John Kerry tries to censor Vietnam vets and former POWs
Addison Ross
There is nothing like the truth to enrage hardcore Dems. Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc announced that it would broadcast a documentary that shows Vietnam vets, particularly former POWs speaking out against Kerry.
And what is John Kerry's immediate response? He sends in his attack to dogs to cancel the documentary, intimidate Sinclair and slime the vets. Naturally, our mainstream media sits idly by while Kerry thugs savage the First Amendment.
In their efforts to silence the POWs who are trying to tell their story on Sinclair the Dems had Jon Leiberman on board. Leiberman was fired by Sinclair Broadcast for violating company policy. Lieberman claims he was victimized for opposing the company policy of giving these Vietnam heroes a break. Leiberman is a liar.
Leiberman accused the documentary of being "biased political propaganda, with clear intentions to sway this election." In other words, the POWs and other veterans who participated in the documentary are a pack of lying Republican bigots.
Leiberman pompously announced: "I know I stood up for the principles of objectivity." Really? When Dan Rather, Mary Mapes and the rest of Kerry's crew at CBS participated in what amounted, with the use of faked documents, a criminal conspiracy to destroy the Bush administration where was the fearless Leiberman?
Why didn't this Kerry supporter stand up for journalistic "principles of objectivity" when it came to the Rather scandal?
And as Leiberman and the rest of John Kerry's media stooges are so insistent on maintaining the "principles of objectivity" why did they ignore the Sundance Channel which has broadcast hours of anti-Bush propaganda without once giving the Bush campaign right of reply. (I believe that right of reply is no more than a courtesy).
Shortly before the election the channel plans to broadcast a stream of anti-Bush mocumentaries. Once again, the Bush campaign was not invited to respond.
The Sundance Channel is not only under the direction of the Castro-loving Robert Redford it is also operated by Viacom's Showtime Networks.
Now Redford and Viacom are perfectly entitled to abuse their First Amendment rights by not inviting the Bush campaign to defend itself against the channel's scurrilous attacks. But this is not what Sinclair did and Leiberman knows it. So why does Leiberman refuse to condemn Sundance Channel? Here's a clue: he's a Democrat.
His loyalty to the Democratic Party would also explain why he did not condemn John Kerry's attempt to get Unfit for Command barred from bookshops.
And where were the noble Leiberman's principles when a leaked memo by Mark Halperin, ABC News Director, urged so-called journalists in his department to bend the news to favor Kerry?
For four years Bush has had to put up with a relentlessly dishonest onslaught by the mainstream media without a peep of protest from the likes of Leiberman. But as soon as a group of Vietnam veterans get the opportunity to tell their side of the story this phony suddenly discovers his "principles of objectivity". What a wonderful coincidence.
Did Leiberman cooperate with the thuggish Chad Clanton who falsely accused Sinclair of not having "any sense of obligation to the public trust"? The very same Clanton who is too cowardly to even publicly defend his vicious charges and thuggish behavior.
Sinclair offered Kerry the opportunity to question the documentary. He refused. The politically bigoted Clanton used Kerry's refusal to accept Sinclair's offer as a vile excuse to falsely accuse the company of being partisan, unlike the mainstream media, and of betraying the public interest.
Kerry's sleazy tactic is all too clear: Refuse to appear, or even send substitutes; use your refusal as an excuse to demand that the company cancel the documentary on the grounds that you have been denied the right to respond.
Leiberman knew that Kerry had been offered the opportunity to defend himself against these vets' charges and yet he claimed that the company was not being honest. An accusation he could only make by publicly ignoring Sinclair's offer and keeping his dishonest tongue firmly in his left cheek. (Maybe Leiberman thinks CBS and the Sundance Channel are paragons of journalistic "objectivity").
Despite his obvious chicanery Leiberman is presenting himself as a political martyr. He is neither a martyr nor an honorable man nor a respecter of the First Amendment.
By attacking the documentary the way he did, he basically accused these veterans of being a bunch of lying bigots. The cowardly Clanton did exactly the same thing, as did the corrupt George Butler, producer of the Kerry hagiography Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry.
The only thing motivating these closet totalitarians (apart from Rassman who is just a "useful idiot") is fear of the truth? They are terrified that the American public will get to see an alternative view of Kerry, the one he and his media pals have been assiduously hiding from the public.
Just as Kerry the 'hero' vilified a generation of troops back in 1971 he is now slandering these POWs by insinuating that they are Republican liars who are defaming him.
Before you begin to dispute my conclusion bear in mind that whenever Kerry's thugs accuse this documentary of lying they are in fact accusing the participants of being liars.
Remember: it is logically impossible to separate one from the other.
It's important to note that these thugs only attack the film, never the veterans. The disgraced Rassman attacked the documentary and named, naturally, Karl Rove as the mastermind behind it. (Devilishly clever chap, that Karl Rove). But he steered completely clear of the vets — and so did the other thugs. Clear evidence that like Kerry himself, these men greatly fear what the vets have to say.
It shows just how low the Democratic Party has sunk when its hatchet men will ruthlessly try to suppress the rights of former POWs to speak their minds. It used to be called "power to truth". Now it's using power to suppress truth.
What person with an ounce of commonsense would be willing to grant these Brownshirts enormous political power?
BrookesNews.Com
Monday 25 October 2004