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Topic: Thanks Bill, hope to see ya somewhere soon
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Chad Souder
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Posts: 962
From: Waterloo, IA, USA
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 06-27-2002 06:40 PM
I don't know if any of you other night owls watched 'Politically Incorrect' regularly, or irregularly, but this is the last week for the show. If you didn't watch, you missed out on a one-of-a-kind program. I am personally very disappointed to see it go, as it was the only show of its kind featuring a casual opinion format with people from a variety of fame. In one sense, I understand ABC's decision to cancel, if it was due to lack of sponsorship. However, I believe it was due more to the comments made about the terrorists, which flies in the face of the freedom of speech our media is supposed to promote. I can only hope that another station will pick up the 'Politically Incorrect' show soon, and allow its variety of people and topics to continue. Agree or disagree, you can learn a lot from a show like that. p.s. If you are unfamiliar with the comments I refer to, they came following Sept. 11th. Bill Maar was discussing the word 'coward' being used by many to describe the terrorists. He responded by saying something like, "Flying planes into buildings is not cowardly. Cowardly is shooting missles at people from 100 miles off shore like we do". As a side note, Bill has always been a very large supporter of our military, and apologized several times for how the comment was taken.
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Chad Souder
Jedi Master Film Handler
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From: Waterloo, IA, USA
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posted 06-28-2002 10:17 AM
Greg said, "It would have been canceled even if September 11 hadn't happened and the host hadn't said something stupid about it."The show was always played late at night where you don't need much for advertising dollars to do well. The show was doing fine before the 11th. Thanks for the correction Joe. I knew that too, and then I looked at Bob's name and it just came out wrong... Thomas - How exactly did ABC ruin the show? It seems to me as if the format was quite similar, but the guest list was much, much, much larger. I think ABC made it better by drawing a larger audience and making a wider variety of celebs want to appear. ------------------
"Asleep at the switch? I wasn't asleep, I was drunk!" - Homer Simpson
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Thomas Procyk
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From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 06-28-2002 08:35 PM
Chad - I never watched the show much after it left Comedy Central (around the time when my TV-watching became drastically reduced by other responsibilities) but ABC in general seems often be inconsistent with their schedule and program lineup. I lost track of when Millionare came on (four days a week or three? Which ones? Different times on different days?) and just stopped watching.They also don't know a good show when they see one. They should have at least given Clerks: The Cartoon and Heat Vision & Jack a chance. Maybe the "controversial" tone of these shows prompted the Disney-owned network to pull the plug? The worst, by far, is FOX. I don't know how many diferent time slots Family Guy had before they finally axed it. Futurama was much better than King Of The Hill but the dumber of the two shows remains. Even in the early seasons of The Simpsons, they moved from Sunday to Thursday and back a couple times. That's why I love that TiVo commercial where they chuck the network executive out the window  =TMP=
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