Suspicion about Shari Redstone of CBS

Moonbeam

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Can you elaborate on what your suspicions are? Maybe I am missing something.
That's a good question in my opinion. What I see is that if you have pro Palestinian sympathizers on your campus you can use that to cut off funds and make Trump voters happy they are getting revenge on liberals, and if you are pro-Israeli and want to do business that requires government approval he will use that to shake you down.
 

BonzaiDuck

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That's a good question in my opinion. What I see is that if you have pro Palestinian sympathizers on your campus you can use that to cut off funds and make Trump voters happy they are getting revenge on liberals, and if you are pro-Israeli and want to do business that requires government approval he will use that to shake you down.
Redstone seemed to easy to settle with the Trump regime, and I didn't see clearly any indications of her real political orientation. On the other hand, this could all be about being between a rock and a hard place for completing a merger with Paramount.

Academic institutions and media are under assault by Trump. Personally, having seen Harris in other media venues, having followed her media presence and political history for a long time, I couldn't see how CBS could make her look better than she was. It really seems like an absurd basis for a lawsuit, and Redstone, with other CBS officials, seems too easy to cave.

On a slightly different front, there is rumor that Trump had long ago applied to Harvard in hopes of attending there, and was turned down. This was the same pattern as Trump the college-hopeful in his unsuccessful application to USC, although that's just one additional reason Trump has a bias against California.
 

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Self interest are the only real politics the Redsones ever had. Her dad was nominally a Democrat but flipped when it suited him. Shari is, in many ways, like her father. They all suck real hard and are willing to do absolutely anything to come out on top.
 

RalphTheCow

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How the hell did CBS come to be controlled by one person? I thought it is a public corporation?

Ok, this sheds some light.
 

Greenman

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Redstone want's to settle. She needs the money and no one want's to buy a company with a twenty billion dollar lawsuit hanging over it. That lawsuit is going to pivot on why the interview was edited and if CBS would have done the same thing if it was Trump bumbling his way through a statement.
 
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Redstone want's to settle. She needs the money and no one want's to buy a company with a twenty billion dollar lawsuit hanging over it. That lawsuit is going to pivot on why the interview was edited and if CBS would have done the same thing if it was Trump bumbling his way through a statement.
No one wants to buy when the FTC is potentially going to launch bs investigations over station licensing that will slow or halt a sale.

The lawsuit is a naked shakedown of corruption by the president.

On an unrelated note, it's funny how you uncritically always bend towards the conservative position. No critical thinking.
 

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Redstone want's to settle. She needs the money and no one want's to buy a company with a twenty billion dollar lawsuit hanging over it. That lawsuit is going to pivot on why the interview was edited and if CBS would have done the same thing if it was Trump bumbling his way through a statement.

Having to PERSONALLY bribe the president so that he doesn't stop your deal seems bad. And that is what we are talking about here, a clear bribe.
 

JD50

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Redstone want's to settle. She needs the money and no one want's to buy a company with a twenty billion dollar lawsuit hanging over it. That lawsuit is going to pivot on why the interview was edited and if CBS would have done the same thing if it was Trump bumbling his way through a statement.
The media has sanewashed Trump's bumbling for roughly 10 years now.
 

Pens1566

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Not to mention, broadcast based businesses are basically a dinosaur at this point. Just watching the asteroid on its way down.
 
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brycejones

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Redstone want's to settle. She needs the money and no one want's to buy a company with a twenty billion dollar lawsuit hanging over it. That lawsuit is going to pivot on why the interview was edited and if CBS would have done the same thing if it was Trump bumbling his way through a statement.
If it went to trial it would be a HUGE loss for Trump. It's a bullshit lawsuit period.
 

Greenman

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No one wants to buy when the FTC is potentially going to launch bs investigations over station licensing that will slow or halt a sale.

The lawsuit is a naked shakedown of corruption by the president.

On an unrelated note, it's funny how you uncritically always bend towards the conservative position. No critical thinking.
It's all a mater of perspective.
 
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If it went to trial it would be a HUGE loss for Trump. It's a bullshit lawsuit period.

In a normal federal district court. However, if I recall, Trump had the lawsuit filed in a certain extreme right-wing district in North Texas, which is typically used as a way to shake down people and get bullshit rulings favoring whatever Republicans want.
 
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Self interest are the only real politics the Redsones ever had. Her dad was nominally a Democrat but flipped when it suited him. Shari is, in many ways, like her father. They all suck real hard and are willing to do absolutely anything to come out on top.
Selling out 60 Minutes was unforgiveable. Caving to Trump on it a sin. Is there any mainstream media with guts now? Where/what are the bastions of resistance going forward?
 

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Redstone want's to settle. She needs the money and no one want's to buy a company with a twenty billion dollar lawsuit hanging over it. That lawsuit is going to pivot on why the interview was edited and if CBS would have done the same thing if it was Trump bumbling his way through a statement.
If the suit goes to trial (which it won’t) the more likely outcome is Trump paying CBS after being sanctioned. It’s a laughably frivolous lawsuit that has no chance of success. They can edit their programming in any way they want as per the first amendment.

That being said the issue here is more the utterly clear bribery. If memory serves you were very concerned about Biden’s corruption despite no evidence. Now you have Trump’s counterparties believing they are bribing him. I can only imagine how angry this must make you!
 
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If the suit goes to trial (which it won’t) the more likely outcome is Trump paying CBS after being sanctioned. It’s a laughably frivolous lawsuit that has no chance of success. They can edit their programming in any way they want as per the first amendment.

That being said the issue here is more the utterly clear bribery. If memory serves you were very concerned about Biden’s corruption despite no evidence. Now you have Trump’s counterparties believing they are bribing him. I can only imagine how angry this must make you!
Hasn't the lawsuit been filed in the North Texas district that is basically run by a single insane judge who just rules for whatever conservatives want to try and preempt the outcome that should be obvious?
 

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Hasn't the lawsuit been filed in the North Texas district that is basically run by a single insane judge who just rules for whatever conservatives want to try and preempt the outcome that should be obvious?
Probably but in the end it would be overturned anyway.

This lawsuit isn’t just questionable, it is laugh out loud stupid. No joke the basis for his claim is the Harris interview made him sad.
 

Moonbeam

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Probably but in the end it would be overturned anyway.

This lawsuit isn’t just questionable, it is laugh out loud stupid. No joke the basis for his claim is the Harris interview made him sad.
Isn’t having the right to sue someone who runs a red light and knocks you to the ground the same as someone hurting your feelings? I mean those weren’t just some Joe Blow nobody’s feelings, they were the feelings of the world’s most fragile ego. Think of the enormity of the pain.
 
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