Kerry Campaign and the DNC threaten legal action for running anti-kerry ads!

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Human Events Exclusive:
DNC Lawyers Work To Muzzle Swift Boat Vets' Ad



HUMAN EVENTS has obtained a copy of a letter which lawyers for the Democratic National Committee and John Kerry have sent to television station managers attempting to suppress the blistering anti-Kerry TV spot created by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (click here to view the ad) and first reported here on HumanEventsOnline.com.
The letter claims the ad is "false" and "libelous" and suggests, in not-so-subtle terms, that TV stations should use their "legal authority" to refuse any requests for advertising airtime, stating that "because your station has this freedom [to refuse the ad], and because it is not a 'use' of your facilities by a clearly identified candidate, your station is responsible for the false and libelous charges made by this sponsor" (emphasis added).

As their first piece of evidence of the ad's supposed lies, the DNC/Kerry lawyers claim that the veterans in the ad "purport to have served on Senator Kerry's SWIFT Boat in Vietnam" but, "in fact, not a single one of the men who pretend to have served with Senator Kerry was actually a crewmate of Senator Kerry's." The problem is that none of these men claimed to have served on Kerry's SWIFT Boat. They simply said they "served with John Kerry" -- and they did.

The letter goes on to make several more misleading statements about the advertisement, in an attempt to protect Kerry's "war hero" record. Read the full text below.

http://humaneventsonline.com.edgesuite.net/unfit_pdf.html

 

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once again, the democrats prove they really dont believe in the first amendment.

 

[Robert Jan]

Uhhh

That's a really crappy ad. Not a single point was made or example was given.

It's not that comparable to any anti bush ad I've seen, the only one as malicious against bush as these people against kerry is Michael Moore.

I think sending the letter was a bad decision...

 

[WODIN]

GOOD!

Sue the lying defaming fuckers.

 

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kerry refered to people who continue to support bush as the 'brown shirts', which is a reference to the nazi's.

and this is not a republican national committee ad; it is an ad put out by a non-profit group, that falls under the same tax exempt status as move0n.org, which runs some of the most outrageous ads in political history.

 

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actually, that IS the doctor who treated kerry for his 'battle wounds' that gave him his final purple heart, so he could go home.

 

[WODIN]

Then why is the name of the doctor on his exam forms different?

 

[Becoming]

once again, the democrats prove they really dont believe in the first amendment.

the democrats, or did you mean the komrades?

 

[AAP]

Then why is the name of the doctor on his exam forms different?

yeah... who got an answer for this?

 

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this is the same doctor that took the last piece of shrapnel that was barely even able to stay in his (kerry's) skin.

i posted up this doctor's account like 2-3 months ago. it's the same one.

how come none of you pro-kerry people question those who supposedly served with kerry and say positive things about him, but the second he has some detractors that served with him, it is some kind of scam or fraud.

please...

your candidate is so transparent and so fake. it's all too obvious that there will be 4 more years with GWB.