Following an article published by Philip r. Klein, editor, entitled 'Taking Chance', popular pay television service Home Box Office took the unprecedented move of cancelling his subscription this past week.
"We had no choice." said CEO Bill Nelson. "We haven't had a single viewer tune in since Philip endorsed one of our movies. They even turned off Real Sex and Taxi Cab Confessions."
Philip Klein, editor, publisher, owner, writer, and janitor, at The Southeast Texas Political Review, praised the HBO original film for its candor and insight into the life of a marine who volunteers for a special honor duty. Though never having performed any government service himself, except for the filing of various and sundry SBA loan applications, Klein notes that the performance of Footloose star Kevin Bacon in the film was "alut bettr then whin he wuz dencin."
Nelson, along with representatives of Showtime, The Movie Channel, The Weather Channel, and popular Sci-Fi series Ghosthunters, have asked that Klein refrain from watching any of their programming and even suggested that he focus his television viewing on reruns of eighties sitcom Charles in Charge. "Nobody cares about Scott Bao anymore." said an anonymous source who called the Review this past weekend.
In a related story, the 2008 Texas Tech Red Raider football team committed mass suicide by drinking cyanide laced Flavor-Aide over the weekend. Sources close to the team had no formal comment for the Review and only said that they hoped Philip Klein would not support the team in 2009.
