Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
This festive season – made all the more festive by our Republican victory – marks the one-year anniversary of CNN’s Don Lemon sourly cutting my mic on air because I refused to stop pointing out Hillary’s all-encompassing evil. Sure, when discussing her myriad misdeeds and cover-ups and how they dwarfed the unproven accusations against Donald Trump, my description of her hubby’s intern depredations was a bit colorful. But I didn’t get cut off for being colorful. I got cut off because I refused to abide by CNN’s official narrative. And now President Trump will have to make a decision about whether he is going to let the same people who tried to gag me control the narrative for all of America.
AT&T and Time Warner (the parent company of CNN), now want to merge because, apparently, America’s giant media corporations are insufficiently gigantic. AT&T has the distribution side – a vast mobile network of 130 million-plus smartphone users, a cable company, DirectTV, and more – while Time Warner has the content – CNN, HBO, Turner, DC Comics, and others. So, basically, AT&Behemoth would be like a company that owns the reservoir, the water, the pipes that carry the water, and all the pipes in your house – and that makes you sit on hold for three hours to get a plumber to maybe show up between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m., a week from next Christmas.
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