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The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen for Wednesday, May 21, 2014 Today’s show features: Rethink the Week with: Part One: a conversation with FreePress.net’s Tim Karr (Senior Director of Strategy)* Why the AT&T-DirecTV Deal is the Dumbest, Most Wasteful Deal Ever (at Least Since Comcast–Time Warner Cable) Best Fact: For the total price of these two mega-deals, AT&T and Comcast could collectively deploy super-fast gigabit-fiber broadband service to every single home in America. Part Two: Politico’s Byron Tau…Tea Party lost on Tues. why? but did they lose the battle to win the war? Self funders and Incumbents won..http://politi.co/1sTwcki *Extra Reading Telecom merger mania hits K Street. AT&T amassed a DC army to muscle a megamerger with T-Mobile past regulators in 2011, blanketing Capitol Hill in a massive PR campaign. The result of the shock and awe: failure. Anna Palmer, Laura McGann, Ken Vogel, Byron Tau & Tony Romm are available on this. http://politi.co/1oemngu arnie arnesen host follow her on twitter @pchowder susan bruce in house blogger follow her at susanthebruce.blogspot.net
