Lawyer’s letter, appeal to Justice evoke Kerry’s attempt to quash Swift Boat vets
Sen. Barack Obama is warning TV stations and asking the Justice Department to intervene in an attempt to block the airing of an ad by a non-profit group that links him to an unrepentant http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4705.
The spot by the American Issues Project questions Obama’s ties to William http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3655 at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol four decades ago.
The Associated Press said Obama’s “going-for-the-jugular approach” was the kind of response many Democrats complained Sen. John http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5299 Veterans for Truth during the 2004 presidential campaign.
But, as WND reported, Kerry actually took a similar approach. Instead of focusing on the Swift Boat Veterans’ specific claims, his campaign threatened lawsuits against the television stations that aired the group’s ads, demanded publisher Regnery pull the best-selling book “Unfit for Command,” attacked the character of co-authors John O’Neill and Jerome http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5434, and accused the independent group of being run by the Republican party. The Kerry campaign also waged a multi-pronged attack on the Sinclair Broadcast Group over its plan to air a documentary ” “Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal”, which featured former POWs telling how Kerry’s 1971 testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was used as propaganda against them by their North Vietnamese captors.Many of the stations airing the anti-Obama ad – financed by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth funder Harold Simmons, a Texas billionaire – are owned by Sinclair, the AP reported.
Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor, who called the ads false, despicable and outrageous, said supporters of the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate have inundated stations with 93,000 e-mails.
“Other stations that follow Sinclair’s lead should expect a similar response from people who don’t want the political discourse cheapened with these false, negative attacks,” Vietor told the AP.
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