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pan.....(and Sho Nuff.....for that matter....) in comparison to a "set up" begun in the '80's to dismantle the anti-trust protections and the "fairness doctrine", to advance an agenda of an allied politically conservative and fundamentalist christian "movement", led by an extremist secretive organization (CNP....) that is reported to have picked the current president (after a 1999 speech that he gave to the group that remains secret to this day.....) and is a prerequisite for "vetting" any serious republican 2008 presidential contender, and is bent on consolidating the media to further it's goals of "christenizing" the government, eliminating women's right to legally choose not just whether to have a baby or have access to safe, clinical abortion, but even to use birth control.....(the movement has been completely successful in South Dakota, and now in making late term abortion illegal in all of the US, even in the case of medical necessity to save the "host" of the fetus, and to privatize (eliminate) Social Security insurance and retirement benefits.....while it uses the financial resources of it's dozen plus billionaire members to bring about the biblical scenarios in the middle east that it deems necessary to bring about "rapture"......to name just a few of the benefits it seeks via it's consolidation of the US media.....don't you think that the concerns and consequences of media consolidation that you two raised in your posts, are trivial, in comparison?

(on edit....an aside to roachboy; I can agree that my political views and interests are currently "too narrow", when compared to considering US politics in the way that they used "to be played"....pre-1981.....but I believe that my views are no more narrow than the focus a pedestrian might have on a vehicle hurtling towards him while he is in a crosswalk half way between one curb and the other. I see these times as unprecedented, as far as the extremeness of the entrenched christenized conservative republican national "leadership", the spectacle and the consequences of the invasion of the DOJ and the rest of the executive branch, by Liberty University alumni, installed by the Bush designated head of OPM, and former dean of Liberty U., Kay Coles James.....a combined group of "grads" and "administration" from a "University" created and mentored by christian crazy man, Pat Robertson.....when added to hundreds of other similar insults to our government, constitution, and society, by "these people", and I don't think that my politcal writing is yet near narrow enough.

roachboy, have you ever before observed an organization, other than CNP, that has successfully consolidated so much influence and achieved so many results, with so little exposure, examination, and news and pundit coverage?
Too few are putting all of this together. It manifests itself in the Abramoff "story", and the Plame "outing" story, and now in the firing or the US attorneys/ Carol Lam/ traitor Randy Cunningham stories......but it is all the fruit of one "grand plan", the co-ordination of which, when combined with the ideological zealotry and the religious fervor, may yet be formidable enough to send us into world war, or at least into a fundamentalist religious government with constitutional protections neutralized by the 5 SCOTUS justices that it has produced......)