The Dead Zone

...all the trees You can purchase with one of those Visa cards.


What really bothers Me about the whole concept of "giving back" is the underlined premise that Everyone takes, unapologitically.

Personally, I didn't know AMH was employed.

(To a point) that are so blatantly left leaning. It can be fun to tear them apart.

trying to figure out what happened to AMH's eyes. They are intensely creepy nowadays.

I believe his character can also see into his own future when he swipes the Visa card. A large bill frightens him into changing his mind in the present.

Ha ha, good one! I guess I must also be psychic because I get the same vision when I use my Visa card.

Jeanie Garafalo is now on 24. One of my favorite shows is going down the tubes. VERY saddening.

to get some info from her;/

these hollywood types will get the message that they entertain US. WE are their CONSUMERS. And it's pretty STUPID to alienate your consumers. It makes me so MAD when a show or a band I like starts shooting off their mouth enough that they cause me to have to dislike and abandon them. It's their own faults, and they could make money off me.....

If Jason Bourne weren't so cool, I'd have to write him off too.

The Hollywood types are only interested in keeping their consumers (viewers) happy until the consumer's opinions clash with the message they so desperately want to get out. It is ultimately more important for them to continue pushing their agenda than to stay with the original premise of the show/movie.
As to The Dead Zone, specifically, I watch it because they actually do Maine fairly well, even if it's filmed elsewhere. I sometimes just get homesick and even a show that has blatant commercials and gets the politics for the area completely wrong (Bangor and environs are pretty solidly conservative areas, but again, what do they care if it gets the message out?) the show supposedly takes part in can be a nice escape.

I don't think we have that show over here yet.

In the UK we have gone beyond the stage where Conservatives are demonised in the media.

We are now at the stage where Social Democrats (i.e. New Labour moderates) are demonised for not being left-wing enough!

One of my favourite games in the morning is to switch on BBC Radio 4 Today's programme, and count the number of seconds before someone comes out with a crazy liberal statement.

Often it is only seconds.

I have visited the today website to find a pertinent example:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/

However, instead of finding an example, I have a treat for you.

One of our broadcast veterans, Jeremy Paxman, has launched a scathing attack on the BBC in a recent lecture:

"Jeremy Paxman said working with the BBC was like living in Stalin's Russia last night as he launched a scathing attack on his employer."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/25/npaxman125.xml

Somehow I just cannot take this guy seriously as a lead "hero".

He was appropriately typecast back in the 80s as a dweeb (in such film classics as Nat'l Lampoon's Vacation and Pretty in Pink).

The few times I've seen his new show I find myself studying his face wondering if the computer morphing program could've predicted his grown-up face.

Jeananne Garofolo is on 24?

This makes it official; the show has jumped the shark.

Was the VISA bit supposed to be satire, or at least making fun of those idiot VISA commercials? Cash is always faster than a credit card (except when someone feels the need to count out exact change and couldn't be bothered to do so ahead of time).

NO! Not Janeane Garafalo!!! I cannot watch her in anything, she just ruins it for me. I can still handle Susan Sarandon in small doses, though. (Otherwise I couldn't watch 'Rescue Me.')

Purplegimp: Yeah, Dead Zone makes me want to live in Maine, it's so purty!

Shining City: I agree -- it gets to where I don't want to hear what my favorite band or actor thinks; I don't want any of their personal info, because I will become disenchanted. Alice Cooper had it right -- entertainers should stay out of politics. (Bono totally ruined U2 for me in the late 80s.)

Paulie: I'm picturing you as Paulie from the Sopranos, is that you? Yeah, hard to get over AMH as dweeb...

I'm pretty sure the Visa ad was real. I guess the big wonderful thing about it was that you just waved your card in front of the scanner, nothing more. No signing or anything. (But wouldn't that also make theft and misuse easier?)

Yeah, that's me.

And just a little dumber.

I never did understand the whole taxing you for having a TV thing -- and for what, to fund the politics of the BBC? Don't the advertisements pay for the shows? (Although in the U.S. our taxes pay for PBS, which is a quite liberal channel.)

Also... you mean the Brits also care about Paris Hilton and waste news coverage on her?!!

We get some shows on BBC America, but I don't know if they're old -- Jekyll, MI-5, Little Britain, Graham Supergayness Norton... and old classics like Ab Fab. I liked the short-lived Life On Mars.

BBC - there are no advertisements, it is entirely publically funded.

As a consequence, you get:

(a) Great drama (e.g. the latest Dr. Who)
(b) Brilliantly subversive comedy (e.g. One Foot in the Grave)
(c) Liberal politics preached at you with every news programme.

:o(

The BBC has a huge news team, because of their huge budget ... so visit their website if you want to find out what is going on in the world ... but be aware that they may be a liberal agenda in the news (I'm sure you are used to this anyway).

Here's the rub:
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In the UK it is a CRIMINAL offence not to pay your TV Licence.

The licence costs £135.50 per year.

If you are caught watching a TV without a Licence, you face a fine of up to £1000.

http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/information/detectionandpenalties.jsp

They claim to have detector vans, and we all know that every household is on a national database.

http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/information/tvdetectorvans.jsp

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I suppose you are now going to say ... why do you Brits put up with this?

Well it's a self-perpetuating system. The BBC preach a liberal view, which in turn keeps people liberal in the UK.

Hence the idea of a publically funded television service is perfectly acceptable to them.

Conservatives do exist in the UK, but few of us speak out ... most just fly under the radar and only come out when it's time to vote.

Many in the UK actually have "conservative" values, but won't support them if they are associated with the Conservative Party:

http://www.skynewstranscripts.co.uk/transcript.asp?id=220

I'm sure Squiddy will tell you in due course, but I vaguely recall someone (maybe it was her) pointing me in the direction of the following link that provides picture hosting advice.

http://josue.townhall.com/g/e7ac0989-40e7-4270-8718-4729bd55c342

I haven't tried it out yet, so let me know how you get on.

Question answered, thanks Greg. Doc, I'll have to stop by and see the results!

Got to agree with you about BBC America. Dr Who is fascinatingly confusing. Blackadder has got to be my favorite show ever.

Yep, despite overt liberalism in politics, those Brits are great in the entertainment field!