----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 6:28 PM Subject: Re: [rhetoric-list] Morality and Sinclair et.al.
Off the subject a bit, but the right wing is turning against Bush, at least a chink in the armor, Buchanan's book, "Where The Right Went Wrong," and Robertson tonight saying he warned Bush about casualties. It's important that we isolate these neo-cons, also some ex-liberals./ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This just in... Village Voice: The Bush Beat by Ward Harkavy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, October 20 Big Beef About Sinclair's Anti-Kerry Plans Burger King says: Hold everything! This just in from the presidential election's front lines: Sinclair's Swift boat, its specially outfitted video cannon bristling as it steams toward the battleground state of Ohio, has been heavily damaged by anti-flak weapons and is changing course. According to media reports, Sinclair is in such a pickle that it may be unable to fire the special anti-Kerry weapon. As usual with 21st century warfare reporting, those reports are highly misleading. One of New York City's major burghers, state comptroller Alan Hevesi, who controls a bundle of Sinclair shares, attacked the company-the nation's largest TV-station conglomerate-for launching the attack because the move was imperiling its stock market value. But it was a bigger burger-Burger King, in fact-that lobbed the biggest grenade at Sinclair. The fast-food giant announced that it was withdrawing all its ads from all Sinclair stations all day on the date the weapon is broadcast-now scheduled for Friday, October 22. "Burger King wants to maintain neutrality during this election," spokesman Eric Anderson told Bill Carter of The New York Times. This is believed to be the first time the fast-food giant has come out publicly against whoppers. [...] Hevesi, who by himself controls the huge New York State Common Retirement Fund, which owns more than 250,000 shares of Sinclair, wrote a nasty letter to company CEO David D. Smith, the Times and the Associated Press reported. His letter, according to the AP, included this riff: Given the stock's already poor performance, it would seem that any bad news would risk reducing investor interest and, thus, risk a lower stock price. Hevesi also questioned the independence of Sinclair's directors, according to stock market rules. [More] http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/000323.php ================== Leigh Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/XgSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- / o o \ ===OO=====OO============================================= (4)Portals (2)News Wikis (2)Conferences - No More BuSHIT! Start here: http://pnews.org/ (On Internet since 1982) http://pnews.org/PhpWiki/ (West Coast News Wiki) http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (East Coast News Wiki) ========================================================= Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rhetoric-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
