MEDIA LOSER:
OAN's Dan Ball
Last week, DirecTV, which is owned by AT&T, announced that it will drop One America News Network from its lineup once its current contract expires in April. The news is a massive and potentially fatal blow to the small conservative cable network. At least one OAN host isn’t taking the news very well. On Monday, Dan Ball exhorted viewers to "blow up" AT&T's phones, and ended his show by imploring viewers to send him any dirt they may have on AT&T board chairman, William Kennard. Kennard was a chair of the FTC under President Bill Clinton and ambassador to the EU under President Barack Obama, which Ball was all too happy to seize upon. “That is the chairman of AT&T, William Kennard,” said Ball. “You heard me earlier describe who he is, his background, his connection to the Obamas and Clintons for decades. Call AT&T’s support line. Complain, raise hell, email, phone call – daily, every hour.” He said the decision to drop the network “censorship at its best” and a “political maneuver.” Ball then kicked things up several notches by soliciting scandalous information on Kennard from viewers. "If you’ve got any dirt on Mr. Kennard, I’d love to see it and put it on this program," said Ball. "You bring me concrete evidence of whatever it may be: cheating on his taxes; cheating on his wife; saying racial slurs toward White people. You folks do that – whatever it may be – find it for me." "Everybody’s got dirty little secrets they’re hiding. And this man deserves to have them exposed for what he’s doing," said Ball, pleading "Don’t let them do this to you, folks, by taking OAN off the air. We need your help." It came off less a call to arms than actual desperation. Plus, as WaPo's Jeremy Barr pointed out on Twitter, OAN is already facing many lawsuits. "This seems to be putting them on a path toward another one," he said. | 
