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Sort of Soviet?
Ben Smith's Blog —   Et tu, MSNBC? Willie Geist and Courtney Hazlett this morning discussed Obama's half hour of TV tomorrow night. GEIST: Coming back to the Obama thing. Does it strike anyone else as creepy? Obama's taking over every network? It's sort of like when you imagined the Soviet invasion, it would take over the airwaves. Something weird about it. HAZLETT: Seriously. Exactly, exactly. I mean, it's even going to be on Telemundo - Spanish television. It's everywhere -- except for ABC. Now, I do want to be fair, ABC said that they offered their air to Obama and for whatever reason, he declined. GEIST: Ok. It makes me a ...

Is buying advertising “sort of Soviet”?
Hot Air » Top Picks — Is buying advertising “sort of Soviet”? posted at 12:30 pm on October 28, 2008 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | printer-friendly Well, far be it from me to interrupt MS-NBC when they’re actually sounding critical of their favored candidate, but this is somewhat silly. Willie Geist and and Courtney Hazlett debate the significance of Barack Obama’s prime-time informercial buys, and come up with a silly verdict: GEIST: Coming back to the Obama thing. Does it strike anyone else as creepy? Obama’s taking over every network? It’s sort of like when you imagined the Soviet invasion, it would take over the airwaves. Something weird about it. HAZLETT: ...

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