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PROPOSED QUESTION: Should Jeff Zucker be fired?
ANSWER: Yes.
REASON #1: He is "blindingly incompetent."
REASON #2: He has caused the demise of NBC.
REASON #3: He has caused the demise of the American way.
UNSAVORY TYPES TO WHICH ZUCKER COULD BE COMPARED: Marie Antoinette, General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner
AMERICA'S GREATEST EXPORT: Pop culture
CALLING THE PEOPLE TO ARMS: "It's time to rise up and refuse to sit back while Jeff Zucker continues to destroy a great American media company and its broadcast franchises. It's time for an intervention -- an intervention of the very highest order."
CALLING THE PRESIDENT TO ARMS: "Man up, Barack, just like you did last spring with GM. Do what all of America wants you to do: Fire Jeff Zucker."
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