Sinclair smearcast will not stand. Pressure from all directions will

[Ruffhowse]

take this two bit little company down the tubes either legally or financially if they continue on their present course. We have the power to stop this, let's use it and smack back these bastards!

[graywarrior]

1. This is what Dean was telling us about when he first started to run

It's up to us to change things. We're doing good, right?

[Vincardog]

2. Right WE HAVE THE POWER GW can you smell that smell?

The smell of Death surrounds you

[KharmaTrain]

11. 2 Points For The Obscure Skynyrd Reference

with 1/2 deduction for putting Patti Smith & GW in the same subject line.

[Algorem]

3. PBS Newshour's going to do some kind of story about it tonight.

[henslee]

4. Phone calls to major advertisers (i.e. Toyota, Jetblue, mattel, Phillips)

will make a huge dent. check out the homepage for the link to the the blog with all the advertising phone numbers. GET BUSY. They like our calls.

[Arugula Latte]

5. I want to tell a little story.

Years ago, I was in Colorado visiting relatives. A cousin mentioned her involvement in some "family" groups. Sounded innocuous enough, eh? Well, these people turned out to be fundy wingnuts who supported Focus on the Family and the other rightwing Colorado-based group like it. I had no idea that these people were organizing their narrow-minded little zealot selves into a movement that would harm our once great country so egregiously.

Well, several years and one stolen election later, millions of us are on the Internet and active and organizing. We have DU. We have MoveOn. We have MediaMatters. And hundreds of other sites. I think these rightwing nutbars who took over so many organizations in this country like body snatchers will eventually be caught off guard, just like I was, so many years ago.

We are going to take this country back.

[wildeyed]

9. i am with you. n/t

[high density]

6. Sinclair affiliate WGME reports on the controversy

Tonight on their 6:00pm newscast, the Sinclair-owned CBS affiliate in Portland, ME had a piece about the "Stolen Honor" decision made by their parent company. They aired the concerns of the Democrats, including Rep. Tom Allen, and responded with more of the same old crap from Mark Hyman arguing that "car bombs reported in the media are in-kind contributions to Kerry campaign." They also aired the comments from three people on the street, two who thought it was a mistake to air "Stolen Honor" and one who thought they should air it and let the people decide.

The anchor said that "Stolen Honor" is scheduled to air on Oct. 23rd. He also parroted the company line that the "final cut" of the film hasn't been decided yet and that Kerry has been invited to participate in some sort of BS panel after the film.

[DuaneBidoux]

7. Help a clueless person figure

out how to find the advertisers to contact who are Sinclair customers. I've looked about and can't find anything

[wildeyed]

10. look on the DU homepage.

There is a link there to everyone you every even considered contacting.

[seabeyond]

8. play it again sports

we are just a small company. we put a lot of money into sinclair. yup...............they are screwin you too. the manager wanted to know what the commercial was about and didnt want to be in this hail storm, told him he was.........and sinclair was to blame. as a mother, and christian and conservative, i wasnt going to allow all these lies and abuse of power no mo. my children deserved more, and never having boycotted in the past, i was going to do it with all the companies now. the ones that took my money and gave back to this dishonest administration. i would nopt honor their lies.

he was so i am pro kerry..........lol lol

we have to remember to be nice too, and understand they are being unindated and confused

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[quaoar]

13. If they want to do a movie

and try to put it in the theaters or sell it on a DVD, they certainly have that right. Just like Michael Moore and F911.

But the public airwaves is another matter entirely.

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[nothingshocksmeanymore]

17. Not for a paid campaign commercial...BTW...make sure freepers know

this film was paid for with Homeland Security funds

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

19. What about the rest of us?

We don't deserve 15 minutes on OUR public airwaves becuase we didn't serve?
What next? You can only vote if you serve in the military?

[Booster]

14. With only 5 posts maybe you really are as naive as you

sound. These vets have had 35 years to "express" themselves and nothing in those 35 years has been important enough for them to vent until now. You really don't think there's a connection?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

16. You outed yourself by not knowing how to spell CALAMITY

What a joke...see what you guys have done to edumacation?

[DoYouEverWonder]

18. Then CBS should air the 60 minutes segment that they canned

because it was too close to the election. Or maybe we could get them to run that Ronnie tell-all movie that they canned. Or maybe we could get them to run F9-11 for free.

[justgamma]

20. How come the POW'S

who were in there with them are saying they never heard any of this stuff. The point is most of this stuff has been disproved. This isn't "news", it's an opinion piece that they are trying to pass off as news. It's a SBVFT ad, using our airtime.