leftyandproud
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Fri Aug-20-04 02:10 PM
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KERRY CAMPAIGN CALLS FOR BOOK BAN! (Unfit for Command) |
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breaking on Drudge...
www.drudgereport.com
The Kerry campaign calls on a publisher to 'withdraw book' written by group of veterans, claiming veterans are lying about Kerry's service in Vietnam and operating as a front organization for Bush. Kerry campaign has told Salon.com that the publisher of UNFIT FOR COMMAND is 'retailing a hoax'... 'No publisher should want to be selling books with proven falsehoods in them,' Kerry campaign spokesman Chad Clanton tells the online mag... Developing...
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leftyandproud
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Fri Aug-20-04 02:12 PM
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1. This is a bad Idea I think... |
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Edited on Fri Aug-20-04 02:12 PM by leftyandproud
certainly a bad precedent...like the Freepers trying to get use campaign finance laws to prevent F-911 from being shown nationwide...
first we ban books...then movies...then we censor political opinion in papers and radio...
BAD road to go down.
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Fri Aug-20-04 02:13 PM
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Book publishers should be deciding what book publishers want to sell.
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Fri Aug-20-04 02:13 PM
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3. What Kerry needs is a court injunction |
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Fri Aug-20-04 02:14 PM
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It's not exactly a precedent since Bush's campaign did the same thing to "Fortunate Son" back in the 2000 campaign. Still, I agree with you that this is a bad idea.
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