Sinclair Media

This one is INSANE.

I'm sure everyone has heard about the Sinclair Broadcasting partisanship. They are going to force all 64 of their member stations, in 39 markets to air, prime time the propeganda "documentary" Stolen Honor a supposed story of John Kerry in Viet Nam.

Where to begin?

First, this should clearly be illegal under the McCain/Feingold Campaign Finance Reform bill. This is clearly an in-kind contribution to the Bush/Cheney campaign.

This should also be illegal under Federal Election laws.

However, who is in charge of the FCC? Michael Powell. Mikey, love your dad, but you have got to go. Mikey has made many interesting decisions, including forcing out non-RBOC phone providers by removing competition pricing, locked up the 3G wireless network by not allowing the spectrum to be freed, returned many spectrums from public to military, faught for less regulation for media companies (like Sinclair), and rewarded these companies with no contest or no cost license renewals.

Powell says they will not interfere with any broadcasting. Freedom of speech.

It is just wrong. Of course, I'll have many rants following this.