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ABC NEWS v. SWIFTBOAT VETS
DRUDGE REPORT, ABC News ^ | 9/17/04 | tucker39

Posted on 09/17/2004 7:49:30 PM PDT by Tucker39

Swift Boat Controversy ABC News Objects to Group’s Use of Good Morning America Footage in New Swift Boat Ad.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: abcnews; ads; gma; napalminthemorning; newbie; swiftboat; swiftboatveteranss; swiftboatvets; swiftees
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This article is on Drudge. What's the feeling out there on this subject? Anything we can do? Freep ABC?

I'm new at this, so forgive any screwups.

1 posted on 09/17/2004 7:49:30 PM PDT by Tucker39
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To: Tucker39

Those guys are true heroes. Give 'em hell!


2 posted on 09/17/2004 7:51:07 PM PDT by dr_who_2
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To: Tucker39

Seems to boil down to: was it a news making event? If so, they could use the footage.


3 posted on 09/17/2004 7:51:33 PM PDT by gilliam
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To: Tucker39

This is the only way one of the major networks would ever mention the SBVT ads. Good strategery.


4 posted on 09/17/2004 7:51:52 PM PDT by Dilbert56
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To: Tucker39

I'm not thrilled with this ad. It looks like Kerry's words are being manipulated through selective editing. I would re-edit it and drop the video.


5 posted on 09/17/2004 7:52:50 PM PDT by js1138 (Speedy architect of perfect labyrinths.)
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To: Tucker39

a. The SBVFT leaders include some very sharp lawyers.

b. At the very least they can say they'll consider the ABC
request, and they'll watch how a similar complaint by NBC
against a Dem 527 is resolved.


6 posted on 09/17/2004 7:53:35 PM PDT by Boundless
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To: js1138

I respectfully disagree. It is clearly edited, so there is no attempt at "trickery." The reason I think it works is because of the ads that ran before it. America has seen, and heard (and can read) the precise words Skerry used regarding his medals/ribbons toss. I think it is perfect to use his own words against him.

I was hoping for something a bit more hard-hitting like, showing his picture as a hero in the North Vietnamese museum,,,etc...

I know they aren't done yet,,there will be more ads.

To date, the Swifties haven't had to retract any of their statements or assertions...


7 posted on 09/17/2004 7:56:19 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: Boundless

Sorry, could ya please be more specific? What are ya referring to?

BBL, I'm at work. My curiosity's stirred.


8 posted on 09/17/2004 7:56:20 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">Hatriotism)
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To: Tucker39

The Swifties have a great attorney, Ginsburg, who used to be one of the attorneys for the White House.

Best thing we can do is to send them money.


9 posted on 09/17/2004 7:56:59 PM PDT by FairOpinion (FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
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To: Tucker39
A new ad from a group of Vietnam War veterans who oppose Sen. John Kerry's presidential candidacy uses footage from an ABC News broadcast to buttress its claims that Kerry has given conflicting explanations about military awards he publicly threw away in 1971.

ABC News executives objected immediately to the ad, which Swift Boat Veterans for Truth said it plans to air in two Western states.

ABC News may not produce the truth but has a problem with those who do?

10 posted on 09/17/2004 7:57:00 PM PDT by Libloather (After all these years, Jim Robinson, AT LEAST, owes me a new car...)
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To: js1138
It looks like Kerry's words are being manipulated through selective editing.

No one is claiming so. Let them. More exposure. We're just marking time until October, when the big guns will fire, anyway.

11 posted on 09/17/2004 7:57:18 PM PDT by Poincare
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To: Tucker39

I'm starting to think these Swiftvets are strategic geniuses. No wonder they've gotten so much out of their relatively-modest budget. They seem to have mastered the art of getting leverage for their stories by using the MSM as a fulcrum.

Sure, go ahead, ABC, make a controversy out of this. By the time ABC gets an injunction to make the Swiftees stop using the footage, the publicity the ad will get from the effort to silence them will be worth millions.

Swiftees, you are patriots. Stand and deliver.


12 posted on 09/17/2004 7:58:39 PM PDT by OhMike (He which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart...we would not die in that man's company.)
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To: js1138

> It looks like Kerry's words are being manipulated
> through selective editing.

They aren't, though. They are all in context.
I saw all the surrounding text today (and don't
recall where, or I'd post a link).

I half suspect that the slightly choppy editing was
intentional, to provoke the Kerry camp into addressing
the matter, and motivate those who share your reaction
to examine the source paragraphs.

We'll soon find out.


13 posted on 09/17/2004 7:58:45 PM PDT by Boundless
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To: Tucker39

Note how they aint SUEING!


14 posted on 09/17/2004 7:59:58 PM PDT by funkywbr
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To: Tucker39; OrthodoxPresbyterian
I'm trying to figure out what is the property of ABC given that the airwaves are the property of the people of America for which the networks are under obligation to provide a fair and open hearing of political issues of interest.

In other words, they don't own the airwaves. We do.

They are granted permission to use. (And some licensing fee???)

Permission is partially granted in exchange for ABC airing political discourse.

I'm not sure their program of one of the candidates in the election is their property. I think it's in response to fulfilling their obligation.

Anyone agree with me?

15 posted on 09/17/2004 8:00:41 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army and Proudly Supporting BUSH/CHENEY 2004!)
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To: FairOpinion

It is my understanding that Ginsburg only advised them on the campaign finance laws and how it would apply to the Swift Boat ads.


16 posted on 09/17/2004 8:02:53 PM PDT by OldFriend (It's the soldier, not the reporter who has given US freedom of the press)
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To: OldFriend

I think you are right.

I hope they have some good attorneys advising them on everything else.


17 posted on 09/17/2004 8:06:00 PM PDT by FairOpinion (FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
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To: Tucker39

All ABC will achieve is to give the Swift Boat Vets a lot of free publicity as the story percolates through the media.


18 posted on 09/17/2004 8:07:45 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Tucker39

I wonder what the people at the Sales Division of ABC Corporation think about what the people at ABC News are trying to do here?$?$?$?$?$


19 posted on 09/17/2004 8:11:41 PM PDT by embedded_rebel
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To: FairOpinion
John O'Neill is an attorney himself. These guys are the real deal! Decorated combat veterans, the same kind of men who have always defended America!
20 posted on 09/17/2004 8:12:12 PM PDT by hawkiye
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