at you guys may have heard about this big Comcast Time Warner
merger they have joined people forces
it's a basically Comcast bought Time Warner
for 45 billion dollars that's billion
with a be and comcast is known as one the biggest spenders in all politics
they have
over a hundred lobbyist in a in DC
and I love this so there was a big congressional
committee on the merger and you're not gonna believe this but
Comcast has donated money to all 18
members up that said committee the let's look at them the donation I
Senator Durbin from Illinois 54,000 from Comcast which is the most have any
senator on the committee
orrin Hatch got 45,000 leahy up in
vermont 52 Michael E 17
outbreak in five thousand I'll break it also the only one to oppose the merger
and interestingly he got policemen money can you believe that I find that hard to
believe
we've got video about friggin talking about the major letter
I think Comcast does give money to people who support them
nest not necessarily by their support by I
yeah I I really don't like the role of money in politics and i think is just
got worse
or somewhere so I think says I had was very disturbing
a a pernicious ruling I think this latest
cultural ruling was of all I
you know is just giving more power to those who have
have money I
its you know funny you like that good pernicious
heard is a funny word to Bollywood
so I just to clarify in case you weren't listening to mister break in the guy
who's getting the least amount of money is the only one fighting it
but he does like you know that it's not about the money
a is ever released just that the sad part here before we get to the murder
that the one guy who is fighting it is getting the least but yet even he even
goes on television to say it's not that they've been bought off
even though we know that II
I don't I i think is right and I think we look at it too his points big money
in politics is the problem
they're going to be people who oppose this merger at like I'm gonna make stuff
up here
viacom say they give a ton of money to
right so at some point on issues like this you get money from both sides
so you're probably free to vote your conscience the problem is
that whether viacom opposes it or or
Comcast bytes for nobody in there
is fighting for consumer yeah row whether this merger happens or not it's
not like
this mergers denied not a great victory for the american consumer
like were sort of screwed either way which I little victory right because
then hopefully there's more competition and pricing but anyway block there is no
there is basically should be waiting for big debate is whether they're
for giant multimedia companies running everything or 5.3
like it's a problem either way at let's be honest unless you're me
five thousand dollars notta lotta mother by so that I i think that should be
taken off the table to begin with who
gives a shit right so 5,000 so we should get up again extra credit be
her about not having anything to do with yeah I mean
it why would it but five thousand dollars the 50,000 a lot because a dick
Durbin who got the most
50,000 in the course of the campaign and all that is actually nothing too so is
that enough
to buy I echo invite that was a I mean I presume
like I don't know who else is fighting this but I guess the way
did some airlines fight mergers a other airlines because it'll be great
too much competition for them I was probably right that if i cum drips
because that they have like that happening but I imagine the day on CBS
so
so I imagine that they don't they don't want this and I imagine that
that the other that you know AT&T u-verse surfer rise and file
they don't they might not like this but everyone's too afraid to say anything
let all the huge companies that are Jack to corporations are
totally unwilling cue but that right so why is that
their huge companies to yeah I read that I'm curious whether the big companies
are unwilling to fight it or certainly the
the mom-and-pop the right to mom about that the homotopy
billion dollar company yeah right to me because this is the
a marriage in what the one and two biggest gamble providers in the one and
three biggest
broadband providers but you know then that
the content providers are the people who
Arg could also be screwed by this as they could price specs
the app for how much they pay for each network programs but they don't want to
fight it because they don't want to be added
disadvantageous position I suspect that in some sense the only people capable
playing this are other media giants like
mean great like where's box when you need them to step headed by this like
you can't believe I'm like
I wish Rupert Murdoch would be an automated I could be like always
rightfully going to yeah or maybe Google could easily made a very low fiber in it
on Amazon somebody
its it matters these but but a it sounds like
you when Al Franken is the lone voices it sounds like you know when you have
support from orrin Hatch and dick Durbin it's a reminder that sometimes on big
issues like this
the party's don't matter yeah what's going on in Minnesota you know Minnesota
gave us the one independent governor with Jessie Vetter and they've given us
Al Franken is basically an independent product suburban what's going on up
there that you can get
a place the Kansas Michele Bachmann also gives us these independent two words
cheese curds you I tell you they make people act
ridiculous way yeah a unit with ice fishing all yeah
in by air but we're watching Fargo what the hell's going on at all far-left
I wasn't very good a lot of fun really well i mean
well you know Michele Bachmann very specific district taken by the way many
shows men depends what is a democrat
yeah I know he's a and Jesse Ventura remember at some interesting fun things
but they're
he lives in mexico of the great he's all
graphite show up early next week it's called of that good at yeah
a and what about the and I we just done with the anti-trust
situation do we do that just not that type thing anymore nobody cares really
reminds me money in politics we used we talk about it here all the time for
politicians used to talk about money about that there was something called
the mccain feingold bill
God you know like nobody got wet so I think the wording I don't care to know
about our
William Howard Taft is attempting to roll over is great yeah
okay so many time Warner Cable's like going like that is that okay
don't get that with a dead body with that fat rather
sound back to correct her into a cable yet sure that'd
a book that it might have something to do with former FCC Chairman who is now
comcast
senior vice president maybe that it may be with my things can happen maybe it's
because
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts played out over I don't know any of these things
are connected
I am to find a bar in this by
is this just going to the make it so that we're just gonna consistently see
worsen or service
I mean that ultimately what the concern is that our internet is just gonna keep
getting slower or it can be throttled
so that their problem that plagues if they're not partnership with Netflix as
you think
yeah yeah I mean everybody wants the same thing everybody wants
the most they can get for the little the little if they have to put into it
yeah that's what the cable companies want they want to get the most from us
what by having to do the least so and they have way more money in
power and stuff then we have so yeah course Irish
I'm a rise by as customer and for some time with
files in with one other Netflix will slow down it was sorry I watch House a
card season two and I watched it
you know when things have to put up with your into 49 minutes or forty six on
over to be 46 minutes but it would be a perfect
HD quality better you were getting here right I
you're at 7:20 no idea I was dead 720 it most consumers would be legal word
now yeah I mean geez it's like sorry for your loss
you know yes is a yeah I mean granted like my daughter's not hungry
right but it's like the same thing yeah but ten fingers and toes
shit and bigger temperatures double data rate you that yeah
it please send all your condolences to at Batman
77 on beat where that's a big deal really I know we gotta go but got a big
deal not
my Netflix problem but you mention when
when did just gonna start there's gonna be most favored nation status
and and I just don't see any way that anyone standing up to make that stop
yeah a big step for people like was born
right so by the way if you're just if you're young turks and in general we are
on YouTube here:
so we are the type a company that could be affected by that because the big boys
could get in bed with other online media thing can be like oh the enteric they're
actually telling the truth
we're gonna slow down their videos so that's why the up is on board