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2004/10/22-24 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:34303 Activity:moderate
10/22   Sinclair Bends Over For Kerry
        i.e. boycott threat worked:
        http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1254113/posts
        \_ Haha, how do you like it boys? c.f. "The Reagans."
           \_ The Reagans was full of made up crap chock full of scenes the
              writers couldn't possibly have witnesses to such as Ron and
              Nancy discussing AIDS in America tucked in at night.  Sinclair
              has video of people who were in Vietnam telling their own
              stories.  If you can't see the difference between the two there's
              no point in discussing it with you.  As far as how do I like it?
              I don't care either way.  I downloaded the video out of curiosity
              but haven't viewed it.
              \_ So... you didn't inhale?
            \_ Yea... real funny.  Depriving war heroes, who an average lost
               4 years of their lives as POWs defending you, from telling
               their story.  What a victory.
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mindwest The word is in from Freepers who saw the cut-up infomercial for John Kerr y, instead of the powerful documentary "Stolen Honor." Kerry's threats and intimidation to save his tawdry campaign were effecti ve here as much as they were in blackmailing a theater from premiering t his historic video document. IT IS NOW MORE VITAL THAN EVER THAT HONEST MEN AND WOMEN VIEW AND PROMOTE THIS DOCUMENTARY. This is thanks to a patriot, a Special Forces veteran, who is funding it out of his own pock et for people to see. htm PLEASE LET AS MANY PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THIS AS YOU CAN. Then on Monday, the original production company will have it online in a higher-quality video format. PLEASE CALL IN TO LOCAL AND NATIONAL TALK SHOWS ABOUT IT. View Replies To: mindwest Calm down, they were never going to show the film in its entirety, it was all a bs concoction of the left to raise a fuss, then claim victory whe n this is what was planned from the beginning. And you are buying into i t, they said weeks ago this is exactly what it was going to be. View Replies To: Mediterranean Madman Then you didn't watch the presentation. It has been advertised here in OK C as a hard hitting piece about how POWs were treated and it couldn't ha ve been farther from the truth after the first 10 minutes which were qui te good. After that it was pieced together in a hurried fashion and didn 't flow. View Replies To: mindwest The local Sinclair affiliate ran this garbage this evening. It was little more than a lengthy advertisement for Sinclair Broadcasting, with a hea lthy dose of pro-Kerry tossed in. View Replies To: mindwest Two Syracuse stations had a number of pro-Kerry protestors on their 11:00 broadcasts. One conservativ e woman was interviewed by both stations, and she proclaimed the program to be fact. I think the protestors missed the point that the show turne d into a Kerry infomercial. If you know anyone that has Sinclair stock - tell them they had better se ll because they will take a hit. We need to let them know clearly that we will not stand for this bullsh|t. We need names, phone numbers - everything but personal addresses. Once we get them, send them everywhere and demand that they be used for respons e to this fraud they perpetrated on the American public. Also, we need to write to every single local paper's editorial board and let them know what has happened here. View Replies To: mindwest They bent over just like a ............ I am very disappointe d and wrote to Sinclair to let them know how betrayed I feel that they d id not stand up for the POW's/vets like they said they would. View Replies To: itsmyboy If you go to their website, they kiss even more rat ass on the opening pa ge. They deserve every headache and problem that this brings down on them. If it is, why can't the Freepers in that area cancel subscriptions for sa tellite? They sounded as though they were going to stand firm when a spokesman was interviewed on Hugh Hewitt. wmv Stolen Honor nails Kerry and the VVAW and how they lied at Winter Soldier. And how Kerry lied to the US Senate in 1971 And how Kerry and his pack of liars caused our POW's to suffer! Kerry and the DNC cannot stop EVERYONE on the internet from seeing this! View Replies To: MistyCA I didn't see the "report", but I had heard that Sinclair seriously caved to the Leftists. IMO, they should not have announced so far in advance, so the destroyers would not have had a chance to mobilize. Nonetheless, I don't think it will matter much in the end. View Replies To: All What were you all expecting to see? The Swift Vets are at least having th eir voices heard and are on a major prime time airing. Sinclair has done what O'reilly or any of the broadcast channels would no t do and that is give the POW's response to Kerry running. View Replies To: MistyCA Obviously those who expected to see @ least sizable portions of Stolen Ho nor aired were very disappointed. I did not expect that because as Sinclair had stated before - how much th ey were going to show was undetermined. It would have great if they had run a lot more than they did, but I think some positives came from this. Minutes 5 to 15 were unique for broadcast TV - in that the truths present ed in Stolen Honor were presented as a legitimate subject. The rest of it was just more of the same stuff broadcast TV puts out. The only problem I had with it was the bit on Dubya's TANG service - it w as grossly uninformed. To be certain, the producer of Up River told some lies about things he ob viously had no clue about, but it's obvious he fried his noggin' on acid years ago. Overall, I would say this show was a small net gain for Dubya. View Replies To: mindwest Here are the LATEST advertisers apparently practicing pre-emptive censorship. These four advertisers were removed from the "Boycott Sinclair" website in the last 24 hours. View Replies To: lionstar missed the broadcast, Can someone give me a quick review? It seems like they showed more clips from " Going Upriver" than Stolen Honor. Maybe I'm misreading Sinclair's major bending over, and the program was j ust so nuanced, it seemed like a Kerry-infomercial. My disgust with Sinclair is seared, seared into my brain. then they wen t to "Going Up River" and interviewed the producer of that film. They sp ent a lot of time showing video clips out of context.. to suggest that Kerry was dodging bullets as he pulled a guy from the water. They way they did it, one guy narrating while they show clips of swiftboats racing through bullets, makes you think that it MUST be t he case that Kerry was being shot at. Then they started into Bush's nati onal guard story with a few moments of a general saying Bush did a good job only to switch over to the anti-Bush crap. If one side is rational and honest , and the other side is willing to lie, cheat, distort... I didn't watch the show, but from what I have read here, they have only s ucceeded in alienating liberals AND conservatives. They have made a lot of enemies and no friends on either side. View Replies To: stockstrader "Then why did they change the name of the documentary from what was PUBLI SHED ahead in TV guides? Stolen honor was the documentary they were talking about, I don't know if and why they changed the title, maybe because the guy didn't want them using the name of his film for the special. I saw the guy on O'Reilly 2 or 3 weeks ago telling him that the liberals were morons, that they were n't just going to show the film, that it was going to be a discussion. I did not see it though, so I will stand down, who knows they may have fi lmed it more pro kerry that they implied. I did hear somewhere they were showing the documentary by itself the night before the election though, who knows. View Replies To: Paloma_55 Thanks for the synopsis and I totally agree. There IS NO "fair and balanc ed" when the opposing side is completely duplicitous, phony, demagogic, and fraudulent. It's like giving equal weight to arguments by Pope Paul and Bill Clinton in a discussion about fidelity. View Replies To: All This is what is posted on the Sinclair Web Site. N otice that they state that the Kerry Camp was involved for the past few weeks: We welcome your comments regarding the special news event A POW Story: P olitics, Pressure and the Media, Sinclairs third news special of 2004. The program aired on 40 television stations around the country on Frida y, October 22, 2004. The program dealt with a variety of topics includin g the allegations made by 13 American POWs including two Medal of Hono r winners about their captivity in North Vietnam. We would like to thank the Kerry Campaign for its participation during th e private discussions that took place over a period of weeks. Through th e recommendations of senior Kerry Campaign officials, several people clo sely allied with Senator John Kerry, including his close friend of 40-ye ars and his co-editor of The New Soldier, George Butler, participated in the news special. Click Here And this is the preformatted letter to the FCC: Dear Chairman Powell and Commissioners: I am writing in support of the broadcast aired by the Sinclair Broadcast Group enti...