Unbelievable response I just received from ABC affiliate

[medeak]

this from the general manager after I emailed complaining lack of substantive questioning in last night's debate:

"How about non-substantive responses, for instance Obama’s response regarding increasing the capital gains tax? I will forward your emails to ABC. Thanks."

by the way...he's the manager of Reno, NV ABC affiliate...if anyone would like his email I will be happy to provide it

edited to say... here it is for your convenience:

[e-mail]

[Westegg]

1. The real shame of ABC will be their lack of shame.

[yourguide]

2. Hell yes, give it!

[Texas Hill Country]

3. HAHAHA, awesome... and on the nose.

[haymakeragain]

14. So you are for bankrupting the nation, just like the repugnants?

I saw his response, it was on the money. Everybody can't talk tax cuts while we are bankrupting the nation. He's the only honest one on the issue. You are lying to yourself. Nice going.

[Texas Hill Country]

27. i was really referring to the "non-substantive responses" part of the sentence.

[haymakeragain]

49. I saw it, it was substantive if you want to face the problem, non-substantive

if you want to bankrupt the government. To those, anything other than "cut taxes" is non-substantive. You cannot lay it out in sound bites, it's a massive endeavor, and quite possibly too late.

[sudopod]

PROTIP

Poor people don't have to worry much about the capital gains tax.

[olkaz]

45. They do when they go over 9000. n/m

[sudopod]

53. Fair enough! LOLz nt

[medeak]

4. Here's his email.. [e-mail]

if anyone feels like venting on this jerk

[e-mail]

[Quixote1818]

7. Don't vent, give him the facts on the Capitol Gains tax.

That will bug the living shit out of him.

[redqueen]

5. That's all these fuckers care about... their money.

Selfish bastards. Ooooh I hate them.

[tulsakatz]

that's true...........

terrorism? that's ok
another war? sure, why not!

But don't raise my taxes........that's all that's important to them!!

Selfish bastards.......

[Bensthename]

6. That's a real non-biased caring response. What a joke

[rucky]

8. The affils don't really have any control over that stuff...

you may as well be posting your letter on DU. the responses here are worth about the same.

[medeak]

12. thank you for your feedback....isn't that the usual response? n/t

[City Lights]

9. So you got a big FU from them. Nice.

How arrogant.

[quantass]

10. **** Put the EMAIL ADDRESS in your OP ****

[Yossariant]

11. On the substantive and the non-substantive, Barack stunk up the joint.

As noted by that general manager, his response on the capital gains question was jaw-droppingly appalling.

[dpbrown]

36. Got that right

Whose taxes are going up?

[SeaLyons]

13. Great Response....

Get over it..he bombed!!

[40ozDonkey]

34. A 65% win in Pennsylvania on Tuesday is needed to turn SD's to Clinton.

Pennsylvania'll tell us who bombed.

[Dawgs]

35. And her admitted lying about being under fire isn't bombing?

:shrug:

[SeaLyons]

54. No, it's not....

she owned it, she apologized for it, and she did it with confidence and grace.

Go Hillary!!

[ScarletSniper]

55. She's a liar, an admitted one at that...nothing graceful about it. Sorry

[TankLV]

48. Absofuckinglutely!!!

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[Hepburn]

15. What a fucking RW asshole...

...yeah, give me his addie! TIA...:hi:

[Hepburn]

19. Never mind....

...saw it later down the line in the thread and emailed the jerk!

[medeak]

50. thank you! am still receiving emails from the jerk

am calling Gray Television corporate headquarters but no answer. Cannot believe the arrogant verbiage of this guy..I keep telling him his emails are not diffusing my feelings....and he keeps responding with more bs

[knixphan]

16. spam that idiot.

non-substantive responses?

Cons make me sick.

[medeak]

17. posters on this thread who think his response is appropriate

Can't help notice ALL have been DU members 1-3 months only. Is this because of banning...or all newbies and not familiar with the wonderful respectful discourse we've had all these years?

[Hepburn]

25. Case in point...

...this newbie's join date: Jan 28th 2008 ~~ and, of course, it is a Hillbot.

[redqueen]

26. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

:think:

[sudopod]

18. He might have a point

if this was the Republican debate.

Also, wtf.

Also, can you go over his head?

[Coexist]

20. Everyone should send him this:

http://time-blog.com/curious_capitalist/2008/01/do_capital_gains_tax_cuts_incr.html

A better test is whether receipts are higher over the course of an entire business cycle. Last week, as part of its latest 10-year budget projections (pdf!), the Congressional Budget Office published its estimate of capital gains receipts in fiscal 2007. I'm willing to bet that, recession or no, FY 2007 will prove to be a peak in capital gains receipts that won't be matched for several years. Which means we can compare it with the peak of the last cycle, in 2000. Here's the chart, with the numbers adjusted for inflation:



So no, the reduction in the capital gains tax rate from 20% to 15% in 2003 did not result in an increase in revenue over the course of the business cycle. In 2000 receipts totaled $119 billion, which equals $143 million in 2007 dollars. In 2007, they totaled $122 billion. That's a 15% decline.

Now I guess you could argue that 2000 was the peak of a once-in-a-lifetime stock market boom, making it an unfair comparison. But that would amount to admitting that forces other than the capital gains tax rate determine the course of the stock market. Perish the thought!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

21. Did they even ask about the capital gains tax?

[redqueen]

28. Yup - this guy even got riled about it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5551662

[Writer]

22. You didn't write the correct person.

Is the ABC affil. in Reno actually owned and operated by ABC? If not, then you didn't write ABC at all, but whatever company owns that affiliate. You probably just annoyed the fuck out of the GM of that station.

[onenote]

24. not necessarily the case

Yes, the Reno affiliate (which, in this case, is owned by Gray Communications) didn't control the debate. On the other hand, local affiliates have the most to lose if the network alienates viewers and therefore they have reason to communicate back to the network when they hear from their viewers that the network screwed up. So, in fact, the best approach when objecting to something that a TV network has done is to direct your objections both to the network and to the local affiliate.

[Writer]

30. If you're talking about licensure, that that alone is a dead topic.

In the entire history of the FCC only one station has ever lost its license for not serving the community. The FCC is and always has been a toothless tiger.

If you're upset with ABC, go after the advertisers.

[onenote]

32. not talking about licensing

Talking about viewership. It takes fewer viewers to get the attention of a local station than it does to get the attention of the network or national advertisers. If a local station thinks that something that the network is doing is causing the local station to lose viewers, it will communicate that back that up to the network. But you are right that letting advertisers know also is important.

[Hamlette]

23. Tell him when they go after McCain like the did Obama you'll apologize.

Ask McCain about the rumors he sold us out as a captive (show the film with him denouncing the US) the he was a bad pilot, that his wife is a drug addict who steals drugs and recipes, that he wants to bomb Iran and stay in Iraq for 100 years, that he has a horrid temper, that his fellow Senators HATE him (even the GOP ones, except maybe Hillary and Lieberman, they like him) ask him why he now favors tax cuts and show the clip of why he didn't before, or why did he back down on torture, or habeus corpus, go after him on the the nut cases who support him, the religious ones who think the Catholic church is a whore.

Let Randi Rhodes write the questions for McCain at a debate with him like Hannity did for this one and let Rachael Maddow be the moderator.

When they do a debate like that? I'll call it even.

But you know it will NEVER happen.

[livetohike]

33. Great ideas!

This is on the line of what I wanted to e-mail ABC but my 500 character limit was up :-(.

They better go after McCain. He and his wife are skating by untouched right now.

[tblue37]

42. That he called his wife a "c**t" and said she layered on

paint like a trollop--all in front of journalists who then neglected to mention it in their reports.

[goletian]

29. guy's a fuckin idiot. hillary gave essentially the same answer.

im sure the poor people in our country are really worried about the capital gains taxes. they probably dont even know what the hell that is.

Obama:

I certainly would not go above what existed under Bill Clinton, which was 28 percent.

Hillary:

I would not raise it above what it was during the Clinton administration.

[medeak]

31. OMG... this guy just emailed me AGAIN!

You all must be getting to him?

"Thanks for taking the time to email. As with all email we will place yours in our public file."

[slutticus]

39. "public file"?

WTF is that?

Can you IM me his email to my "public file" so I can ask him?

:D

[medeak]

40. I think he's having a bad day? n/t

[otohara]

51. Public File

every Radio/TV station is required to have a public file. In these files are copies of licenses, letter from public, e-mails, EEO stuff and a bunch of shit from attorneys about leases - Any person can make an appt to view the public file - and once in a blue fucking moon, the FCC sends around a person to check up on the PF and gives the station a grade. I bet however - since the Bushies have been in, there hasn't been one FCC person out there checking the PF's.

[Kadie]

52. Is that like the electronic version of the circular file?

:shrug:

[Ian_rd]

37. His response is classic dodge and change the subject at the same time. He sounds like ...

... a White House spokesperson, not anyone who should be working in the press.

[AllentownJake]

38. They are under siege right now

Seriously they cut off their complaint line at 8:45 last night and it hasn't been open since.

[crankychatter]

41. Republican Asshole... who cares what HE thinks?

email away... he's earned a box full of fire

[knixphan]

43. yep. let em have it...

we should do it in more states too.

[MagickMuffin]

44. Gibson is an Elitist... He wanted to go into law, but he wasn't SMART enough

Born in Evanston, Illinois, Gibson moved to Washington, D.C., when he was 12. He attended the prestigious Sidwell Friends School, a private college-preparatory school in the city. Gibson graduated from Princeton University where he was news director for the university radio station, WPRB-FM and a member of Princeton Tower Club. He now serves on Princeton's Board of Trustees. Originally, Gibson planned to go into law, but reconsidered when he determined his grades were not sufficient for top tier law schools.



Here's why Charlie was soooo concerned about Capital Gains


WNT salary is $8,000,000 per year, the same as his GMA salary

[medeak]

46. found this on freeperville about this GM!!!!!!

refused to pull innacurate GOP ad... total repuke...even more reason to email him!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1725922/posts

[SaveAmerica]

47. They already demoted Charlie Gibson?

[TragedyandHope]

56. Wow, no shame at all.

He sounds so proud of his network's bias. Why even have elections if the MSM has already decided what's in our best interest?