David Letterman helpless between Slime Warner and Sleazy BS

That's from the Dead Letterman Department.

It's what millions saw instead of David Letterman on CBS, aka Sleazy B.S.

CBS had no control over this...Time Warner Cable, aka Slime Warner...pulled their plug and took their channel for themselves, posting the announcement.

Which is sort of like a landlord changing the keys in the locks and putting up a sign: "THE PEOPLE WHO USED TO LIVE HERE DO NOT LIVE HERE NOW. THEY HAVE TO GO TO A HOTEL OR SOMETHING. VISIT THEM THERE. THEY MADE UNREASONABLE DEMANDS FOR LOCKS THAT CAN'T BE PICKED."

It's sort of amusing, that now, at 11:30pm when the kiddies are asleep, Slime Warner Cable offers CHILDREN'S MOVIES instead of David Letterman.

"As a courtesy."

Did that phrase POP for you in the Slime Warner announcement? "AS A COURTESY..." whatever channel CBS is on, via your cable box, will now beam a useless third-rate piece of crap cable channel called STARZKIDS all day long...and when the KIDS are asleep and you want to watch the late news via your favorite local reporters and sport and weather-asshole, and Letterman.

Slime Warner's done this in several major cities where they control (dictate) the cable TV signal with little or no competition.

Funny...funny...HILARIOUS that at one time, the free enterprise system in America meant most everyone had between 5 and 10 active TV channels to watch on VHS. CBS? One of the three major networks. Easy to get clear and sharp.

Now? In most big cities, the antenna signal is screwed up by the interference from huge buildings, power lines, whatever. In some places, because of the shift to digital and high definition, you can't even get the on-air free signal unless you pay for a special gizmo to attach to your TV or computer.

Slime Warner smugly tells Letterman fans (and any fans of other CBS programming, though most of it IS sleazy B.S.) they can go check CBS on line and see what might be streaming free. Or...go buy a gizmo to get some kind of on-air signal. Or, any time you want to watch CBS, disconnect your cable and connect an old-fashioned antenna and hope for the best.

The Brave New World we live in also dictates that instead of competition, you have two (or less) choices in your life. MAC or PC. Time Warner or Fios (and in many places, it's way too expensive to lay the wiring for both, so your landlord or mayor made the choice for you).

Oh, we could extend the "no choice" fun...Google or Bing? Amazon or eBay? Netflix or Hulu?

I don't watch CBS much except for David Letterman. But the same goes for NBC and ABC. Look at their prime time line-up of shit. Of reality shows. Of sitcoms that star unfunny people. Of boring medical and crime shows that are all the same.

Before Slime Warner booted CBS, CBS was running frantic ads, urging people to call up Time Warner and demand that they keep CBS on the air. Ha ha ho ho hee hee. What, some kind of "voting" deal? Some kind of Democracy angle? Some kind of morality play? Corporations don't listen, and if the situation was reversed, and CBS made a deal to ONLY give their signal to FIOS, they wouldn't pay attention to calls from irate Time Warner subscribers.

PS, the President of CBS, is one Les Moonves who made 69 MILLION DOLLARS last year, as the highest-compensated media chief executive. This is the same Les Moonves who feuded with Letterman several years ago. Double PS, the CBS commercials for itself, warning customers they were no longer going to get limp-wristed shit like "Big Bang Theory" if Slime Warner pulled the plug...didn't even mention Dave!

Yeah, Dave was quite amused (and disgusted) about that, and mentioned it on the air...how CBS wasn't pointing to HIM and saying "You won't get to see DAVE..."

The bottom line here is that the government, the FCC, whatever...is now so weak, so crumbly, so pussywhipped by Internet giants and monopolies, that they didn't instantly step in and say, "You can NOT do this. You can NOT take away an important public service such as a TV network where people get news and weather. You can NOT PLAY your fucking games over how much you will or won't pay a particular network or cable service..." same way the mayor of a city can prevent a strike of bus drivers or garbage men.

Garbage, men and women...that's something this Brave New World still has, and will have more of. And the funny thing is, nobody knows what to do about garbage, either. Whining, cringing idiots in Louisiana and New Jersey and New York are still carrying on about hurricane damage. Hey, morons, what if you found a way to haul the ever-increasing GARBAGE to landfills that are on your coast lines and can protect you?

As to why Slime Warner and Sleazy CBS have taken away information and entertainment from paying customers...well, they are GARBAGE, and most of what they offer by way of information and entertainment is garbage, too.

Not you, Dave!