Sinclair Stations to Air Anti-Kerry Documentary

[Khephra]

By Paul Farhi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 11, 2004; Page A07

Sinclair Broadcast Group of Maryland, owner of the largest chain of television stations in the nation, plans to preempt regular programming two weeks before the Nov. 2 election to air a documentary that accuses Sen. John F. Kerry of betraying American prisoners during the Vietnam War.

Sinclair has ordered its 62 stations, some of which are in the critical swing states of Ohio, Florida, Iowa and Wisconsin, to air "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal" during prime-time hours next week. The Sinclair station group collectively reaches 24 percent of U.S. television households.

"Stolen Honor" focuses on Kerry's antiwar testimony to Congress in 1971 and its effect on American POWs in Vietnam. Kerry testified that U.S. forces routinely committed atrocities in Vietnam. The film, produced independently of Sinclair, includes interviews with former POWs who say their Vietnamese captors used Kerry's comments to undercut prisoner morale.

Sinclair, based in the Baltimore suburb of Hunt Valley, decided to air the film after it was rejected for airing by the major broadcast networks, vice president Mark Hyman said. "This is a powerful story," Hyman said. "The networks are acting like Holocaust deniers and pretending don't exist. It would be irresponsible to ignore them."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22788-2004Oct10.html

[drfemoe]

1. Stolen Honor?

What a disgusting title, by freeps who know NOTHING of "honor".
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[AIJ Alom]

2. Where the heck do they get this stuff ? Kerry Misquote Exploited !!!

"This is a powerful story," Hyman said. "The networks are acting like Holocaust deniers and pretending don't exist. It would be irresponsible to ignore them."

Is the above guy a nut or what ? Can they lie any more to the American people ? The unsubstantiated documentary featuring the famous misquote of Kerry from the 1971 testimony, the same one the Swift Vets used !!!

"Kerry Senate Testimony (1971): I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.

It is impossible to describe to you exactly what did happen in Detroit, the emotions in the room, the feelings of the men who were reliving their experiences in Vietnam, but they did. They relived the absolute horror of what this country, in a sense, made them do.

They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, tape wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the country side of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country."

How they can get away with manipulating a public record for political gain over and over is beyond me !!!

And the same friggin misquote has been uttered by Swift Boat Vets in many of their misleading commercials !!! In fact, as I watched the RNC I sat in total astonishment that Republicans kept mentioning we should focus on Kerry's record after the war, including Karl Rove and like clockwork the Swift Boat Vets Commercial taking Kerry's words out of context would play on the hour !!! WTF ?

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