It might have been more accurate to say:
How can we can expect the Supreme Court to lean toward outrageous
rulings which favor Disney?
Well, perhaps this comes from the realization by those seven Justices
on the Supreme Court that most Americans will *certainly not* become
alarmed by the news of such a decision or feel as though a victory for
Disney has anything to do with lobbyists throwing theme park and movie
rental profits at our government. Most Americans have Disney in mind
as 'the good guy' because they only see Disney as the company
responsible for creating the characters that are so fiercely endeared,
but most Americans do not think of Disney as being a bunch of seriously
uptight pricks in a board room who wear $5000 watches and plot to help
their team suck up more control over their corner(s) of the national
economy.
...make any more sense to ya Steev?
I wonder what percentage of the country (or the world, for that matter)
is pro-Disn-ification, what percentage hates Disney, and what % doesn't
care about or buy Disney? (I consider the giant sum of dolts who buy
Disney and do not contemplate the company's stranglehold on the
entertainment world to be pro-Disney at this point).
Steve The Piss
On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 07:14 PM, Steev Hise wrote:
> on Wed, 15 Jan 2003 matt davignon told me:
>
> ->Wow, the Supreme Court - another government body that I don't have
> faith in.
> ->I guess we couldn't really expect them to rule against Disney since,
> 1)
> ->Disney has a ton of lobbying power and 2) Disney's characters are
> fiercely
> ->endeared by most Americans.
>
> ->how can we expect them to rule
> ->against cute, cuddly little Mickey Mouse?
>
> This has nothing to do with being "against" or "for" Mickey
> Mouse. Disney is not Mickey. Mickey Mouse is just a property, a
> resource that by now should belong to the people. saying that
> Americans love Disney characters, and hence Disney should keep
> owning them, is like saying "most americans love national parks,
> so Exxon should drill at Denali."
>
> smh
>
>
>
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