ABC News Objects to Footage in new Swiftboat Liars ad

[Roland99]

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/Politics/Vote2004/swift_boat_objection_040917-1.html


N E W Y O R K, Sept. 17, 2004 — A new ad from a group of Vietnam War veterans who oppose Sen. John Kerry's presidential candidacy uses footage from an ABC News broadcast to buttress its claims that Kerry has given conflicting explanations about military awards he publicly threw away in 1971.

ABC News executives objected immediately to the ad, which Swift Boat Veterans for Truth said it plans to air in two Western states.

"Today, a 527 group began airing a new political attack advertisement which employs footage from an interview conducted by Good Morning America anchor Charles Gibson with Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. The heavily edited material was taken from a much longer interview," said ABC News Vice President Jeffrey Schneider. "ABC News did not grant permission for the use of this footage and objects to its use for political purposes. ABC News never licenses footage to any political groups for campaign advertising. ABC News has asked the creator of the ad to cease from using ABC News' copyrighted material."

[DrFunkenstein]

1. They Would Never Use It Out Of Context, Though...

What's ABC bitching about? These are honorable people.

[skooooo]

2. I'm sure Ashcroft will be all over this...

..he's very concerned with copyright law, you know.

[mhr]

3. About Time!

eom

[Cha]

6. REally! About time someone Objected to

something the Frick these maggots are doing!

[Heath.Hunnicutt]

4. This is good news.

It means ABC can sue them out of existence starting presently.

Which is bigger, ABC or SBV?

:nuke:

[Cha]

9. Now ABC is in the news!

Are the swifties that damn dumb that they would use footage from ABC in an ad????

Nevermind!}(

[Roland99]

5. But will the Swiftboat Liars stop?

Or will they play the Bush campaign game like was done re:the Bush ad using the Olympic symbol and the Iraqi Olympic soccer team?

[Cha]

10. The swifties aren't the white house...

I think ABC will will out!

[Generic Other]

7. Steamboat Mickey pisses on the Swiftboat liars!

Mess with ABC's copyright and you mess with the mighty mouse himself.

[SoCalDemocrat]

8. No story here

Rest in Peace, tired war medal trashing stories...


Navy Rejects Probe of Kerry's War Medals
2004-09-17 23:45:06


By Will Dunham

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy on Friday rejected a legal watchdog group's request to open an investigation into military awards given to Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry during the Vietnam War, saying his medals were properly approved.

"Our examination found that existing documentation regarding the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart medals indicates the awards approval process was properly followed," the Navy's inspector general, Vice Admiral Ronald Route, said in a memo written to Navy Secretary Gordon England.

"In particular, the senior officers who awarded the medals were properly delegated authority to do so. In addition, we found that they correctly followed the procedures in place at the time for approving these awards."

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[Cha]

11. So that Shoots the DAmn swifties down

right there!

[JI7]

12. all of them are motherfuckers, fuck them all

abc news with charlie gibson is a whore just like the swift boat asshole whores. fucking whores.

[zulchzulu]

13. SMACK them down and squash them

This could be the perfect story to keep hammering on the Sunday shows.

That's one big torpedo into the side of the Swiftboat Liars for Chimpy.

[grasswire]

15. check the thread on Tom Mortensen in GD04

He's a swiftie, too.

[Norbert]

14. CBS/Rather on Memos, ABC News on Swiftboat ads

Anyone see a pattern here.

Neocons hatred for mainstream media. Make a play to get rid of Rather then hit ABC News for, say, first ammendment violations with SVT or some other such nonsense. The latter is a bit of a stretch but if they RW can spin it to make ABC look like the bad guy they did their job.