ACTION ALERT

so the democratic party has (finally) mobilized a petition to be signed and some other actions people can take to stop the sinclair group from airing "stolen honor," an anti-kerry program that they plan to air during the week before the election on public television stations throughout the country like nbc, cbs, fox and abc.

click here to sign the dnc petition demanding that sinclair take their negative smears off the air.

click here for a list of phone numbers for sinclair stations. i guess the idea is to bombard them with enough pissed off phone calls to make them decide that its not worth it.

from the dnc email:

The Sinclair Broadcasting Group, a conservative broadcasting company that runs television stations in dozens of major television markets nationwide, has ordered its stations to preempt other programming and air an anti-Kerry program days before Election Day.

The so-called "documentary," called "Stolen Honor," was written, produced, and funded by extreme right-wing activists. Sinclair is using its reach to broadcast a blatantly political -- and false -- message while disguising it as "news."

And this isn't the first time the Sinclair corporate office has compromised the journalistic integrity of its stations. It ordered ABC affiliates not to air a nonpartisan tribute to our fallen U.S. soldiers, fearing the consequences for George W. Bush. It has refused to run a DNC ad that challenged Bush for citing faulty intelligence about Iraq. And Sinclair and its executives have contributed thousands of dollars to Republican causes -- and the CEO has given the maximum donation to Bush-Cheney 04.