Thanks, folks!

[SteppingRazor]

Salutations. Remember all that info on Charles Gerow, Carlton Sherwood and Sinclair that got posted about a week ago? Well, I've put it to good use. Fact checked it, added some more stuff that I had found myself, and wrote a nice little story:

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That film was put out by Quantum Communications, a production company run by a fellow named Charles Gerow, who is also named as the film's publicist in a story in the Dallas Observer. In several stories in the conservative Washington Times, owned by lunatic cult leader the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Gerow is identified as the president of a conservative think tank called the Penn Center, as well as being cited as a Republican "party activist" and "political heavyweight."


Gerow also ran for Congress as a Republican in 2000. He was a speaker in the Bob Dole presidential campaign in 1996. He was part of Lawyers for Bush in George W. Bush's 2000 campaign. But perhaps most important, according to the White House's own Web site, Gerow is a Bush appointee. An Oct. 24, 2003, press release names him to a commission planning ways to celebrate Ben Franklin's 300th birthday. Other committee members include Democratic Sen. Joe Biden and Republican Sen. Arlen Specter, as well as Dubya himself.


So Sinclair Broadcasting, which justified the so-called documentary by calling it "news," is actually showing a film put out by a Bush appointee and created by Carlton Sherwood, a fellow who once worked for Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. Boy howdy, Sinclair, that's some objective news you got there.


As for John Kerry, the film makes a big deal of asking a tough question: If he saw American troops committing atrocities in Vietnam, why didn't he do something? Trouble is, in the famous speech he gave before Congress in 1971, Kerry wasn't discussing what he had seen. He was relaying what other officers had described under oath a few weeks earlier in Detroit.
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http://www.southflorida.com/citylink/sfe-cl-102004newsextra.story

I know a lot of you folks are keen on e-mailing articles to us journalists, but the sort of news tips you offered in that post are FAR more useful to us. We are, after all, all lazy and sensationalist. Oh, and liberal.
Cheers!

[flowomo]

1. I know Gerow personally and very well....

he's as right-wingy as they come.

[Maeve]

2. And thank you

For writing the story and for sharing it with DU!

[PATRICK]

3. The response could include

meanwhile the charge by one Swift Boat commander that he refused to gun down fishermen as ordered to by one of the future Swift Boat liars- his superior officer at the time. What would Kerry have done? hmmm.

This was from a Riverside Ca article posted here a while back among the many factoids that never reach the media un-mind.