Category Archives: The New Democrat

CBS Sports: NFL 1984- Green Bay Packers @ Chicago Bears: Full Game

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Ederik Schneider

Source:CBS Sports perhaps had the best Packer-Bear game from the 1980s. Source:The New Democrat  “December 9, 1984 Play by Play – Tim Ryan Color Commentator – Johnny Morris” From Jamie Johnson “Dramatic Ending To Chicago Bears-Green Bay Packers game – 1984” … Continue reading →

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CBS News: Walter Cronkite’s First CBS Evening Newscast

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Derik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  CBS News making history and for good reasons in 1963 with the first half-hour newscast. Which was a huge deal back in the early 1960s when TV networks were all about entertainment and sports, because that is … Continue reading →

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NBC Sports: Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears: A Rivalry Through the Years

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Ederik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  Similar to the Redskins-Cowboys rivalry or the Steelers-Browns rivalry or the Raiders-Broncos rivalry, the Bears-Packers rivalry is not as great as it use to be. For one thing, the Packers have dominated this rivalry really the last … Continue reading →

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Lorri Ford: 1948 Television Commercials

Posted on September 8, 2014 by kireschneider

Source:The New Democrat  Aw shucks, if I could only go back to the innocent 1940s again. That golly swell innocent time post World War II, well a great time for anyone who didn’t happen to be African-American and perhaps female … Continue reading →

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CBS Evening News: Dan Rather-George H.W. Bush Tiff The Day After

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Derik Schneider

\ Source:The New Democrat  I haven’t seen this video in about three years and I saw it then on YouTube. And if I heard anything about it as a kid in 1987 when this interview was conducted when I was … Continue reading →

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The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson: Da Coach Mike Ditka (January, 1987)

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Ederik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  Here’s a great comedy duo for you. Da Coach perhaps better known as Mike Ditka the former head coach of the Chicago Bears in the 1980s and early 90s. And of course The King of LateNight Johnny … Continue reading →

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Old TV History: President Dwight Eisenhower WRC-TV (1958) Oldest Known Color TV Broadcast

Posted on September 7, 2014 by kireschneider

Source:The New Democrat  There were already color movies in the 1950s and very good color movies. Like North by Northwest to use as an example, but color TV really didn’t have much of an impact at all until the late … Continue reading →

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PBS NewsHour: Shields & Brooks On ISIS & Bob McDonnell

Posted on September 5, 2014 by kireschneider

Source:The New Democrat  I believe the United States is getting ready to wipeout ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and NATO may help them out. And NATO may step in when it comes to Ukraine as well by … Continue reading →

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Washington Redskins: Redskins Chronicles: 18 Plays, the Story of Super Bowl 22

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Ederik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  This game was really won on two plays. The two touchdown passes to WR’s Rickey Sanders and Gary Clark. The rest of it as we now know was a show between a dominant football team the Redskins … Continue reading →

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Discerning History: History of the Filibuster

Posted on August 31, 2014 by kireschneider

Source:The New Democrat  You want to know why there’s so much hot air in Washington? For one its in an area that gets about five months of summer. Sometimes more, hot humid endless summers at times, where people pray for … Continue reading →

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