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Abu Pepe

(637 posts) Fri Dec 30, 2016, 09:14 PM Dec 2016

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Chuck Grassley is right.

Weirdly. But yeah what CG said.

http://www.salon.com/2016/12/30/chuck-grassley-is-continuing-his-surprisingly-long-feud-against-the-history-channel/

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Chuck Grassley is right. (Original Post) Abu Pepe Dec 2016 OP

Used to call it the Hitler Channel The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2016 #1

Yeah it was all WWII stuff in the 90s . Abu Pepe Dec 2016 #2

Now there is American Heroes Channel, Hitler all of the time just about..n/t monmouth4 Dec 2016 #4

Nice way to end 2016 Protalker Dec 2016 #3

Grassley is never correct, he's just "right" and carries grudges in his craw SharonClark Dec 2016 #5

Wow. I never thought this would happen . . . hatrack Dec 2016 #6

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,674 posts)

1. Used to call it the Hitler Channel

Reply to Abu Pepe (Original post)

Fri Dec 30, 2016, 09:17 PM

Dec 2016

because they showed so much WWII footage. But it's way worse now, with hardly anything but stupid reality shows.

Abu Pepe

(637 posts)

2. Yeah it was all WWII stuff in the 90s .

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 30, 2016, 09:25 PM

Dec 2016

But at least it was history.

monmouth4

(9,694 posts)

4. Now there is American Heroes Channel, Hitler all of the time just about..n/t

Reply to Abu Pepe (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 30, 2016, 10:14 PM

Dec 2016

Protalker

(418 posts)

3. Nice way to end 2016

Reply to Abu Pepe (Original post)

Fri Dec 30, 2016, 10:04 PM

Dec 2016

I finally can agree with one point from a Republican.

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)

5. Grassley is never correct, he's just "right" and carries grudges in his craw

Reply to Abu Pepe (Original post)

Fri Dec 30, 2016, 10:15 PM

Dec 2016

hatrack

(59,583 posts)

6. Wow. I never thought this would happen . . .

Reply to Abu Pepe (Original post)

Fri Dec 30, 2016, 10:16 PM

Dec 2016

But Chuck is entirely correct.

My brother has a dish, and it's staggering - 800 channels? 1,000? And what's on? Pretty much nothing. Between 1/3 and 1/2 are informercials and home shopping channels. There are dozens - no, a couple hundred pay-per-view or pay-per-porn channels, tons of sports and celebrity bullshit streams, cooking and house-flipping shows . . . .

There are about half a dozen I ever spend time on - FSTV, TCM, the NASA Channel, C-Span and occasionally PBS and MSNBC.

Yes, I'm a nerd and I admit it, but "vast wasteland" doesn't even begin to capture it.

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