Kerry Requests Response Time to Sinclair Film

TV Week ^ | 10/15/04 | Doug Halonen

[BibChr]

Oh, that woman.

They OFFERED him time ON THE SHOW!

Dan

PS -- no offense to the Real Women here.

[handy]

He can have an hour to respond if he wants, but he must answer the questions put forward by the film, not have time to run his own propaganda.

AMEN

[mmsturm]

Kerry should get equal time just like Bush got equal time for ABC's Nightline hit piece or PBS's Frontline hit piece or CBS's Fake Document piece or the hundreds of others over the last 3 years. Does Kerry realize you don't get equal time for "New" programs. Ha

[VOA]

But in an Oct. 15 letter to Sinclair President and CEO David Smith, Sen. Kerry's
campaign charged that the FCC's equal time obligations require Sinclair to give Kerry
campaign supporters air time to respond to the documentary

What BALDERDASH!
IF what I heard on radio on OCTOBER 14th was true.
I heard that Sinclair offered Kerry the equal time and the Vietnam War "HERO"
had declined...

[BillCompton]

He can have an hour to respond if he wants, but he must answer the questions put forward by the film, not have time to run his own propaganda.

Perhaps you could even make a script for him to read. Why do you think "he must" answer anything? The deal is this: he doesn't control the content of the documentory, you don't control the content of his response. Truth will out! Have faith!

[asgardshill]

No, but I think we should meet. How do you do, bahblahbah?

Why do I hear "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" from Fiddler On The Roof playing in my head? ;)

I'm all vaclempt!

[GoLightly]

I think they have flip flopped on it & now demand time to air something produced by them. I would think the piece ABC is planning to show will fit that bill.

[mmsturm]

Kerry should get equal time just like Bush got equal time for ABC's Nightline hit piece or PBS's Frontline hit piece or CBS's Fake Document piece or the hundreds of others over the last 3 years. Does Kerry realize you don't get equal time for "News" programs. Ha

[Texas_Jarhead]

"No time until 180 signed!!"

I second that bigtime!

[My2Cents]

Kerry's had since August to respond with anything substantive to the Swift Boat Vets' ad. He hasn't.

[Bahbah]

LOL, that's all, just LOL.

[Mach9]

So let them go on FIRST.

[Integrityrocks]

What does BTTT mean?

[ravingnutter]

But in an Oct. 15 letter to Sinclair President and CEO David Smith, Sen. Kerry's campaign charged that the FCC's equal time obligations require Sinclair to give Kerry campaign supporters air time to respond to the documentary

Wait a minute...hold the presses...didn't Sinclair OFFER Kerry rebuttal time? I could've sworn I read that here on FR...

[Lunkhead_01]

I thought the equal time policy expired a few years ago.

If I were the CEO of Sinclair Broadcasting, I would tell John Kerry that he can have five minutes after the airing in which to answer the claims made in Stolen Valor. That the time will not be given to Kerry surrogates. It will not be given to John Edwards. It must be used by John Kerry himself as he is the subject of the film. And he must answer questions posed to him by individuals who appeared in the film, and that he will be cut off if he tap dances around the questions or simply makes a speech. He must answer the questions and addressed the issues raised.

Further, I would state that if John Kerry rejects this format, I will air five minutes of those who appeared in the film Stolen Valor asking questions followed by fifteen seconds showing an empty chair with an narrator stating, "John Kerry refused our offer to appear to answer the questions of these veterans." This would repeat until the five minutes elapsed.

[blakep]

Have any of you realized that the ABC News team is acting in coordination to try to rebut the Swift Boat videos that will be airing on Monday Night Football? Just as they(Swifties) released information regarding the new commercials, they immediately go into defense mode in order to assasinate the characters of the vets before the commercials are aired. Is it any coincidence that the swift boat issue came up last night?

I can't believe how much these media programs are in the tank for Kerry. This is unbelievable.

The Halperin memo makes more and more sense as each day passes.

[VOA]

Kerry probably has a legal arguement.

Maybe. Maybe not.
I've heard that since the death of the "fairness doctrine" (thanks be to G-d),
this sort of argument doesn't have much "umph".

John Kerry should direct his B-tching to his colleagues Rush Feingold and John McCain.
Since Campaign Finance Refore took care of all the messiness and influence
of money (except Soros' and Tereza's ) out of national election campaigns.

But if Kerry voted against (or didn't vote)...he might have more reason to complain.

[LegalEagle61]

Sorry, he already had his "equal time" last night when Frightline and Teddy Floppel ran that bogus propaganda left wing sh*t! Too bad that John O'Neill stood up to Floppel and made HIM look bad. LOLOLOLOLOLOL!

[Post Toasties]

Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Got to sign that 1-8-0!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Give the Poodle the time while scrolling...

"Senator Kerry has not signed form SF-180, which would release his military personnel record to the public.

"By releasing his military personnel form, Senator Kerry could prove all his critics to be liars, if that's what they are."

...across the bottom of the screen.