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The 912 Project - Glenn Beck

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By Jon Friedman, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 5:15 PM ET Oct. 11, 2004  
   

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Sinclair Broadcasting Group, which owns the largest chain of TV stations in the United States, has told its stations to broadcast a documentary accusing Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry of betraying American prisoners during the Vietnam War, according to a news report Monday.

According to the Washington Post, Hunt Valley, Md.-based Sinclair has ordered its 62 stations -- some in states contested in the election such as Florida, Iowa, Ohio and Wisconsin -- to show "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal" during prime-time hours before the Nov. 2 election. The stations owned by Sinclair reach 24 percent of U.S. television households.

The Democratic National Committee said Monday said it will file a complaint against Sinclair (SBGI: news, chart) with the Federal Election Commission, accusing the network of making an "illegal in-kind contribution" to President Bush's campaign, according to a DNC news release.

"Stolen Honor" focuses on Kerry's 1971 antiwar testimony to Congress about U.S. atrocities and suggests that it hurt Americans who were still being held in Vietnam.

The Post report quoted Kerry's campaign spokesman, David Wade, as calling the documentary "lies" and "a smear."

Full Story - CBS Marketwatch

You can watch it directly off this web site for $4.99:

http://www.stolenhonor.com/

[Edmund Burke]

Well, both Channel 6 and Channel 28 here in Columbus are OWNED by Sinclair...why can't we watch it for free?  Of course, I'm supposing that the FEC and the FCC are going to allow this airing...I'm not taking bets just yet.

According to the Washington Post, Hunt Valley, Md.-based Sinclair has ordered its 62 stations -- some in states contested in the election such as Florida, Iowa, Ohio and Wisconsin -- to show "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal"

****during prime-time hours before the Nov. 2 election***  

From NewsMax:

Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004
The Democrat Senators Who Want to Censor Sinclair

We knew we'd get a load of messages from readers wanting to know the identity of the 18 anti-choice Democrat senators who oppose Sinclair Broadcast Group's right to air "Stolen Honor," a documentary that unmasks John Kerry. We wanted to know also, but a search of the wires yesterday revealed none of their names.

Today, however, the Mobile Register in Alabama named two of them: Kerry's longtime mentor, Teddy Kennedy of Massachusetts, and Dianne Feinstein of California. The New York Times and Los Angeles today also named them and added another one we suspected: Patrick "Leaky" Leahy of Vermont.

We'll continue to make inquiries and name the other 15 would-be censors when we find out who they are.

 

MORE from NewsMax:

Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004 10:39 a.m. EDT
Sinclair Critics Not Upset Over Rathergate Forgery Felony

Can Democrat critics of Sinclair Broadcasting, who now demand that the upstart network cancel plans to air a documentary on John Kerry's anti-Vietnam war activities, actually be serious?

More than a month after CBS News star Dan Rather aired forged military records trashing President Bush in a blatant attempt to swing the election to John Kerry, not a single CBS News staffer has been fired - even though forging military records is a federal felony punishable by up to 20 years in jail.

Yet media critics were livid Tuesday morning - not at CBS's willingness to become the broadcast wing of the Democratic Party's attack machine - but at Sinclair, for what the press is calling an act of naked partisanship.

The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz complains: "[Sinclair] executives have made 97 percent of their political donations during the 2004 election cycle to Bush and the Republicans."

Perish the thought that media owners might contribute to political candidates. CBS-Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone, by the way, pledged to raise $100,000 for John Kerry earlier this year, according to Broadcasting & Cable - without so much as a peep of protest from Mr. Kurtz.

The Post scribe also quotes Federal Communications Commissioner Michael J. Copps, a Democrat, who complained about Sinclair in a statement yesterday:

"This is an abuse of the public trust. And it is proof positive of media consolidation run amok when one owner can use the public airwaves to blanket the country with its political ideology -- whether liberal or conservative."

Blanket the country? Sinclair reaches just 25 percent of the nation's television sets. The number of viewers who actually watch Sinclair is likely a far smaller percentage.

But according to Kurtz, Sinclair has suddenly become a media giant, amassing "the nation's largest collection of television stations."

Mr. Copps, by the way, has been mercifully silent when it comes to CBS's perhaps accidental involvement in a criminal conspiracy to use forged documents in a bid to rig the 2004 presidential election.

And while Republican congressmen have been reluctant to call for any Rathergate investigation, Democrats haven't wasted a nanosecond swinging into action against Sinclair.

Notes Kurtz:   "Eighteen Democratic senators, led by Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), sent a letter to the FCC yesterday requesting an investigation into Sinclair's decision 'to air such a blatantly partisan attack in lieu of regular programming.'"

Speaking of partisan attacks, we trust that Sen. Feinstein will be calling any day now for an investigation into the decision by "60 Minutes" to showcase one partisan attack screed after another this year - including books authored by Kerry campaign consultants like Joe Wilson and Richard Clarke.

If Mr. Kurtz had a problem with "60 Minutes" morphing into the anti-Bush version of "Booknotes," he's kept his complaints to himself.

But in just the 72-hours since the Sinclair story broke, the Post media critic has managed to round-up an astonishing array of good governent types who are troubled over the network's plan to air the Kerry documentary.

He quotes Josh Silver, executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Free Press, who complains: "Sinclair is putting their political interests ahead of journalistic standards by calling this anti-Kerry documentary news, which it's not. . . . It's reprehensible at best, illegal at worst."

There's that pesky "I" word again. Of course, nothing Sinclair has done is even remotely illegal. But again, Silver has nothing to say about the prospect that CBS may be an accessory after the fact to a criminal conspiracy to fix a presidential election.

Now there's something that bears investigating.

 

[Edmund Burke]

This from drudgereport.com (and the reason I doubt Sinclair will be allowed to do this).  Sucks (and Copps is...you guessed it!...a Democrat, appointed by W.  Bi-partisanship gets you killed).

_______________________________________
FCC COMMISSIONER STATEMENT ON SINCLAIR AIRING OF ANTI-KERRY SHOW
Tue Oct 12 2004 13:39:02 ET

FCC COMMISSIONER COPPS CRITICIZES SINCLAIR CORPORATE DECISION TO PREEMPT LOCAL STATIONS FOR POLITICAL BROADCAST

Commissioner Michael J. Copps reacted to reports that Sinclair Broadcast Group will preempt more than 60 local stations across the country to air an overtly political program in the days prior to the Presidential election.

Copps stated: “This is an abuse of the public trust.  And it is proof positive of media consolidation run amok when one owner can use the public airwaves to blanket the country with its political ideology -- whether liberal or conservative.  Some will undoubtedly question if this is appropriate stewardship of the public airwaves. This is the same corporation that refused to air Nightline’s reading of our war dead in Iraq.  It is the same corporation that short-shrifts local communities and local jobs by distance-casting news and weather from hundreds of miles away.  It is a sad fact that the explicit public interest protections we once had to ensure balance continue to be weakened by the Federal Communications Commission while it allows media conglomerates to get even bigger.  Sinclair, and the FCC, are taking us down a dangerous road.”  

END

Just saw one of the Kerry goons saying "They [Sinclair] better hope we don't win.", clearly threatening a private corporation with revenge harrassment in the event they take actions today that are lawful.

Nothing like a thug in politics.  Maybe next time they can go bust Nyman's face.  If the Republicans were trying to block something there would be cries of prior restraint, freedom of speech, and so on.  Our buddies the librarians would be even more up in arms.