Tweety is much more concerned with some teevee guy who plays a character on teevee

[madinmaryland]

than what is actually is going on in the world.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. As the NSA scandal deepens you will see more and more of this ...tripe

It belongs at the bottom of the newscast, or... E...

[madinmaryland]

10. What is interesting is that Tweety spent 10+ minutes out of his 42 minutes

talking and discussing this guy.

I have not subscribed to HBO in 25+ years and have never seen the Sopranos. Yes, the show was a supposed icon, but it was not seen by a lot of people. And FFS, the guy was even younger than me by three months.

I would much rather Tweety spend 10 minutes talking about the benefits of Wind Power than some actor.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Or the controversy between large wind project

and much smaller projects, with solar. Rooftop solar, I know.

GE do that? Oh my... I know I have no faith any more.

[madinmaryland]

12. General Electric...

Sorry, but this is an aside...

My Grandfather, moved out of the west-central coal mines after getting a nasty lung infection and went to work for GE during WW2. He ran the winding of the wires around transformers. He spent 25 years doing that and retired from his union job. GE still has some jobs, but not like they did in the 40's to 60's.

[CTyankee]

2. I get it that they all loved Gandolfino but why this huge and constant tribute?

I think they could have taken it down and notch and devoted more time to the meaning of the farm bill and how that SNAP program cut could have devastated families with small children....

those bastids...

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. That means covering news

that might be inconvenient.


Sorry, I am to the point of really being cynical. I think I will look over my collection of... CDs and just do music as background any more.

[Sherman A1]

4. Agreed

It's all getting a bit old.

[CTyankee]

5. It makes sense. A wise person once said "Art always saves you." I go to it all the time.

Mostly, when I am in despair. It becomes my only remedy. It restores and rehabilitates me (I mean it, it does!). I receive wisdom, help, healing and joy and that isn't nothing....

[burnodo]

8. I think it's simpler than that

Discussing Gandolfini might get better ratings than talking about That whole government spying mess

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. As I said... covering news

sorry.

But the death of an actor is not fundamental to your freedoms.

Don't worry. Americans will learn too. Nobody reads the news paper since they are all full of lies and propaganda. They already are...

Watergate was not done for the ratings...

[Bluenorthwest]

16. I think it is hilarious that you think Hardball is the news. It is a commentary show which speaks of

politics and current events. Hardball is not the guardian of 'our freedoms'. It is a commentary pundit infotainment show.
There is a world of important things outside the fetid cellar of DC, and it is good to occasionally remember that. Not one freaking hour, not one show on any of the cable commentary outlets covers arts or culture, not one. So spare me.

[Bluenorthwest]

13. Is our culture nothing? The politics is all? Medicore compromise and exclusion is everything?

How awful that we should have value placed on anyone who is not a politician. Shameful. Next they'll be lauding poets and the sun will simply go dark. More to life than only surviving.

[Romulus Quirinus]

6. I want to see this penguin show everyone in Turkey is talking about. nt

[Raven]

7. Tweety is a severely emotionally underdeveloped person who

has no business on serious TV. I have stopped watching him...he is a joke, a clown, a baffoon. He is an insufferable idiot.

[tularetom]

14. Yeah, what about Slim Whitman?

What is he chopped liver?

[aristocles]

15. I guess many of you miss the point of the TV box.

The point has always been getting eyes on the screen to view the ads. That's all.

Gandoldini's death coverage gets the eyeballs.

[madinmaryland]

18. Welcome to DU. If I want teevee info, I will change the channel to Entertainment Tonight.

[enough]

17. k&r (nt)

[grasswire]

19. Brian Williams did the same thing

A very, very long piece on Gandolfino. Unprecedented for such a relatively minor figure.

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. All talk of NSA is gone.

Down the memory hole

[madinmaryland]

21. Exactly! He was a minor figure. He was in a couple of movies and on a cult show

on a cable channel that a small portion of the country got.

Unlike, Lucille Ball's shows on the national networks.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

22. I'm always amused by the anger people have when some pundit they don't like....

....talks about something they aren't interested in....

"TWEETY'S AN ASSHOLE! HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT WHAT I THINK HE SHOULD TALK ABOUT!"

Next day....

"TWEETY'S AN IDIOT! HE'S WRONG AS USUAL ON THIS ISSUE THAT I CARE ABOUT!"



Just turn the station or turn it off. It's REALLY not that hard. Trust me.

[madinmaryland]

23. Lighten the fuck up, Francis.

You were using all capitals!!