates....anything less and not only does CNN lose money, maybe Jeff Zucker and his ridiculous management of the outfit gets fired.

And then maybe the incessant free advertising, in advance of the massive and highly anticipated paid advertising of the 2016 election campaign, for their already heavily promoted number One Monster Truck, Monster Trump, ends,...... and maybe then CNN will get back to some measure of sanity?

Advertising works. Trump is yet more proof of how effective mass advertising is, free or not is irrelevant. And just how evil is Citizen's United?

We will soon enough find out.

This free mass advertising campaign of the mass media for Trump is just a warm up act, a free display and sample of the goods if you will, by the cash hungry CEO's and shareholders.

The mere act of watching this newsporn is enabling, but then there is no denying that train-wrecks have always gathered the crowds, so I am sure the event will be a huge ratings success.....only in America.

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[NRaleighLiberal]

1. I've been running a 7 year boycott of simply not watching TV at all!

[Fred Sanders]

2. For those that do, this a targetted not watching - with consequences if enough folk tune out.

[randys1]

3. The debate would anger me and cause me heart problems.

For a very long time now I have deemed teaparty as terrorists.

American Taliban.

Not one thing entertaining or funny about them.

[Fred Sanders]

4. MSNBC has the hero Muslim child as a guest who defied racist police and a racist city to assert his rights.

That would beat out the Aquarium Channel or even the Fireside Channel, which I would also rather watch than a blabbering syllable of Il Douche, that clown creation of mass media, so maybe I will watch that.

[randys1]

5. Which show? Is he gonna be a guest on Rachel?

[Fred Sanders]

7. Yes, Chris Hayes:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7175612

[Blue_In_AK]

6. Not watching.

I could not care less.

[Fred Sanders]

8. I salute you! We can all then sort through the carnage of the post-monster truck "debate" tomorrow!

Come to think of it, monster trucks rarely do much debating.

[irisblue]

9. I'm going to be watching movies

or HGTV, anything but those fools.

[ananda]

10. I'll be watching Phryne Fisher on Netflix.

Trump and Co -- way too yawn and/or vomit inducing.

[fredamae]

11. I have no interest in a re-run

of totally predictable talking points.
I have no desire to watch. I don't "do" reality shows

[Shandris]

12. No, I rather enjoy Tokyo Broadcasting Station.

Oh wait, you mean American television? People watch that?! Oh wow...

[Fred Sanders]

18. Tokyo Rose was a pale imitation of the propaganda personalities of today's America.

[Dont call me Shirley]

13. We'll be watching Aliens tonight.

[Fred Sanders]

14. So...you WILL be watching CNN?

[fadedrose]

17. New aliens on Friday night at 10 pm

I have the repeats memorized....go ahead, ask me questions.

[Dont call me Shirley]

21. How does Giorgio get his hair to do its thing? Gel? Mousse? Egg whites?

[saturnsring]

30. He saw an alien it scared the crap out of him causing his hair to go straight up .... Nt

[Dont call me Shirley]

32. But what about those soft shiny waves? How did he get those?

[fadedrose]

33. All of the above

except the most important thing is the 15" high speed fan that he keeps on his dresser and uses while the gel and mousse are still damp.

When he goes on an alien hunt, even if the wind is blowing the opposite direction, his hair still stands up with just a slight backward tilt.

Which is funny because when I go out in the wind, hairspray or no, the wind always blows my hair in my eyes and face.

Is there an alien connection here. None of the artifacts show aliens or gods with hair in their eyes...? Is Giorgio an alien?

[redwitch]

15. I have popcorn and alcohol.

I'm watching, can't help myself.

[fadedrose]

16. I watched the troops march into Iraq

I have a strong stomach and constitution.

I can take it.

CNN may regret all the hype over this. They have seating for only 500, and the guests are people on the Reagan Library List, and some other folks that we don't know how their names were obtained. Great opportunity for a fix to hear cheers at what I would call the wrong places, and boos where I would cheer.

Fox at least had a HUUGE audience where candidates could have a few friends and supporters attend...

Jake Tapper is a good interviewer. He hangs on like pit bull when he wants an answer, but with all those candidates, good luck getting anything sensible to happen.

CNN, I think you goofed with that audience, AND the place to have it. It's stacked to do away with Trump and help Bush.
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[MohRokTah]

19. I'll be watching the Cubs v. the Pirates game

No way do I watch the CNN scumfest.

[Fred Sanders]

20. Good choice! Swinging bats are a better option for TV watching tonight than swinging dicks.

[mnhtnbb]

22. I'll watch anything but the clown car debate #2.

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. We are going downtown for a march

And it is good exercise to boot

[avebury]

24. I ws planning or turning off the TV but now I will tune into All In Chris

Hayes and watch the segment with the young man form Texas.

[Fred Sanders]

27. Now THAT is news that will have far more long term impact on the election than this passing carnival....people seeing truth.

[Ilsa]

25. watching Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 1 on

ABC Family.

I'm not wasting any time watching those "debates".

[chillfactor]

26. not watching the clown car clowns beat each other up.....

all kinds of great programs on TV w/o watching idiots go at it.

[Fred Sanders]

29. I watched bits of the last debate in the days following in news reports....and even that had my brain half-fried.

I like my brain just the way it is, el dente.

[TheCowsCameHome]

28. What????????

And miss an evening of free comedy?

This will hold me until the Stooge-A-Thon on New Years Day 2016.

[muriel_volestrangler]

31. How long do you plan to boycott CNN for showing it? Indefinitely?

Or just until, say, November 2016?

Do CNN actually realise you watch them? Or their advertisers? Have you told them?