Sunday Morning Political Shows Advertiser List Looks More Like A Police Lineup

[Vinnie From Indy]

I have always noticed that the Sunday morning political shows seem to have as a majority of their sponsors the same entities that have been sticking it to Americans for years. Big Oil, Big Finance, Big Pharma and Big Military all use Sunday morning as their opportunity to gussy up and present a Madison Avenue face to the world. I have also wondered if it would be possible for any program not to be subtley pressured to advance these advertisers interests by skewing the coverage and debate.

[Iterate]

1. The Usual Suspects

They're not sponsoring the "Michael Moore Hour".

I've always thought of it like having Pappy ride along on a date, sitting in the back seat with a shotgun just to make sure no funny business happens.

It's not just the shared in-crowd promotion, more than a Dole-Donelson-ADM connection, most irritatingly of all it's as if they are all saying "we're the serious ones you should pay attention to."

[tomreedtoon]

2. And the same bums support Public TV as well.

To a large extent, these are the same people who supported things like the tedious symphony orchestras and elitist dramas on PBS. I remember the moment when it started, when Mobil put long and cutely-done commercials in the middle of their PBS shows. Not a bunch of 30 second jobs, but 2 or 3 minute treatises. Most of them said "This is why you stupid liberals better get out of our way, 'cause we're making money and there's nothing more American than that."

It's kind of inevitable, since these rich bastards are the only ones who have the money. And it's inevitable that they would censor content on PBS, especially in programming that discusses gays and minorities. But every time PBS asks for my personal financial support (though I don't watch them much at all) I am reminded how they are in the pocket of the biggest right-wingers.