We need to take down Sinclair, but DON'T get Distracted!

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I am as active as anyone in helping to drop the hammer on Sinclair. I think it is important that we all spend time on the boycott.

That said, this smells like a typical Rove trick. Rove knows that SBGI is going to broadcast the smear infomercial no matter what we do. Even if SBGI's stock price drops to $.50 they will still run it.

My point is, every hour one of us spends working on a boycott is an hour we DON'T spend phone banking and organizing voter turnout. We can do both but there has to be a balance. Rove sees this as a win/win - he gets to air his piece of shit in swing states; we raise a huge stink...elevating awareness to major media status and we get distracted by focusing on the movie, not the election.

So here's my thought for what it's worth...once Kerry is elected, there will plenty of time to take SBGI apart stock share by stock share. We will be able to stop license renewalls; crash the stock; boycott advertisers; we may even be able to cause a bankruptcy. BUT -- and this is a HUUUGE BUT -- We will not be able to do all this without Kerry in the WH. Therefore, we need to stay focused on the election now (while spending a limited amount of time on SBGI) and then come back and finish them off later.

[Hog lover]

1. Depends on how many people will be swayed

Hope this is a violation of federal law.

[troubleinwinter]

2. Well put!!! Same goes for:

The "Osama held by the Chinese", "Bush wired" and the "O'Lielly dildo" stories!

They are distractions from the real issues that we need to be talking about.

[LittleClarkie]

3. I agree, especially considering the viewership here

As I posted yesterday, the Sinclair-owned stations here are WB and UPN. This is not a demographic who is going to give a tinkers damn about politics: they tend to be young and apolitical. My local tv columnist says he expects viewership to be low in our area. Mostly these guys will be preaching to the choir.

I'm not distracted. I'm going to a GOTV training session this weekend, and I have from Friday the 29th all the way through Nov. 3 off so that I can help before and on Election Day. Not taking my eyes off the prize, don't you worry.

I do get a sick feeling listening to our local conservative radio guy though. His rants get louder every day about how the Democrats are trying to steal this election. I hope that means they're scared, but I also think it means they will be a disrupting force on election day. Here in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee County Executive is screaming "Voter fraud!" while the Milwaukee Mayor is screaming "Voter suppression!" because the Executive won't print as many ballots as the Mayor wants.