Wow! What a pathetic plea for help! No discounts from Fox?

Sounds like 'ol Sharon was a telemarketer at one time.

....She actually has to pay for ads at Fox? I thought they paid her!

I've had more classy requests for money -on a Vegas-strip sidewalk at midnight!

Hey MSNBC.....Stop the cartoon-blue-bears (with no pants) from shilling Charmin toilet tissue on your interweb channel! What's with "enjoy the go" ???? You people can't need ad money that much!

Oh and stop that lying mother from shilling TIDE in a green tee shirt.

Mothers and bears (bares) need higher quality treatment from my favorite network.

Even Sponge-Bob wears pants ,,,and green tee shirt thieves should not lie to their daughters!

MSNBC..... I love your content...but you commercials r making me...

Sorry, I have to take my meds now....and it's your fault!

ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox??...what's wrong with this picture...

It's because its based on viewership.

It only costs 100 dollars to put an ad on MSNBC? She's kidding, right?

Hmmm.  What political ads are accepted by each of these outlets?  Lots of room to discuss media social responsibility with regard to how it allows its airtime to be used.  Is it more than money that goes into the decision?

I LOVE that Tide ad!  It always makes me laugh.  Where did you get that interpretation?  My teenage son (who is challenged by nuances) interprets it like you do AND I went to grain pains to show him he was wrong.  [Not that I convinced him]  Now you reiterate his interpretation so....What am I missing?  To me it's the daughter who is lying when she says it must have been in her closet, aftr finding and washing it.

'Tide' comment was for usgs00

If anyone from Rachel's staff reads this, please think about passing along to her the message that she desperately needs someone to explain to her the thinking, philosophy and rules of the Evangelical political movement.

Her commentary on Palin, O’Donnell, Bachman and other Evangelicals makes it clear that she does not understand the culture of Evangelicals and it makes her woefully easy to dismiss.

I beg of you guy to find someone who can act as a cultural informant, who can help you understand the context in which these “nutty” things are being said, and more importantly, the context in which they are heard.

For example, Christine O’Donnell’s story about her misspent youth was a popular Evangelical tale of redemption during the time that she told it. It was a story that gave her a sort of credential in the Evangelical community, and without it her ministry at the time would have struggled. The form her redemption story took, of a brush with a conflation of witchcraft and Satanist, was very popular in Evangelical circles at the time. It points out how very gifted she is at creating culturally effective myths.

What is more important is that you wasted an opportunity. While you were mocking her, you failed to point out the magical thinking of “God will provide a way to avoid lying to the Nazis.” The reason it is important to point out that magical thinking is that it actually informs the public policy recommendations of the Evangelicals who make up much of the Tea Party. (To articulate that philosophy succinctly, but with the risk of over-simplification: public policy should presume an individual “believer’s” relationship with a Divinity which will intervene in his or her daily life, protecting the believer from the harmful actions of Divinely appointed government and Divinely appointed agents such as Republican presidents and leaders of big business.) It is the same magical-thinking-philosophy behind Engel’s idea that rape victims should make lemonade out of rape-induced pregnancy lemons. A philosophy of magical thinking has no place in public policy, and that is what you should focus on. You should be explaining to your audience that not everyone can count on being rescued by an Evangelical God; even Evangelical doctrine states that. Therefore public policy should not be made just for those who can count on Divine rescue; it must be made for both the “saved” and the “unsaved.”

I urge, no I implore you to find a good Evangelical to English dictionary. What you are trying to say is too important for you to continue speaking from an ill-informed position. If you can find no one else, I will happily talk with your producers. Hell, I’ll even talk with the janitor if that will inform your commentary. To be clear, though, I am not spoiling for a shot on-air. The camera is not my friend; it makes me look like the product of an unholy union between Yoda and Janet Reno.

I am invested in your success. I believe that you point out the underlying and often unstated assumptions at the heart of political positions. In pointing out assumptions which inform our ideology and politics, you speak the truth in its most basic form, and it does our nation a great service. I want to aid that cause by making your commentary well-informed, culturally-sensitive and therefore harder to blow off.

To find out more or to contact me: http://socialmusings.livejournal.com/33275.html

Silly, it's the mom who recovers the green shirt and washes it!

What happened to the 14 million she raised this quarter...I know running shoes are expensive but...

I'm sure she'll still be raising money after she wins...that's when the real money comes in.