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October 14, 2004
Update: FCC Refuses to Stop Sinclair's Stolen Honor Broadcast
Fox News has just reported that Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell issued a statement saying that there is no reason to for the FCC to intervene and prevent Sinclair Broadcasting Group from broadcasting the documentary Stolen Honor, Wounds That Never Heal. In doing so, the FCC came down on the side of reason and common sense. If they were to censor Sinclair, they'd have to put CBS out of business just to show some balance. More on this later.
UPDATE: Michael Powell's statement on the Democrat's ridiculous attempt to have the FCC censor Sinclair Broadcasting and seventeen POWs who want to exercise their freedom of speech:
WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission won’t intervene to stop a broadcast company’s plans to air a critical documentary about John Kerry’s anti-Vietnam War activities on dozens of TV stations, the agency’s chairman said Thursday.“Don’t look to us to block the airing of a program,” Michael Powell told reporters. “I don’t know of any precedent in which the commission could do that.”
Eighteen senators, all Democrats, wrote to Powell this week and asked him to investigate Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.’s plan to run the program, “Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal,” two weeks before the Nov. 2 election.
Powell said there are no federal rules that would allow the agency to prevent the program. “I think that would be an absolute disservice to the First Amendment, and I think it would be unconstitutional if we attempted to do so,” he said.
But of course as far as the Democrat Gestapo is concerned, the only freedom of speech is freedom of liberal speech by them, from them and as long as it marches in lock step with their views. Screw the constitution as long as they have a judge or bureaucrat to subvert it. Bravo to Michael Powell for believing in the Constitution!
Posted by Steve at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
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Hi! Your blog is really good. I'm from Portugal and I've found your blog by chance, surfing on the net. Perhaps you can't understand the language used in my blog, but I would like that you visit it. Sorry about my english...
Posted by primo at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Posted by jack spratt at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Nice little piece there, Jack Spratt (Could Eat No Fat)
I suggest you look at the US Bill of Rights, (specifically,that little bit about freedom of speech) because that is the Law of this Land, not Chairman Mao's "little red book".
Hate to break this to you, but corporations have a right to free speech too. They gave Kerry the opportunity to rebut this program; he refused. You don't even have to watch it if you don't want to.
In the meantime, reconsider putting fat back in your diet. I hear that it's good for brain neurons.
Posted by ms heather at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Wow spratt! You really are a commie! You and Kim Jung Il would get along great.
Posted by John at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Crank up the newsspeak Jack. It's not safe to have the sheep know anything the liberals don't want them to know. Then they might be able to form rational judgements based on the facts and that endangers the Democratic elitist aristocracy.
Posted by Steve at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Steve really is quite the fucking moron isnt he? I dont even know where to start shoveling his shit.
Posted by Um Yeah at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
I dont even know where to start shoveling his shit.
A good start would be between the otherwise vacuum between your inbred ears. That would stop the raging windtunnel in your empty skull.
Posted by Radical Redneck at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Realizing the not only do we need to have Stolen Honor played, we need to have Dick Morris's FahrenHype 911 played as well. Last night Frontline's Choice 2004 was a blatant pro-Kerry docufiction. It was a recruiting film of the first magnitude. Then, later, Nightline attemptes to disredit the SwiftboatVets organization by, of all things, going to Vietnam, Interviewing the VC that we theoretically there the day that Kerry won a Silver Star, and then confronting the Swiftvets with their "misrepresentations" of the truth. The SwiftVets spokesman immediately showed Ted Koeppel the passages in Kerry's autobiography that proved ABC was sucked in by the VC, and also the Boston Globe's well researched bio of Kerry also confirmed ABC as being taken to the cleaners.
Posted by RichardM at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
"We have Freedom of Speech in this country. Just as long as you agree with us." --any DemocRAT!
Posted by Falgore at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Somebody call a doctor because Radical Redneck just dropkicked UY into next week. Way to go! You now officially own that little sniveling twit so feel free to spank him as needed.
Posted by Michigan Dawg at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Um Yeah RE #6:If you can't do any better than than for an argument, piss off.
Posted by Steve at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
How can they be Socialist and be in favor of a Elitist Aristocracy at the same time you twit.
Posted by Um Yeah at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Re 12:
You just don't get it, do you? ALL socialists are elitists. Haven't you read Animal Farm? "All pigs are equal, but some are more equal than others." (paraphrased from memory).
That's the beauty of being a socialist. You idolize "the people," but you make sure you control them and you never, ever have to touch them. (They're icky and stupid, you know.)
Posted by Kerry Jacoby at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Do you know who wrote Animal Farm?! Ill give you hint, he was a Socialist.
Posted by Um Yeah at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Re 14
Yes, George Orwell wrote it. And, at the time, he was a DISILLUSIONED socialist. The book is a brilliant allegorical satire of Stalinism, wherein the Trotsky figure (Snowball) is ignominiously betrayed by the strongman (Napolean, read as Stalin).
Perhaps you saw the movie. They changed the movie to have a socialist viewpoint (the good system corrupted by bad individuals), but the original intent of the author was to critique Stalinism.
Posted by Kerry Jacoby at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
I own the book. The point of both the book and the movie was to critique Stalinism and more importantly totalitarianism. BTW he died a Socialist. Almost everybody including Socialists and many Communists hated Stalinism for what it was same shit different asshole.
"The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." – From the essay "Why I Write
Posted by Um Yeah at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Posted by Pardon My English » GWII+17: The Kerry-ism of the Day at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Socialism is just Communism that didn't try hard enough.
Posted by Kerry Jacoby at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Socialism is just Communism that didn’t try hard enough.
Well since Orwell was Democratic Socialist he wasnt radical enough to believe in a violent take over. And you have a Doctorate?
Posted by Um Yeah at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Re 19:
What makes you think you have to advocate violence to be a radical?
The point is that Orwell wrote about his impressions of Stalinism. He just didn't realize that socialism LEADS TO Stalinism. Like all academic socialists, he entertains the silly notion that the "white magic" of socialism is somehow not connected to the "black magic" of Comunism. Communism=bad; socialism=good.
Historically, however (and Marx was fundamentally a historian), socialism hasn't resisted the tendency toward totalitarianism, a fact Orwell understood by the time he wrote 1984 while hanging around an island off the coast of Scotland (hint: only elitists have the luxury of wasting their lives doing nothing and telling the rest of us what to do. Most everybody else is busy trying to "make the world go round.")
It really is funny how the academic socialists admmire their "great thinkers" who were mostly parasitical philosophers that would faint if they ever got in a real fight.
Posted by Kerry Jacoby at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Re 16:
BZZT. Another historical inaccuracy from the keyboard of UY. One of the most egregious failings of the American left is its blindness to the terror reign of one Joseph Stalin. They NEVER, while he was alive, admitted to what was going on over there. Not until the release of the Verona Documents did they even approach an admission of guilt, and most of them who can face a tiny bit of the truth now still maintain that the system is good; it's just that there were some mistakes made.
A BAD system is a BAD system. Only American academics can't seem to figure that out.
Posted by Kerry Jacoby at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
...Why do you think socialist academics were never Sovietologists? All the Sovietologists were as close to conservative as you're allowed to get in the academic world. The socialists study Cuba, because they think it's paradise, but they wouldn't spend five seconds studying the Soviet system during the Cold War. They just pretended that "Communism" was something else.
Scratch a socialist, you find Communist paint.
Posted by Kerry Jacoby at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Any system can go bad. Which is one of the reasons Its a good thing to be for the seperation of churchand state. Conservatism is Fascism lite.
Posted by Um Yeah at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Hi! Your blog is really good. I'm from Portugal and I've found your blog by chance, surfing on the net. Perhaps you can't understand the language used in my blog, but I would like that you visit it. Sorry about my english...
Posted by primo at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Posted by jack spratt at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Nice little piece there, Jack Spratt (Could Eat No Fat)
I suggest you look at the US Bill of Rights, (specifically,that little bit about freedom of speech) because that is the Law of this Land, not Chairman Mao's "little red book".
Hate to break this to you, but corporations have a right to free speech too. They gave Kerry the opportunity to rebut this program; he refused. You don't even have to watch it if you don't want to.
In the meantime, reconsider putting fat back in your diet. I hear that it's good for brain neurons.
Posted by ms heather at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Wow spratt! You really are a commie! You and Kim Jung Il would get along great.
Posted by John at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Crank up the newsspeak Jack. It's not safe to have the sheep know anything the liberals don't want them to know. Then they might be able to form rational judgements based on the facts and that endangers the Democratic elitist aristocracy.
Posted by Steve at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Steve really is quite the fucking moron isnt he? I dont even know where to start shoveling his shit.
Posted by Um Yeah at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
I dont even know where to start shoveling his shit.
A good start would be between the otherwise vacuum between your inbred ears. That would stop the raging windtunnel in your empty skull.
Posted by Radical Redneck at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Realizing the not only do we need to have Stolen Honor played, we need to have Dick Morris's FahrenHype 911 played as well. Last night Frontline's Choice 2004 was a blatant pro-Kerry docufiction. It was a recruiting film of the first magnitude. Then, later, Nightline attemptes to disredit the SwiftboatVets organization by, of all things, going to Vietnam, Interviewing the VC that we theoretically there the day that Kerry won a Silver Star, and then confronting the Swiftvets with their "misrepresentations" of the truth. The SwiftVets spokesman immediately showed Ted Koeppel the passages in Kerry's autobiography that proved ABC was sucked in by the VC, and also the Boston Globe's well researched bio of Kerry also confirmed ABC as being taken to the cleaners.
Posted by RichardM at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
"We have Freedom of Speech in this country. Just as long as you agree with us." --any DemocRAT!
Posted by Falgore at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Somebody call a doctor because Radical Redneck just dropkicked UY into next week. Way to go! You now officially own that little sniveling twit so feel free to spank him as needed.
Posted by Michigan Dawg at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Um Yeah RE #6:If you can't do any better than than for an argument, piss off.
Posted by Steve at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
How can they be Socialist and be in favor of a Elitist Aristocracy at the same time you twit.
Posted by Um Yeah at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Re 12:
You just don't get it, do you? ALL socialists are elitists. Haven't you read Animal Farm? "All pigs are equal, but some are more equal than others." (paraphrased from memory).
That's the beauty of being a socialist. You idolize "the people," but you make sure you control them and you never, ever have to touch them. (They're icky and stupid, you know.)
Posted by Kerry Jacoby at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Do you know who wrote Animal Farm?! Ill give you hint, he was a Socialist.
Posted by Um Yeah at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Re 14
Yes, George Orwell wrote it. And, at the time, he was a DISILLUSIONED socialist. The book is a brilliant allegorical satire of Stalinism, wherein the Trotsky figure (Snowball) is ignominiously betrayed by the strongman (Napolean, read as Stalin).
Perhaps you saw the movie. They changed the movie to have a socialist viewpoint (the good system corrupted by bad individuals), but the original intent of the author was to critique Stalinism.
Posted by Kerry Jacoby at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
I own the book. The point of both the book and the movie was to critique Stalinism and more importantly totalitarianism. BTW he died a Socialist. Almost everybody including Socialists and many Communists hated Stalinism for what it was same shit different asshole.
"The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." – From the essay "Why I Write
Posted by Um Yeah at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Posted by Pardon My English » GWII+17: The Kerry-ism of the Day at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Socialism is just Communism that didn't try hard enough.
Posted by Kerry Jacoby at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Socialism is just Communism that didn’t try hard enough.
Well since Orwell was Democratic Socialist he wasnt radical enough to believe in a violent take over. And you have a Doctorate?
Posted by Um Yeah at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Re 19:
What makes you think you have to advocate violence to be a radical?
The point is that Orwell wrote about his impressions of Stalinism. He just didn't realize that socialism LEADS TO Stalinism. Like all academic socialists, he entertains the silly notion that the "white magic" of socialism is somehow not connected to the "black magic" of Comunism. Communism=bad; socialism=good.
Historically, however (and Marx was fundamentally a historian), socialism hasn't resisted the tendency toward totalitarianism, a fact Orwell understood by the time he wrote 1984 while hanging around an island off the coast of Scotland (hint: only elitists have the luxury of wasting their lives doing nothing and telling the rest of us what to do. Most everybody else is busy trying to "make the world go round.")
It really is funny how the academic socialists admmire their "great thinkers" who were mostly parasitical philosophers that would faint if they ever got in a real fight.
Posted by Kerry Jacoby at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Re 16:
BZZT. Another historical inaccuracy from the keyboard of UY. One of the most egregious failings of the American left is its blindness to the terror reign of one Joseph Stalin. They NEVER, while he was alive, admitted to what was going on over there. Not until the release of the Verona Documents did they even approach an admission of guilt, and most of them who can face a tiny bit of the truth now still maintain that the system is good; it's just that there were some mistakes made.
A BAD system is a BAD system. Only American academics can't seem to figure that out.
Posted by Kerry Jacoby at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
...Why do you think socialist academics were never Sovietologists? All the Sovietologists were as close to conservative as you're allowed to get in the academic world. The socialists study Cuba, because they think it's paradise, but they wouldn't spend five seconds studying the Soviet system during the Cold War. They just pretended that "Communism" was something else.
Scratch a socialist, you find Communist paint.
Posted by Kerry Jacoby at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Any system can go bad. Which is one of the reasons Its a good thing to be for the seperation of churchand state. Conservatism is Fascism lite.
Posted by Um Yeah at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Hi! Your blog is really good. I'm from Portugal and I've found your blog by chance, surfing on the net. Perhaps you can't understand the language used in my blog, but I would like that you visit it. Sorry about my english...
Posted by primo at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Posted by jack spratt at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Nice little piece there, Jack Spratt (Could Eat No Fat)
I suggest you look at the US Bill of Rights, (specifically,that little bit about freedom of speech) because that is the Law of this Land, not Chairman Mao's "little red book".
Hate to break this to you, but corporations have a right to free speech too. They gave Kerry the opportunity to rebut this program; he refused. You don't even have to watch it if you don't want to.
In the meantime, reconsider putting fat back in your diet. I hear that it's good for brain neurons.
Posted by ms heather at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Wow spratt! You really are a commie! You and Kim Jung Il would get along great.
Posted by John at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Crank up the newsspeak Jack. It's not safe to have the sheep know anything the liberals don't want them to know. Then they might be able to form rational judgements based on the facts and that endangers the Democratic elitist aristocracy.
Posted by Steve at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Steve really is quite the fucking moron isnt he? I dont even know where to start shoveling his shit.
Posted by Um Yeah at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
I dont even know where to start shoveling his shit.
A good start would be between the otherwise vacuum between your inbred ears. That would stop the raging windtunnel in your empty skull.
Posted by Radical Redneck at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Realizing the not only do we need to have Stolen Honor played, we need to have Dick Morris's FahrenHype 911 played as well. Last night Frontline's Choice 2004 was a blatant pro-Kerry docufiction. It was a recruiting film of the first magnitude. Then, later, Nightline attemptes to disredit the SwiftboatVets organization by, of all things, going to Vietnam, Interviewing the VC that we theoretically there the day that Kerry won a Silver Star, and then confronting the Swiftvets with their "misrepresentations" of the truth. The SwiftVets spokesman immediately showed Ted Koeppel the passages in Kerry's autobiography that proved ABC was sucked in by the VC, and also the Boston Globe's well researched bio of Kerry also confirmed ABC as being taken to the cleaners.
Posted by RichardM at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
"We have Freedom of Speech in this country. Just as long as you agree with us." --any DemocRAT!
Posted by Falgore at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Somebody call a doctor because Radical Redneck just dropkicked UY into next week. Way to go! You now officially own that little sniveling twit so feel free to spank him as needed.
Posted by Michigan Dawg at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Um Yeah RE #6:If you can't do any better than than for an argument, piss off.
Posted by Steve at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
How can they be Socialist and be in favor of a Elitist Aristocracy at the same time you twit.
Posted by Um Yeah at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Re 12:
You just don't get it, do you? ALL socialists are elitists. Haven't you read Animal Farm? "All pigs are equal, but some are more equal than others." (paraphrased from memory).
That's the beauty of being a socialist. You idolize "the people," but you make sure you control them and you never, ever have to touch them. (They're icky and stupid, you know.)
Posted by Kerry Jacoby at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Do you know who wrote Animal Farm?! Ill give you hint, he was a Socialist.
Posted by Um Yeah at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Re 14
Yes, George Orwell wrote it. And, at the time, he was a DISILLUSIONED socialist. The book is a brilliant allegorical satire of Stalinism, wherein the Trotsky figure (Snowball) is ignominiously betrayed by the strongman (Napolean, read as Stalin).
Perhaps you saw the movie. They changed the movie to have a socialist viewpoint (the good system corrupted by bad individuals), but the original intent of the author was to critique Stalinism.
Posted by Kerry Jacoby at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
I own the book. The point of both the book and the movie was to critique Stalinism and more importantly totalitarianism. BTW he died a Socialist. Almost everybody including Socialists and many Communists hated Stalinism for what it was same shit different asshole.
"The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." – From the essay "Why I Write
Posted by Um Yeah at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Posted by Pardon My English » GWII+17: The Kerry-ism of the Day at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Socialism is just Communism that didn't try hard enough.
Posted by Kerry Jacoby at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Socialism is just Communism that didn’t try hard enough.
Well since Orwell was Democratic Socialist he wasnt radical enough to believe in a violent take over. And you have a Doctorate?
Posted by Um Yeah at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Re 19:
What makes you think you have to advocate violence to be a radical?
The point is that Orwell wrote about his impressions of Stalinism. He just didn't realize that socialism LEADS TO Stalinism. Like all academic socialists, he entertains the silly notion that the "white magic" of socialism is somehow not connected to the "black magic" of Comunism. Communism=bad; socialism=good.
Historically, however (and Marx was fundamentally a historian), socialism hasn't resisted the tendency toward totalitarianism, a fact Orwell understood by the time he wrote 1984 while hanging around an island off the coast of Scotland (hint: only elitists have the luxury of wasting their lives doing nothing and telling the rest of us what to do. Most everybody else is busy trying to "make the world go round.")
It really is funny how the academic socialists admmire their "great thinkers" who were mostly parasitical philosophers that would faint if they ever got in a real fight.
Posted by Kerry Jacoby at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Re 16:
BZZT. Another historical inaccuracy from the keyboard of UY. One of the most egregious failings of the American left is its blindness to the terror reign of one Joseph Stalin. They NEVER, while he was alive, admitted to what was going on over there. Not until the release of the Verona Documents did they even approach an admission of guilt, and most of them who can face a tiny bit of the truth now still maintain that the system is good; it's just that there were some mistakes made.
A BAD system is a BAD system. Only American academics can't seem to figure that out.
Posted by Kerry Jacoby at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
...Why do you think socialist academics were never Sovietologists? All the Sovietologists were as close to conservative as you're allowed to get in the academic world. The socialists study Cuba, because they think it's paradise, but they wouldn't spend five seconds studying the Soviet system during the Cold War. They just pretended that "Communism" was something else.
Scratch a socialist, you find Communist paint.
Posted by Kerry Jacoby at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
Any system can go bad. Which is one of the reasons Its a good thing to be for the seperation of churchand state. Conservatism is Fascism lite.
Posted by Um Yeah at October 14, 2004 01:10 PM
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