Obama Asks Congress to Delay Digital TV Switch

[BradH]

If you then also add to that the charged political climate with all the McCain supporters representing the vast majority of these folks (kind of funny how that works out, huh?). Many of these folks (Pix, this is you) having stocked up on guns and bullets in the last few months, and you throw in the unemployment numbers, the homeless, a couple of strikes, a demonstration or two (SAG, Teamsters, Pro-Israel/Pro-Palestine, whatever),...

It would appear you're no stranger to "chaos mongering" yourself. You're also giving the Powers That Be too much credit for thinking about this in any strategic way. This is a common trait among people on the left and far right who obsess over imagined govt/corporate conspiracy theories. The federal govt. just isn't that smart or organized. Think about it: The masses already had televisions. If the govt. was so desparate to give them their opium they wouldn't have pushed for a switch to HDTV, at least certainly not in this drastic way with no downward compatibility like color in the '60's.