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"Enkidu" |
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01 Nov 2004 08:40:40 AM |
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OT: The GOP's 'Heidi Game' |
The GOP's 'Heidi Game'
Does Bush now have a sports gaffe of his own?
By Chris Suellentrop
Posted Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004, at 11:56 PM PT
ORLANDO The South Florida Sun-Sentinel buried this nugget Sunday in a
story about the late delivery of 2,500 absentee ballots in Broward
County: WPLG-Channel 10, an ABC affiliate in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale
area, aired a half-hour chunk of Stolen Honor, the 43-minute anti-Kerry
documentary, on Saturday. The time was purchased by Newton Media, a
Virginia-based media placement company that says it was founded "on
biblical principles" and that includes a number of "media ministries"
among its clients.
Angry callers "flooded the customer service phone lines" at the station
for airing the program, the Sun-Sentinel reported. A liberal backlash?
No, just sports fans upset that the Michigan-Michigan State football
game, "tied, 37-37, and about to go into overtime," was pre-empted.
Doesn't anyone at Newton Media know the story of the "Heidi game"? Could
this be the Republicans' "Lambert Field moment"?
http://slate.msn.com/id/2108957/fr/rss/
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Enkidu
"Yee-Ha" is not a foreign policy.
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| User: "Apostate" |
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| Title: Re: OT: The GOP's 'Heidi Game' |
01 Nov 2004 11:54:35 AM |
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On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 14:40:40 GMT, Enkidu <enkidu@leaddogs.org> wrote:
The GOP's 'Heidi Game'
Does Bush now have a sports gaffe of his own?
By Chris Suellentrop
Posted Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004, at 11:56 PM PT
ORLANDO The South Florida Sun-Sentinel buried this nugget Sunday in a
story about the late delivery of 2,500 absentee ballots in Broward
County: WPLG-Channel 10, an ABC affiliate in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale
area, aired a half-hour chunk of Stolen Honor, the 43-minute anti-Kerry
documentary, on Saturday. The time was purchased by Newton Media, a
Virginia-based media placement company that says it was founded "on
biblical principles" and that includes a number of "media ministries"
among its clients.
Angry callers "flooded the customer service phone lines" at the station
for airing the program, the Sun-Sentinel reported. A liberal backlash?
No, just sports fans upset that the Michigan-Michigan State football
game, "tied, 37-37, and about to go into overtime," was pre-empted.
Doesn't anyone at Newton Media know the story of the "Heidi game"? Could
this be the Republicans' "Lambert Field moment"?
http://slate.msn.com/id/2108957/fr/rss/
Despite being put off by the tactic of running what amounts to a half-hour
attack ad, I'm also marginally vindicated to see an election campaign
preempting a sports event (and don't think I don't take an extra little
frisson of pleasure from the dramatic timing, relative to the game in
progress.)
The government in the US may be effectively a corporatocracy, but the
social order is clearly a sportsocracy. Viva la revolucion!!
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/Apostate
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