Lindsey Graham Uses Senate Judiciary Hearing To Complain About His Crappy TV Service

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks to the press following his private meeting with United States U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice about the attack on U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, Libya in Washington

Today during an important Senate Judiciary Committee meeting Comcast and Time Warner plied their case for permission to merge their two companies into an even bigger one. You would think the media would have run out of ways to merge and still provide competition, but apparently America’s media mega corporations have not achieved that yet. Comcast and Time Warner look to make forty five billion dollars on the deal. That would be incentive enough for anyone.

Not so for Lindsey Graham. He was more concerned with what most Americans care about when they’re considering what to watch on TV: Will this make my TV service any better?

Senator Graham posed this very question to both executives who were at the hearing to promote the merger:

?Now, I’m a DirecTV subscriber, had problems with cable,? he said. ?I’m trying to revisit this, I really am. I don’t know what to do. I’m trying to figure out what’s the best. ?Somebody can sell me a product at this hearing, because I really don’t know.?

Graham went to describe a disappointing situation he endured while watching a football game, his reception went out during the fourth quarter. The senator also belabored how the weather affects his TV viewing pleasure and that he’s had to have the satellite moved twice because, ?I live in a neighborhood with a lot of trees.?
Graham’s ultimate concern he shared about the two media corporations was how would their merger benefit the average television subscriber in South Carolina?

?I was going to ask would they object if DirecTV and DISH combined, and I think the difference there is that you have two competitors that would be combining, and from what I can tell Comcast and Time Warner don’t compete in the same marketplace.?

No indeed senator, why would two large media corporations be concerned with competing in the same marketplace, especially when they both provide TV programming and own cable companies. Now that they’re going to be one even bigger company, the good people of South Carolina don’t need to be worried that they’re running out of options. After all, they elected you to the US Senate.

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