Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Is ABC's Sucking up Permanent or Temporary?

First it was the lie fest that was The Path to 9/11, and now I just happened to notice channel surfing today that ABC was the only U.S. network (in my area anyway) that interrupted their usual noon programming to cover the President's speech to the United Nations.

I can only think of two possibilites here, the first being the suck up that we all noticed starting with The Path to 9/11 hasn't achieved ABC's unstated goal yet; or the second being that ABC is becoming Fox News mainstream.

According to Newsmeat Disney's (ABC's parent company) President and CEO Robert Iger is pretty even when it comes to his political contributions. spreading some around to Deomcrats such as Hillary Clinton, Dianne Feinstein, Bill Nelson, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee; As well as Republicans such as Arlen Specter, Charles Hagel, and Bill Nelson and the National Republican Congressional Committee. Source

If I were a betting man my bet would be this is only temporary. It looks to me like ABC wants something from the Bush administration and isn't above doing a little sucking up to get it. If he was truly a Bush backer he wouldn't give money to far right Republican's most hated enemy Hillary Clinton.

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