I'm new at this, so forgive any screwups.
Those guys are true heroes. Give 'em hell!
Seems to boil down to: was it a news making event? If so, they could use the footage.
This is the only way one of the major networks would ever mention the SBVT ads. Good strategery.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Note how they aint SUEING!
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?
All ABC will achieve is to give the Swift Boat Vets a lot of free publicity as the story percolates through the media.
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?$?$?$?$?$
Make CBS take them to Court, The Ad will get all kinds of free publicity :-)
Welcome to FR. We sure have a lot of new folks around here -- it's great.
It almost reminds me of good old days of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal -- gosh, those were good times!
Sorry, but ABC is right on this one.
It's their property used without authorisation.
So ABC, sue the SBVfT, it will guarantee full media coverage with snips of the ad. It will generate more exposure than the SBVfT could afford to pay for similiar tube time.
Has the DNC taken down their ad featuring news clips from both CBS and NBC? I remember they have both asked DNC to pull the ad, but last I heard, DNC said they will think about doing it.
I am sort of hoping that ABC turns this into a big deal. If they do that, more people will see the ad. I wonder if ABC is that dumb?
Bush may regret allowing Charles Gibson be a moderator.
Hey, thanks for reminding us about the www.Swiftvets.com
They have a new ad up on the site, too!!
Thanks ABC