SINCLAIR awarded Bush Special Forces military contract

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http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=340

10/12/2004
Network airing anti-Kerry film awarded Bush Special Forces military contract

Sinclair Broadcasting Group, under fire for ordering its 62 networks to broadcast a film sharply critical of John Kerry’s opposition to the Vietnam War, is a major investor in a company recently awarded a military contract by the Bush Administration, RAW STORY has learned.

Jadoo Power Systems, Inc., a producer of portable power systems, announced Sept. 28 that it had been awarded a contract to supply its products, which are used for covert surveillance operations, to US Special Operations Command. According to the SOCOM website, SOCOM “plans, directs, and executes special operations in the conduct of the War on Terrorism.”

Jadoo, a Folsom, California company, is “a wholly owned subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. as well as other individuals.”

A Jadoo press release (in PDF format) reveals that in February, 2003, President Bush was personally briefed by the CEO of Jadoo, Larry Bawden, about Jadoo products.

For the 2004 election, Sinclair executives have donated nearly $59,000 to the Bush-Cheney campaign or the Republican National Committee (RNC), including a $50,000 gift to the RNC from Sinclair Vice President Fred Smith.

Sinclair Broadcasting (NASDAQ: SBGI) announced this week that it intends to air an anti-Kerry film on all of its 62 television stations, many of which are in battleground states. The film, Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal, claims that Kerry’s anti-war activities undermined morale of POWs then held in Vietnam.

Sinclair received national attention earlier this year when it preempted the April 30th Nightline television program on which host Ted Koppel read the names of the 523 American soldiers killed in Iraq up to that date.

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1. Well whaddya know? Not necessarily ideology, just old fashioned corruption

Both.

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2. kick..

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3. Holy Hell

This is getting worse then a soap opera! Start calling their advertisers. There are few threads here listing them.

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4. Smiling Rove's reminds the audience that it is October

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5. kick

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6. Yup

it doesn't get anymore plain than that.

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7. wonder why this isn't in the news? hummm.....another scandal, I'm

getting exhausted from all the scandals and deceit from this administration. It is worse than Nixon, Arnold should LOVE Bush since he loved his little crook Nixon.