Don't let the Bastards Grind You Down

As I have noted, Sinclair Broadcasting is under full assault by the DNC for their upcoming documentary regarding Kerry's misconduct following his return from Vietnam. Here is the text of an email I just sent to Sinclair Broadcasting:

Subject: Don't let the Bastards Grind You Down

Greetings,

I offer a heartfelt salute to Sinclair Broadcasting for planning to air the very necessary and important documentary based on Stolen Valor. It is important that we have a fully informed electorate by the time we vote in November and, consequently, it is also important that Sinclair present this essential information to the public.

Apparently the Kerry campaign is determined to stop the broadcast of politically inconvenient facts and information by applying incredible pressure on Sinclair. This is perfectly understandable; a fully informed electorate makes harder for them to drag their guy across the finish line in November.

Put another way, the Kerry campaign’s carefully manufactured myths are designed to avoid reminding voters of a certain age that he double-crossed his former comrades on his return from Vietnam. Specifically, these myths can only be created and sustained by highly selective usage and omission of facts and information regarding what Kerry did and said after returning from Vietnam. Your documentary will not only reveal the full extent of Kerry’s misconduct but will render the Kerry campaign’s myth-making unsustainable.

There is another factor to consider: many voters are too young to have ever known what John Kerry did on his return from Vietnam. I believe that many of these voters would care about what John Kerry did and said but they will not know and cannot care unless it’s televised. Obviously the Kerry campaign likes it much better when this information is withheld.

In my view, it is Sinclair’s obligation—all broadcasters’ obligation, really—to broadcast this documentary. That said, it is also every American’s right to vote for a turncoat in a presidential election. It is every American’s right to elect a man—who actively undermined a war while our troops were in the field—to be Commander in Chief. It is every American’s right to elect a man who sided with our enemies in a time of war to be a wartime president.

On the other hand, there is one particular right I want to deny my fellow Americans. If he is elected—and after his philosophy’s predictable failure modes begin emerging—I want no American to have the right to claim that, when he voted, he didn’t know he was voting for:

• a turncoat who betrayed his comrades when they were on the battlefield,


• a turncoat undermined a war and contributed to our loss of that war,


• a turncoat who would rather ally himself with our enemies instead of America in a time of war.

Put another way, in the event that Kerry is elected president, I want nobody to be able to claim that he didn’t consciously and deliberately elect such an unsuitable Commander in Chief.

Obviously the Kerry campaign will employee all available means—including illegal intimidation—to protect itself from a fully informed electorate. Kerry campaign spokesman, Chad Clanton, proved this when he publicly threatened Sinclair Broadcasting on national television: “I think they're going to regret doing this—They better hope we don't win.” This simply proves your documentary is exactly the sort of free speech that the First Amendment was designed to protect.

Don’t let them shake you; Chad Clanton’s naked threat to use the force of government to silence Sinclair is both empty and ironic. Surely the same first amendment that protects Michael Moore’s anti-American propaganda will also protect Sinclair’s documentary. Regarding the obvious irony: the leftists, who always quick to cry "censorship" when they attempt to silence criticism of far-left or
anti-American speech (e.g., the Dixie Chicks’ defense), immediately resort to the force of government when they encounter speech they don’t like; not to criticize said speech but to crush it.

Generations of American military men died defending our constitution. Our debt to them is to not allow the current bully of the moment to intimidate us out of the exercise of the freedoms they won for us; including your right, as a member of our free press, to confidently publish or broadcast information that some politician
finds politically inconvenient.

On another note, I must say I was impressed with your spokesman, Mark Hyman, when he was interviewed on FoxNEWS regarding Clanton’s threat. I was especially impressed with Mark Hyman after I learned the following about him via google:

• He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1981


• He has conducted worldwide travel with extensive time spent in the Middle East.


• He is Captain in the Naval Reserve, he has served in leadership positions in CIA’s National Warning Staff, the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office and he is currently a Commanding Officer in the Naval Reserve’s Space and Network Warfare Program.


• The military organizations in which he has served have been awarded four CIA National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Commendations during his service, and he has been awarded the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award, and several Navy and Joint military awards.

An old proverb says, “Tell me the company you keep, and I will tell you who you are”. Sinclair’s ability to attract a man such as Mark Hyman and the Democrats’ deliberate nomination of a very different sort of man tells me all I need to know about both organizations.