Sinclair to give Kerry equal time

[kaitykaity]

Just heard on Ed Schultz that Sinclair has offered
the Kerry camp equal time after the anti-Kerry movie

Kerry has three days to give them something to air.

Sorry, no link.

[slinkerwink]

1. that's good news! I want a town hall meeting format!

or "Going Upriver"

[KittyWampus]

8. Going Upriver Doesn't Give Kerry Opportunity To Bash Bush The Same

way that the sinclair smear bashes Kerry.

Kerry shouldn't allow this to remain a referendum on HIM.

Other smart DU'ers pointed that out.

[Rose Siding]

22. If no alternate reality is offered,

it will appear that he's trying to change the subject because he can't refute the smear.

[KittyWampus]

30. Wow, Very Good Point!

Never thought of that.

[Infomaniac]

2. F9/11

Fahrenheit 9-11 anyone?

[KurtNYC]

3. His time should be F911

and I'll bet they would back out if he demanded that.

[rndmprsn]

4. F9/11 or Going up River.

if they're going to air a 90 min swiftboat liars for bush infomercial then kerry has to at least get equal time.

[salinen]

5. Fuck that!

Produce a movie in 2 weeks! Just shelve the cellulose and STFU Sinclair.

[Nicholas_J]

6. Nah..give it to Michael Moore

Because of conservatives keeping farenheit 9/11 from running.
Kerry could state that he wishes to meet propaganda with propaganda.

[cthrumatrix]

7. the BOYCOTT must be having an effect.....! Keep it up.

[kaitykaity]

11. That was my thought too.

Sinclair doesn't want to back down totally, but they
had to do something because the boycott is hurting them.

[Guaranteed]

23. Give it to John McCain and/or Max Cleland. nt

[mumon]

9. He should run ...

a) The Nightline from last night -and the one Sinclair refused to show.

b) Followed by "My Pet Goat."

[dolstein]

10. In fairness, the order of programming should be alternated

Kerry's film should screen BEFORE the anti-Kerry movie on half the stations, and should screen afterwards on half the stations.

[BUSHOUT]

12. How long is "Going Upriver: The long War of John Kerry"??

[RafterMan]

17. The director said

he'd recut it to fit any length, if it came to that.

[Pirate Smile]

19. Did he? I hadn't heard any response by George Butler about this.

[RafterMan]

21. Sorry, I could be getting my Kerry documentaries confused

but I thought it was this one, and it was mentioned in a thread a few days back. I have no link.

[Pirate Smile]

31. That was a different one, I believe.

[mumon]

13. Holy sh*t

SBGI is up slightly in after hours trading.

A coincidence?

I don't think so- more like insider trading.

[Gabi Hayes]

14. he already turned them down, after offering to have him appear

on a panel

is this the same thing?

can you imagine the panel?

John ONeill, for starters?

Hannitty?

David Bossie?

John Podhoretz?

Johann Pfund?

[RafterMan]

20. "Senator Kerry,

why do you hate America? What does it feel like to shoot a crippled child in the back? If elected, do you promise to stop lying to the American people?"

NO panel.

[Gabi Hayes]

24. haaaaaaaaaaaa.....exactly

and now the fricking lesbogate

media is helping the PUGS 24/fricking SEVEN!

[geek tragedy]

Going Upriver is a wonderful choice.

It supposedly is a tremendously well-made film.

And people can distinguish nonsense from the truth.

[Mz Pip]

15. I really want to

hear someone point out to these cretins that John Kerry is not responsible for all the bad things that happened to the POWs in the Vietnam War. He is not responsible for dragging out the war.

Honestly, these folks are projecting on to Kerry. The VC are the ones who did the torturing. Our Foreign Policy is what kept us in Vietnam as long as we were. John Kerry was one of the messengers for a whole movement.

I saw an interview with the director of Stolen Honor and he said something very bizarre. He said these men couldn't talk about this for 30 years. WTF?? Why the hell not? Who was stopping them?

MzPip
:dem:

[Terran]

16. They've said that from the beginning, haven't they?

They offered to have Kerry on TV afterward, to 'defend' himself, and kept claiming they had sent the offer to the campaign; but I recall hearing a Kerry staffer saying they'd received no such offer. I wonder if this is something new, and in any way a better offer.

[kaitykaity]

18. They wanted the candidate himself, but now I think

he said they'll take a produced ad or rebuttal or something.

[Terran]

26. Okay

That, potentially, is a better offer, if they have something they can use in just three days.

Even though he's being, in effect, forced into this position, it might actually work to his favor to have the last word on the subject as far as SBG is concerned.

[pdx_prog]

25. What a crock......

If they were so concerned they would'nt air this POS in the first place

[MagickMuffin]

27. Below this quote by Paul Alexander from Salon's war room

"Sinclair's using public airwaves to broadcast, at a politically sensitive time, an anti-Kerry message," says Paul Alexander, director of the critically-acclaimed "Brothers in Arms" film, which examines Kerry's experience in Vietnam, and casts him in a favorable light. "My argument is if they're going to air 'Stolen Honor' then they should run my film, and preferably in the hour right after it. I'm sending them a letter tomorrow demanding that." Earlier this week as the controversy brewed, a Sinclair spokesman told the New York Times the company would consider running a Kerry documentary from a different perspective. Alexander's offer may effectively, and publicly, call Sinclair's bluff.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/archive.html?blog=/politics/war_room/2004/10/12/alexander/index.html

[kaitykaity]

28. Oh, cool.

I didn't know about this one. Excellent.

[Clinton Crusader]

29. It has to be as inflammatory as their crap - F9/11 !! nt

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