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2005-04-04 Home Front: Culture Wars

AlGore launches TV Network for Pod People

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Posted by Steve 2005-04-04 3:28:03 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Good to see that MSNBC will get some competition FOR LAST PLACE! This does have a silver lining. The left has found a new outlet to spend their money and wont have too much left over for campaigns. Like Air Amerika they will have a finite audience and little appeal outside that.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2005-04-04 4:10:06 PM|| 2005-04-04 4:10:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 In six months it'll be "All Rap Videos, All the Time". If it lasts six months...

Posted by tu3031 2005-04-04 4:12:41 PM|| 2005-04-04 4:12:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The first national network created by, for and with an 18-34 year-old audience, Current will offer 24 hours of programming in a unique, short-form content format when it premieres August 1.

'Cause, y'know, them 34-year-olds just can't concentrate for more than 2 minutes at a time...

Posted by mojo 2005-04-04 4:15:09 PM|| 2005-04-04 4:15:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 "Its "pods" will be 15-second to five-minute segments that range from the hottest trends..."

Sounds like a video version of People magazine aimed at larval lefties-- dolts with the attention span of a newborn puppy who find MTV too cerebral.

And they'll be known as Pod People.

Posted by Dave D. 2005-04-04 4:15:10 PM|| 2005-04-04 4:15:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 We'll clean the blood off the decks, throw the dead overboard, lash together a new mast, double the teams on the pumps, and the USS ALGORE will sail again to fight another day I tell you! Al Gore should take the whacky spouse, pot smoking StAlbans educated son, and hangers on out to a deserted island to start a new nation of their own.

Posted by Tkat 2005-04-04 4:30:34 PM|| 2005-04-04 4:30:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 The pod idea sounds interesting for half an hour a day max. beyond that it's just too scitzho for even the Mtv generation.

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-04-04 4:34:59 PM|| [http://rjschwarz.com] 2005-04-04 4:34:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 And they'll be known as Pod People.
Thanks, Dan. I'm stealing that for the title.

Posted by Steve 2005-04-04 4:38:54 PM|| 2005-04-04 4:38:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Who's "Dan"?

Posted by Dave D. 2005-04-04 4:39:57 PM|| 2005-04-04 4:39:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Gee, what ever happened to the voice of the liberals Al promised us?

They've been in Al's head all along.

Posted by badanov 2005-04-04 6:13:50 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2005-04-04 6:13:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Who's "Dan"?
Sigh. Thanks, Dave. It's been a long day.

Posted by Steve 2005-04-04 8:39:36 PM|| 2005-04-04 8:39:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 LOL... yeah, I know what those are like.

I'm still chuckling over the idea of Lurch trying to appeal to "young people"...

Posted by Dave D. 2005-04-04 8:52:41 PM|| 2005-04-04 8:52:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 you know... this sounds like something out of M, M, uh, M M M MAX HEADROOM

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-04-04 8:53:42 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-04-04 8:53:42 PM|| Front Page Top

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