Rockefeller Remarks on Television Viewers, Retransmission Consent, and the Public Interest

[olofpalme63]

...Rockefeller using words like "democracy"...too much.

[cardothe8]

Morons. "I believe the system we have to developing, packaging, and delivering content is broken."

I believe the senators have their heads up their asses.

[cardothe8]

Hello CHINA.

[lumeriam]

I want about 20 channels with NO Reality or Sales QVC, HSN channels, and I don't want to have to pay for Latino channels I don't need because I speak English. I want local channels, Public Broadcasting,TruTV, History, Discovery, Live News, all HD. You want real news? It's right here so don't touch our internet please! News is all opinion now and people don't see that they are so used to it.

[teemu21]

It's not Senate's job to provide better more affordable cable or pay tv.

[ncbookz]

@teemu21 right!

[silentmajor]

I have never heard such bullshit in my life. the only ones that are fucking up this country are the ones leading it. same old politics passing the buck." We're going to fix it for you" Sounds like Hitler to me.

[jdca5033]

Spoken like a good fascist! Lets not worry about the 1st amendment or anything. Interesting that nobody is bringing up the fact that he is using his position into pressuring the competition of his wife's business.

[budkin]

I'm tired of people trying to make the false equivalency between Fox News and MSNBC. The people that make this do not actually watch the channels. Yes MSNBC has more liberally biased hosts, but Fox News is a full on propaganda network for the right wing and the Republican party. NewsCorp donates huge amounts of money to Republicans while literally promoting their campaigns on air.

It's not even in the same ballpark.

[EMERALDEMMY]

I just want Meredith Vieira to quit asking victims families "How do you feel about ........your sons death........your daughters rape and murder.......your mothers cancer." We know how they feel, we have felt the same. Please, just report the news and don't try to make a daytime serial drama out of it.

[Panchee123]

this guy..........what a power hungry joke

[kittenagogo28]

fahrenheit 451 thy name is the Democratic party now. You choose Dems, stand up for what you have always claimed to stand up for or stay silent and degrade yourselves further. You decide. When I voted for Dems it was because they stood up for these rights, they only seem to now when it suits them. Like I say, keep degrading yourselves and saying freedom isn't ours or stand up for what is right.I realize Jay Rock is always going to be a leftist idiot that doesn't get it, but you voters decide.

[kittenagogo28]

Where are your 400K in yacht taxes Senator Kerry since you've been so bold to be on camera anywhere, Tax Dodging Loser! Nice to see you aren't even remotely embarrassed about showing your gigolo ass out there for all to see. Kerry, you should be hiding in your basement and this idiot Rockefeller should be out in the open in the former USSR. Keep it up leftists and know that the majority of us DESPISE you and know you constantly make asses of yourselves. We pay attention NOW. Say goodbye!

[computerpurple]

WAAAA , WAAAA poor (ha , ha ) Rockerfell-WHORE has come down with a major public display of "PMS". Awe the poor dear won't someone give him some midol

[dkkght46]

@photolitherland Let’s segue to defunding NPR and PBS. Guess who is the CEO of PBS station in the Washington, D.C., area? None other than Senator Rockefeller’s wife! After Jay Rockefeller was elected to the United States Senate in 1985, his wife Sharon Percy Rockefeller became Chief executive officer of WETA-TV in Washington, D.C. And now Senator Rockefeller wants to silence Fox News…Very interesting indeed! How about we defund NPR and PBS instead?!

[kittenagogo28]

@dkkght46 no way this dipshit answers you. You realize you've asked actually questions he/she can't answer right?

[dkkght46]

They have no respect for the U.S. Constitution.

They have a respect for Marx, Lenin, and Stalin.

Senator Rockefeller the voice of tyranny!

Senator Jay Rockefeller is the nephew of David Rockefeller, co-founder of the Trilateral Commission and member of the Bilderberg Group and the Council on Foreign Relations.

[kittenagogo28]

@dkkght46 probably don't waste your strokes on this ahole. He's hot to peg me as a Christian and I made the same mistake tonight with someone uninformed, but I bet you only hear crickets with this rabit leftist.

[Elin48]

@dkkght46 please do not put the word Socialism as lives in the hearts and minds of the Scandinavian countries into your NEW WORLD ORDER ideas.

[dkkght46]

@photolitherland Doesn’t Rockefeller have a ton of money with which to develop his own network news operation if he wishes? Why doesn’t he deploy his own capital and take the risk associated with free enterprise activities if he believes it is warranted? Commie!!!

[Elin48]

@dkkght46 why don't you, and just because he doesn't, well he doesn't have to, but fortunately it has the place and time to speak these words where you had neither.

[kittenagogo28]

@photolitherland I'm an agnostic. An agnostic that doesn't begrudge people their success, why do you?

[jsbebop]

@kittenagogo28 success is not a license to stomp on the rights of other people.

[kittenagogo28]

@photolitherland Why so race obsessed? Why do you libs have to always divide Americans into groups? Please explain.

[kittenagogo28]

@photolitherland Please understand the difference between commentary and news. Regardless, this asshole has no right to even insinuate that either Fox or MSNBC should go away. Especially since we pay for them and he has no part in regulating. Why are you a liberal?

[bench550]

these self-serving politicians have been exempt from all the SH** they pass. It would be nice for them to get rid of the 1st amendment, and do their shady deals in back rooms. Oh, they do that anyway.

[dkkght46]

Rockefeller thinks because the american people are informed that it makes his job more difficult because his actions are now more transparent. He wishes they could return to making deals that no one knew about or actions that they could not be held accountable for - encouraged that they actually have to work and are being held accountable now. That little bug sir is called Facism.

[kittenagogo28]

Let none of you leftists commenting on the indecency of cable news(and I know most are libs as you are the ones who advocate stifling speech you don't like) be mistaken here.Rockefeller threw MSNBC in for good measure.I don't know if he's been of Fox and can't be bothered to look,but it took one search to find him on Olbermann's show.He included MSNBC so he doesn't look like Hugo Chavez even though he does anyway.They know the attacks on Fox aren't working, time to try plan B-blue on blue crime.

[LoveNow365]

@kittenagogo28 and all of us:

Can we stop the "left and right"?

Can we stop the "conservative and liberal"?

Can we start talking about our country and her citizen's concerns?

Please?

[kittenagogo28]

@LoveNow365 I think it's funny that all of a sudden the left wants to work with the right and put aside oh I think it's since November 2nd.  Now that you moonbats don't have one party rule you are interested in working together to solve problems. I don't remember working together when locks were literally being changed on conf. room doors to keep Republicans out during the health care debate. I remember Pelosi walking with that giant gavel in defiance for the vote.

[LoveNow365]

@kittenagogo28 I don't know what your comment has to do with mine (?)

Sorry I don't know what a "moonbat" is. I don't even know what party Senator Rocefeller is. Personally, I'm looking for "news" just as the Senator seems to also be. I'm old enought to remember when TV news was presented in a non-biased fashion, and I long for such an environment once again.

[kittenagogo28]

@LoveNow365 Yes I checked out your page and noticed you subscription to the New Left Media. Let me assure you that Senator Rockefeller is indeed a far left Democrat. It might be best if you don't get your news from Comedy Central. I don't mean to be mean, but you are not getting unbiased news. The reason I bring up the health care debate is that it's the worst on a long list of horrible things this congress has done to we the taxpayers. A moonbat is a lib, by the way.

[LoveNow365]

@kittenagogo28 Thanks for the education. P.S. I don't have cable.

[kittenagogo28]

@LoveNow365 Well I'm sorry to come on ticked off it's just we've been insulted, ignored and lied about for 2 years. You should watch what you want and having a curiousity about this stuff you are having foisted on you is a great thing. Can you tell me what it is that you want congress to solve? What is concerning you? By the way I voted Democrat all my life until about 10 years ago. I am socially very liberal, but cannot stand by and watch these people destroy our economy and health care.

[kittenagogo28]

@LoveNow365 Mistook you for an Obama drone. :) And if you voted for him that's fine, just please understand he is not working in the best interest of this country. I don't know what his problem is, but he wasn't a viable candidate to me when I found out he sat in a racist anti-semitic church for 20 years.

[kittenagogo28]

@LoveNow365 I remember being called a liar when we said what was in that horrible bill and being referred to as a Nazi and a racist. So no we can't work together. Normal people (65% of this country) don't take kindly to the insults and the intrusion in our lives. We don't bargain with despots. Funny how quickly you lefties hear your marching orders though. Can't we all just get along? You had no interest when you backed people destroying this country why should we be interested now?

[LoveNow365]

@kittenagogo28 What was in what bill? I don't have any idea what you are talking about.

[kittenagogo28]

@LoveNow365 Rationing, huge cost overruns, funding for abortion (and I happen to be prochoice, but if a person has a moral issue with abortion their tax dollars shouldn't contribute to it), half a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare that my parents have paid into and been promised all their lives, huge rate hikes, an unconstitutional forced mandate to purchase health care even if you don't want it, union exemptions because they are democrat supporters- shall I go on?

[LoveNow365]

@kittenagogo28 No need to go on. Your comments don't have anything to do with mine, which are about being able to hear "news." I miss "news."

[kittenagogo28]

@LoveNow365 A last tip, if you are going to watch news called the New Left Media, you should really balance it out with some information. Go on CNN or something. I think Fox does a great job with their news shows during the day. This jerk is talking about Hannity and such. That is biased, but it's also commentary. New Left Media is no place to get "news."

[LoveNow365]

@kittenagogo28 New Left Media is not news, and I haven't seen one of their videos in about 6 months. I subscribed ("bookmarked") because I was curious about these young people who were presenting a non-corporate perspective and I found that interesting. It was just a bookmark so I wouldn't forget their name. Just to be clear, I'm not defending my "subscription," I'm just explaining why it was there. It would have been nice to have a chat about "news." Too bad you took it somewhere else.

[kittenagogo28]

@LoveNow365 I just want to know what you are itching to have congress do right now. Could you tell me? I know what I want them to do, but am curious what problems you want everyone to work to solve.

[LoveNow365]

@kittenagogo28 I'm not "itching" to have Congress solve anything. I am wishing that we the people would be able to have reasoned discourse about topics of import, such as the lack of real news. I am wishing that we the citizens would stop looking at our world in a polarized way, and instead have rational conversations about real issues based on facts, not politics. I am wishing that we would figure out a way to get real news back. My small contribution: No money to cable. BTW I'm not uninformed.

[kittenagogo28]

I'm afraid most missing the point here. The people who are on both Fox and MSNBC at night are called C-O-M-M-E-N-T-A-T-O-R-S. As vile as I find Olbermann, I want him on the air for comedic relief and because it is MSNBCs right to put any idiot they want on. Regardless he is talking about cable TV, which by the way the FCC doesn't regulate, but the fact that he is a total idiot is beside the point. Who gets to decide what should be on TV? Who gets to decide what is decent and what isn't?

[ThePureEast]

At 2:55 I wonder what the starting word was that John Kerry picked for the game of "Telephone" he and his aids were playing in the background.

[EcrossH]

It's time we start fighting the widespread corruption here in the U.S. instead of Liberals vs. Conservatives. Both sides have both good and bad ideas to fix things, but because they fight, nothing can get done and corruption is allowed to flourish in the background. Put in short senate and representative term limits, make lobbying illegal, limit candidates to equal government provided campaign funds, and vigorously destroy anti-science institutions funded by corporations.

[yourmomscalling]

YOU FUCKING ELITIST ASSHOLES WHATS THE MATTER YOU DON'T LIKE THE TRUTH GETTING OUT YOU FUCKING BITCH ROCKEFELLER BORN INTO MONEY FUCKING POMPOUS ASS!!!!!

[benzhamen]

@yourmomscalling --The opinions of stations like Fox News are NOT truth. They are propaganda. I wasn't born into money and I'm not rich but I believe what Rockefeller is saying - I just couldn't put it into words. It's also true that all news stations look for stuff like Lady Gaga or Dancing with the Stars , to report on. They should be telling us what is going in the nations Democracy. Left and right sides.

[brothamouzoune]

First time in a while i've heard a politician say something I actually completely agree with. This guy has got my support.

[brian8793]

@brothamouzoune You think the Government should censor the media? HAHA!

You're a sheep, move to China....

[brothamouzoune]

@brian8793 Haha, a sheep? You actually consider FoxNews to be 'media'? Do you realize how fucked up our political system has become because of the 24/7 News cycle. How many non-stories there are every single day, and how elections are based upon minute shit that is of absolutely no legislative importance. You call me the sheep, yet you're eyes are closed shut. Get a clue.

[benzhamen]

@brian8793 . No silly , He's not asking for censosrhip but for true, honest journalism. Journalism means : informing the public of the health or sickness of our nation. Journalists are not supposed to take sides; Right or Left. Taking sides is called corruption ! !

[brian8793]

@benzhamen So people don't have a right to lie? You gonna form an agency to track down liars? Maybe Obama can borrow some more money to start that. He can ask for an extension, just like a payday loan CRACKHEAD.

Go away from me.If you don't like what someone is saying on t.v., CHANGE THE CHANNEL JACKASS

I don't care about what the left wing lunatic, socialist, commie,GE lackeys on the other channels,because I don't watch em

How easy is that, dummy? You want big brother to wip your ass too?

[EliteSlime]

@benzhamen Who gets to choose what is true? And the censorship of anyones words it against the Constitution. Do you think this shit bag has the right to take away our speach? Hell No. These rights were not given to us by the Government. They are our natural Rights.

[North2016]

@brothamouzoune If we all had your mentality, we would be in a Totalitarian dictatorship..

[brothamouzoune]

@North2016 RIIIIIIIGHT?!?!?

[ConservativeAnthem]

@brothamouzoune You know you're a Marxist when...

[brian8793]

What a bunch of pussy ass bitches the Democrats are! You guys are losing people EVERYDAY because you are such PUSSIES!.

Why is it that our Government officials are talking about "THE MEDIA?" Why do they care? Why don't just DO THEIR JOBS?

I'm voting for Mitt Romney. I'mk tired of this shit. Hire The Mormon, hire the GOD DAMNB MORMON you MORONS!

[simnszz]

THANKS Sen. Rockefeller for risking' the wrath of the vindictive Right to question how both Fox and MSNBC. Be careful of reprisals. Those Tea Party folks will surely be coming after you. It's their new 'American' way. Many are simply misinformed cult -like followers. And no, I'm not a Dem. I'm and Independent. My son is serving in Afghanistan. I'm not a communist. I'm a concerned American who things we better start confronting bullies who hop on any opportunity to attack anyone who differs.

[stauggie78]

i agree with rockefeller on this !!msnbc is owned by general electric and fox is owned by rubert and btw the second biggest share holder of fox news is the saudi prince!!!I'm sure he's really lookin out for us americans,huh!!!

[stauggie78]

if u want some real news check out free speech tv.its a network powered by the people!!

[oldParasiteSingle]

I'm a big supporter of the first amendment. However, I also believe that both networks are guilty of violating community standards of perversion. Since they are cable they feel exempt from such standards, but I'm for making sure that all opinions in their content come with a warning label for stupid people. At least Colbert, Stewart, and Maher use the Comedy Central banner.

[dkkght46]

Yes, it is a good thing to control speech we don't like and that "Gets in the way of us governing". Wow, do these people listen to themselves? This is Fascism pure and simple. What does he mean "News we really want. Look at the ratings to see what people really want, and it is not NPR. Maybe he needs to see FoxNews ratings. He is bipartisan by asking for MSLSD to be removed as well.

Anyone running against this buffoon could use this as a great campaign ad.

[kittenagogo28]

Are you shitting me?! Someone is looking for a scathing phone call from me tomorrow! Who do you think you are Rockefeller?! What do you not want us to see what you losers are doing? We have no faith in you and rightfully so! We'll do it for you?! Hey, can you ask Senator Kerry if he's paid his yacht taxes yet while you are next to him greatly respecting him. You people are pathetic.