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Spin Date: 01/01/94 | Running Time: 77 min. Add Spin to playlist Nominate this video My Clip Video Editor Bookmark/episode description Save

This tape teaches us about an interesting period of time in the early '90s when people with a satellite dish could receive non-broadcast feeds. The author has captured hundreds of hours of this footage and it is an invaluable look at the crafty ways that politicians use television. This footage really is nothing like anything you've ever seen. An extremely valuable tape, both for the general knowledge and a specific look at the 1992 presidential race. 0:00 Bars and tone. 1:45 Introduction to the year 1992. We hear about the Rodney King beating and subsequent riots. We learn that Bill Clinton was campaigning for president and about the popularity of the Larry King show. We see Larry King telling Bill Clinton that Ted Turner will "serve" him after he is elected. 4:55 We learn that anyone with a dish could have picked this up. We then learn the difference between regular TV and the satellite feed. 5:43 We see George Bush Sr. on the Larry King Show and hear the satellite feed. He asks whether Saddam Hussein is watching them right now. We learn more about the uses of these satellite feeds. Then we learn why and how the satellites are used by the networks. The videomaker describes how he managed to record over 500 hours of satellite feeds. 6:52 Jerry Brown gets his makeup on and tells the cameraman to turn the camera away. He dips in and out of the frame while he puts in nose drops. 7:52 Info about George Bush and his appearance on Larry King. They talk about Halcion, a drug which has since been taken off the market. We learn that Bush had passed out in public because of the drug. 9:35 Bush and his evocation of Harry Truman. King makes fun of Bush with Gore. We then learn about the satellite "whistle stops" done in the White House. We see Barbara Bush saying the same things to different TV stations around the country. "I would remind you that all of us awaken, every single day, to a safer, freer world because of George Bush." 12:52 Clinton: "This is great. I love these. Can we do more Maryland?" Videomaker talks about the campaign "network." The politicians use these individual releases to local news stations to bypass the national press and thereby control more of their presentation. We learn that many politicians even create "news" programs to promote themselves and send them to the stations, which generally play them without indicating they are actually paid advertisements, not news stories. 16:15 We see Pat Buchanon practicing and learn he was a pioneer in satellite stops. Fabricating Nixon's "silent majority": Nixon created TV shows promoting his idea and gave them to TV channels, who played them without announcing that they were made by him. Buchanon talking about secret CBS plans. Clips of Jerry Falwell, Jesse Helms, and Henry Kissinger. 21:35 We learn about Clinton's extramarital affair. People claim that Clinton got valuable airtime because of this. People say this won him the election. "I figure if everyone in Maryland who's ever had problems in their marriage and either been divorced or gotten back together votes for me, I figure I'm a shoo-in for the election." 25:30 Larry Agran, presidential candidate, who was literally shut out of the race by lack of media coverage, despite being (in the videomaker 's opinion) perhaps the best candidate. We see him at a network appearance where his people had to run out and buy makeup because it was not provided. Agran's primary votes were not reported even though he was ahead of Jerry Brown, who got plenty of coverage. We see him fishing money out of h is pocket to give to the aide to buy the makeup. 30:10 CBS looks for solutions to urban problems. We see a man who wants to make an interesting point about urban medial care and links the situation in poor urban areas to conditions in the Third World, except that Third World countries are developing. The reporter makes him just say something about how we have the best health care in the world. Newscasters before they go on the air to report about Rodney King: "Even though there is no news, the management deems it necessary that I come on here every morning at 7 am and shock the shit out of you." Newscasters think about interviewing a person at a protest, but decide it would be "irresponsible." We learn about the awful ways the networks influenced the Rodney King trial. 42:24 Al Gore's wife calls Larry King show (where Gore is a guest) and asks him out on a date. Gore didn't initially recognize his wife’s voice. She then does satellite news reports all over country and her aides applaud their decision to have her call and appear so cutesy. We learn that the pro-life stance was chosen by Republicans to try to take some of the traditionally Democrat-leaning Catholic vote. Pat Robertson says that the Christian Coalition wants to gain control of Republican party by 1996. We hear him talking about all the news outlets he owns. The 700 Club discusses "Operation Rescue," who try to destroy abortion clinics. News guy accuses Gore of imposing his beliefs on abortion on poor women by including abortion coverage in a theoretical national health coverage plan. 54:00 Robertson was getting $150,000 a year in donations. We see a televangelist acting crazy and suddenly switching off and acting like a bossy TV star when they go off the air. Donations to religious programs plummeted when prominent televangelists were caught sinning. Then Falwell sent out a fundraising letter claiming that homosexuals with AIDS were knowingly donating their blood to blood banks to try to take down the world with him. His ministry was revived. He claims that gays are conspiring with other subversive agents to destroy the United States. 58:10 We see Pat Robertson on the Larry King Show. He knows how to spin. We see the satellite feed of Robertson during the commercial break. He calls the previous caller a "homo" after he asked whether he would let a pro-choice person be part of his party. He claims that every person who called the show and criticized him was a homosexual and that the Larry King show is trying to persecute him. One of his own people goes on the phone to call in. 1:02:50 We see Bush and Clinton separately telling supporters that they want a debate. Clinton wants to arrange a debate on Larry King with live callers to ask questions. Clinton and Gore go on Larry King. We see how dramatically King complements whoever he's talking to. We see him doing it to Clinton/Gore, then Bush, then Perot. 1:09:00 We see the live results from the polls on election day. 1:12:00 White House finds out about the satellite feeds. Clinton then was able to see things that were coming out before they go out and counteract them. 1:15:39 Credits. 1:17:12 End of tape. 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