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Tuesday, October 19, 2004 |
USAToday: "Sinclair Broadcasting continues to feel heat from Wall Street as the company's 62 television stations prepare this week to air Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal, a documentary critical of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's Vietnam-era activities.
Shares closed Monday at $6.49, down 55 cents since Friday - and down 12% since Oct. 11, the first day of trading after the Los Angeles Times disclosed Sinclair's plans."
"Jon Leiberman [a Sinclair station chief] told The Baltimore Sun that Sinclair Broadcast Group's decision to air the 45-minute film as a news program was 'biased political propaganda'. Leiberman later told CNN he was fired after the story hit newsstands."
The protests from all over the country (bloggers included) were effective.
6:19:30 PM 
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That neocons are aggressive is a fact. Jeff's story has a continuation. But the situation is becoming pandemic. A google search gives you lots of incidents.
I am sure it will not be long before the Bush campaign jumps on the bandwagon and comes with similar, but now trumped up, charges.
See also Gulker. But the neocons have more tricks up their sleeves.
DailyStar: "The Supreme Court told a lower court Monday to review a redrawing of Texas' congressional districts that may cost Democrats up to six House seats, but the order won't affect the Nov. 2 elections.
The justices' one-sentence statement gave Republicans a short-term victory because the new district lines - engineered by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas - should help the GOP gain seats and extend its 10-year hold on the House."
5:49:24 PM
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Unobserver: "Rampant voter fraud in Florida will disqualify 200,000 mainly Democratic and African American voters on November 2, according to an article in next week's Harper's by Greg Palast, the BBC investigative reporter who in 2000 broke the original story regarding the infamous felon list in Florida. Palast's findings were echoed in the October 14 New York Times Op Ed by Paul Krugman."
1:28:00 PM
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AlterNet: "Ron Suskind - the veteran political reporter who did damage to the Bush White House with his book on ex-Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill - reported that last month at a confidential luncheon with big-money supporters (the RNC Regents), Bush said, 'I'm going to come out strong after my swearing in with fundamental tax reform, tort reform, privatizing of Social Security'. The privatizing of Social Security? Everyone in politics knows a candidate is not supposed to say that. Bush has been trained - with a rolled-up newspaper? - to talk about Social Security 'reform', not privatization."
SeattlePi: "Accusing President Bush of plotting a 'January surprise' to cut Social Security benefits, Sen. John Kerry Bush told voters here and in Ohio yesterday that Bush's plans for 'privatizing' the entitlement program could cost them as much as 45 percent of their monthly checks."
1:21:54 PM
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As a lifelong fan of P.G. Wodehouse, always looking for references to the great master, I found this gem (do read the whole article):
"If the Kerry campaign had some imagination, it could create a devastating ad out of this week's first Presidential Debate.
So John Kerry did reasonably well, but really it was Bush who stole the limelight. It would require a PG Wodehouse to do justice to the president's performance. It was Wodehouse who had nuggets like, 'What he did not know about the subject could fill a library', or 'What he knew about it could be written on the back of a postage stamp' (adding, 'with room to spare').
Mark Twain observed that 'We are all ignorant, only about different things', but Mr. Bush quickly demolished Twain's theory. He kept us riveted with an astonishing lack of command on a whole range of subjects, and with a thorough vacuousness. At times he seemed to believe that he was in some mind-association game where the answer to any question lay in popping out the name of some foreign leader (the first name to emphasize an even deeper knowledge of that country - Vladimir).
This prime-time disintegration, before an estimated audience of 60 million in the US, was accompanied by a range of facial gymnastics which would have left Ernest Borgnine and Archie Bunker in the dust. As when Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster addressed the girls' school, one got the wild sense that he might say anything, such was the seeming expanse of uncharted seas upon which the president appeared launched.
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The Kerry campaign should make a simple ad, with a picture of Nixon and the words, 'I am not a crook', underneath. Next to it, a picture of George W. Bush from yesterday's debate, with the words, 'Of course I know Osama bin Laden attacked us. I know that'.
If after this performance, the American people still want Mr. Bush as their president, PG Wodehouse had another one to console us, '...we are not brought into the world for pleasure alone'."
12:57:10 PM
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