Hypocrisy Over Sinclair

It’s been a political season of character assassinations, but that’s OK – so long as it’s the Left doing the assassinating. But just let one moderate or conservative media outlet (or worse yet, FOX News) run something that’s unfavorable to John Kerry, and suddenly it’s an abuse of public trust.

The issue at hand is a decision by the Sinclair Broadcasting Company to air a documentary on its 62 television stations. The doc, entitled “Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal,” is about American POW’s in Vietnam and is not complimentary to Senator Kerry. Kerry supporters want the program to be stopped.

There are several ironies here. Let’s start with the recent CBS fiasco now commonly known as “Rathergate.”

It’s accepted now that CBS anchor Dan Rather did a number on President Bush using forged documents. Rather may not have realized that he had been duped, but it seems that he was eager to believe. His producer, Mary Mapes, had been working on the story for years, and it so happened that she wrapped it up just in time to run during the election cycle. Of course, the story also featured Rather’s interview with former Texas Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes who is a well-known liberal activist and Bush-hater.

Terry McAuliffe calls the Sinclair broadcast “an illegal in-kind contribution” to the Bush campaign. Presumably, he calls the CBS broadcast “news.”

Over on ABC, Nightline’s Ted Koppel did an entire show of reading off the names of war dead in Iraq. You may believe that Mr. Koppel was honoring our lost soldiers, but the program was not likely to ratchet up support for the President’s policies in Iraq. Was this an “in-kind” contribution to the Democrats?

And speaking of documentaries, Michael Moore’s propaganda piece “Fahrenheit 9/11” ran in hundreds of theatres.

Even though there is no government broadcast license involved, should all those showings be counted as campaign contributions to Senator Kerry?

Your local Wal-Mart Supercenter is all stocked up right about now with copies of the Fahrenheit DVD – just in time for November 2nd. Should Wal-Mart be selling partisan DVDs with no equal time for Mr. Bush? Is that an “in-kind” contribution?

It’s getting silly. We have a right to freedom of speech in this country that allows Dan Rather to broadcast his partisan story through all the CBS outlets.

No one is telling Michael Moore that he can’t screen his movie in any theatre that will take it, or that Wal-Mart can’t put it up for sale just days away from the election.

So what is it with the political Left? They screamed “foul” when the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth exercised their right to freedom of speech with a series of TV commercials and tried to get them pulled. And now, they want the Sinclair folks – who have invited Kerry to come on the program – to be forced to cancel their show.

Another irony: It was Congress that created this monster. In the old days, broadcasting companies could only own a few TV stations. A chain of 7 metro stations was a big company. But when Congress pushed through the Telecommunications Bill, it opened the way for the massive media consolidation that allows Sinclair to own 62 stations.

As Senator Kerry is learning, we now have fewer voices among broadcasting companies, but those voices are much louder and more powerful.

“Fahrenheit 9/11” did not produce calls for regulation of movie theaters. But Sinclair’s airing of “Stolen Honor” is already producing calls for a return to the Fairness Doctrine. In the bad old days what that law was in effect, political speech on the airwaves was stifled.

Under the Fairness Doctrine, Sinclair would not be able to broadcast the documentary without all kinds of “equal-time” hassles. In the days when the law was in effect, broadcasters generally refused to bother with political programming outside of news.

The Left may have a secret agenda here. It’s doubtful that the Sinclair broadcast will damage Senator Kerry, but it provides a great opportunity to lobby for the return of the Doctrine. If that happens, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity will be through, or will be forced to satellite radio like Howard Stern.

Don’t think it couldn’t happen. Already the whining is coming from groups such as the Alliance for Better Campaigns, Common Cause, the Media Access Project, Media for Democracy, and the United Church of Christ. FCC Commissioner Michael Copps is one of the biggest whiners and accused Sinclair of “abuse of public trust.”

Make no mistake – if the FCC and Congress conspire to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, the Dan Rathers of the world will go right ahead with “news” programs that demean all things conservative, while free and open political talk as we know it will come to an end.

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If my understanding of what Sinclair is considering is correct, it will not be an airing of the movie itself. It will be taking excerpts from the movie and discussing those segments. Asking questions, looking for possible explanations, etc. In doing so, Sinclair moves it into the news reporting and thus escapes any scrutiny by the elections commission. Kerry was invited to be there to discuss the movie and answer questions. Something tells me he won't attend. I dare say that members of the Swift Boat Vets and other Veterans will be there and have much to offer.

I love it that the Dems scream and yell for 2 obvious reasons:

1. They are screaming and yelling which makes me sooo happy.
2. It draws MORE attention to the situation,,,which is just the opposite of what they want.

The only Dem response allowed to anything un-Dem is full of hate and hostility. They are quite amusing little gerbils really (sorry gerbil-land, that was undeserved)

Watch them spin on their wheel,,,,

The nutcase, Bill Moyers, had the leftie Dem faux-Republican, Kevin Phillips, on his NOW program on PBS. And they were LIVID! at this. Phillips kept saying the Dem better STAND UP! and show guts and backbones and spines and whatever else they can do without. They've got to learn to fight back, he said. Golly, those Dem, why won't they fight?

They do fight. But they fight like bullies, violently, viciously, to no real purpose. So they are fighting, and breaking into HQs, and stealing signs, and threatening conservative and GOP voters, and lying about this, and misrepresenting that. They're in full war mode, Mr. Phillips. I guess that's just how you like it.

I like to go over to see the DUmmies and laugh at their indignant and total hypocritical attitude about this. It's amazing how warped your brain has to be, that they think this is an abomination, but F911 and CBS bullcrap were ok.

Now the newest thing is that In demand, or On demand, the PPV has canceled the election night showing of Fat@$$e$ F911...which he was going to do for $10.

So the DUmmies story now goes that last night on the Leno show....which I'll never watch because of the scum they choose have on their show (have to admit I don't watch anyway :), but last night MM offered to Sinclair to show F911 for free.

This makes me laugh because they are so desperate. And another thing that makes me laugh is that the k/e campaign sent a letter to Sinclair that this shouldn't air, but if it does, the k/e campaign should get equal time.
Surely they jest :). Senator Kerry has been offered a chance to respond. Thats all Sinclair needs to do. If Kerry can't be on the show, they should say NO DEAL. to anything!!

C'mon and squirt a few tears dims...in fact, cry me a river. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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