Chicago Progressive wannabe thug: Rahm Emanuel pressures the TV Networks to give up time for Obama’s press conferences. These Prime Time Conferences are a money loser for the networks, so they have been reluctant to air them. Rahm Emanuel calls the heads of the Networks and strong arms them into broadcasting Obama. This is a Totalitarian tactic and shows how ruthless Progressives are.
In the days before President Obama’s last news conference, as the networks weighed whether to give up a chunk of their precious prime time, Rahm Emanuel went straight to the top.
Rather than calling ABC, the White House chief of staff phoned Bob Iger, chief executive of parent company Disney. Instead of contacting NBC, Emanuel went to Jeffrey Immelt, the chief executive of General Electric. He also spoke with Les Moonves, the chief executive of CBS Corp., the company spun off from Viacom.
Whether this amounted to undue pressure or plain old Chicago arm-twisting, Emanuel got results: the fourth hour of lucrative network time for his boss in six months. But network executives have been privately complaining to White House officials that they cannot afford to keep airing these sessions in the economic downturn.
The networks “absolutely” feel pressured, says Paul Friedman, CBS’s senior vice president: “It’s an enormous financial cost when the president replaces one of those prime-time hours. The news divisions also have mixed feelings about whether they are being used.”
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This is another example of the Fascict nature of Progressivism. It will get worse as the American public rebels against their agenda.
Tags: Politics, Progressives, Totalitarianism
