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You know, I have never been a supporter of campaign-finance reform/equal time, but maybe it does have its positives after all... Source, for those that care... Sharpton to Host SNL, Iowa Won't Air DES MOINES, Iowa - Democratic presidential candidate Al Sharpton will host this weekend's broadcast of "Saturday Night Live (news - Y! TV)," but viewers in Iowa won't see it. All four NBC television affiliates in the state announced they won't carry the show because Sharpton is one of nine candidates seeking the Democratic nomination. The selection process begins with the Iowa caucuses Jan. 19. Tim Gardner, director of creative services at WHO-TV in Des Moines, Iowa, said station lawyers decided that airing the 90-minute show would trigger federal "equal time" provisions — meaning the stations would have to offer an equal amount of air time to each of the other presidential candidates. WHO and two other stations instead will air a previous episode of the 90-minute show. KWWL viewers in the Waterloo, Iowa, area will get to watch three infomercials pitching the Miracle Blade, Total Trolley and something titled "Attacking Anxiety." Sharpton campaign manager Charles Halloran was puzzled by the decision. "Their lawyers must not have finished law school because NBC went through all sorts of research to make sure that it was appropriate," Halloran said.

So there I was in my living room minding my own business with everyone's favorite cable news channel on in the background when suddenly I hear about this 400-lb black guy dying after a brawl with several Cincinnati po-pos. Now besides the obvious question, which is why couldn't the Cincinnati police simply shoot this 400-lb man in the foot with a stun gun (or elephant tranquilizer), I'm curious to know if the Rev. Lynch-pin has already gathered up his Lynch-mob in "protest" to this action -- can anyone from the area (Swift Terror, Side FX, Choken) give a bit more detail regarding this story? Are we looking at Tim Thomas the Sequel?... Story A 41-year-old man died after a violent struggle Sunday morning with Cincinnati police officers outside a North Avondale fast-food restaurant. The fight, which included the nearly 400-pound man hitting officers and police repeatedly striking him with nightsticks, was caught on tape from a camera in an officer's patrol car. Within minutes of the struggle ending, Nathaniel Jones was dead. The six officers involved were placed on administrative leave while several agencies, including police homicide and internal affairs units, the Citizen Complaint Authority and the Hamilton County Coroner's Office investigate. Assistant Police Chief Richard Janke said the police video shows that the officers followed their training and were justified in using force to subdue Jones. But Roger Webster, Fraternal Order of Police president, said that after the incident the officers were treated like suspects. He said they were questioned for hours, read their legal rights and only allowed one phone call. "My question to the police administration is, what criminal act are you investigating? You are accusing these cops of being criminals," Webster said angrily outside police headquarters. "That is why they don't want to work, because they are treated worse than the criminals they arrest." In June, the Citizen Complaint Authority cleared a police officer of any wrongdoing in the Feb. 9 shooting death of a burglary suspect in Northside. Of the officers involved Sunday, authorities identified the two who responded first: Baron Osterman, who has one year on the force, and James Pike, a seven-year veteran. Police officials, radio transmissions and the video give a picture of how the circumstances unfolded at the White Castle at 64 W. Mitchell Ave., just west of Vine Street. About 5:50 a.m. a White Castle employee called 911 to report that a man had passed out in the grass outside the restaurant. "He's breathing, but he keeps hollering 19," she told the call taker. When emergency medical personnel arrived, Jones was awake and "becoming a nuisance" at the restaurant, according to a tape of radio transmissions in which firefighters ask police to respond. In the video, Jones walks toward an officer, who yells, "Stay back." Jones then lunged, swinging at the officer's head before he stumbled into the officer, taking him down. The two officers, Osterman and Pike, jabbed Jones in the torso with nightsticks as they repeatedly yelled, "Put your hands behind your back." But Jones continued to fight, flailing his arms and grabbing one of the police batons. The officers called for backup, asking especially for someone with a stun gun. Eventually, six officers responded, many of them also using their batons to strike Jones. After a struggle with all six, they got Jones on his stomach and his arms behind his back. The officers turned Jones over after he was handcuffed over and realized he needed medical help, Janke said. "He looked to be in enough distress that the officers immediately called for a fire company," Janke said. Jones had a pulse when EMS arrived, but he died within minutes of arriving at University Hospital, Janke said. Why Jones behaved as he did is not yet known, Janke said. During the struggle, officers tried to call for an officer trained to deal with people with mental health problems, but the officer was on another call. Police did not use a stun gun, but did use chemical spray in addition to the batons. Janke did not know how many of the officers hit Jones. Police estimate that Jones, who was 5 foot 6 inches tall, weighed 400 pounds. They did not release a current address for Jones. According to court records, Jones pleaded guilty in 1998 to possessing cocaine and was given three years probation, which included inpatient treatment at Talbert House. A month after his sentencing, Jones violated his probation and was sentenced to a year in jail, records show.

I guess this calls for an update: OLD: Say, did you know John Kerry served in Vietnam? V 2.0: Say, did you know John Kerry fucking served in Vietnam?...

Huh?...

I heard about this a while back. I guess since MLK's kin are greedy whores when it comes to King's image being used, Rosa can follow suit. This passage creeped me out: "Ah-ha, hush that fuss. Everybody move to the back of the bus." Funny thing is I know I have a few rap albums with Parks references -- hope they got permission to say her name...

Uh, no. I just despise NCAA Division I Football. I don't really care about Division II and III, but at least they have true champs. What's your point about asking what's my point?...

I heard that. Why don't we just get it over with and change the United States of America to the United States of Reagan...

Score more points than the other team. I only care about football leagues with a real national champion...

Which Golden Arches are you talking about? The one by the turnpike, the one closer in (has a "jukebox" theme to it) or the one just past "downtown" Middletown? But you did describe a guy that I saw who works at the Taco Bell right next to the "jukebox" McDonalds. He also had black nail polish -- I hope it was polish and not rot...

Why do they have her and those other non-football players on that show? I've only watched it once this year and I did a double-take after seeing her on it...

Nope. He said that he regrets people hearing it. The fact that Bush never apolgized for calling Adam Clymer that word is funny as hell...

Wow, and I actually think she's funny. Damn. Bunch of racists on this board and at FOX...

But we all know the truth, don't we?...

So now the story is Kerry saying a naughty word? Good lord. And what is up with this line? Quit being a major-league crybaby about this and just laugh at Kerry. I think this carefully placed expletive is just a calculated way of getting "the young people" to vote for him. “Woah, dude, he said the “f” word. He must be one of us”...

I know MrRant will be watching. What awards are they giving out exactly? And I just saw on TV last night that there's now a DVD awards show. This is out of control...

And people wonder why I treat college sports, especially Division I football as a joke. This is great!...

Many a true word spoken in jest. Actually, with the space constraints given for topic titles and subtitles I hereby declare Dames a RACIST for not giving me a chance to create a non-offensive topic title...

Oh dear God. If Indy and Baltimore hang on to win, my only hope of beating Parka this week depends on the Dolphins winning in December at New England...

Short hair here -- I can't stand my hair long...

There is a flaw with that sig's logic (I don't have the sig option turned on, but I'm assuming it's Kamui's). Democrat = 8 letters Republican = 10 letters BUT Democratic (which is used all the time, though not by me, to describe the Party) = 10 letters So they're all Even Steven in the end...

The best week of football so far this season and what is the only game I'm getting for my area? Oakland @ Pittsburgh. But hey, Kazaam is on FOX!...

Sliders are your friend. Use them...

Glad someone noted that. *Leaves to get kkk hat out of dryer. Returns.* The OAO kkk review of bob's review of snl... Too bad SNL has no balls and didn’t do one. I even have a skit idea. Old Poo-Face stops at some fair and visits a group that just did a chocolate pie-eating contest. OMG THE NYPD IS OUT OF CONTOL!!! Why the fuck are these two douches yelling at the places that didn’t carry the show? They should be yelling at their public officials. Like I said before, I'm starting to like the whole "equal-time" rules if it means more mayhem like this. SNL should have every one of the Dem presidential pretenders have their own show. Overall, I give bob's review a ********** because I got to see how fucking stupid Poo-Face's appearance was and I didn't have to watch that pile of shit on TV. Thanks to bob, I watched "Predator" on FX instead, and it makes me feel great to know that two current/former governors starred in that film. Die already, Al...

Nah. NAMBLA'S niche will be in the "Too-hot-for-TV" PPV market...

Oh good lord. Can't wait for the floodgates to open on this one: NRA-Radio ACLU-TV The PETA Daily Times Shoot me now...