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"The public airwaves should not be used by television executives to promote their partisan political agenda"

Did the guy actually say this with a straight face?

Every day of my life I am bombarded with endless partisan Bush-bashing served up by "the TV news".
Not just cable news.
Local news channels.
Local newspapers.

Day after day for 4 years, without let up.
9/11 brought only momentary relief.
Within days, the Wednesday morning quarterbacks were back at their desks, pounding out laundry lists of what-ifs, could-haves and should-haves.

What gall.

And gall it is. I watched a two-hour public-financed Frontline documentary on Bush and Kerry last week that was a two-hour-long commercial for Kerry. It presented his service in VN without a hint that there was controversy as to the truth of what happened there. And it presented Bush in the most unattractive way. I had never seen a bad picture of the man until Frontline obviously dug very deep to find them. Disgusting propaganda. I haven't heard any complaints from people concerned about the public airwaves about that.

Besides, this is not about the public airwaves. It's about public airing of the truth; at the very least, another side. The first amendment. I'm going tonight to see the national premier of "Stolen Honor." On the internet yesterday I found a petition where people are signing to prevent its airing here. This is a private showing. The sponsors rented a theater and are selling tickets to it. That's not the public airwaves. That's free speech in action. That's what they want to shut down.

Jim Quinn (local host out of Pittsburgh) was talking about the Sinclair broadcast with Chris Ruddy from Newsmax this morning and said that if you add up all the money spent by the media trashing Bush, it would amount to a 2 billion dollar onslaught, and with that in mind, it's truly remarkable that Bush is ahead at all in the polls.

And the way they talked about Stolen Honor, no wonder the Kerry campaign is having fits. This could bury him, if enough people get to see it.

Truer words were never spoken. For YEARS conservatives in this country have "put up with" all this slanted jurnalism, and we have yet to mount an effective campaign against the corporations that advertise on these networks.