Molly Hates Sinclair

Molly Ivins seems to be foaming at the mouth again. Wait a minute! That seems to be all she's doing nowadays. Now that the liberals no longer have a stranglehold on the media any more they're going nuts.

Now is the time for all good men -- and women -- to race to the aid of their country. Liberals and libertarians unite! The Sinclair Broadcasting Group has moved this election into the realm of creeping fascism, state propaganda, Big Brother and brainwashing. What me, hyperbole?

Nope. Not hyperbole. Try bullshit.

This is SO simple -- how would you conservatives feel if NBC, CBS or ABC decided to pre-empt primetime programming a week before the election to air Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11"? And then announced, "But we've offered President Bush a chance to reply"?

I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet. It isn't through lack of trying. Greedy Michael Moore first wanted it on Pay Per View. Now that that has fallen through he's decided his hatred of Bush is more important than him making more money so he's offering it for free but no one has taken him up on it yet.

Sinclair has also offered President George W. Bush the inestimable service of diverting attention from his record and is using OUR publicly owned airwaves to do it.

Actually Molly this is documenting Kerry's traitorous record. This documentary will probably be more truthful than Farenheit 9/11.

For Sinclair's lobbyist and on-air editorialist Mark Hyman to claim this long attack ad is "news" is ludicrous -- almost as strained as his claim, somewhere between infelicitous and crackers, that those who disagree are like "Holocaust deniers."

Molly, when did you become a holocaust denier? And aren't you engaging in the same kind of action that you claim conservatives did with Farenheit 9/11? You're prejudging the "attack ad". Have you seen it?

Sinclair Group is the perfect example of what's wrong with the concentration of ownership in media: Just a few companies now own almost all the major information outlets. Sinclair is the largest owner of local TV stations in the nation. It controls 62 stations in 39 markets and reaches at least 25 percent of Americans every day, all day.

The only thing that bothers Molly about this is the fact that now the media is no longer controlled exclusively by liberals. That's why liberals hate Fox News and all of us bloggers who sit around in pajamas (I'm wearing sweatpants and a t-shirt BTW) and fact check their asses.

She spouts more of why she hates Sinclair and then continues ...

Sinclair sends prerecorded right-wing editorial commentary to its affiliates to be broadcast as "local news." Sinclair's management has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars almost entirely to Republicans (97 percent this year), as it continued to lobby for looser ownership rules. The Bush administration is pushing aggressively to remove those same rules.

But the left wing commentary we get from Dan Blather, Peter 'I'm so much smarter than you rubes in flyover country' Jennings, and Tom Brokaw is OK. NBC ignored the Swift Vets but gave Kitty Kelley, whose attack book on Bush had absolutely no reliable sources, three mornings on the Today show. And let's not forget the Fake but Accurate 60 Minutes II hit piece. Typical. If liberals do it, it's OK.

The producer of the alleged "documentary," which is actually just a very long Swift Boat Liars ad, makes the same arguments and features some of the same people as the thoroughly discredited short ads.

Thoroughly discredited? By whom? By the same people who think the TANG memos were real? Do you know how many people have to be lying for the Poodle to be telling the truth? Most of Flippers bullshit has been discredited like Christmas in Cambodia. I believe the Swift Vets a lot more than I believe Michael Moore. BTW, when are we gonna start building that oil pipeline in Afghanistan that we went to war for?

I have not seen Sherwood's ad.

Bingo! But you just know that there is nothing true in it.

I am relying on press reports that its central thesis is that John Kerry's congressional testimony in 1971 prolonged the Vietnam War.

Howza 'bout we ask Gen Nguyen Giap who said in his 1985 memoir about the war, that if it weren't for organizations like Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Hanoi would have surrendered to the U.S. That's straight from the horse's mouth.

Sure, the North Vietnamese would have surrendered long before they never did, if it hadn't have been for Kerry.

See above.

Look, 14,000 more Americans died after his testimony -- how many would it take to make that war anything other than a mistaken horror?

Instead we cut and ran which is the same thing Flipper will have us do in Iraq if he wins. Look Molly, you stupid liberal twit, I was in Viet Nam. We wanted to win. It was people like you, Lurch, and the other anti-war, anti-American liberals who wanted us to lose the war. And now you are trying to duplicate your success by trying to make us lose in Iraq. You were the assholes who didn't want us to win the Cold War and now you don't want us to win the WOT. People like you make me want to puke.

The ad also alleges that Kerry impugned the good names of all those who served in Vietnam. That is not only false but malicious. I heard his testimony at the time and have reviewed it since during this campaign -- it is honorable and patriotic. I am also familiar with the Winter Soldier hearings on which his testimony was partly based, and they were just as he reported.

Huh? WTF? CSPAN recently rebroadcast his testimony and I couldn't watch the entire thing because the bastard made me sick to my stomach with the accusations he made against our soldiers.

They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, tape wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the country side of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.

It turns out that many of the people who met in Detroit who told Kerry this bullshit hadn't even been to Viet Nam. Many of them hadn't even been in the military. Of course, Molly, for someone who hates the military as much as you do this is believable. Earth to planet Molly, in my world lying about atrocities that never happened is impugning "the good names of all those who served in Vietnam".

I am sick of the right wing claiming patriotism as its exclusive purview.

Just as I am sick of the left undermining the foreign policy of this country. I am sick of the left who didn't want us to win the Cold War. I am sick of the left who wants us to appease the terrorists and wage a more "sensitive war". I am sick of the left who wants us to "pass a global test" to defend ourselves. I am sick of the left who wants us to rely on the corrupt anti-American United Nations. Yes I am sick of the left who by their actions are unpatriotic.

No one serves this country well who blindly supports misbegotten wars in the name of patriotism.

Rational dissent is one thing. We used to have that in the country until the 60's when the left decided that implementing socialism was more important than winning the Cold War. Lying about made up atrocities is not rational dissent. It's lying about made up atrocities. Why do you think the returning veterans were spit on and called baby killers. It was because of people like John Fonda Kerry.

Producing a propaganda hit piece like Farenheit 9/11 is not rational dissent.

The right to dissent is one of the founding principles of this country and is in itself a high form of patriotism.

Yep and politics used to end at the waters' edge. Now we have assholes like Jimmah Carter running around the world and undermining our foreign policy. The terrorists just love Farenheit 9/11.

What you owe your country is your best evaluation of whether we are or are not going in the right direction.

I agree, but the left specializes in lies. And then there are idiots like you, Molly. All I need to know is that you and your friends on the left were on the wrong side of history during the Cold War and you are on the wrong side of history in the WOT.

As Huey P. Long once said, "Sure we'll have fascism in America, but it'll come disguised as 100 percent Americanism."

Yep! Conservatives are fascists. Amazing! Molly remember Germany? Hitler belonged to the National Socialist Party. I'm much more worried about you people on the left wing than on the right. You're the people who want to take away our guns and legislate against "hate speech". You're the people who destroyed our schools and gave us political correctness.

If the country becomes a fascist state it will be because of left wing wackos like Molly Ivins.

Posted by denny at October 18, 2004 06:00 PM