So, I watched excerpts from the "Sinclair Video"....

[F.Gordon]

I was going to spend the $5 and watch the whole thing, but after watching a few clips I decided not to.

It's just one big boring badly produced infomercial attacking Kerry. It apparently will be shown without "other" commercials. I say let em'.....

The general bullshit of this attack infomercial?...

In mere moments, Kerry had willingly given the Vietnamese Communists what they had spent years of torture and blood-letting to drag out of their American hostages, an unqualified “confession” they were all war criminals.

What these shit on the vets won't say in their hour long infomercial is how it wasn't Kerry that took part in the War Crimes hearings....

http://members.aol.com/warlibrary/vwch1.htm

And the shit on the vets never seem to include this part of Kerry's testimony...

Mr. Kerry: My feeling, Senator, is undoubtedly this Congress, and I don't mean to sound pessimistic, but I do not believe that this Congress will, in fact, end the war as we would like to, which is immediately and unilaterally and, therefore, if I were to speak I would say we would set a date and the date obviously would be the earliest possible date. But I would like to say, in answering that, that I do not believe it is necessary to stall any longer. I have been to Paris. I have talked with both delegations at the peace talks, that is to say the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government and of all eight of Madam Binh's points it has been stated time and time again, and was stated by Senator Vance Hartke when he returned from Paris, and it has been stated by many other officials of this Government, if the United States were to set a date for withdrawal the prisoners of war would be returned.

I think this negates very clearly the argument of the President that we have to maintain a presence in Vietnam, to use as a negotiating block for the return of those prisoners. The setting of a date will accomplish that.

You see, Kerry strongly believed that his actions/testimony would help get the POW's released. The same fucked up pow/vets that are being used to attack Kerry...

http://www.stolenhonor.com/documentary/meet-pows.asp

You aren't going to stop repuke Sinclair from running this anti-Kerry campaign ad if the FEC can't be convinced to stop them. There are no advertisers you can intimidate, because it will run commercial free.

I say let em' run it. Anyone who can sit through this hour long piece of shit is either a bush* supporter already or they're just high.....

[aden_nak]

1. Intimidating Advetisers is the American way, damn it!

Since the pocketbook is the only place you can hit a company and not be thrown in jail for it. The simple solution is to expand the boycott to anyone who advertises on Sinclair's affiliates PERIOD. A lot of that will be local advertisers who, unlike larger corperations, cannot afford to have people in their area boycotting them.

[F.Gordon]

2. Go for it

If Sinclair can afford to run an hour of prime time in selected markets I seriously doubt they're concerned about some local ad buys.

[wildflower]

4. Even if it does get pulled...

The big question is:

Will the media show clips of it all over the place, and have the backers/participants come on their shows for interviews?

This is what really got people's attention in the beginning; it wasn't so much the SBVT ads themselves, but the media's coverage of them.

Or will the media say, "Enough, no new story here," because they essentially spent themselves on this story back in August?

-wildflower

[F.Gordon]

5. There is no "new story"

The shit on the vets people have blown their wad. The only "new story" is the over-blown coverage this boring campaign ad is getting.

Nothing.To.See.Here.Move.Along.

[F.Gordon]

3. People will change the channel after 5 minutes.....

This comes across 100% as a campaign ad, and most people in "swing states" are so sick of the constant ad after ad after ad onslaught that they see on the TV every night.....they'll change the channel.

[mindfulNJ]

6. Yes...maybe the cold light of day

on this thing will show it for what it really is...pure crap. I say bring it on! JK did NOTHING he has to apologize for. Maybe with all the attention it will be so parsed up by the talking heads it will be rendered meaningless.