I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend.... Message Board

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next

To: Sully- who wrote (3869)	8/6/2004 2:37:32 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

<font color=blue><font size=4>DNC Lawyers Work To Muzzle Swift Boat Vets' Ad <font color=black> Human Events Exclusive: HUMAN EVENTS has obtained a copy of a letter which lawyers for the Democratic National Committee and John Kerry have sent to television station managers attempting to suppress the blistering anti-Kerry TV spot created by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (click here to view the ad) and first reported here on HumanEventsOnline.com. The letter claims the ad is <font color=blue>"false" and "libelous"<font color=black> and suggests, in not-so-subtle terms, that TV stations should use their <font color=blue>"legal authority"<font color=black> to refuse any requests for advertising airtime, stating that <font color=blue>"because your station has this freedom [to refuse the ad], and because it is not a 'use' of your facilities by a clearly identified candidate, your station is responsible for the false and libelous charges made by this sponsor" (emphasis added).<font color=black> As their first piece of evidence of the ad's supposed lies, the DNC/Kerry lawyers claim that the veterans in the ad <font color=blue>"purport to have served on Senator Kerry's SWIFT Boat in Vietnam"<font color=black> but, <font color=blue>"in fact, not a single one of the men who pretend to have served with Senator Kerry was actually a crewmate of Senator Kerry's."<font color=black> The problem is that none of these men claimed to have served on Kerry's SWIFT Boat. They simply said they <font color=red>"served with John Kerry"<font color=black> -- and they did. The letter goes on to make several more misleading statements about the advertisement, in an attempt to protect Kerry's <font color=blue>"war hero"<font color=black> record.

Report TOU Violation

Share This Post

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next