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Thread #74473   Message #1299886
Posted By: GUEST
18-Oct-04 - 02:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Sinclair breaking the law
Subject: RE: BS: Sinclair breaking the law
The cable network which had apparently signed a contract with Moore to air the film the night before the election as a special, has now cancelled it. Moore made that announcement on Leno last week. He also offered to let Sinclair show F9/11 for free, to "balance" the vet film.

I think all of this is a tempest in a teapot. The only appropriate place to address the airing of the film on Sinclair is at their license renewal time. Other than that, there are no laws that allow censorship of the film.

The Democrats who tried to get the FCC to censor the film were idiots, playing right into the hands of the Bush camp.

Again, the level of hysteria over this election is way out of proportion to the reality. I can't for the life of me figure out why the Democrats are getting so hysterical about this film. It's the same old stuff we saw on the commercials in August, the demographic of viewers of those networks hardly are up for grabs anyway, I mean, it doesn't make any sense for the Democrats to go so over the top on this.