The Reading Of The Names

I'm glad we have a satellite dish, because Dish Network offers Free Speech TV 24 hours a day. This morning, FSTV was showing Democracy Now!, and they were talking about ABC's nightline program. Last night Ted Koppel spent the entire show reading aloud the names of the soldiers who have died in Iraq. We didn't get to see it here in St. Louis, because St. Louis was one of the network affiliates who chose to preempt the program. They did it at the request of Sinclair Broadcast Group, who owns a bunch of ABC stations.

You can follow the links to get the whole story, because if you live in St. Louis, you certainly won't hear much about it locally. On a side note, Missouri must be very important to Bush, because he keeps showing up here. We get a visit every month or so, and every time he comes; protestors come too. Not that it matters much, because any protestors are held in "designated protest zones" as far from the President and the press as possible. St. Louis is a pretty accessable city, and it takes our entire police force to clear the President's route; so that there is nary a whisper of dissent near the Messiah-In-Chief.
Please vote in November.