Right wingers own ratings in terms of radio/tv because their audience is more easily swayed and don't really think for themselves. I would imagine liberals tend to believe in rationale thinking and don't need some loser telling them how to think and feel on the radio. I would imagine most liberals get their information by reading as opposed to biased view points on tv.
Also I read somewhere once that the average listener for Oreilly is 70+ years old. I found that amazing.
Also I read somewhere once that the average listener for Oreilly is 70+ years old. I found that amazing.
hno:
My sentiments exactly. Faux's News viewership's numbers are comparable to professional rastin, American Idol, and reality TV. Needless to say,the demographic ain't all that impressive.
Remember, these same people who comiserate around the watercooler yapping about the latest episode of John and Kate +8 are the same folk who believe Obama isn't a US citizen. Try comparing the wacky signs fans bring to a WWF match. Ain't no different than those who line the sidewalks with Nazi signs at your local, neighborhood townhall.
can you imagine the demographic of people who get their news from jon stewart and colbert like you do?
Sorry El, the only time I flip to Comedy Central is when Dave Attel's "Insomniac" is on. But since we're speaking on assumptions, do you pat yourself on the back when you blast email your officemates the latest TMZ puts out? Or perhaps you feel cooler cause you were the first to Twitter it?
Here's the real skinny.....
By Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
8/12/2009 6:44:01 PM
Have a handful of left-wing advocacy groups been able to hurt Fox News’ “Glenn Beck” program by pressuring their advertisers to drop their ads?
Online left-wing news sources are claiming victory after several advertisers – Sargento, GEICO, Lawyers.com, Progressive Insurance, Procter & Gamble, and SC Johnson – have decided to move their spots to other Fox News programming from Beck’s program. However according to Fox News, it’s not costing the network any revenue.
“The advertisers referenced have all moved their spots from Beck to other programs on the network so there has been no revenue lost,” a Fox News spokesperson told the Business & Media Institute Aug. 12.
The latest sponsor to pull the advertising from Beck’s program was Sargento, as one liberal online news outlet reported and included a response from the company:
We deeply appreciate your reaching out to us and sharing your comments and concerns about Sargento ads appearing during “The Glenn Beck Show.” We sat down with the marketing department to talk about it and I learned that we buy time periods not specific programs. But in any event, they’ve made the decision to exclude that program from our future ad rotation. Simply stated, Sargento ads won’t be airing during that show. Again, thanks for contacting us.
Pat Lombardo
Sargento Consumer Affairs Department
Sargento did not immediately respond to inquiries from the Business & Media Institute about its decision.
However, there may be more involved to the campaign, as Matthew Vadum reported for the American Spectator on Aug. 12. The campaign to attack Beck through his advertisers was instituted by the activist group Color of Change, as reported by the Business & Media Institute on Aug. 4.
Vadum pointed out that Color of Change has ties to the Obama administration, which Beck has been very critical of since coming to Fox News in early 2009.
“The extremist racial grievance group [Color of Change] isn’t happy that Beck did several news packages on Van Jones, President Obama’s controversial green jobs czar who describes himself as a communist,” Vadum wrote. “Jones is a founding board member of Color of Change, but Color of Change doesn't want you to know that. Maybe having an avowed America-hating radical on the group's board is bad public relations.”
As Vadum discovered, the group that targeted Beck and his advertisers made an effort to hide its prior association with Jones.
“The group deleted references to Jones on its ‘about’ page,” Vadum wrote. “That page used to say, ‘James Rucker and Van Jones came together in the wake of [Hurricane] Katrina to use the organizing power of the Internet to give Black Americans and our allies a renewed and strengthened political voice.’ But now it doesn’t.”
Vadum found that the old page still existed in the Google cache, and created a PDF of the page.) He also procured copies of the 501(c)(4) group’s 2006 and 2007 tax returns (IRS Form 990), which showed the president’s green jobs czar as a director.
Beck has been a thorn-in-the-side for many of Obama’s policies, even reporting on some of the language in the cash-for-clunkers program that could give the federal government unprecedented access to private computers.
By Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
8/12/2009 6:44:01 PM
Have a handful of left-wing advocacy groups been able to hurt Fox News’ “Glenn Beck” program by pressuring their advertisers to drop their ads?
Online left-wing news sources are claiming victory after several advertisers – Sargento, GEICO, Lawyers.com, Progressive Insurance, Procter & Gamble, and SC Johnson – have decided to move their spots to other Fox News programming from Beck’s program. However according to Fox News, it’s not costing the network any revenue.
“The advertisers referenced have all moved their spots from Beck to other programs on the network so there has been no revenue lost,” a Fox News spokesperson told the Business & Media Institute Aug. 12.
The latest sponsor to pull the advertising from Beck’s program was Sargento, as one liberal online news outlet reported and included a response from the company:
We deeply appreciate your reaching out to us and sharing your comments and concerns about Sargento ads appearing during “The Glenn Beck Show.” We sat down with the marketing department to talk about it and I learned that we buy time periods not specific programs. But in any event, they’ve made the decision to exclude that program from our future ad rotation. Simply stated, Sargento ads won’t be airing during that show. Again, thanks for contacting us.
Pat Lombardo
Sargento Consumer Affairs Department
Sargento did not immediately respond to inquiries from the Business & Media Institute about its decision.
However, there may be more involved to the campaign, as Matthew Vadum reported for the American Spectator on Aug. 12. The campaign to attack Beck through his advertisers was instituted by the activist group Color of Change, as reported by the Business & Media Institute on Aug. 4.
Vadum pointed out that Color of Change has ties to the Obama administration, which Beck has been very critical of since coming to Fox News in early 2009.
“The extremist racial grievance group [Color of Change] isn’t happy that Beck did several news packages on Van Jones, President Obama’s controversial green jobs czar who describes himself as a communist,” Vadum wrote. “Jones is a founding board member of Color of Change, but Color of Change doesn't want you to know that. Maybe having an avowed America-hating radical on the group's board is bad public relations.”
As Vadum discovered, the group that targeted Beck and his advertisers made an effort to hide its prior association with Jones.
“The group deleted references to Jones on its ‘about’ page,” Vadum wrote. “That page used to say, ‘James Rucker and Van Jones came together in the wake of [Hurricane] Katrina to use the organizing power of the Internet to give Black Americans and our allies a renewed and strengthened political voice.’ But now it doesn’t.”
Vadum found that the old page still existed in the Google cache, and created a PDF of the page.) He also procured copies of the 501(c)(4) group’s 2006 and 2007 tax returns (IRS Form 990), which showed the president’s green jobs czar as a director.
Beck has been a thorn-in-the-side for many of Obama’s policies, even reporting on some of the language in the cash-for-clunkers program that could give the federal government unprecedented access to private computers.
Exposing a GB fear monger over cars website
It's mainly much ado about nothing. The regular ol' DOT Privacy Policy applies for consumers and dealers alike when you're at the cars.gov site. What Glen Beck shows is for dealers only, and for only when they actually log on to the DOT CARS database system, not the CARS Web site.
When they log into the database, they are no longer using a Web site, but are actually directly logged into a government database, just like any other government computer terminal. You are, for all intents and purposes, a portal to the database, a part of that database while logged on, but only while logged on. The part about tracking cookies and the government being able to reach into your computer at any time to grab files is a load of crap and she (the chick in the video) doesn't really know what she's talking about. (She'd really freak out if she knew the FBI and the NSA already monitors stuff at the backbone router level as it is.)
"This application provides access to the DoT CARS system. When logged on to the CARS system, your computer is considered a Federal computer system and is the property of the U.S. Government."
Means exactly that. When you're logged on and are a part of the database, your computer is no different than any other government computer that is connected to the system.
This part of the EULA...
"Any or all uses of this system and all files on this system may be intercepted, monitored, recorded, copied, audited, inspected, and disclosed to authorized CARS, DoT, and law enforcement personnel, as well as authorized officials of other agencies, both domestic and foreign...."
...is on many government Web sites. (for example, go here: https://tsajobs.tsa.dhs.gov/TSAJobs/Apply.aspx (https://tsajobs.tsa.dhs.gov/TSAJobs/Apply.aspx) and scroll to the bottom). It means that if you log on to their computer system, whatever you do while on their system belongs to them and they have the right to monitor it as they see fit, same as any private business computer system that you might log onto via VPN. For example, I have access to the computer system at a large computer tech company, and whenever I'm logged on, my computer is their computer, because the interface is literally seamless.
The authorized officials, both domestic and foreign, means that any activity you do that is illegal can and will be disclosed to law enforcement (mainly) and other agencies. They use "both domestic and foreign" to cover anyone from other countries to be prosecuted inside those countries. For example, if someone from England logs on and does something illegal, they will give the British authorities the information so that they can be prosecuted in England (because England has laws against that stuff, too).
Here's the EULA of the CARS System:
https://supplierpayments.esc.gov (https://supplierpayments.esc.gov/)
This application provides access to the DoT CARS system. When logged on to the CARS system, your computer is considered a Federal computer system and is the property of the United States Government. It is for authorized use only. Users (authorized or unauthorized) have no explicit or implicit expectation of privacy.
Any or all uses of this system and all files on this system may be intercepted, monitored, recorded, copied, audited, inspected, and disclosed to authorized CARS, DoT, and law enforcement personnel, as well as authorized officials of other agencies, both domestic and foreign. By using this system, the user consents to such interception, monitoring, recording, copying, auditing, inspection, and disclosure at the discretion CARS or the DoT personnel.
Unauthorized or improper use of this system may result in administrative disciplinary action and civil and criminal penalties.
Unauthorized attempts to defeat or circumvent security features, to use the system for other than intended purposes, to deny service to authorized users, to access, obtain, alter, damage, or destroy information, or otherwise to interfere with the system or its operation are prohibited. Evidence of such acts may be disclosed to law enforcement authorities and result in criminal prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-474) and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-294), (18 U.S.C. 1030), or other applicable criminal laws.
Again, this is when you are logged into the CARS System, and not at the Web site. The Web site has a very, very different Privacy Policy.
It's mainly much ado about nothing. The regular ol' DOT Privacy Policy applies for consumers and dealers alike when you're at the cars.gov site. What Glen Beck shows is for dealers only, and for only when they actually log on to the DOT CARS database system, not the CARS Web site.
When they log into the database, they are no longer using a Web site, but are actually directly logged into a government database, just like any other government computer terminal. You are, for all intents and purposes, a portal to the database, a part of that database while logged on, but only while logged on. The part about tracking cookies and the government being able to reach into your computer at any time to grab files is a load of crap and she (the chick in the video) doesn't really know what she's talking about. (She'd really freak out if she knew the FBI and the NSA already monitors stuff at the backbone router level as it is.)
"This application provides access to the DoT CARS system. When logged on to the CARS system, your computer is considered a Federal computer system and is the property of the U.S. Government."
Means exactly that. When you're logged on and are a part of the database, your computer is no different than any other government computer that is connected to the system.
This part of the EULA...
"Any or all uses of this system and all files on this system may be intercepted, monitored, recorded, copied, audited, inspected, and disclosed to authorized CARS, DoT, and law enforcement personnel, as well as authorized officials of other agencies, both domestic and foreign...."
...is on many government Web sites. (for example, go here: https://tsajobs.tsa.dhs.gov/TSAJobs/Apply.aspx (https://tsajobs.tsa.dhs.gov/TSAJobs/Apply.aspx) and scroll to the bottom). It means that if you log on to their computer system, whatever you do while on their system belongs to them and they have the right to monitor it as they see fit, same as any private business computer system that you might log onto via VPN. For example, I have access to the computer system at a large computer tech company, and whenever I'm logged on, my computer is their computer, because the interface is literally seamless.
The authorized officials, both domestic and foreign, means that any activity you do that is illegal can and will be disclosed to law enforcement (mainly) and other agencies. They use "both domestic and foreign" to cover anyone from other countries to be prosecuted inside those countries. For example, if someone from England logs on and does something illegal, they will give the British authorities the information so that they can be prosecuted in England (because England has laws against that stuff, too).
Here's the EULA of the CARS System:
https://supplierpayments.esc.gov (https://supplierpayments.esc.gov/)
This application provides access to the DoT CARS system. When logged on to the CARS system, your computer is considered a Federal computer system and is the property of the United States Government. It is for authorized use only. Users (authorized or unauthorized) have no explicit or implicit expectation of privacy.
Any or all uses of this system and all files on this system may be intercepted, monitored, recorded, copied, audited, inspected, and disclosed to authorized CARS, DoT, and law enforcement personnel, as well as authorized officials of other agencies, both domestic and foreign. By using this system, the user consents to such interception, monitoring, recording, copying, auditing, inspection, and disclosure at the discretion CARS or the DoT personnel.
Unauthorized or improper use of this system may result in administrative disciplinary action and civil and criminal penalties.
Unauthorized attempts to defeat or circumvent security features, to use the system for other than intended purposes, to deny service to authorized users, to access, obtain, alter, damage, or destroy information, or otherwise to interfere with the system or its operation are prohibited. Evidence of such acts may be disclosed to law enforcement authorities and result in criminal prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-474) and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-294), (18 U.S.C. 1030), or other applicable criminal laws.
Again, this is when you are logged into the CARS System, and not at the Web site. The Web site has a very, very different Privacy Policy.
I am cancelling my Geico policy tonight!
As I have said many times, Glenn is the only one, including all the rest at Fox, to really dig and speak the truth.
He knew long ago he was going up against the big boys, but he is all over this marxist regime, and lays out his case for all to decide each night
WATCH THE SHOW
Obama's environmental czar started group targeting Beck
Attacks follow Fox News host's reporting
of White House adviser's radical activism
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Posted: August 13, 2009
1:03 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Van Jones
President Obama's "green jobs czar" is co-founder of an African-American activist organization that has led a campaign prompting major advertisers to withdraw from Glenn Beck's top-rated Fox News Channel program.
In recent weeks, Beck has done several critical segments about Van Jones, who was appointed as the special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
Beck's segments were based in part on WND's reporting that Jones was as an admitted radical communist and black nationalist leader.
Now Colors of Change, an activist organization seeking to "strengthen Black America's political voice" has led a furious campaign against Beck culminating in major companies such as Geico and Lawyers.com pulling their spots from the Fox News star's daily show. The group also says it has garnered about 75,000 signatories for an online petition against Beck to be sent to advertisers.
Colors of Change says the controversy stems from Beck's recent comment that Obama is a "racist" with "a deep-seated hatred for white people."
The organization did not return a WND request for comment about whether its crusade is tied to Beck's recent reporting about Van Jones' radical connections.
The media watchdog NewsBusters.org exposed Van Jones is a co-founder of Colors of Change. The group's executive director is James Rucker, who previously served as director of Grassroots Mobilization for the radical MoveOn.org.
Immediately following NewsBusters report, Colors of Change scrubbed its site of any mention of Jones. However, a Google cache of the site lists Jones as a founder.
After News Busters pointed out the deletion, Colors of Change added Jones back to its site but now claims "Van hasn't been active in the work of ColorOfChange in recent years."
"After helping ColorOfChange get started in 2005, Van moved on to other pursuits," the website now claims.
Previously, the site simply listed Jones as a co-founder but did not claim any distance from the radical activist.
Most major media reports on the Colors of Change campaign fail to note Jones is a founder of the group or that Beck has been reporting critically on Jones.
Beck's program, meanwhile, has been taking major hits from the Colors of Change campaign.
Geico and Lawyers.com have pulled their ads from the Fox News show, and Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance and SC Johnson have all claimed their ads were run in error and vowed to correct the mistake.
According to the White House blog, Jones' duties include helping to craft job-generating climate policy and to ensure equal opportunity in the administration's energy proposals.
Jones, formerly a self-described "rowdy black nationalist," boasted in a 2005 interview with the left-leaning East Bay Express that his environmental activism was a means to fight for racial and class "justice."
Jones was president and founder of Green For All, a nonprofit organization that advocates building a so-called inclusive green economy.
Until recently, Jones was a longtime member of the board of Apollo Alliance, a coalition of labor, business, environmental and community leaders that claims on its website to be "working to catalyze a clean energy revolution that will put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality, green-collar jobs."
He was a founder and leader of the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. The organization had its roots in a grouping of black people organizing to protest the first Gulf War. STORM was formally founded in 1994, becoming one of the most influential and active radical groups in the San Francisco Bay area.
STORM worked with known communist leaders. It led the charge in black protests against various issues, including a local attempt to pass Proposition 21, a ballot initiative that sought to increase the penalties for violent crimes and require more juvenile offenders to be tried as adults.
The leftist blog Machete 48 identifies STORM's influences as "third-worldist Marxism (and an often vulgar Maoism)."
Speaking to the East Bay Express, Van Jones said he first became radicalized in the wake of the 1992 Rodney King riots, during which time he was arrested.
"I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist."
"I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next 10 years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary," he said.
Trevor Loudon, a communist researcher and administrator of the New Zeal blog, identified several Bay Area communists who worked with STORM, including Elizabeth Martinez, who helped advise Jones' Ella Baker Human Rights Center, which Jones founded to advocate civil justice. Jones and Martinez also attended a "Challenging White Supremacy" workshop together.
Martinez was a long time Maoist who went on to join the Communist Party USA breakaway organization Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, or CCDS, in the early 1990s, according to Loudon. Martinez still serves on the CCDS council and is also a board member of the Movement for a Democratic Society, where she sits alongside former Weathermen radicals Ayers and Dorhn.
One of STORM's newsletters featured a tribute to Amilcar Cabral, the late Marxist revolutionary leader of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands.
The tribute is noteworthy because Jones reportedly named his son after Cabral and reportedly concludes every e-mail with a quote from the communist leader.
STORM eventually fell apart amid bickering among its leaders.
Van Jones then moved on to environmentalism. He used his Ella Baker Center to advocate "inclusive" environmentalism and launch a Green-Collar Jobs Campaign, which led to the nation's first Green Jobs Corps in Oakland, Calif.
At the Clinton Global Initiative in 2007, Jones announced the establishment of Green For All, an activist organization which in 2008 held a national green conference in which most attendees were black. Jones also released a book, "The Green Collar Economy," which debuted at No.12 on the New York Times' bestseller list – the first environmental book written by an African American to make the list.
His appointment as a White House environmental adviser was announced March 10.
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As I have said many times, Glenn is the only one, including all the rest at Fox, to really dig and speak the truth.
He knew long ago he was going up against the big boys, but he is all over this marxist regime, and lays out his case for all to decide each night
WATCH THE SHOW
Obama's environmental czar started group targeting Beck
Attacks follow Fox News host's reporting
of White House adviser's radical activism
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Posted: August 13, 2009
1:03 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Van Jones
President Obama's "green jobs czar" is co-founder of an African-American activist organization that has led a campaign prompting major advertisers to withdraw from Glenn Beck's top-rated Fox News Channel program.
In recent weeks, Beck has done several critical segments about Van Jones, who was appointed as the special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
Beck's segments were based in part on WND's reporting that Jones was as an admitted radical communist and black nationalist leader.
Now Colors of Change, an activist organization seeking to "strengthen Black America's political voice" has led a furious campaign against Beck culminating in major companies such as Geico and Lawyers.com pulling their spots from the Fox News star's daily show. The group also says it has garnered about 75,000 signatories for an online petition against Beck to be sent to advertisers.
Colors of Change says the controversy stems from Beck's recent comment that Obama is a "racist" with "a deep-seated hatred for white people."
The organization did not return a WND request for comment about whether its crusade is tied to Beck's recent reporting about Van Jones' radical connections.
The media watchdog NewsBusters.org exposed Van Jones is a co-founder of Colors of Change. The group's executive director is James Rucker, who previously served as director of Grassroots Mobilization for the radical MoveOn.org.
Immediately following NewsBusters report, Colors of Change scrubbed its site of any mention of Jones. However, a Google cache of the site lists Jones as a founder.
After News Busters pointed out the deletion, Colors of Change added Jones back to its site but now claims "Van hasn't been active in the work of ColorOfChange in recent years."
"After helping ColorOfChange get started in 2005, Van moved on to other pursuits," the website now claims.
Previously, the site simply listed Jones as a co-founder but did not claim any distance from the radical activist.
Most major media reports on the Colors of Change campaign fail to note Jones is a founder of the group or that Beck has been reporting critically on Jones.
Beck's program, meanwhile, has been taking major hits from the Colors of Change campaign.
Geico and Lawyers.com have pulled their ads from the Fox News show, and Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance and SC Johnson have all claimed their ads were run in error and vowed to correct the mistake.
According to the White House blog, Jones' duties include helping to craft job-generating climate policy and to ensure equal opportunity in the administration's energy proposals.
Jones, formerly a self-described "rowdy black nationalist," boasted in a 2005 interview with the left-leaning East Bay Express that his environmental activism was a means to fight for racial and class "justice."
Jones was president and founder of Green For All, a nonprofit organization that advocates building a so-called inclusive green economy.
Until recently, Jones was a longtime member of the board of Apollo Alliance, a coalition of labor, business, environmental and community leaders that claims on its website to be "working to catalyze a clean energy revolution that will put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality, green-collar jobs."
He was a founder and leader of the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. The organization had its roots in a grouping of black people organizing to protest the first Gulf War. STORM was formally founded in 1994, becoming one of the most influential and active radical groups in the San Francisco Bay area.
STORM worked with known communist leaders. It led the charge in black protests against various issues, including a local attempt to pass Proposition 21, a ballot initiative that sought to increase the penalties for violent crimes and require more juvenile offenders to be tried as adults.
The leftist blog Machete 48 identifies STORM's influences as "third-worldist Marxism (and an often vulgar Maoism)."
Speaking to the East Bay Express, Van Jones said he first became radicalized in the wake of the 1992 Rodney King riots, during which time he was arrested.
"I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist."
"I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next 10 years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary," he said.
Trevor Loudon, a communist researcher and administrator of the New Zeal blog, identified several Bay Area communists who worked with STORM, including Elizabeth Martinez, who helped advise Jones' Ella Baker Human Rights Center, which Jones founded to advocate civil justice. Jones and Martinez also attended a "Challenging White Supremacy" workshop together.
Martinez was a long time Maoist who went on to join the Communist Party USA breakaway organization Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, or CCDS, in the early 1990s, according to Loudon. Martinez still serves on the CCDS council and is also a board member of the Movement for a Democratic Society, where she sits alongside former Weathermen radicals Ayers and Dorhn.
One of STORM's newsletters featured a tribute to Amilcar Cabral, the late Marxist revolutionary leader of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands.
The tribute is noteworthy because Jones reportedly named his son after Cabral and reportedly concludes every e-mail with a quote from the communist leader.
STORM eventually fell apart amid bickering among its leaders.
Van Jones then moved on to environmentalism. He used his Ella Baker Center to advocate "inclusive" environmentalism and launch a Green-Collar Jobs Campaign, which led to the nation's first Green Jobs Corps in Oakland, Calif.
At the Clinton Global Initiative in 2007, Jones announced the establishment of Green For All, an activist organization which in 2008 held a national green conference in which most attendees were black. Jones also released a book, "The Green Collar Economy," which debuted at No.12 on the New York Times' bestseller list – the first environmental book written by an African American to make the list.
His appointment as a White House environmental adviser was announced March 10.
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The "ESPN reject" has moved up the pro sports food chain and now has second billing for NBC's Football Night in America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_Night_in_America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_Night_in_America
