If Teddy Roosevelt were alive today...

[kentuck]

...he would say that we need to bust up a few trusts, once again.

And he would start with the media conglomerates. Perhaps start with FOX and MSNBC and Comcast and Direct TV. They should be broken up into smaller but fairer portions.

Then, he would take on the defense industry. The defense contractors would also be broken up. We would still get what we need for defense but not decided by a few contractors. They would compete for defense dollars - not automatically handed to them on a silver plate...

If Teddy were alive...

[First Speaker]

1. If he were alive, he'd be skinned alive by the media...

...and not just Fox "News". The whole right would attack him as a typical "limousine liberal", and the mainstream media would lap it up. And you know what? He'd love it! He'd disembowel his critics alive, and enjoy every second of it...

[WorseBeforeBetter]

15. Ha, I love your last two sentences.

Hopping over to PBS now to see if a re-run of "The Roosevelts" is on again.

[elleng]

2. These:

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/05/are-there-any-telecommunications-deals-left/

http://billmoyers.com/content/what-does-media-consolidation-look-like/

http://truth-out.org/news/item/22823-fcc-votes-to-curb-media-consolidation-in-local-tv-markets

[Scuba]

3. It's ironic that there is a rational use of the word "trust" that can be applied to our media ...

[Enthusiast]

10. This is why we have no honesty, objectivity or unbiased reporting. They have a corporate agenda.

Of course you already knew that.

[Sherman A1]

4. Perhaps

but, while an interesting mental exercise, one really does not know what TR would say or do in today's world.

[NobodyHere]

5. If Teddy were alive...

he would be masturbating with George W Bush over fantasies of imperialistic wars and of torturing non-white people.

[madinmaryland]

6. ... he would be 156 years old. By far the oldest human alive today!!

[NightWatcher]

7. Then we could talk about him on Bullmoose Underground

Sweet!

[calimary]

13. Rofl!!!

[TBF]

8. He'd be deemed a socialist -

as if that's a bad thing - and hung out to dry with Bernie and Elizabeth. "But he's not sensible" ...

[kentuck]

9. You're probably right...

[riverbendviewgal]

11. and kick out the lobbyist

And make bills with one law in them . None of theses sneaky pork add ons.

[nichomachus]

12. In 2003

Howard Dean was the "unbeatable front runner," then he made the mistake of saying he's do something about media concentration.

After a three-week artillery barrage from the coporatist media, the likes of which had neve been seen, Howard Dean was declared "unelectable."

[totodeinhere]

14. Teddy is my second favorite Republican after Lincoln.

Then there is Eisenhower who deserves to be on the list because he opposed Joe McCarthy and used the National Guard to block segregationist governors. And that's about it.