Pittsburgh Sinclair Fox Station Pulls Dems Ad says Untruthful - Murtha's seat

[RamboLiberal]

The hotly disputed, neck-and-neck race for the late U.S. Rep. John Murtha's 12th District congressional seat escalated a notch Friday when a Pittsburgh television station pulled a Democratic ad that Republicans claimed was "demonstrably false."

Sinclair Broadcasting's local affiliate, WPGH Fox 53, suspended the 30-second ad by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

The ad "falsely claims Tim Burns supports a 23 percent national sales tax and wants to ship jobs overseas," said Kent Gates, a political adviser to Mr. Burns, a Republican, who is vying with Democrat Mark Critz in a special election Tuesday for Mr. Murtha's seat.

Sinclair officials did not return calls for comment, while two other Pittsburgh stations, KDKA and WPXI, said they had no plans to pull the ad. Officials at a third station, WTAE, could not be reached for comment.

Sinclair Broadcasting is no stranger to charges of political partisanship. In 2004, it ordered its stations to broadcast a documentary critical of John Kerry the month before the 2004 presidential election, prompting a firestorm of protest from Democrats.

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Must have caught a ton of heat - I noticed they aired the ad tonight during America's Most Wanted on this station.

[blue neen]

1. Despicable.

Sinclair just wants to pull the ad because it is so devastatingly effective!

We are in district 12 and are getting 4-5 phone calls a day now from both sides. I hope Critz wins it!

[madrchsod]

2. fox....he got his orders from the man...

actually those claims are really bad. if one is going to lie at least be subtle about it

[depakid]

3. Between media deregulation and the unlimited corporate money- America has screwn the pooch

The culture of lies that's been created leaves citizens unable to agree on what basic, objective facts are!

How on earth does anyone think in that state of affairs a nation would ever be able to solve its problems?

[Pirate Smile]

4. Gawd! I hat Sinclair. My CBS affiliate is a Sinclair station.

[fishwax]

5. I hate them too -- my ABC station is Sinclair

:puke:

[Pirate Smile]

8. Arghh - too late to edit my comment re "hat" = hate.

I hat it when that happens. :silly:

[marmar]

6. Shameless.

nt

[nickinSTL]

7. ah. as I suspected

our local ABC affiliate is Sinclair.

This would be the station where every second that's not filled with national programming has either religious programming or infomercials. :puke:

[Scuba]

9. Fox cancels stuff that's not true? When did that start? ...

Glenn, Greta, BillO all out of jobs.