Ralph 'Greed' Reed - Sells Out Kids for Money - Commentary by Jim Dean, Heritage TV

Jim Dean, Heritage TV producer/host

Jim Dean is the producer of Heritage TV and a member of Georgia Heritage Council.

Ralph 'Greed' Reed sells out kids for Money – Commentary by Jim Dean

"The cable biz has cannily fended off a first attack by the PTC and Consumers Union -- the push for so-called à la carte programming -- by hiring Christian Right operative Ralph Reed, BusinessWeek has learned, and encouraging religious broadcasters to voice their opposition."

Folks, this was an easy one for brother Ralph. The push to put cable TV under the broadcast decency standards to protect young kids ran up against the real world...MONEY. Christian broadcasters were willing to sacrifice young kids' moral climate to make sure their cable shows were 'packaged' where consumers could not pick and choose. Seems they were afraid that their huge audience would dwindle significantly. Can we say...REVENUES?

So the Christian Cable Mullahs turned to the 'Keeper of the Christians', Ralph Reed's company to block the 'a la carte programming.' The kids and family values went to the Aztec sacrificial altar and the Mammonite Evangelicals continue to rake in cable revenue, even from people who don't want to watch them.

Both they and Ralph are birds of a feather. Their religious smokescreen is providing them one of the best political scam engines ever invented. And many are envious about how easily they are able to market their hypocrisy. They are now the gold standard of political hustlers. Carl Rove and El Presidente Jorge knew a good thing when they saw it.

The Reed scandals are going to play out like a multi year soap opera. Heaven only knows where the end will be. We have only scratched the surface as far as public visibility goes. But if the 'koolaid kult' has already progressed to the point of no return it may not make any difference. The Religomiesters might just order their minions to buy purple jump suits, send in the rest of their money, and get ready for the space ship to come.

The sooner that American Protestant Christians get rid of their mass molestors the better chance they have of salvaging their reputation. Religious community corruption is endemic and has been for many years now. But, as with political corruption, as long as the money is flowing most folks just look the other way, including Christians.

The 'third rail' of Indian scandals is not the protection racket shake down they have gotten on their casinos, but the looting of the Indian trust funds by the multi billions, all nicely covered up by the destruction of the records.

Oh...you have never heard of this before? I am not surprised. Why should the disappearance of billions of dollars being held in trust by the government to 'parties unknown' be something that those who stole it think you would be concerned with? Natives were the perfect marks...now being replaced by the Christian community itself.

Wake up out there. They are robbing you blind...and you might even deserve it.

Jim Dean is the producer of Heritage TV and a member of the Georgia Heritage Council.

Source: Businessweek.com Story

Cable TV Could Get Its Mouth Washed Out
By Catherine Yang, with Tom Lowry in New York

When Corporate America, the left-leaning American Civil Liberties Union, and the right-tilting Progress & Freedom Foundation all team up to lobby Capitol Hill, chances are good that they will prevail. But normal rules don't apply in America's culture wars -- especially when the issue is protecting children from the sometimes racy fare on cable TV. Democrats, eager to show that they, too, care about "family values," are joining the cause championed by the powerful new chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, Ted Stevens (R-Alaska). "This is legislative crack," frets Andrew Jay Schwartzman, chief executive of the Media Access Project, a Washington public interest group that defends First Amendment rights.

Despite the protests of Schwartzman and other free-speech advocates who argue that the cable biz should enjoy greater First Amendment safeguards than broadcasters that use public airwaves, cable -- and even satellite TV and radio -- could become subject to the government's indecency rules. "It absolutely will happen; it's only a question of when," says Adam D. Thierer, a senior fellow at the Progress & Freedom Foundation. Decency advocates say the Supreme Court may look at cable protections differently now that 85% of households have cable or satellite, vs. 15% nearly 25 years ago when the court said that the rules did not apply to cable.

Cable faces a formidable coalition that includes the conservative Parents Television Council and liberal Consumers Union -- along with religious broadcasters and even Walt Disney Co (DIS )., which is bucking other media companies. "We don't wake up in the morning looking for indecency rules for any of our businesses," says Disney lobbyist Preston Padden. But if there are rules, "they should be the same for broadcast and expanded basic cable programming."

The indecency battle itself will not be so cut-and-dried. The cable biz has cannily fended off a first attack by the PTC and Consumers Union -- the push for so-called à la carte programming -- by hiring Christian Right operative Ralph Reed, BusinessWeek has learned, and encouraging religious broadcasters to voice their opposition. A spokesperson for Reed, who is running for lieutenant governor of Georgia, declined to comment.