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Human Events Exclusive: DEMS' SCARE TACTICS-Trying to Scare Stations Out of Airing Anti-Kerry Ad
Human Events Online ^ | August 5, 2004 | Human Events

Posted on 08/05/2004 12:38:53 PM PDT by hinterlander

Lawyers for the DNC and Kerry-Edwards sent this letter to television station managers, claiming the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth ad is "false" and "libelous." Click here for the full letter (can't be pasted into Free Republic window).


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ad; ads; hero; intimidation; kerry; spot; swiftboatveterans; swifties; veteran; veterans; vietnam
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To: hinterlander

So...leading voters to believe all those vets that came and stood behind Kerry at the DNC were all on his Swift Boat? Was that ever really addressed?


21 posted on 08/05/2004 12:49:18 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: hinterlander

Swift boat vets are like holding a cross in front of the John Kerry/DNC/"Terry Mcauliffe" vampire


22 posted on 08/05/2004 12:49:21 PM PDT by dennisw (Once is Happenstance. Twice is Coincidence. The third time is Enemy action. - Ian Fleming)
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To: stockpirate

This post shows the actual fax. The other post only describes it.


23 posted on 08/05/2004 12:49:22 PM PDT by ladtx ( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
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To: crv16

The ad never claims that the men in thew ad were on the boat. The lawyers are just setting up a straw man to knock down. Clever to deny what hasn't been claimed.


24 posted on 08/05/2004 12:49:59 PM PDT by Camachee (`)
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To: hinterlander

25 posted on 08/05/2004 12:50:09 PM PDT by Petronski (I'm not always cranky.)
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To: hinterlander
We have touched a nerve. This is the chest pounding,feces throwing stage of the response. They have no legal recourse against the stations, but are only giving a publically plausable excuse for mainstream media to refuse to carry the ad.

If this threat had merit there would be an enforcable action against the Switf Boat Veterans organization and its 527 status. The last thing these sheisters want is to actually initiate litigation because of the discovery process. I hope the files for an injunction and restraining order against the DNC immediately.

26 posted on 08/05/2004 12:51:13 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: hinterlander
We have touched a nerve. This is the chest pounding,feces throwing stage of the response. They have no legal recourse against the stations, but are only giving a publically plausable excuse for mainstream media to refuse to carry the ad.

If this threat had merit there would be an enforcable action against the Switf Boat Veterans organization and its 527 status. The last thing these sheisters want is to actually initiate litigation because of the discovery process. I hope the files for an injunction and restraining order against the DNC immediately.

27 posted on 08/05/2004 12:51:20 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: hinterlander

This video is getting spread rapidly by email. I have received a few "thank yous" from people I forwarded it too. Now it is time to follow up with this outrageous crap from the gigolo and ambulance chaser.


28 posted on 08/05/2004 12:51:37 PM PDT by Corporate Law (<>< -- Xavier Basketball - Perennial Slayer of #1 Ranked Teams)
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To: crv16
Can anyone refute the claims in this letter?

Unless I am seeing things, I believe that the image in the background as each man speaks in the commercial is one of the same man in the often shown picture with Kerry in the group. It seems evident that the man in the picture and the one speaking in each instance are the same person; only older.

I think that makes it clear that these people were with Kerry in some capacity.

My guess is that most of it could be proven quite easily.

29 posted on 08/05/2004 12:51:57 PM PDT by Southflanknorthpawsis
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To: NonValueAdded
I heard Letson on Boortz this a.m. He says that he did not sign because the medic was the one that was supposed to sign. But he was called over by the medic to look at the "Purple Heart" wound. He said the reason he remembered it is that Kerry told everyone who would listen that he was going to go into politics when he got home, and would be president someday.

carolyn

30 posted on 08/05/2004 12:52:05 PM PDT by CDHart (I'm not crazy. I've just been in a bad mood for 40 years. [Steel Magnolias])
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To: stockpirate
you said already posted; http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1185696/posts

WRONG! the other post was comments as told by Rush. This is an actual article.

31 posted on 08/05/2004 12:52:24 PM PDT by Fierce Allegiance ( "Stay safe in the "sandbox", cuz!)
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To: 1Old Pro
It's one thing to "advise" the stations on their legal rights as to accepting the advertisement, but there's a distinct odor of intimidation about this letter -- "Run the ad and you'll pay" comes across loud and clear.

Just when I think Dems can't get any lower, they dig a hole in the dirt and crawl down.

32 posted on 08/05/2004 12:54:00 PM PDT by workerbee
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To: The G Man
NOTICE.....

Suing the media orgs that run it...NOT THE PEOPLE SAYING IT

Hmmm, and WHY is that?

33 posted on 08/05/2004 12:54:53 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: hinterlander

Where to start on this? The members of the group did not state that they all served on Kerry's boat. They served in his flotilla. The letter says they claimed to have served on his boat - a deliberate lie by the authors of the letter. Having constructed their straw man, they can now dismiss the SWIFT boat veterans as liars. The letter also does not claim that the man who claimed to treat him for his 'wound' did not in fact treat him. It merely said that his name was not on the associated paperwork. This is another straw man argument. I was disappointed to not see Richard Mellon Scaife or Halliburton named specifically. Maybe after the ad is played a few more times they will start chewing the carpet and screaming.


34 posted on 08/05/2004 12:55:28 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: stockpirate; Liz; Grampa Dave; onyx
What do you mean already posted....that thread says there was a letter.....this thread shows the letter!!


Geez!!!!
35 posted on 08/05/2004 12:56:25 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: hinterlander

Do we know the stations it was sent to?


36 posted on 08/05/2004 12:57:20 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (BYPASS FORCED WEB REGISTRATION! **** http://www.bugmenot.com ****)
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To: Southflanknorthpawsis

My neighbor served on PBR boats (?) in the Mekong delta. He tells me that it was rare for him to go out with the same crew on every patrol.


37 posted on 08/05/2004 12:57:32 PM PDT by cripplecreek (John kerry is unbalanced)
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To: The G Man

According to this letter, you have to have served "on Senator Kerry's boat" to call him a liar.

Also, if the "doctor" was not Kerry's doctor, lets see the medical records to prove it.


39 posted on 08/05/2004 12:57:42 PM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, DemocRATs believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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To: CDHart

Good explanation.


40 posted on 08/05/2004 12:58:32 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (BYPASS FORCED WEB REGISTRATION! **** http://www.bugmenot.com ****)
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