DEVELOPING: MUSHARRAF ORDERS PAKISTANI TV NETWORKS SHUT DOWN.

[robertpaulsen]

Source: CNN

At the top of their home page:

Developing Story

At Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's request, Dubai orders Pakistani television networks to shut down, officials told CNN.

No link yet.

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. And in other news, President Bush is overheard to exclaim

"Now why the Hell didn't I think of that?"

Well, at least Musharraf is a strong ally of the Junta in this country and a strong defender of democracy against Osama.... Osama.... you know, the really bad guy, what's-his-name.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. Bush has no need to do this

He has the television stations well in hand in this country.

[goclark]

17. My thoughts exactly ~ BushMedia is all ready in lockdown

and with the help of Wolfie and Tweety and all the rest, it will continue.

[bobthedrummer]

23. Affirmative.

"Reality vs. perception management: the tinfoil cotroversy" (archived DU thread from 1-6-2006)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x71919

[aquart]

13. Georgie's so jealous.

[TechBear_Seattle]

14. Indeed. Why do all of *those* dictators and tyrants get to have all the fun?

"I'm the leader of the Free World and The Most Powerful Man On Earth, why can't I do things like this? WAHHHHHHHH!"

I can just imagine that as a thought-bubble over a picture of him looking grumpy.

[katty]

16. he must be...hehe Mushy, how the hell do you get away w/this?!

[dave29]

2. jeebus. Each day brings one step forward and two steps back with this guy

not good.

[Seabiscuit]

4. This could never happen here, not under this regime.

Bushista DEPENDS on TV to spread his venom.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

6. I feel the same way

He's more the type to ban foreign cable newscasts and internet access.

[bdamomma]

5. this is what happens when Negroponte is out there.

[yellowcanine]

11. Yep. Bush and Rice go "tsk" "tsk" and Musharaff keeps piling on the outrages.

In case it was not obvious before, it is now. The Bush foreign policy is in shambles and no one in the Bush administration has a clue about what to do about it. They are reacting and flailing around for answers. We also now know if we didn't before that ideology is not an effective basis for foreign policy any more than it is for economic policy or environmnetal policy.

[FiveGoodMen]

7. Dubai gives orders to Pakistan? What did I miss?

[yellowcanine]

8. Sounds like it is the other way around.

Musharraf asked Dubai to shut down the Pakistani TV broadcasts and Dubai complied.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

9. In this country, you just post another missing blonde

or some starlet shaving their head, and the TV news is all over it to the exclusion of real news. That's why Bush will never shut down TV here. Besides, having no football or auto racing would turn off too many people.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Link and more story here:

Dubai agrees to pull plug on Pakistani TV networks


Two Pakistani television networks that transmit from Dubai in United Arab Emirates were ordered off the air Friday at the request of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, officials from the networks told CNN.

GEO-TV and ARY Digital both offer a variety of programming, including news, entertainment, sports and music.

Since Musharraf declared a state of emergency earlier this month, Pakistani authorities have shut down media outlets and jailed opposition leaders.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/11/16/pakistan.tv/index.html

[Hieronymus]

12. What'd Bush say about this? We know what he thought about Chavez

doing the same kind of thing.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

19. Chavez did NOT do the same thing...

ONE station, made them move from a public channel to cable - when they should have been put in prison for leading the attempted coup.

[...of J.Temperance]

20. W will be

Cool with Musharraf doing it, as we know, W and Musharraf have been giving each other reach arounds for years.

Lol! Remember when the moron was running for President and he was asked what the name of the leader of Pakistan was called....and the stupid asshat didn't know and he answered "General" and whoever it was interviewing him said something like what was his last name and W repeated "General"....stupid fucker.

[Javaman]

15. Maybe he's just not a fan of dubbed versions of "three's company". nt

[ohio2007]

18. He could be taking notes from a certain episode of "Chico and the Man"

Whats next? kicking out foreigners that are hostile to his style of rule ;)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2926415&mesg_id=2926415



Dead Air in Caracas

By Jackson Diehl
Monday, May 14, 2007; Page A15

For years defenders of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have harped on what they described as the domination of the country's independent media by his opponents -- proof, it was said, that Chavez was no dictator. Two weeks from today that argument will lose all credibility. By then, Radio Caracas Television, or RCTV, Venezuela's most popular television network, will almost certainly be off the air -- on Chavez's personal order.

snip
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/13/AR2007051301124.html

[roamer65]

21. Busharraf. Need we say more?

[JCMach1]

22. He is even trying to get the Dubai-based satellite networks to stop

Geo TV pulled off air
By a staff reporter

17 November 2007


DUABI — A Dubai-based Pakistani TV channel has been asked to shut down its operation, an official of the news channel said yesterday.

The Urdu-language news channel, Geo, was to shut down by midnight yesterday, the official said... http://khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2007/November/theuae_November410.xml§ion=theuae

[bhikkhu]

24. Too many Mussolini wannabee's in this world

why don't they just leave the people alone...take their millions and retire to the French Riviera or something. There must be something addictive about control and oppression and fear-mongering that I just don't get...

[SpikeTss]

25. Hillary's Musharraf

Even if it's unpopular: In my opinion every detail about political circumstances should be considered, even if they hurt.
And Ms. Clinton has a very bad record on certain political fields (just think of Walmart).

Here's another example:

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=44&ItemID=14299

Musharraf was the other man in Hillary's life. But it's over now. Or is it?

"Why was President Clinton so determined to crush Pakistan because of an unpaid bill to some Little Rock company. This was not just any company. But that wasn't much. More important, Entergy and its partners, the Riady Family of Indonesia had just paid about half a million dollars to Hillary's old Rose Law Firm partner Webster Hubbell. Odd that, hiring Hubbell. Why would Entergy pay big bucks to a Hubbell as a "consultant" when he was on his way to jail for a felony. Hubbell was doing time because he refused to testify against Ms. Rodham.

(...)

Just months before he left office President Clinton paid a sudden visit to Musharraf. Congressional Democrats were stunned. Musharraf had quickly shown himself to be a Taliban-loving, unbalanced dictator who violated US treaty terms by exploding a nuke and threatening to incinerate our ally India. Notably, the Ambassador with Clinton made payments to the electric companies a top item on his
agenda.

Favors done; favors repaid. Nothing new under the sun, but it's a dangerous game, Senator Clinton.

All right, maybe you can say that President Clinton's blessing of the radioactive dictator can't be blamed on Hillary despite the smelly money chain going from Arkansas to Karachi. But, be honest, the lady sure as heck ain't running on her record as a Senator; her whole pitch is, "Re-elect Clinton.""

[ohio2007]

27. President Clinton paid a sudden visit to Musharraf. Congressional Democrats were stunned.

Musharraf had quickly shown himself to be a Taliban-loving, unbalanced dictator who violated US treaty terms by exploding a nuke and threatening to incinerate our ally India.

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You'll have to repost the link for the entire article can be "analyzed"

[TheLastMohican]

26. Bush seems to pick up bad bed fellows

First, the president of Georgia did it two weekds ago, now the dictator of Pakistan.

I understand, "these are son of bitches, but they are our sons of bitches", but still WTF? How can you support such people with a straight face?