Everything is relative...

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HDTV Follies: The Final Countdown

Would this be called “putting a cat amongst the pigeons”?

Six weeks before the nation’s television stations are scheduled to convert to digital transmission, an aide to President-elect Barack Obama is asking Congress to consider a delay.

In the most significant sign to date of concern about the impending digital TV transition, the Obama transition team co-chairman John Podesta said the government funds to support the change are “woefully inadequate” and said that the digital switch date, Feb. 17, should be “reconsidered and extended.”
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Major broadcasters, including ABC and NBC, have signaled that they support a delay.

Hey Roberta, looks like you may have to keep that old drive running a bit longer!

Elsewhere (added 090109 16:00):

Via: Slashdot

Previously:

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The Panetta CIA pick

NR’s Kathryn Jean Lopez has found a former CIA agent who likes the idea:

“Partisan political conflict during the Bush years allowed CIA dysfunction to thrive and grow.  The CIA may have difficulty running basic espionage operations, but when its way of life is at stake, it fights like a retrovirus regardless of the commander-in-chief’s political party.  The CIA’s sophisticated system of press leaks has been a textbook covert-action operation...

“Obama’s choice of a loyalist shows he understands the threat he faces from a dysfunctional CIA.”

Ed Morrissey, not so much:

Leon Panetta only has indirect experience with intelligence...  There must be thousands of people more qualified to run the CIA from an experience and competence standpoint, including several members of Congress...

but (Ed again)

The US is currently fighting an asymmetrical war on two hot fronts...

Actually, a review of the Plame affair, the WMD bungle, and the waterboarding controversy, leaves me believing there have actually been three fronts, the third being the one separating the CIA and the Bush administration.

It’s past time we got everybody on the same page.  Bush didn’t do it.  If Panetta can rein in the agency’s rogue elements and achieve that, more power to him.

At that point we can argue over whether it’s the right one.

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Please, Br’er Fox!!!

Drudge [screenshot]:

NBC BANS COULTER FOR LIFE; CUT FROM 'TODAY' SHOW OVER BOOK'S CLAIMS, NO MORE CABLE

Drew M:

How much did she have to pay them?

Zing!


UPDATE 090106 01:30 (Via Ace): NBC says, “No, no, just too much other news and stuff going on in Washington and its not a ban she can come back any time just not right now ...”

So:  Who you gonna believe, some PR weasel at NBC, or Matt Drudge?

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