http://knowledgefight.wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=414%3A_Bill_Cooper%27s_Ambitiously_Bad_Idea 414: Bill Cooper's Ambitiously Bad Idea - Revision history 2026-05-03T18:49:20Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.0 http://knowledgefight.wiki/index.php?title=414:_Bill_Cooper%27s_Ambitiously_Bad_Idea&diff=6062&oldid=prev RainbowBatch: RainbowBatch update 2025-04-12T20:02:08Z <p>RainbowBatch update</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:02, 12 April 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l9">Line 9:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 9:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; 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In this installment, the gents discuss the time that Bill decided that he and his listeners were going to buy a giant media conglomerate and thereby save America.<br /> <br /> ==Tidbits==<br /> <br /> *Bill knows he can&#039;t get bigger, comes up with a plan: buy the media<br /> *Should we buy Paramount?<br /> *Control 10%, control the company<br /> *Viacomm is not an option<br /> *GE is out of reach<br /> *The establishment will block us<br /> *CBS is grabbable<br /> *Turner Broadcasting is very doable<br /> *Let&#039;s get Gannett!<br /> *Time Warner is even better<br /> *Good plan, poor execution<br /> *Buy Time Warner, get Turner<br /> *Sign the proxy vote over to me, you idiots<br /> *Bill has only one phone line<br /> *Caller: don&#039;t get your hopes up<br /> *Next day: time to buy Gannett!<br /> *Caller: I bought shares!<br /> *Bill&#039;s business plan<br /> *We have less than a year to buy the media before [[Bill Clinton]] destroys the country<br /> *Caller: Jews control the media<br /> *Jews control the media because you let them<br /> *Caller: even if we don&#039;t take over, we&#039;ll make money<br /> *By 1994: the plan is not going well<br /> *Cohost: Carolyn Nelson<br /> *Bill is angry at a newspaper<br /> *Gun crime is hegelian dialectic<br /> *This is your fault, listener<br /> *Now we need 15%<br /> *Once more with feeling<br /> *Bill sounds like Alex<br /> *Put up or shut up<br /> <br /> [[Category:Episodes]]<br /> [[Category:Wacky Wednesday]]</div> RainbowBatch