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Stolen Honor: Sinclair Under Fire
worm eater writes "The Sinclair Broadcasting Group, in its latest politically charged move, has announced that it will air a 90-minute anti-Kerry documentary a week before the election. The video, 'Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal,' was funded by a group of Pennsylvania POWs that has merged with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Sinclair, which is the largest TV broadcasting group in the nation, has 62 affiliates, many in swing states. It made news in April by refusing to let any of its affiliates air an edition of Nightline in which Ted Koppel read the names of US soldiers who had died in Iraq, saying the broadcast was politically motivated. Predictably, liberal blogs are fighting back."
Michael Moore.
You have to go to a theater or buy/rent the DVD for Farhenheit 911. This crap is being sent over PUBLIC airwaves. I'd say that's a big difference.
Chad Clanton, senior campaign advisor for Kerry said "They [Sinclair] better hope we don't win." Vester immediately picked up on that as a direct unveiled threat and went with it. Clanton attempted to back off a bit but it was pretty much out already. I got an email from my local Democrat party action committee saying Sinclair's execs had given big donations to the Republican party. That's interesting to me, so I did some research on the owners and newscasters on CNN , ABC and NBC and found that they all gave large sums to the Democratic party and candidates. I guess the real issue is that we have media, they have views, and overall it looks like both sides are represented. Why should anyone threaten somebody's freedom of speech just because they don't like what they stand for? I have no doubt that this Clanton fellow will be fired by Kerry. There's no way that a candidate for President should allow this extremism.
But the man also created the lovely Spectrum. A fine system even if the keys were rubbery and the tape loader took for ages. There is no reason to put him "under fire", it is all in the past.
Amazing I did not see any outcries here about the the concerts which are decidely pro-Kerry and funded/sponsored by MoveOn. F/911 is treated as a documentary but many know the distortions it presents and how laughable the film is. Yet where was the outcry here over the idea of running it on TV before the election?
The key issue here is this, this is a freedom of speech issue. We have the DNC and 18 Democratic Senators attempting to get the FCC to block it. Since when is ANY SPEECH to be blocked by the Federal government? We should ALL be up in arms over this.
Too many here think the Campaign Reform bill is a good thing as long as it applies to their side and not another. I say its bad all around. I say its far worse travesty we actually may see the FCC shut down this broadcast because IT MIGHT INFLUENCE AN ELECTION.
HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK FREEDOM OF SPEECH MEANS?
It MEANS we can have Michael Moore run his movie THE DAY OF THE ELECTION if he so chooses and anyone is willing. I would applaud it.
But NO.... Too many people are so blinded by their hatred they are willing to ditch the most important rights we still "barely" have.
Freedom of speech must never be surrendered.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
Why don't you actually ask the POWs. They'll tell you it was Kerry.
Isn't interesting everyone talks about My Lai, but no one ever talks about how the massacre was halted.
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.