Sinclair Broadcasting's David Smith Busted In Prostitution Sting

[antonialee839]

rut roh

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/05/287287.shtml

[kokomo]

1. Republican "family values"

[HarveyBriggs]

2. We can't have such an immorally lead company own TV stations!

The FCC should pull all the station's licenses until the matter is solved.

Think about the CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!

Harvey Briggs

[PROGRESSIVE1]

16. Oh the children, what will ever happen to them now?

Oh my, now what?

[Erika]

3. Yeah, The GOP Guy who tried to prohibit our dead troops from being....

honored on Nightline. Typical GOP.

[mefoolonhill]

6. GOP dirtbags

Somebody needs to put up website that lists all the GOP creeps who have been caught at one crime or another over the past 10 years. It's astonishing how many of those sanctimonious windbags have embarrassed themselves while preaching family values out of the side of their mouth.

[rooboy]

4. WHEN was this? Not LBN, I suspect. n/t

[UTUSN]

17. Looks Like It Was Re-posted from 1996, But

it never hurts to know who these people are. At least it was with a WOMAN--------riiiiiighhttt?

[Nashvilliberal]

5. Oh, yes, there IS a God...

...and he has one hell of a sense of humor!!!

HOW SWEET IT IS!!!!

[Infomaniac]

7. I don't suppose it matters...

but according to the information from Sinclair's latest proxy on file with the Securities & Exchange Commission (www.sec.gov) Smith is 53 not 45. Rut roh is right. I'm wondering if Sinclair has to file a report with the SEC on Form 8-K about his arrest. Any securities lawyers here able to shed some light on that topic? How would you word a report about your CEO being caught in a "perverted sex act." LOL.

[rooboy]

9. The age difference is due to the fact that the story is 8 years old. n/t

[kikiek]

14. And the article 5 months old. It didn't garnish a lot of interest. It

is amazing how they avoid scrutiny.

[Wapsie B]

8. He's stupid enough to pick up women from the street and risk a sting.

You'd think someone like him would go through an escort service.

[TexasBushwhacker]

20. He's even stupid enough to continue driving

while the prostitute was "doing her job". Too bad he didn't hit a pothole or speedbump.

[burrowowl]

10. Oh, my!

Of course they didn't air Ms Janet's tit.
Ah! Hypocracy!

[Skittles]

15. airing a tit bad

using women as semen receptacles - A-OK. :puke:

[Amigust]

29. "using women as semen receptacles"

An over-generalization that distorts what sex is.

At the core of it, using each other with their mutual consent is how most interpersonal transactions happen at all.

You have something I want (your merchandise, your money, your smile, your labor, your affection, your admiration, your acceptance, your vote, your company, your cooperation) - I do what it takes to get your consent. At the core of it, this is where we are.

The many complications that arise do so around this core, and they are indeed nuanced.

[jdj]

33. "committing an unnatural and perverted sex act"

was the charge.

and she wasn't talking about sex. she was talking about prostitution. A poet and former prostitute that I read has referred to it as being "a tunnel for the spit of men." Is that better?

[Erika]

11. He Owned A Fox Affiliate

so he must be innocent. (sarcasm)

[UCLA Dem]

12. oh the irony!!

[truthisfreedom]

13. he deserves it. check out what sinclair is planning for a few days before

the election:

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041009-060025-2603r.htm

Sinclair to air anti-Kerry special



New York, NY, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- A conservative U.S. broadcaster whose outlets reach one-quarter of the nation's TV viewers is airing a film that attacks John Kerry just before the election. Sinclair Broadcast Group has ordered its 62 stations to preempt regular programming during primetime to air "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal," the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. The film, funded by Pennsylvania veterans and produced by a veteran and former Washington Times reporter, features former POWs accusing Kerry -- a decorated U.S. Navy veteran who later protested the war -- of worsening their ordeal by prolonging the conflict.

The Kerry campaign blasted Sinclair for what it says is strongarming its stations into broadcasting lies to influence the political process, the Times said.

"It's beyond yellow journalism," said Kerry spokesman David Wade. "It's a smear bankrolled by Republican money, and I don't think Americans will stand for it."

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[TexasBushwhacker]

24. If he's 53, did he serve in Vietnam?

He's just the right age. It seems like it would be pretty easy to find out. Does anyone know who you gotta call? There can't be that many David Deniston Smith's out there.

[amber dog democrat]

18. Goes to show how perverted these Repugs are...

For all means lets get this out there.
You KNOW the RW Blogs would be all over this if it were someone else.

[demokatgurrl]

19. This is the company who

1) refused to air Ted Koppel reading the list of those killed in Iraq and
2) now wants to show an anti-Kerry film on network TV right before the election.

THIS HAS TO GET OUT EVERYWHERE!!!!!!:mad:

[acmavm]

22. Oh I'm sure he's been reborn into Jesus and all his sins have been

forgiven, like someone else we all can think of.

It's one thing for a democrat to get a blow job, it's another when a republican does it. (Sorry to be so crude.)

[wryter2000]

21. There is a God!

And She is righteous in Her hatred of hypocrisy.

[Amigust]

23. It's a sad commentary on American values

when a blow job is characterized in the law as "unnatural and perverted" and that the energy of the police force and the court is diverted into such a pursuit.

I guess they just have to enforce good Sharia, I mean Christian, values in society.

[bvar22]

25. "unnatural and perverted sex act"

David Deniston Smith, president and chief executive officer of Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., was charged with committing an unnatural and perverted sex act..."

I've got to admit that my imagination was challenged by the above description. I didn't know getting a little head was unnatural and perverted. I'm glad I've NEVER, EVER done ANYTHING like that.

repeat: David Deniston Smith, president and chief executive officer of Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.,was charged with committing an unnatural and perverted sex act..."

[progressivebydesign]

34. I'd guess he picked up a male prostitute...

.. something a man does sexually with another man would cover that charge... I just makes me WONDER what that good, Republican man was up to?

[jbfam4]

26. Right...it's the "When I was young and foolish"

defense.

[Steelangel]

27. I am confusing about that date

Is that old article?

[Pithy Cherub]

28. Karma Rules!

I am sure he thought he was in a legally and morally sanctioned prostitution economic development zone. It was a charitable donation.

[SaintLouisBlues]

30. Kick

For the Sinclair asshole

[debatepro]

31. Vicious

We don't like to be but sometimes our buttons just get pushed the wrong way. Every person at an affiliate should be a target of an investigation.

[Tight_rope]

32. Another repuke goes down!

[Julian English]

36. Actually, he probably was arrested for going down

[Neshanic]

35. "Oral sex on the Jones Falls" Waters newest film to come.

[Moderator]

37. While enlightening, this story is from May, and isn't LBN

Feel free to discuss it in another forum