CNN dropped by Midwest hotel chain over Iraq sniper video
posted at 5:03 pm on November 17, 2006 by Ian
Stoney Creek Inn has decided to drop CNN from it’s television lineup after the cable network played terrorist propaganda last month.
James Thompson, the President of Stoney Creek Hospitality Corporation, responded to customer concerns in the following e-mail:
The management of Stoney Creek Inns respects and supports diversity of opinion. America’s strength comes from the freedoms we embrace. I support the men and women of the United States military, who protect those freedoms. The October 18th broadcast of a terrorist propaganda tape, witnessing the sniper assassinations of American soldiers is an obscenity! A decision of conscience was made.
We continue to offer a variety of news channels for our guests with a wide diversity of coverage.
Respectfully,
James H. Thompson
President
Stoney Creek Hospitality Corporation
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Now if only the airports would drop CNN and pick up FOX
Kini on November 17, 2006 at 5:05 PM
And Banks, Sportsclubs, Malls, and on and on.
Texyank on November 17, 2006 at 5:12 PM
Mr. Thompson has several hotels in the Mid-West. If you want to drop him a note, this is where I got hold of his chain. I think a word of thanks is in order.
innkeeper@stoneycreekinn.com
BobK on November 17, 2006 at 5:14 PM
I’m waiting for the first moonbat to cry “Censorship!” Then I’ll take him out back and beat him to within an inch of his life.
SWLiP on November 17, 2006 at 5:20 PM
If someone dropped Fox you guys would scream that they were Stalinists.
Grebrook on November 17, 2006 at 5:20 PM
…conscience…not a word I see much in public discourse nowadays…good on ‘em.
Puritan1648 on November 17, 2006 at 5:26 PM
Grebrook,
Democrat, Stalinist – same thing
BobK on November 17, 2006 at 5:26 PM
Probably because they would be. Heh.
Editor on November 17, 2006 at 5:26 PM
When FOX takes sides against my country they’ll be treated the same way.
People like you cant tell the difference between a differing opinion & actually aiding the enemy….here’s a tip, when you start meeting secretly with them (the enemy), you’re probably on shaky ground.
DwnSouthJukin on November 17, 2006 at 5:26 PM
The motel chain is going to show Al-Jeezeeeera instead–same difference
Janos Hunyadi on November 17, 2006 at 5:28 PM
CNN needs to dropped kicked out of this country!!
1776 REMEBER WHY!!!!
rocked on November 17, 2006 at 5:29 PM
Let’s no forget about the Eskimos who refused Hugo’s “oil assistance”, i.e. PR stunt.
They are taking donations via PayPal
Editor on November 17, 2006 at 5:29 PM
…good thing for travellers to keep in mind.
Puritan1648 on November 17, 2006 at 5:29 PM
They do. They’ve been bashing America every day since they lost the election for refusing to give the GOP a second chance.
Grebrook on November 17, 2006 at 5:29 PM
People like you cant tell the difference between a differing opinion & actually aiding the enemy….here’s a tip, when you start meeting secretly with them (the enemy), you’re probably on shaky ground.
DwnSouthJukin on November 17, 2006 at 5:31 PM
Oh, ok, please forward me your Newsmax link about the secret truth about Keith Olbermann and how he’s been meeting with Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan to destroy America.
Grebrook on November 17, 2006 at 5:33 PM
Ouch right in the pocketbook.
Theworldisnotenough on November 17, 2006 at 5:34 PM
That would be CNN
Kini on November 17, 2006 at 5:38 PM
Or PMSNBC take your pick.
Either way, Fox is real reporting, Fair and Balanced.
CNN is obvious.
Kini on November 17, 2006 at 5:41 PM
If they put those dang TVs low enough — hubby and I change the channels off of CNN each time. We just consider it to be our community service.
wytammic on November 17, 2006 at 5:43 PM
stoney creek inns just gained my family as customers
Metro on November 17, 2006 at 5:43 PM
It’s amazing to me that you’re actually naive enough to believe that, and aren’t merely being partisan.
O’Reilly
Cavuto
Gibson
Hume
Kasich
WSJ Editorial Panel
Pure GOP propaganda. Because gutless Republican weasels will always need a place to hide so that they aren’t asked tough questions.
Enough talk, video is always more entertaining. The Daily Show most of all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juRVGa91lNM
Grebrook on November 17, 2006 at 5:43 PM
Some of us are smart enough to know the difference between news and opinion.
That goes to both parties by the way.
Sure, but when I need facts and not stories, I go to FOX. Because at least they are News Reporters, not like CNN News Makers.
Entertainment is close to the nearest video rental or uTube.
Kini on November 17, 2006 at 5:50 PM
Grebrook, you’re just a silly femme who runs back to DU and brags about how many people you’ve angered.
Get a hobby–other than wanking.
Janos Hunyadi on November 17, 2006 at 5:50 PM
In addition to the Commie News Network, James H. Thompson, President of Stoney Creek Hospitality Corporation has just banned Grebrook from his hotels.
fogw on November 17, 2006 at 6:06 PM
Nice of James Thompson and the Stoney Creek Inns to take a stand on the side of the troops rather than that of the terrorists. Much appreciated.
ReubenJCogburn on November 17, 2006 at 6:09 PM
Actually, that’s the single most ridiculous statement I’ve ever heard made about Fox. The entire thing about Fox is that it actually reports less hard news coverage than any other cable media network. CNN does a lot of international reporting on politics in foreign nations, human rights, special topics, etc… Fox almost never goes out of its way to talk about Buddhism in China or automaking in Japan or in depth documentary-styled special reports. It only discusses anything that happens outside of this country or inside, for that matter, as it relates to American politics. And it spends most of its time on opinion. No other network wastes more of its time spouting opinion than Fox.
So, in other words, it doesn’t matter that 100% of Fox’s anchors and commentators are Republicans? As long as it doesn’t taint Shepherd Smith and Carl Cameron doing their reports? B.S. And Cavuto and Hume are precisely that, anchors, not commentators, but they’re overtly biased.
Grebrook on November 17, 2006 at 6:19 PM
I think O’Reilly would have one helluva cop, probably a detective. The rest I don’t know. Its like O’Reilly has a genuine concern for what he does. The guy bounced back fast and strong after that women accused him of those phone calls. Thats a good thing. I’m guessing he beleives in what he’s doing. You know that your beliefs are what define your understanding of the world around you. I visit mine regularly to insure I am not being fed a load from some book or someones theory. Its a little thing I like to call constant vigilance.
sonnyspats1 on November 17, 2006 at 6:23 PM
Notice how shaky Grebrook’s keystrokes are?
It’s because he only has one hand available for typing…..
Janos Hunyadi on November 17, 2006 at 6:24 PM
Someone hasn’t been on a business trip in a while! Most places I stay don’t have FOX (unless you call the front desk and ask which channel to input directly) but they usually have CNN and PMSNBC programmed so you catch ‘em while surfing the channels.
That’s the price of doing business on the left coast and in the Bayarrhea…
NTWR on November 17, 2006 at 6:30 PM
So, enquiring minds want to know… just how many reporters at CNN and PMSNBC and CBS, ABC, and NBC are NOT democrats?
.
.
.
Anyone?
NTWR on November 17, 2006 at 6:32 PM
Grebrook probably never read this.
SWLiP on November 17, 2006 at 6:33 PM
That’s the most b.s. study I’ve ever seen. The Drudge Report and most of Fox News tilts toward the left? What a joke. Media Matters has taken out a dozen studies by now analyzing the ratio of Republican-Democrat, Conservative-Liberal guests brought onto Fox. The Republicans outnumber Dems 2-1, everytime. Fox’s idea of a fair and balanced debate is Newt Gingrich versus Oliver North.
Grebrook on November 17, 2006 at 6:38 PM
Thank You Mr. Thompson
Viper1 on November 17, 2006 at 6:40 PM
Thank you, Editor! I have been wondering if they would do this. I scooted right over there and sent them some money and kudos.
RushBaby on November 17, 2006 at 6:43 PM
Have you ever seen a program on Fox where Gingrich debated North or is this a talking point from another website?
lorien1973 on November 17, 2006 at 6:46 PM
No, I’ve actually seen that before. I’ve seen Oliver North debate Gingrich, Peter King and another Republican.
Don’t you ever actually WATCH Fox News, your favorite program? Specifically Hannity & Colmes and Cavuto? You see, because Cavuto is a right-wing Republican, but he’s less vocal than O’Reilly and just comes off as more of a smarmy little GOP weasel than a raving fanatic, he often will bring on two Republican guests to debate a subject at the same time. H&C does it about every other night. They usually do a 2-guest conservative roundtable, apparently because Colmes is there and they think that having only conservative guests on won’t be considered bias as long as one of the co-hosts is a liberal, which is an absurd line of reasoning. Watch tonight, I would be surprised if they didn’t do another 2-man conservative tag team tonight.
Grebrook on November 17, 2006 at 6:49 PM
Hello, Mr. Strawman. I’m a real conservative. Grebrook says we’re related, but I really don’t think we look that much alike. You see, I have respect for the free market and the rights of business owners to run their businesses as they see fit.
What’s that? Why are you so shallow and removed from the reality of who you’re supposed to represent? Beats me. You’ll have to ask the guy who created you.
Slublog on November 17, 2006 at 6:51 PM
While I appreciate you telling me what my favorite program is (thanks!), I don’t actually watch Fox that often. I do see H&C on occasion, and every time I do, I see Colmes yakkin with a liberal, Hannity yakkin with a Conservative, then they reverse positions; and then the speaking volume increases until end of segment. I don’t think I’ve seen a “double team” on there before. But when you do, please keep me posted.
If its not a tag team, as you describe it, will you come back at 10 pm and post an apology? I’ll watch tonight if you will, too.
lorien1973 on November 17, 2006 at 6:54 PM
EDIT – and 9pm is when BSG is on too. So I’m offering to waste my time on H&C for you. Will you join in?
lorien1973 on November 17, 2006 at 6:55 PM
Ok, here’s the first problem with you debating the neutrality of Fox news.
Yeah, probably. What I can guarantee either way is that there WILL be more Republican-Conservative guests than Democrats-Liberals.
Grebrook on November 17, 2006 at 6:57 PM
I didn’t realize I was debating anything. I was simply asking if you actually saw the debate you described ;).
Already backing off on your claim that it’ll be a tag-team and the show’s not even on. Geesh. Have some courage of your convictions, dude.
lorien1973 on November 17, 2006 at 7:00 PM
Grebrook,
You’re probably like me, a news junky, yes? My “bias” for FOX is because I find them the least bias in reporting news events. They might not be the breath of coverage that you are used to watching CNN. However, CNN specials such as Larry King, Lou Dobbs, and Jack McCafferty are just plain lopsided there is no balance and fairness. I like Hannity and Colmes because they present both side of the argument, even if I disagree with both.
When a CNN anchor questions a interviewee, the questions are so loaded you can guess the answer before the interviewee has a chance to speak. There is a hint of arrogant pretensions that I can’t stand with CNN. Let alone leaving the mic on when going potty.
Watching Anderson Cooper commenting on how anti-Semitic Hezbollah is and being vainly surprised by it is downright ridiculous. Standing around looking
stupidsurprised is so lame.So I watch all the news channels, and flip between channels sometimes to get perspectives and opinion from all sides, I just happen to like the FOX side better.
However, there are certain anchors I won’t watch, Olbermann for one, because the bias is out the window and down the road. It’s not worth the aggravation or my time. So I leave those types to the HA folks who have the bandwidth to listen to the Ogorman types and not throw the TV through the window.
Well, duh! I am a conservative libertarian afterall and this is a conservative blog site. So are you surprised?
Kini on November 17, 2006 at 7:03 PM
Based on what study Grebrook…yours? Obviously you don’t seem to trust the legitimacy of one that says media slant left…give me your source that proves that “actually reports less”…there’s got to be something, a study based on quantitative evidence right, you don’t strike me as the kind of guy who make up stuff on the spot and pulls unwarranted opinions out of your *behind*.
StoutRepublican on November 17, 2006 at 7:03 PM
Even assuming that Fox is as right-wing as Grebrook alleges, it is rather laughable that he would whine about it when pretty much every other major media outlet is so far-left.
SWLiP on November 17, 2006 at 7:05 PM
lorien, I don’t mean to tell you ( and others ) how to sepnd your time, but it won’t do you any good to try to reason with someone so twisted that he spends his time nagging at and lying to people he/she despises–and then runs to people he wants to impress to tell them how well he did. “Grebook” meets every criteria of “fanatic”, and fanatics are a waste of time
maybe if no one feeds him/her……
Janos Hunyadi on November 17, 2006 at 7:05 PM
I have my reasons. :)
lorien1973 on November 17, 2006 at 7:08 PM
lorien, ÉN tapsol ön -ban -a érdemes erőfeszítések. Jó szerencse.
rougly, ‘good luck with latrine duty’
Janos Hunyadi on November 17, 2006 at 7:12 PM
They probably would be.
Maxx on November 17, 2006 at 7:13 PM
No, I’ll stick by my claim. I didn’t see them do a tag-team double-conservative interview last night. They’re due for one tonight.
Grebrook on November 17, 2006 at 7:15 PM
People that whine about Fox News are truely painful to listen to.
I’m serious… we KNOW they have right-wing opinion people, and we KNOW Brit Hume is a rightie…
WE KNOW
Get over it….
Run back to your safe little world where Islamic facists aren’t waiting to kill you, and despotic nutjobs aren’t building nukes.
We’ll have your back, like we always do. You sit there and bitch about how much it costs, and about how much it affects your pretty little life, like you always do.
Signed
SGT Mortis
Mortis on November 17, 2006 at 7:16 PM
Bias in pursuit of truth is no bias.
Maxx on November 17, 2006 at 7:45 PM
…this whole “bias at Fox News” has been bleeding from thread to thread all week. It’s getting monotonous, and isn’t going anywhere.
You can’t have a satisfying discussion with a rock…and a person whose mind is slammed shut, water-tight doors screwed down, is just that.
Puritan1648 on November 17, 2006 at 8:02 PM
…still speaking Mongolian, I see….
Puritan1648 on November 17, 2006 at 8:07 PM
Right, Mortis (no pun intended).
That’s precisely why I watch Fox. Say what you will, Grebrook, Fox may have a higher ratio of conservatives, but at least ther is a ratio. On most other cable networks the only perspective on the conservative view is to tell one how wrong, corrupt, unfair, unpopular, or evil it is.
I am a conservative. I like to hear our side of the story from time to time.
There’s no other network available that does not consistently bash the “right” point of view so I avoid them when at all possible. I don’t give a crap what Olbergasm or Matthews or Katie or Charlie Gibson have to say.
I’ll surf the web to get an unfiltered version of the news so at least when I watch Fox, or have to debate my view I know the facts beforehand.
Is Fox biased? Sure, they lean right. That’s why I like them.
BacaDog on November 17, 2006 at 8:08 PM
Media Matters? Why didn’t you just quote some survey from KO’s? Geez…..
From Media Matters - “Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.”
Do you actually think you can score points arguing media bias when quoting stats from a biased source?
Lord…
BacaDog on November 17, 2006 at 8:17 PM
Grebrook, let’s assume for a moment that you’re correct about Fox News Channel’s being so slanted. I think you’re way off there, but, if other commenters haven’t changed your mind with what they’ve given, I’m not going to waste my time trying.
Anyway, we live in a land that gives us great freedoms of choice, right? If you don’t like FNC, vote with your remote and watch CNN. If you don’t like the decision Stony Creek Inns has made, stay elsewhere. As for the level to which you’ve carried things, I dare say it’s time to sound a BOO FREAKING HOO. I like that, with FNC, we have the same ability to choose. I love it.
flutejpl on November 17, 2006 at 8:34 PM
Grebrook probably never read this.
SWLiP on November 17, 2006 at 6:33 PM
That’s the most b.s. study I’ve ever seen.
Grebrook on November 17, 2006 at 6:38 PM
It doesn’t comport with my idea of reality!! It’s TOTAL B.S.!!
Troy Rasmussen on November 17, 2006 at 8:51 PM
It’s nice to see the free market respond. Too bad we are forced to pay for the likes of PBS. Worse, CNN stateside news is less biased than the stuff they push internationally, just like Newsweek – another version of Leftie reality.
naliaka on November 17, 2006 at 9:31 PM
No. We wouldn’t. We wouldn’t stoop to that level
However, we might accuse them of being stupid.
Lawrence on November 18, 2006 at 9:26 AM
They weren’t just dropped because the anchor’s there are a bunch of former democrat operatives and libs. They were dropped because they showed enemy propaganda. If fox did that kind of thing, I would gladly see them dropped as well. I’m just wondering what you think is ok to show on a news program. If CNN got a tape of a female g.i being raped would they show that? Would you be defending their right to show that? There are some things we don’t need to see; it’s disgusting enough just to hear about. CNN jumped that line big time. If I was President Jorge Arbusto, I would treat CNN like Al-Jazeera; no access. You want news, go cover the terrorists. You like death p*rn so much greebook, go hang out an islamic fascist website. Maybe they’ll invite you to join.
austinnelly on November 18, 2006 at 10:34 AM
This should be eays Grebrook: Give us times and days that Fox news has been bashing Democrats.
Really. show us.
Tell us what was said that was bashing.
Your saying it doesn’t make it true. I know that is typical liberal mindset, but it just isn’t fact or reality. You have to give evidence.
You do have an understanding of what that is? Re:Stalinists,Grebook it is because that is the type of government you all are on the road to wanting. YOU are not personaly for freedom of speech, ownership, or the ability to protect oneself. If you were.. you would not be a liberal with the doctrine if Nihilism.
Also Grebook: there is a difference between an Inn making a decision ( re:the private enterprises to make money folks like you are against. Please don’t lie and say you aren’t. If you were for it, you wouldn’t be liberal “let’s take their stuff away from them for their benefit” person.) And the government making the decision. Do you get the difference? If not, please do some really hard core study of the constitution and what the founders had to say about it, and then go lick your little wounds in the corner. Patron’s aren’t missing much with CNN but all the same old tired liberal talking points. That is all the contribute to the market place and there is still apparently MSNBC, ABC, NBC and CBS for that type of choice.
Noelie on November 18, 2006 at 11:04 AM
CNN
CNN International, even more so
NBC
MSNBC
CBS
PBS
ABC
WAPO
CBC (
CommunistCanadian Broadcast Corp)NYT
LAT
BBC
BBC International, even more so
Most publications in the U.S. and Europe
Pure socialist/utopic propaganda. Because gutless liberal weasels will always need a huge place to hide in the open, basking, so that they aren’t asked tough questions, because they believe in ‘free speech’ and ‘diversity’ and because they are ‘progressive’.
Never mind that they believe in ‘human rights’ and ‘rights for women’, especially in the Middle East, Burma (Myanmar), Somalia and the most devastated places on Earth. NOW and the ACLU are screaming from the top of their lungs and heads about the gang-raped woman in Saudi Arabia, who then was publicly stoned recently; they’re not?
Yes, Grebrook, I can hear all your devotion and sounds for equality and freedom. Loudly. Clearly.
When you find such a good cause, come back, report and we might find redeeming value in you and yours. Until then you just waste much broadband and waddle happily in the utopian socialist latrine, like a rat who gets fed continuously.
Entelechy on November 18, 2006 at 4:00 PM
I watch Fox news because it’s the only news I can even somewhat stomach. I consider CNN to be leftist propoganda, and Fox to be weak-kneed moderate propoganda (with the occassional trotting out of Ann Coulter to demonstrate that they actually do *know* a real (almost) conservative.)
I always laugh at the portrayal of Fox News anchors and other moderates as being “right wing”. *I* am right-wing.
A hundred years from now, perhaps, the Fox News moderate-types might be willing to finally admit I was right. Only it’ll be about 100 years too late to save the nation.
Hiraghm on November 18, 2006 at 11:45 PM
Gee Grebrook… I couldn’t find that one you have on Olbermann (please post it) …. but here’s one on Kennedy selling us out to the KGB.
Maxx on November 19, 2006 at 12:02 AM
When are we going to stop responding to Grebrook the Troll.
The topic was how a hotel chain pushed back against CNN over their Al Qaeda-supplied “snuff” sniper video clips of US soldiers and marines being killed in Iraq. This is an important topic, given the wide-spread presence of CNN in airports and bars.
Grebrook, in troll like fashion, hijacked the thread and made it one about the “evils” of FNC.
Trolls can’t be debated — they are not here for “debate” or “discussion.” They are here to upset us and start an argument.
Trolls aren’t interested in the truth — their goal is to disrupt *US*.
And in this thread, as most others, Grebrook succeeded.
Shame on us.
georgej on November 19, 2006 at 6:37 AM