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MadameButterfly

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2. This is on a completely different scale

Reply to SocialDemocrat61 (Original post)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 07:52 AM

Yesterday

There was no the threat then that it was the beginning of a string of firings and the end of free speech.
Johnson was not using his power to influence the sensoring of the Smother's Brothers to end democracy.
Walter Cronkite was safe.

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The more things change... [View all] SocialDemocrat61 Yesterday OP

At least CBS was more honest when they canceled The Smothers Brothers' show. sop Yesterday #1

This is on a completely different scale MadameButterfly Yesterday #2

Nixon was president SocialDemocrat61 Yesterday #3

And we all know what happened to Nixon! PatSeg Yesterday #5

Sorry. I stand corrected MadameButterfly Yesterday #10

No he just tried to subvert an election SocialDemocrat61 Yesterday #11

Yes, he was willing to cheat for his own careeer MadameButterfly Yesterday #12

LBJ supported the Smothers Brothers mac56 Yesterday #4

I didn't know that. Remarkable given the fact that the Seeger sounds that a caused the cancellation called him a Martin68 Yesterday #8

Johnson, the Smother's Brothers, and Pete Seeger MadameButterfly Yesterday #13

. BoRaGard Yesterday #6

I remember the Smothers Brothers cancellation all too well. It still smarts. American TV was blatantly censored Martin68 Yesterday #7

The more things change. . . UniqueUserName Yesterday #9