the mother of all hissy fits

Well the DNC is throwing the mother of all hissy fits over the Sinclair Broadcasting Group’s decision to air a one-hour documentary titled Stolen Honor. Stolen Honor is a documentary that exposes John Kerry’s treachery after he returned from his four and one half months in Vietnam.

Kerry campaign spokesman Chad Clanton publicly threatened Sinclair Broadcasting on Fox News Channel's Dayside with Linda Vester. I think they're going to regret doing this—They better hope we don't win."

Of course, after making this threat on live national TV Clanton then denied that his threatening language—which insinuated that the Kerry Presidency would use the government’s regulatory agencies to punish Sinclair—was a threat.

My immediate reaction when I heard Clanton’s threat on FoxNEWS was something like:

Goddamn right Sinclair hopes Kerry doesn’t win. All genuine Americans hope Kerry loses.


On the other hand, Kerry seems to have the transnationalist vote, the Democratic surrender monkey vote, the “contain America first” vote, the moron vote, the al Qaeda vote and the bed-wetter vote locked up. Well Sinclair and genuine Americans definitely have the right enemies.

The Kerry campaign and the DNC are terrified by being confronted with Kerry’s history of being a turncoat and contributing to our loss in Vietnam.

One additional comment: this moonbat was trying to scare his readers—or that might that be reader—with the terrifying information that Sinclair’s spokesman, Mark Hyman, is

“a 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 Space and Network Warfare Program.”

Hyman, not willing to hide his ties to the Company, notes that “the military organizations in which he has served have been awarded four CIA National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Commendations during his service.” Hyman’s current position puts him in a key position in promoting President Bush’s dream of Star Wars II embodied in one of the government’s most shocking documents, “Joint Vision for 2020” which commits our nation to “full spectrum dominance” of the Earth.

Yup, this Sinclair Broadcasting is ALRIGHT! If Mark Hyman, who is Vice President for Corporate Relations for Sinclair Broadcasting, is a typical Sinclair executive then I know this organization is going to have some major spine.

In other places in the blogosphere:

One hundred Percenter Newswires has some excellent commentary:

Mark Hyman, vice president for corporate relations at Sinclair, said: "Our goal here is to get John Kerry to sit down and talk with these guys. Get a chance to tell them why he branded them as war criminals, why he accused them of committing war-time atrocities."

"Is it (illegal) because there are some elements of this that may reflect poorly on John Kerry?" Hyman asked.

It seems awfully hypocritical for democrats to complain about bias, when they have enjoyed a pro-democratic media for 30 years.

Recently, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, CBS's 60 Minutes, Howard Stern's highly rated morning talk show, NBC, ABC and MSNBC News, have all operated under the DNC umbrella, promoting Kerry.

"We had ("Fahrenheit 9/11" documentary creator) Michael Moore, we had CBS, which they had false documents. Having experienced over the course of a number of years what I consider to be a media bias in some cases I'm not in the business of dealing with filing complaints against media organizations," said Ken Mehlman, manager of President Bush's re-election campaign.

Democrats allege that the planned broadcasts are "not in the best interests for America." However, it seems they are convoluting democrat interests, with the broader populous[sic].

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If the democrats are successful in suppressing the voices of veterans who have something to say about John Kerry, it would set a dangerous precedent.

For the most part, America has enjoyed a free press.

Free to criticize sitting Presidents, during war. Free to slander American & Coalition Troops fighting for freedom in Iraq and Afghanistan. Free to tarnish America's best corporations, while promoting socialism. Free to praise terrorists and dictators. Free to malign Christianity, God and the cross. Free to begrime marriage. Free to defame the U.S. military. Free to vilify right-wing media pundits.

Free to calumniate decorated Vietnam War Veterans in a documentary called "Stolen Honor," but praise Michael Moore as a hero.

Update:

William P. Kucewicz posted an article on NRO regarding the equivalence between Sinclair Broadcasting and Robert Redford’s Sundance film channel:

Organizing what amounts to a Dump George Bush film festival, the Sundance Channel, which is under Redford's "creative direction" but is operated by Viacom's Showtime Networks, is preempting its scheduled lineup in order to devote nearly one-sixth of its airtime through Election Day to programming opposed to President Bush and the GOP. So far, however, this highly partisan scheme has slipped under the news media's radar.

Not so, the Sinclair controversy. All Tuesday, the airwaves were filled with discussion of the proposal to broadcast, at least in part, Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal, which NRO's Kate O'Beirne has called a "powerful documentary featuring highly decorated Vietnam POWs recounting how Lt. (jg) John Kerry's antiwar activity affected them."

Oh by the way, if you jump to the Sundance film channel you will see that it is promoting "Poltical Documentraries" with—who else?—Michael Moore and is televising Al Franken's Air (head) America radio show.