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LA Times reports: The conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group, whose television outl ets reach nearly a quarter of the nation's homes with TV, is ordering i ts stations to preempt regular programming just days before the Nov. John F Kerry's activism again st the Vietnam War, network and station executives familiar with the pl an said Friday. Sinclair's programming plan, communicated to executives in recent days a nd coming in the thick of a close and intense presidential race, is hig hly unusual even in a political season that has been marked by media co ntroversies. Sinclair has told its stations - many of them in political swing states such as Ohio and Florida - to air "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal ," sources said. The film, funded by Pennsylvania veterans and produced by a veteran and former Washington Times reporter, features former POW s accusing Kerry a decorated Navy veteran turned war protester of w orsening their ordeal by prolonging the war. Sinclair will preempt regu lar prime-time programming from the networks to show the film, which ma y be classified as news programming, according to TV executives familia r with the plan.
Yes, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for a series on a fund-raising scandal in the Catholic Church but turned to the dark side when he went to work for the Moonie-owned Washington Times and and wrote a whitewash of the Unif ication Church.
George W Bush later appointed as the first Secretary of Homeland Secu rity. While working as a Ridge administration official, She rwood directed then-Gov. Ridge's award-winning broadcast TV and radio o perations in Harrisburg.
The former minister of propaganda for the Homeland Security Secretary just happens to produce a right-win g hit piece that will run on TV in just about every swing state, days be fore the election. com, "I would gladly contribute to a fund that would buy 90 minutes of commercial time on a competing group of sta tions in the same markets and then get the rights to show Fahrenheit 9/1 1 at exactly the same time. Somehow I think Michael Moore would cut us a good deal."
this interview with Frontline, he was a hands-on spook who also worked for the Pentagon in Beirut in th e 1980s, investigating the 1983 Embassy bombing, among other jobs.
Ken Layne came back after dinner and a few drinks to opine: "As I sai d earlier, it sure doesn't hurt that Kerry is boring. Voting for preside nt is now a choice between a rabid dog or the dull guy who catches the r abid dog and takes it to the pound."
he fact is that it's political suicide to admit mistakes, especially big ones, and everyone knows it. So it's entirely possible - though, pr obably unlikely - that Bush bangs his head against the wall every night about all the things that Matthew Yglesias bangs his head against the wall about. But there's no way that he could admit that, and it's not j ust because lying comes so naturally to him. It's because the entire po litical culture punishes admissions of error, since once a politician a dmits error, reporters stop doing the he said/he said thing and just sh ift to reporting the error. Of course, I'm very receptive to the view that Bush can't admit error, e ven to himself. But the fact that he publicly refuses to admit error ju st shows that he's not willing to commit political suicide on national television. This is a tricky issue, because we need to call Bush on it every time he lies. But we also need to remember that the problem of ho w we deal with mistakes is deeper than that, and it won't go away if Bu sh gets the boot. Everyone who has ever interviewed for a job (and running for President is the ultimate job interview) knows that you're going to be a sked this question. An adult who wants to be hired has an answer that ac knowledges three things: I don't think I'm perfect. I involve other people in decisions and share the credit and the b lame. When someone is President for four years, he is bound to make mistakes. A good President - and a good politician - knows how to confess to those mistakes and turn them into strengths.
James Wolcott tackles the rumors that Bush has been using an earpiece . I nearly did a spit take when I read this : He doesn't need the assistance of an electronic feed to hear voices in h is head. Indeed, he is able to tune into favorite frequencies simply by adjusting his head like an antenna trying to pick up a Spanish station on UHF. When he turns his head to the right, he hears the voice of Karen Hughes telling his tie gives him secret powers. When he cocks his head to the left, he hears the voice of God telling him that Democrats are a race o f devil-men. and so on, as he begins to sway on his feet and a strange smile strays across his face. I expect the president to remain disciplined tonight and dial exclusivel y into the voice of Karen Hughes, which he has internalized after so ma ny years of tuning out what the rest of us might refer to as "reality."
link to this item | | | Thursday, October 07, 2004 The sun also rises Today, the missus and I were talking about Cheney's amazing comments on h ow the Duelfer report actually proves that the Iraq War was justified. I said I fully expect Cheney to come out tomorrow and say something like, "Yes, the sun has been rising in the East for the past few years, but w hat evidence do we have that this will happen tomorrow?
The Vice President spoke about this mos t recent report that says there was no active program in Iraq to create weapons of mass destruction, and then he described, through convoluted logic, that that report actually justifies what they've been saying. You know, first they suggest there's a connection between Saddam Hussein and September 11th which was not true. Then they say there's th is strong connection between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. They are will ing to say that left is right, up is down. Here's the truth -- Dick Cheney and George W Bush need to recognize tha t the Earth is actually round and that the sun rises in the east. That there is no connection between Saddam Hussein and September 11th. Level with the American people about this dive rsion from the war on terror. Hell, even George's Daddy knew that the sun rises in the east.
The Herald reports on a local camp aign rally: The highest-ranking woman in US Army history campaigned for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in Rock Hill on Wednesday, telling D emocratic Party faithful that President Bush had no clue what he was ge tting into in Iraq. Claudia Kennedy said Bush has no clue how to get out of Iraq either. Kennedy, a 32-year Army veteran, was the first woman to become a three-s tar Army general. She served as deputy chief of staff for intelligence under President Clinton. Kerry is the right person to finish the job in Iraq, she said. Bush and Cheney have continued to say recently that the war was the righ t thing to do. Both Bush and Cheney say Kerry's criticism of war strate gy and his votes against funding have hurt the troops. But Kennedy and several other retired military leaders who support Kerry disagree. The military under Kerry would win the peace by building a w orld coalition to both fight terror and help pay for the war, Kennedy s aid. She called the Bush-Cheney team's wartime performance "incompetent," and said Bush looked "completely clueless" during last week's debate with Kerry. "It is embarrassing to see George Bush pretending to be president," she told an audience of about 30 Democrats at York County Democratic headqu arters.
Bush's forensic abilities were so amply on display four years ago tha t their disappearance last week is all the more puzzling. The fault, one suspects, lies with the candidate's advisers and coaches, who clearly were not up to the task of preparing the president for the debates. It is a much more difficult task to prep a president than to get a challenger in shape to debate well. The president has a clear dis advantage: He knows too much. Immersed in the i ssues only as he prepares for the confrontation, he has no trouble putt ing his ideas into words, since he does not know the nuance and subtlet y that a president does about the issue u...
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