Ted Koppel, is planning to dedicate tonight's edition of "Nightline" to reading the names of members of the American military who have been killed in Iraq, and showing their portraits. As far as I understand it, that's about it.
Now, a lovely entity called Sinclair Broadcast Group, which apparently owns a bunch of stations, has told its ABC affiliates not to air the program because "Despite the denials by a spokeswoman for the show, the action appears to be motivated by a political agenda designed to undermine the efforts of the United States in Iraq."
Not surprisingly, Sinclair executives are big Bush supporters, but of course, they are purely motivated by a higher love for their country, and have no political agenda whatsoever. In any case, Senator John McCain publicly told them off in a letter to their CEO, calling their actions "unpatriotic" and saying "Every American has a responsibility to understand fully the terrible costs of war and the extraordinary sacrifices it requires of those brave men and women who volunteer to defend the rest of us."
You couldn't buy better publicity if you tried. As I've said many times, Some Republicans baffle me. Don't they know when they try crap like this, they're going to look completely ridiculous and it's going to benefit the other side? Or perhaps it's good cop, bad cop... I wonder what the ratings of the show will be now?
And in the meantime, more servicepeople died today in Iraq, and who knows how many Iraqis. And we just sit around squabbling about crap like this.
