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KOPPEL MAKES THE CALL: ABC SET TO AIR NAMES OF WAR DEAD [Drudge]
Hartford Courant via Drudge ^
| April 30, 2004
| Liz Halloran
Posted on 04/30/2004 1:28:03 PM PDT by lainie
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To: Republican Red
Sinclair's response was very good to both parties!!
The programming that they plan on airing sounds to be a much more appropriate way of honoring these brave souls!!
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posted on
04/30/2004 1:59:05 PM PDT
by
FlashBack
(USA...USA...USA...USA...USA...USA...USA...USA...USA...USA..USA...USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: HamiltonJay
Rush made a good point today...Why is Ted Koppel not including those killed in Afghanistan?
To: gathersnomoss
How dumb. Will be a ratings disaster.
Who would want to listen to several hundred names being called?
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posted on
04/30/2004 2:01:42 PM PDT
by
Warren
(Orhe)
To: Republican Red
Thanks. I can't even believe I'm living in the same country that I was in two days ago. It feels like bizaro world.
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posted on
04/30/2004 2:01:49 PM PDT
by
highlandbreeze
(....that others may live.)
To: highlandbreeze
Shouldn't not running the pictures be for the same reason that the Supreme Court gave for not letting us see the Vince Foster photos.
If the loved one agrees, then yes. If not, then Koppel should not be allowed to show it.
Sounds like a good lawsuit to me.
To: BushisTheMan
I absolutely agree.
As the wife of a AF helo pilot, they would never receive my permission to air his name. Especially, not for a political pawn!
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posted on
04/30/2004 2:15:05 PM PDT
by
highlandbreeze
(....that others may live.)
To: lainie
Did this biased liberal, Koppel, read all the names of the Americans that were killed in the World Trade Center, AND THE PENTAGON, AND THE AIRCRAFT USED. I think he should read those names first. Of course, then he couldn't increase his ratings, and make a political statement at the same time, AT THE EXPENSE OF THE DEAD SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES. I think Koppel has reached a new vicious low
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posted on
04/30/2004 2:35:17 PM PDT
by
chainsaw
(http://www.hanoi-john.org.)
To: A Citizen Reporter
...why he chose to read the names of 523 troops killed in combat in Iraq, rather than the names of the thousands of private citizens killed in terrorist attacks since and including the events of September 11, 2001.
There were too many. The list wouldn't fit into the broadcast format.
To: lainie
"While the Sinclair Broadcast Group honors the memory of the brave members of the military who have sacrificed their lives in the service of our country, we do not believe such political statements should be disguised as news content," said Barry Faber, Sinclair's counsel... Exactly right. And, it is a coordinated political statement, too.
For those lucky enough to live outside their neighborhood, The Washington Post ran page after page of colors pictures today, too.
To: lainie
Here is the email I just sent NIGHTLINE --
It is all about the timing --
Reading the names of the dead before the war is over, is a protest.
Reading the names of the dead after the war is over, is an honor.
You should all be ashamed.
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posted on
04/30/2004 2:50:12 PM PDT
by
fideist
To: lainie
Tokyo Rose Koppel
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posted on
04/30/2004 4:43:48 PM PDT
by
Tamzee
("Our democracy is a farce..." - John Kerry)
To: lainie
If you learned that I went somewhere with $75,000 and came back with $500, would you commiserate with me over the loss of the money - or ask me if everyone turned their head as I drove by in my fancy new car?
The roll of the slain is the price we have (so far) paid; what those lives is buying is a historical question about which we can as yet only speculate. And if we cannot be sure what those lives are buying even now, still less did President Bush - or the troops themselves - know that when Bush made the decision to order the resumption of full-scale hostilities.
To count the cost after the fact, without reference to the goals for which those lives strove and ended, would be a cheap shot and a second guess. But include in the program a respectful account of the goals and hopes of the Administration and the troops, and an accounting of the bitter cost would not be hostile but supportive of the troops and the Administration.
To: Dog Anchor
Koppel, being interviewed today, said, "if you go down that road, where do you draw the line?"
Indeed, Ted.
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posted on
04/30/2004 6:02:12 PM PDT
by
lainie
To: lainie
Series Question? Has the miserable little smuck ever spent his air time reading the names of the dead on September 11 2001?
To: nkycincinnatikid
I can't say for sure but my guess would be no.
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posted on
04/30/2004 7:29:21 PM PDT
by
lainie
To: Right_in_Virginia
Speaking of coordinated political statements, I heard Ted say that he should get credit for honesty, being as he was categorically stating that this was NOT all about being "anti-war." So, instead, I surmise it's about doing his part to put Kerry in the W.H.
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posted on
04/30/2004 7:32:07 PM PDT
by
lainie
To: lainie
If Koppel does this, how will he be able to keep the glee out of his voice? After all, to Koppel and his puppeteers on the DNC, they were just mercenaries and they had it coming...
You have to wonder about these media sickos who get excited by deaths and coffins, and who wax orgasmic over images of Americans being mutilated.
But Ted Koppel didn't take this decision on his own. He is an empty suit with a room-temp IQ, who does what his bosses tell him, and makes no decision more meaningful than where to part his hair.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
To: lainie
I hope someday to tune in to the reading of a similar
list.....one which includes the names Koppel, Cronkite,
Brown, Couric, Jennings, Rather, Brokaw, Imus, Lauer, et al.
Ted Koppel, Public Enemy #2
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posted on
04/30/2004 8:57:03 PM PDT
by
Smartass
(BUSH & CHENEY 2004 - THE BEST GET BETTER)
To: All
The show should be ending on the east coast -- how was it?
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posted on
04/30/2004 8:57:27 PM PDT
by
lainie
To: lainie
Does anyone know
when Nightline decided to do this program? Did they do it to counter the inspirational things young people have been hearing about Tillman?
BTW, April 30 is Walpurgisnacht, which is somewhat akin to Halloween.
Perhaps Koppel's parents, who were German, told him about it.
Walpurgisnacht
Walpurgisnacht is celebrated in Germany on April 30th, it also has otherworldly undertones. On the eve of St. Walpurgis Day (Walpurgisnacht) witches, demons and the dead roam the earth, meet and dance.
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posted on
04/30/2004 9:10:46 PM PDT
by
syriacus
(If getting 3 Purple Hearts got Kerry OUT of Vietnam, returning them should have sent him back.)
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