I just came across this interesting article regarding the apparently relatively recently combined Fox and ABC affiliates up in Maine where management has been ordering the news staff to be less unbiased.

Two anchors who have worked at Maine sister television stations, ABC affiliate WVII and Fox affiliate WFVX, for a combined 12 years cited “unbalanced news” after they surprised staff on Tuesday by tendering their resignations on the air.  

At the end of the 6 p.m. newscast, Cindy Michaels and Tony Consiglio thanked viewers and said that departing together was the best alternative because of some “recent developments.” … Michaels, who also served as the station’s news director, said that there was a “regular undoing of decisions” that she made.

While neither of the former anchors would go on record to detail how they were being pressured to slant the news, … the WFVX 10 p.m. newscast is simulcasted on talk radio station WNZS-AM 1340, which also airs shows hosted by conservative personalities Laura Ingraham, Bill Bennett, Mike Gallagher and Michael Medved.

Raw Story (http://s.tt/1unyq)

Given that our two ABC & Fox affiliates have been bought by a Texan media firm whose business plan depends on exploiting loopholes that the FCC winks at, shall we expect WFFF and WNNY to go over the extremist right bias cliff?

Hurricane Sandy is just an excuse for Obama to shove more Big Government Socialism down the throats of the American People!

The Dems worship at the altar of government largess, and they are using this ‘disaster’ as an excuse to take over Free Enterprise and replace it with government-run Communism!

We need Mitt Rmoney to be president to stop this wasteful and unnecessary government spending.  He’ll disband FEMA on his first day in office, and once we get rid of FEMA we’ll have no more of these disasters.

We should put Halliburton in charge of disaster relief efforts and assign relief based on the economic production of each citizen.

The U.S. Justice Department is suing the Vermont Secretary of State

Remember when Lead Sycophant and Senior Bootlicker, Hack Lindley held up the vote recount for a week, just because he could.  This forced the absentee ballots to go out a little bit late.  Which prompted the US Department of Justice to sue the Secretary of State’s office.

Hack Lindley is at the forefront of TeaBircher Assholism here in Vermont: Intentionally breaking the political process so he can complain about the broken political process in order to try to gain political advantage over the non-aholes in Vermont Politics.

And as I drive about the state I see that his plan is working. I see dairy farm after small business with Rmoney/Brock/Republican lawn signs, all approving of the VTGOP’s disrespecting of the political process.  I am amazed at small business owners voting for Rmoney who’s stated goal is to drive them all out of business and sell America to the Communist Chinese.

Here’s the full story:

http://vtdigger.org/2012/10/12…

I just received this from State Treasurer Beth Pierce (emphasis mine):

Vermont State Treasurer Beth Pearce announced today that Standard and Poor’s has improved the state’s bond rating outlook from “AA+/stable” to “AA+/positive” in recognition of Vermont’s continued excellence in financial management.

Now what was Brock saying about the Shumlin Administration’s fiscal management?

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This just in, Paul Ryan's wife worked for Vermont Yankee:

Ryan and Rafianello also represented the Vermont Yankee Corp., a nuclear power plant, on “nuclear waste issues,” according to federal lobbying registration forms. The company paid $180,000 over three years between 1998 and 2000, while Vermont Yankee was being sold; its owners hoped more favorable tax laws would make it more attractive to buyers. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/14/janna-ryan-paul-ryan-wife_n_1774265.html?utm_hp_ref=elections-2012

The GOP's fake bio about her states that she is a perfect wife, staying at home, raising their three children, never working a day in her life, like a Good Christian Wife®™ should.

In reality she is just as much of a soul-less sociopath as her husband, working for lobbyists for over a decade, always on the wrong side of the issue.

Since when are Republicans in favor of ‘small government’?

Since when do Republicans give a crap about religious people?

These are all convenient lies that they tell their constituents in order to gain more power over the minimal opposition they face in politics.

The sole point of the GOP is to gain total political power for their corporate owners.  Exploiting dumb religious nuts, or idiot ‘libertarians’ is just one tool of many that the GOP uses regularly to gain absolute power.  That’s all they care about.  And no one is trying to stop them.

Watch what the GOP actually does, don’t believe one word of what they say.

The governor of Michigan is eliminating local government, installing a state-wide dictatorship under the direct control of the Governor.  Republican politicians don’t give one crap about local control, they only care about absolute authority.

When – not if, but when – the GOP does to the Democratic Party what they did to the Communists in the 1950s (which Rush Limbaugh has said is a goal of the GOP) the idea of ‘Small Government’ will be thrown out.  Christian churches will be regulated just as they are now doing with Muslims.  Women will no longer have any rights, they will revert to being property.  No one is trying to stop them.

Just look at where the GOP ideology ends up: slavery for 95% of the country, working for their corporate owners for life, men women and children.  That is what they want.  America as a third-world nation, with no rights, total poverty, a Syrian style police state that ruthlessly murders everyone that dares dream of a better life.  That is what the Republican Leadership is actively creating in America. Who will stop them?

And who is going to stop them?  The fake Democrats that are all moderate Republicans to begin with?  Ignorant Americans that revel in their own stupidity?  Fox ‘News’ watchers that ardently believe every single lie they are told through that propaganda outlet?  Rush Limbaugh listeners that will never believe anything if Rush didn’t say it?

The Republicans are already ignoring the Rule of Law.  The State AG in Wisconsin brazenly ignored a court order.  Think about that one for a second: the state’s highest legal authority openly defied an order from the judicial branch because he lost the decision! But then, who was going to stop him?  

There is a group of folks out there (just go read Free Republic) that believe that several state governors should stage a coup against the democratically elected president of the United States simply because that President is from the Democratic Party.  They believe that 5 governors should find five US Marshals and simply go arrest the President right now because they don’t like the results of the election.

Any society function because the people agree to abide by the rules.  When segments of society openly defy those rules and continually get away with it, society collapses.  The Republican Party has been openly defying the Rule of Law for decades, and they now have 24 hour-a-day propaganda outlets on TV and radio that constantly call for defiance of civilization.  No one dares stop them.

In 2012, when the GOP loses to Obama yet again, will the GOP abide by the election results?  Or will they hold a swearing-in of their One True Republican President and set up a second Patriotic government to issue decrees against the Democratic Party?  Who would stop them?

I am pretty sure that America is doomed to the Republican Party’s vision of the future: a feudal society where the King’s word is the only law.  A society where the legal authority of the King is not controlled by the Catholic Church, but by the Captains of Industry.  The far-right has already won, it’s only a matter of time.

Because no one stopped them.