Posted on 08/20/2004 1:58:37 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
Tucker Carlson just said that CNN has been notified that the Kerry camp will seek to have the goverment pull the Swift Boat veterans for Truth ads.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I agree with you.
The adds are doing too much damage to Kerry. If they try to change the focus and wait it out two weeks, the swifties can no longer air their ads by law.
Smart but stupid because the ad will be shown and it looks like Kerry is a crybaby, not a warrior.
Dang, just when I decide to go fishing for a few days TSHTF!
I'm waiting for a comment about these actions from John McCain. I won't hold my breath.
Maybe he's going for another purple heart for self inflicted wounds.
You would think so.
I wasn't sure that it could get any better than this, but this even surpasses any expectations that I have had.
Does the Kerry campaign think that Texans don't have the same right to free speech as other Americans?
Last I looked. Texas was part of America. LOL
This thing has just blown its lid. This issue has just reached critical level for the Kerry campaign. As they say in poker, "THEIR ALL IN".
This is a good thing! If the government intervenes, the Swift Boat Vets will actually have a valid First Amendment claim!
Also, it will set a precedent that will effectively take MoveOn off the air.
Don't worry John Boy, Mama T will make it all better.
This is about the stupidest thing they could do..
Now we know why there is a second amendment and that is to preserve the first amendment..and they say Ashcroft is radical....
I presume they have forgotten about the Swifties first amendment rights. The Swifties are only telling the truth, so let skerry sue for libel and defamation of character. The bottom line, kerry has no character other then being a traitor/coward.The democrats panacea for everything in life (government.)
Remember Dick Morris' column stating that Hillary wants Kerry to lose, but not by much. Hmmmmmmmmmmm
I think its time for me to make another contribution to these brave Vets. !!!!!
What worries me is that they'll get some sort of injunction while it spins round the courts. That new ad NEEDS TO BE SEEN, and I'm sure they'll do anything they can to stop it.
Ahh, but John Flaming@. Kerry DESERVES to be president, has deserved it since he was a shaveling on a Kennedy yacht. Anybody doesn't see it that way is gonna get sued. Why wait 'til after the election to take us to court? That's SO algore.
The truth is hurting your candidate, huh Tad? The endless versions of "All My Cambodias" is like watching a soap opera.
WHY DON'T YOU JUST RELEASE YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS, SENATOR KERRY? END THIS NOW!
To prove, for example, that an outside group’s ad was coordinated with a candidate’s campaign, any one of the following is required, according to FEC spokesman Bob Biersack:
The ad being aired by the group was broadcast at the request or suggestion of the candidate, his campaign or an agent of the campaign.
The group suggested the ad and the candidate or his agent assented to the ad, for example, by saying something such as, “That sounds like a good idea to me.”
The candidate or his agent was materially involved in decisions about the content of the ad, the times and places where it would air, the medium used, etc.
The ad was aired after what the FEC calls “substantial discussion” between the person or outside group paying for the ad and the campaign. If, for example, a campaign manager said to the head of a 527 group, “Over the next two weeks, our campaign’s ads will focus on the loss of textile jobs in this state,” and the outside group then ran its own ads buttressing that message, it would be coordination.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5772722/
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