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Softened Strike: Sinclair Program Critical of Kerry, But More Balanced (FR Mentioned)
Washington Post ^ | 23 October 2004 | Howard Kurtz

Posted on 10/23/2004 3:43:09 AM PDT by shrinkermd

Sinclair Broadcast Group last night aired a program that sharply criticized John Kerry over Vietnam, with the anchor declaring: "Some people are trying to suppress the right to free speech."

After two weeks of accusations of partisan bias, the hour-long special led off with Carlton Sherwood, who produced the anti-Kerry film "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal," saying: "What is John Kerry's campaign afraid of?"

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Free Republic; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: apowstory; free; kurtz; republic; sinclair; stolen; stolenhonor; valor
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IMHO Sinclair did the best they could under threats of multiple legal challenges.
1 posted on 10/23/2004 3:43:10 AM PDT by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd

Post the whole article. I am not registering for the WASHINGTON COM-POST


2 posted on 10/23/2004 3:50:11 AM PDT by notkerry
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To: notkerry

It's not allowed.


3 posted on 10/23/2004 3:51:11 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (I FINALLY updated my FReeper page! Click on my name and see how you can help our President!)
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To: notkerry

We are restricted from posting entire WP articles. You can get a user name and password from bugmenot.com.


4 posted on 10/23/2004 3:52:04 AM PDT by Quilla
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To: notkerry

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/702701/posts

Details at link.


5 posted on 10/23/2004 3:52:49 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (I FINALLY updated my FReeper page! Click on my name and see how you can help our President!)
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To: Quilla

AS I SAID: I am not registering for the WASHINGTON COM-POST



6 posted on 10/23/2004 3:53:15 AM PDT by notkerry
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To: RandallFlagg

Could you post an excerpt where FR was mentioned?


7 posted on 10/23/2004 3:53:16 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Could you post an excerpt where FR was mentioned?

I'm not registering at that rag, either. Sorry.
8 posted on 10/23/2004 3:54:39 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (I FINALLY updated my FReeper page! Click on my name and see how you can help our President!)
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To: RandallFlagg

LOL!


9 posted on 10/23/2004 3:54:56 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: shrinkermd

Could you post an excerpt where FR was mentioned?


10 posted on 10/23/2004 3:55:35 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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Some on the right were disappointed by the final product. On the conservative Free Republic Web site, one poster wrote: "Sinclair has caved to the pressure. Very obvious that they're running scared. [They're] letting the Kerry camp spout the same old BS without challenge.
11 posted on 10/23/2004 3:55:58 AM PDT by Quilla
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To: Quilla

Thank you.


12 posted on 10/23/2004 3:56:26 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Oh well, it didn't have the bite it should have, but on the otherhand, it made Kerry look stupid by him making such a fuss over it.


13 posted on 10/23/2004 3:57:55 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: shrinkermd

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/702701/posts

Well, my fingers are not cold and dead and my keyboard has not been ripped away. While this is not entirely a win for FR, neither is it a crushing defeat. Free Republic is alive and well and the fight against liberalism continues on. It's a crying shame that the hallowed words of the WP/LAT will no longer grace our pages, but, somehow, I am sure we will manage to live on without them.

**** MAYBE WE SHOULD SUE THE WASHINGTON COM-POST. DID THEY GET PERMISSION TO REPRINT OUR COMMENTS? ***


14 posted on 10/23/2004 3:59:59 AM PDT by notkerry
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To: notkerry

Bugmenot bypasses registration by providing actual user names and passwords. They generated these for the WP:

name: fedup@mailinator.com
password: fedup

OR

name: bugmenot2@aol.com
password: bugmenot


15 posted on 10/23/2004 4:00:52 AM PDT by Quilla
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To: Nathan Zachary

Thanks for the post.


16 posted on 10/23/2004 4:01:03 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: notkerry

I don't believe they have that right....


17 posted on 10/23/2004 4:02:58 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary

Yes but it couldah been a contendah!

That's the shame of it. Stolen Honor is very powerful and if they had showed the entire program it would have drop Kerry's poll numbers by 5 points I bet.

Oh well... couldah, wouldah, shouldah.


18 posted on 10/23/2004 4:03:27 AM PDT by Smoote
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To: shrinkermd

It's too bad Sinclair has to try to be fair when the rest of the MSM does not and can be pro-Kerry all the time1


19 posted on 10/23/2004 4:04:59 AM PDT by westmichman (Pray for global warming.)
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Sinclair either should have shown it all or none of it, they opted to show excerpts. The big losers in all of this "fight for the truth" were the viewers and the producer. Carlton Sherwood should be mad as hell his full length documentary was opined by left-winged dingbats and chopped up to just 10 minutes.


20 posted on 10/23/2004 4:12:21 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Real gun control is - all shots inside the ten ring)
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