Tuesday, October 19, 2004
I'm beginning to view this with a jaundiced eye...
"Contrary to numerous inaccurate political and press accounts, the Sinclair stations will not be airing the documentary 'Stolen Honor' in its entirety," the Maryland-based company said in a statement. ...Sinclair said it will broadcast a program titled "A POW Story: Politics, Pressure and the Media," examining allegations concerning Kerry's anti-Vietnam War activities.
[Marge Simpson voice] hnnnnnuh [/Marge voice]
Carlton Sherwood [producer of Stolen Honor] said as controversy grows over the broadcast of the film by the 62-station Sinclair Broadcasting group, he's willing to "put money" on the probability of Kerry making an attempt to apologize in order to remove the issue from the campaign. "I want him to stand up there and say, 'We lied for two-and-a-half hours to the Senate [in 1971]; I was an agent for the Viet Cong; I didn't care who I slandered, living and dead; it's all about me. This is the way I launched my political career." Instead, he expects Kerry "to pull out his little 'Band of Brothers,'" men who served with him on his two swiftboats and now support his campaign, and offer a "weepy-eyed" apology.
*adjusts green eye shade* Place your bets, gentlemen... Now here is a demonstration of real Kerry style leadership, logic and guts:
Sen. John Kerry's campaign has written a legal brief to the president of a broadcast chain that plans to air a film by his opponents, asking that the Democratic presidential nominee be given equal time. ...Sinclair has invited Kerry to appear on the program after the film is shown, but his campaign has declined.
And just when all looks darkest for Johnny WarCrimes, along come useful fools, Andrew Rappaport, "a venture capitalist," and his wife, Deborah, "a philanthropist," to offer Sinclair Broadcasting a cool $1 million to air Up the River Going Upriver, the filim made by Kerry's old buddy, George Butler. Now this is a full million above and beyond "the advertising revenue Sinclair would lose for showing the program without commercials, and any fines or penalties that might be accrued." Useful, indeed.
Oh, and you remember George Butler? He's the fella who "co-edited (with Kerry and David Thorne) The New Soldier, " the book that described in in pathological detail the whole baby-killer/Viet Nam Vet thing. He did the 'media relations' for Kerry's first congressional campaign, too, right down to taking the publicity photos.
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