The Right Network is a media attempt to give credibility to right-wing hate and fear-mongering, conservative bigotry, and Republican talking points.
Crescendoing in silence, the biggest launch of a new TV network that no one seems to have heard about, after a late premiere and zero buzz, The Right Network opened for business today. And flopped.
With philandering poster boy Kelsey Grammer as its mascot and money source, the Right Network, whose tagline is “All that’s right with the world,” is exactly what’s wrong with the world, and especially, wrong with America.
Grammer, in an introductory video, of course, with a Chuck Norris mention, cries out to say, “We give status quo a case of the flop-sweats. We offer a one-way ticket out of town, to pretension, posturing, Pelosi, and poppycock.”
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In an AP press release, Grammer is quoted as saying he launched The Right network, “to stop allowing people who hate us to define us.”
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The Right Network, apparently available on “on demand” only, and on just three carriers (Verizon FIOS, Sky Angel, and Blue Ridge,) reportedly had claimed to have the backing of media giant Comcast earlier this year when it announced its “summer” start-date. (Comcast immediately said, “No,” and says they have nothing to do with the start-up.) Already late out of the box, and without much fanfare or a large network to help it in its infancy, the only thing the Right Network has on its side is that it’s based in America’s new favorite past-time: division and hatred.
Perfect for Tea Party nobodies, The Right Network offers shows like, “Running,” which is,
“A reality series that follows first time candidates as they run for office. In this pilot episode, we meet John Dennis and Ari David as they run for Congress in California against incumbents Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman.”
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Then there’s “Do As I Say,” billed as a documentary. “Hypocrites come in all shapes and sizes. And when it comes to politics, hypocrisy is just part of the game. But the press only tends to cover half the story.”
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“Multiculturalism: The New Tyranny,” and “Thank God for Market Capitalism,” are two of its website’s premiere “articles.”
“Multiculturalism, written by none other than National Review columnist neocon and fervent George W. Bush supporter, Victor Davis Hanson, begins with the premise that “Multiculturalism is now the final arbiter of all liberal sensitivity,” and asks the burning question, “What are the wages of this new tyranny of multiculturalism?”
I’ll let you give that one some thought. Oh, wait, um, well, there’s equality, tolerance, understanding, unity, education, sharing, efficiency, culture, growth… Oh, yes, all those things the Tea Party hates!
What’s truly amusing is that The Right Network thinks its core audience, presumably older, white Americans — yes, the Tea Party — will actually take time to read and comprehend the likes of Victor Davis Hanson. Fortunately, they’ve included plenty of fluff, like “Right2Laugh,” featuring the stand-up “comedy” of Evan Sayet — “Personally, I’m not as upset with Barack Obama as others are… Isn’t it possible he didn’t bow to the Saudi king, but the teleprompter fell over?”
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Of course, The Right Network is on Twitter — with a whopping 1396 members as of this writing. But they can count Bush sycophant Karl Rove as among their first followers, but not former First Lady Laura Bush or her husband.
The one good thing I can think of about Grammer’s “Right Network?” His stance on marriage equality:
“Am I pro-my friends who love each other getting married? Yes — gay, straight or otherwise.”
Expect The Right Network, if it survives, to become FOX News meets the Tea Party’s gardening club. Sidearms, Obama-hate, and ignorance, mandatory.
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