Posted on 10/11/2004 10:03:37 AM PDT by justme346
**According to the following links, there is GREAT video footage showing John Kerry bolting down the Capital steps on 9/11 while others in the background are trying to assist women and elderly down the steps. Witnesses of the video describe his action as looking selfish and cowardly.**
This would be a great "October Surprise" TV ad/internet ad!
Freeper alert- to find someone who taped that special!
There's gotta be a few goobers out there whose hobbies are collecting PBS Documentaries.. or maybe someone that collects 9/11 documentaries.
If it exists, it's out there somewher.e
Ha ha! That's what I immediately thought of. This is Kerry's George Costanza moment. For FReepers who are not Seinfeld fans, in one episode, George frantically bolts from a burning apartment, pushing women and children out of the way.
When later questioned by firemen George explains "I had to get to the front to lead the others to safety". LOL - Kerry will use the same argument!
When the fireman asks George how he lives with himself he sheepishly admits "It's not easy.."
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**Meanwhile- Donald Rumsfeld was ignoring his Secret Service detail so he could help carry the injured out of the burning Pentagon.**
Rummy bump!
ROLFMAO
I just read it and don't see Kerry's name mentioned. Did I miss it? Did you view this yourself and see Kerry running?
Be careful who you call goobers...if someone has and posts it they will become a Freeper hero, dwarfing even Buckhead!
HEY...I liked George Costanza!! (he won The Contest ya know) :o)
Whats happened to us with the ABC news?? they got a free pass and no one even cares?? today they are doging Sinclair for the Anti Kerry movie its going to show.....WHATS happened here?? arent we going to make them suffer for being BLATENTLY BIASED??
sheesh its depressing they are getting away with it....
> 1) The chutzpah of CBS and ABC. On Sunday night, both
decried how the Sinclair Broadcast Group has told its owned and
operated televisions stations to run an anti-Kerry documentary,
Stolen Honor: Wounds that Never Heal. On the CBS Evening News,
reporter Kelly Cobiella noted how "Sinclair has given the lion's
share of its political contributions to Republican candidates.
This year, the company's CEO wrote out the largest personal check
allowed by law to President Bush's re-election campaign." ABC
anchor Terry Moran stressed how "Democrats decry this move as a
political smear and yellow journalism" before Geoff Morrell
relayed how "Sinclair's owners have donated $58,000 to re-elect
President Bush."
The stories failed to inform viewers how ABC and CBS have
given free air time to the anti-Bush screed from Michael Moore,
Fahrenheit 911, or how the corporate chieftains at both networks
are Democrats and/or large donors to Democrats, including the
Kerry presidential campaign. To say nothing of CBS using forged
documents for a prime time hit piece aimed at destroying President
Bush's credibility.
On June 27, before a re-run of a laudatory profile of Michael
Moore, CBS's 60 Minutes promoted Fahrenheit 9/11 by airing a
nearly minute-long excerpt of one of its most disparaging
sequences about President Bush, showing him sitting in the
classroom for seven minutes on September 11, 2001.
A few days earlier, ABC's Good Morning America spent about
seven minutes showcasing Fahrenheit 9/11's highlights of how after
President Bush was informed a second plane had hit the World Trade
Center, he stayed in front of elementary school kids for another
seven minutes. "Was valuable time wasted?" asked Charlie Gibson at
the top of the June 22 show. Diane Sawyer imparted great meaning
to the time passage: "It was seven minutes in the life of a
President, seven minutes in the history of the nation, it's seven
minutes a lot of people are using as a kind of Rorschach test."
On the money and party affiliation side for Disney, owner of
ABC, and Viacom, owner of CBS: Disney CEO Michael Eisner is a
long-time generous donor to Democratic candidates and in March
former Senator George Mitchell, the very partisan Senate Majority
Leader when Democrats held the body in the late 1980s and early
1990s, was elected Chairman of the Board of the Walt Disney
Company. For more about Mitchell's ascension:
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040304.asp#6
As for CBS, the September 21 New York Sun reported: "Viacom's
Chairman and chief executive, Sumner Redstone, is a self-described
'liberal Democrat' and a prolific donor to Democratic campaigns.
Of the company's 13 board members, eight contribute primarily to
Democratic candidates and party committees. Two other members of
the board, Joseph Califano and William Cohen, held cabinet posts
under Democratic Presidents."
New York Sun reporter Josh Gerstein added: "In the past six
years, Mr. Redstone has given $50,000 to Democratic campaigns and
party committees, according to filings with the Federal Election
Commission. He gave the maximum $2,000 to Mr. Kerry's presidential
campaign and supported Vice President Gore's 2000 presidential bid
as well."
Despite the efforts of the ABC and CBS reporters to play up
the power of Sinclair, its stations have a fraction of the
audience of the ABC or CBS networks which reach every home and so
a minute or two on CBS or ABC has more impact than a lengthier
segment on stations 76 percent of Americans can't watch and most
in the remaining 24 percent do not.
ABC's Geoff Morrell warned that through Sinclair the
documentary "could be seen by nearly a quarter of all U.S.
households." CBS anchor Mika Brzezinski referred to Sinclair as
"the nation's largest television group owners." Cobiella described
Sinclair as "a company with the power to reach a quarter of
American TV viewers. Sinclair owns 62 local television stations
across the country, including affiliates of Fox, ABC, WB, UPN and
three CBS stations, in a number of states still up for grabs in
the presidential race."
In fact, as Cobiella alluded to, Sinclair is mainly made up of
little-watched WB and UPN affiliates, as well as some stations so
small they don't even have any network affiliation, and their few
affiliations with ABC and CBS are limited to a few small markets.
Their largest CBS affiliate is in Sacramento, the 19th largest
market, and their largest ABC affiliate, on channel 30, is in an
even smaller market, St. Louis. For a list of Sinclair's owned or
operated stations (they manage many stations owned by others):
http://www.sbgi.net/business/markets/all.shtml
Nonetheless, World News Tonight anchor Terry Moran treated
Sinclair's programming as big news, announcing on the October 10
World News Tonight/Sunday: "A major broadcasting company, with
access to more than 60 television stations, is stirring
controversy this weekend with its plan to pre-empt regular
programming in order to show a film attacking John Kerry.
Democrats decry this move as a political smear and yellow
journalism."
CBS Evening News anchor Mika Brzezinski intoned Sunday night:
"In a move likely to heat up discussion of the intersection of
media and politics one of the nation's largest television group
owners will announce shortly it's urging its stations to air a
controversial film about the Democratic candidate for President."
Kelly Cobiella began: "It's called 'Stolen Honor,' a 42-minute
film that asserts John Kerry's Vietnam war protests actually
prolonged the war. Fellow Vietnam veteran and longtime Kerry
critic Carlton Sherwood produced it, and claims Pennsylvania war
veterans paid for it."
Man in movie: "It's about a treachery."
Cobiella: "The movie, available as an Internet pay-per-view,
has found a broadcast distributor in Baltimore-based Sinclair
Broadcast Group, a company with the power to reach a quarter of
American TV viewers. Sinclair owns 62 local television stations
across the country, including affiliates of Fox, ABC, WB, UPN and
three CBS stations, in a number of states still up for grabs in
the presidential race. A Sinclair executive tells CBS News the
company wants its stations to air the film the third week of
October as a news program, and says it has offered Senator Kerry a
chance to answer the claims on air. The Kerry camp is skeptical."
Chad Clanton, Kerry campaign: "I think it's hard to take any
offer seriously from any group that's going this far over the
line."
Cobiella: "In the past eight years, Sinclair has given the
lion's share of its political contributions to Republican
candidates. This year, the company's CEO wrote out the largest
personal check allowed by law to President Bush's re-election
campaign. In a January interview with Television Week, Sinclair
President and CEO David Smith said, 'Our news media has
intentionally dumbed down the news, and we all know why they do:
Because they have a political agenda.' The company made headlines
in April for pre-empting a Nightline program on its ABC
affiliates, accusing host Ted Koppel of trying to make a political
statement by reading the names of soldiers killed in Iraq."
Danny Schechter, Mediachannel.org: "The public interest is
being lost to the corporate interest."
Cobiella: "While media critic Danny Schechter says airing the
anti-Kerry film so close to an election could be viewed as
inappropriate, it does not break federal broadcast rules."
Schechter: "Others will follow if it's successful. The problem
is, the truth could be a casualty."
Cobiella concluded: "It's the latest salvo in a campaign where
media has become the weapon of choice."
The Los Angeles Times on Saturday first reported Sinclair's
programming decision. The Baltimore Sun's version of that story:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/bal-te.campaign09oct0
9,1,1283456.story?coll=bal-artslife-tv
For the Monday Washington Post article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22788-2004Oct10.html
For a Monday New York Time story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/11/politics/campaign/11film.html
The June 29 CyberAlert recounted how 60 Minutes and GMA gave
free airtime to Michael Moore's polemics. A reprint:
CBS's 60 Minutes on Sunday promoted Michael Moore's Bush-bashing
movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, by airing a nearly minute-long excerpt of
one of its most disparaging sequences about President Bush,
showing him sitting in the classroom for seven minutes on 9-11.
Setting up a re-run of a 2003 profile of Moore, 60 Minutes ran a
55 second excerpt from Moore's new movie, complete with Moore's
derogatory narration: "Not knowing what to do, with no one telling
him what to do, and no Secret Service rushing in to take him to
safety, Mr. Bush just sat there and continued to read My Pet Goat
with the children. Nearly seven minutes past with nobody doing
anything."
CBS's focus on that sequence matched what ABC did for Moore last
week. The June 23 CyberAlert recounted: ABC's Good Morning America
on Tuesday spent about seven minutes showcasing how Michael
Moore's Bush-bashing movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, highlights how after
President Bush was informed a second plane had hit the World Trade
Center, he stayed in front of elementary school kids for another
seven minutes. "Was valuable time wasted?" asked Charlie Gibson at
the top of the June 22 show. Diane Sawyer imparted great meaning
to the time passage: "It was seven minutes in the life of a
President, seven minutes in the history of the nation, it's seven
minutes a lot of people are using as a kind of Rorschach test."
Following a taped piece by Jake Tapper on the seven minutes
showcased by Moore, complete with a clock on screen, George
Stephanopoulos told Sawyer that Moore's use of the incident to
denigrate and mock Bush was "not fair," but he maintained that
"those seven minutes are painful to watch." See:
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040623.asp#1
Introducing the third segment on Sunday's 60 Minutes, Bob Simon
asked: "What will be the biggest summer blockbuster? Too early to
say, but we can easily predict the most controversial film. It's
called Fahrenheit 9/11. It's the latest movie by professional
provocateur Michael Moore and it's a take-no-prisoners indictment
of the Bush administration. It won the top award at this Spring's
Cannes Film Festival but ran into trouble in the States when the
Walt Disney Company refused to release it. It opened this weekend,
putting Moore's blistering commentary about President Bush in
theaters across the country."
CBS then aired a clip of the movie, with Michael Moore narrating
his film, over video of a limo pulling up to a school: "When
informed of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center, where
terrorists had struck just eight years prior, Mr. Bush decided to
go ahead with his photo opportunity. [Bush walking into classroom,
Bush sitting in classroom] When the second plane hit the tower
[plodding piano music starts over video of Card walking up to
Bush] his Chief-of-Staff entered the classroom and told Mr. Bush
'the nation is under attack.' [slow piano music continues over
video of Bush in chair] Not knowing what to do, with no one
telling him what to do, and no Secret Service rushing in to take
him to safety, Mr. Bush just sat there and continued to read My
Pet Goat with the children. [elapsed time video with time on
screen: "9:05," "9:07," "9:09"] Nearly seven minutes past with
nobody doing anything [video of Ari Fleischer with "9:11" on
screen, back to Bush with "9:12" on screen]."
Back on camera, Simon set up the re-run: "Michael Moore's last
film, Bowling for Columbine, won an Oscar for 'Best Documentary.'
As we reported last year, Moore's success makes many uncomfortable
in these patriotic times, because his films suggest that America
is taking a wrong turn. Bowling for Columbine poses a question:
Why do so many Americans kill each other with guns?"
For 60 Minutes' online version of the Moore profile re-aired on
June 27:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/17/60minutes/main563744.shtml
END of Reprint from the June 29 CyberAlert
**He and John walked out together.**
Evidently he lied to his wife (of sorts) and she repeated the lie in this interview! LOL!
Rolling on the Laugh Flooring my A$$ Off????
**KERRY: No, I wasn't scared,**
Then why did he look around and then bolt down the stairs??
This is good stuff!
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