Salon.com > Wesley Clark http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 21:55:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Stars earn stripes, dupe audience http://www.salon.com/2012/08/07/army_realness_from_nato_to_nbc_salpart/ http://www.salon.com/2012/08/07/army_realness_from_nato_to_nbc_salpart/#comments Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:25:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12973946 Stars Earn Stripes is a freshly pressed NBC reality television series which debuts its two-hour premiere on August 13, or 'Monday after the Olympics at 8/7c!' as its promotional spots blared all throughout the station’s Olympic Games coverage. The emphatic promise of militarytainment—a real NATO ex-general, real ex-Navy SEALS, real ex-Delta Force commanders, real ex-Green Berets, real celebrities, etc.—outranks previous shows of its ilk. It also makes the Pentagon Channel look like the army version of the perpetuated congressional yawn that is C-SPAN.

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