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Post by Barefoot In Kailua on May 1, 2004 13:05:51 GMT -5
If he wasn't trying to spin views on the war in Iraq, he'd honor all the brave Americans that died in Afghanistan as well. What about the Americans that gave their lives for this Country in Afghanistan? Couldn't Koppel fit their names into the broadcast too? Are the sacrifices those troops and their families made not equally important? Koppel is a hypocrite trying to play on the emotions of the American public, just like Dan Rather! They might as well work for Al Jazeera. abcnews.go.com/wire/Entertainment/ap20040501_336.htmlGod Bless ALL of our Troops Say no to liberal media! Say no to (R)uffda! Say no to Hanoi John!
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Post by Jack on May 1, 2004 14:18:05 GMT -5
Sounds like this programming is making a lot of conservatives queasy. The more sniveling they do the more attention it receives.
Those who hurl the term 'hypocrisy' around most often tend to be the most egregious offenders. Interesting to note your deliberate disregard for Sinclair Communications' own dishonesty in censoring the program on affiliates they control.
If such liberal opinions abounded in the tele-com industry you'd see the entirety of Faux News vaporized.
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Post by Barefoot In Kailua on May 1, 2004 18:49:58 GMT -5
Sounds like this programming is making a lot of conservatives queasy. The more sniveling they do the more attention it receives. Those who hurl the term 'hypocrisy' around most often tend to be the most egregious offenders. Interesting to note your deliberate disregard for Sinclair Communications' own dishonesty in censoring the program on affiliates they control. If such liberal opinions abounded in the tele-com industry you'd see the entirety of Faux News vaporized. Sniveling? There's a word that best describes liberals. The fact is Koppel, like Rather, Jennings, Brokaw, and the left wingers on the Clinton News Network continue to paint a very one sided view on what is going on in Iraq as to rally Americans against the Bush Administration. You are either really oblivious or not watching the news if you think liberal opinions are not abound in the tele com industry today. I ask again, why wasn't the befallen Soldiers of the Afghanistan operations included?
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2004 19:57:58 GMT -5
So you're one of those folks who think "if you can't do EVERYTHING, don't even bother doing SOMETHING"?
Liberal-media bias. Good one. If there's a liberal media bias it has to do with the fact most people of intelligence find it hard to get behind Faux News and its ilk. I'm not sure it's fair to call these people "liberals", however, but whatever.
Liberal-media = journalists who care to do some research, base their reports on facts?
Now I don't deny there are "liberals" who pay no attention to anything that does not support their views, but not NEARLY to the extent it happens on the right-wing side.
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Post by Barefoot In Kailua on May 1, 2004 21:22:46 GMT -5
(R)uffda, I'll debate you if and when you come out of your drunken stupor. Obviously, you're delusional.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2004 22:03:14 GMT -5
What makes you think it's a drunken stupor? Couldn't it just be a plain ol' stupor?
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Post by Barefoot In Kailua on May 1, 2004 22:23:11 GMT -5
What makes you think it's a drunken stupor? Couldn't it just be a plain ol' stupor? Sure it could, you big doof! Ted Koppel wears a toupee!
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Post by Gorf on May 2, 2004 0:18:42 GMT -5
Ted Koppel wears a toupee! Is that worse that GWB going AWOL?
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Post by Barefoot In Kailua on May 2, 2004 2:11:33 GMT -5
>-(Gorf)-<[} link=board=news&thread=1083434751&start=7#0 date=1083475122] Is that worse that GWB going AWOL? GW never went AWOL. A bad toupee is worse than someone going AWOL, no question.
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Post by Barefoot In Kailua on May 2, 2004 3:08:09 GMT -5
Sinclair Defends Iraq War Dead Against ABC's Propagandizing In the face of blistering criticism from the liberal media, Sinclair broadcasting courageously refuses to back down from its decision not to carry ABC's "Nightline," which will air the names and photos of soldiers who have been killed in combat in Iraq. The boycott will affect eight ABC-affiliated Sinclair stations. Said Sinclair general counsel Barry Faber, "We find it to be contrary to the public interest." At issue is Friday's "Nightline," which will consist entirely of Ted Koppel reading aloud the names of U.S. servicemen and women killed in action in Iraq, a program that Sinclair and others charge is using the deaths of Americans serving in Iraq for purely political purposes. In a statement Sinclair Broadcasting charged: "Despite the denials by a spokeswoman for the show, the action appears to be motivated by a political agenda designed to undermine the efforts of the United States in Iraq. "We do not believe such political statements should be disguised as news content. As a result, we have decided to preempt the broadcast of 'Nightline' this Friday on each of our stations which air ABC programming." ABC, however, claims that the broadcast is "Nightline's" tribute to America's fallen soldiers, which simply seeks to honor those who have laid down their lives for this country. Oh yeah? then why no mention of the Soldiers that laid down their lives for this Country in Afganistan? Tell the truth hypocrites! The Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBG), the nation's largest independent group owner of stations, according to Broadcasting & Cable, strives, like Fox News, to be scrupulously fair and balanced. It has earned the scorn of the dominant liberal elitist mainstream media where left-wing, anti-Bush bias is the standard fare. Sinclair's refusal to remain silent in the face of ABC's apparent exploitation of America's Iraq war dead reflects credit on the company, as opposed to Koppel and "Nightline," which may view our war dead as fodder for their anti-war bias.In fact, Fox News itself asked Koppel for comment, and he told them he didn't have time to appear – but he did have time to go on liberal Air America radio with Al Franken to talk about mistakes the Bush administration has made in the war in Iraq. The Media Research Center's L. Brent Bozell said that ABC can do whatever it wants with the program, but thinks ABC has been more anti-war than other stations, and says "Sinclair did the right thing by refusing to be a part of an editorial" by Ted Koppel, who will read the names of the war dead, but will not say anything about what they died for.
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Post by Gorf on May 2, 2004 10:03:00 GMT -5
Nice highlighting BiK - kinda shows your own bias on the issue methinks.
Sinclair themselves appear to be the ones that are using the issue in a political nature.
If they were truly concerned about it being a fair issue in reporting the names of all those killed in action such as those in Afghanistan why didn THEY raise that issue and suggest that Ted read those names as well rather than attempt to bring in their own personal biases into the issue by not allowing the show to be aired on the stations they own.
Is the GWB Brigade so ashamed of their actions in faking evidence to get the US to invade Iraq that they refuse to allow the names of those that have served their country and lost their lives in Iraq to be honored publicly?
As you've said numerous times in the past to others BiK "shame on you" for supporting Sinclair's turning this into a political issue.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2004 11:12:21 GMT -5
The Bush administration and its apologists--including BiK and Sinclair--think Americans are too stupid to realize they are being manipulated. No pictures of coffins! No reading the names of the dead! No mistakes have been made!
And, most important, no apologies necessary.
Under the circumstances, it becomes the DUTY of responsible journalists to speak the truth.
This Administration disgusts me. And it disgusts me more with every passing day.
The very fact Draft-Dodging Dick has the GALL to impugn John Kerry's war record is obscene. Go back to your bunker, Dick, and hole-up like the coward you are.
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Post by Barefoot In Kailua on May 2, 2004 12:14:42 GMT -5
>-(Gorf)-<[} link=board=news&thread=1083434751&start=10#0 date=1083510180]Nice highlighting BiK - kinda shows your own bias on the issue methinks. Sinclair themselves appear to be the ones that are using the issue in a political nature. What does Sinclair have to gain by doing so? Btw, Koppel refused to read the names of those fallen in Afghanistan. >-(Gorf)-<[} link=board=news&thread=1083434751&start=10#0 date=1083510180] Is the GWB Brigade so ashamed of their actions in faking evidence to get the US to invade Iraq that they refuse to allow the names of those that have served their country and lost their lives in Iraq to be honored publicly? As you've said numerous times in the past to others BiK "shame on you" for supporting Sinclair's turning this into a political issue. I applaud Sinclair's decision, I've nothing to be ashamed of. Ted Koppel and ABC news should be ashamed of themselves for not being honest about the matter. They could have saved themselves the trouble by simply including the names of the Soldiers who lost their lives in Afghanistan as well. The fact of the matter is they are not concerned with "honoring" the fallen, only in further politicizing the war in Iraq. Hey Koppel, Al Jazeera has a place for you, Hypocrite!
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Post by Barefoot In Kailua on May 2, 2004 12:17:37 GMT -5
The Bush administration and its apologists--including BiK and Sinclair--think Americans are too stupid to realize they are being manipulated. No pictures of coffins! No reading the names of the dead! No mistakes have been made! And, most important, no apologies necessary. Under the circumstances, it becomes the DUTY of responsible journalists to speak the truth. This Administration disgusts me. And it disgusts me more with every passing day. The very fact Draft-Dodging Dick has the GALL to impugn John Kerry's war record is obscene. Go back to your bunker, Dick, and hole-up like the coward you are. John Kerry's war record is very questionable. 3 purple hearst and not a day of service missed? Gee, the guy must be Rambo. Tell the truth Hanoi John, how did you come by those purple hearts? did you cut yourself shaving?
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Post by Gorf on May 2, 2004 15:57:43 GMT -5
John Kerry's war record is very questionable. 3 purple hearst and not a day of service missed? Gee, the guy must be Rambo. Tell the truth Hanoi John, how did you come by those purple hearts? did you cut yourself shaving? At least Kerry SERVED his country and over seas in conflict situations as opposed to Bush who no one remembers even showing up for his supposed stint of serve state-side. To paraphrase (R)uffda! from a different thread. How in the world can you advocate a person for president that basically hid from his duties in the armed services yet not declares himself a war president over a person who served his country in a war situation. You claim to want freedom of speech and back your country yet you fail to allow Kerry to have the right to do the same in making his decision (a personal decision) to join groups that were against another ill-advised war in Vietnam AFTER he served his time in that war. As we have seen with the war in Iraq even if you try to claim someone is not always in a direct military conflict it is still extremely dangerous for anyone (especiually for those that are from the US) over there and would hardly have been any different in Vietnam. You repeatedly make attacks in here on Kerry where the Bush and his backers have done the same or similar things themselves yet you let the Bush Brigade off the hook.
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