Up early, dangit- this old scoundrel
got me up to hunt a 'possum that keep trying to get over the fence.
Posted on 10/22/2004 11:08:00 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
The first sentence of the New York Times' review today of "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal" was what we expected: It said Sinclair Broadcast Group should not show the documentary. Then the pro-Kerry daily explained why in a stunning recommendation:
"It should be shown in its entirety on all the networks, cable stations and on public television."
This is the same paper that ran such a bizarre, hateful campaign against Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" and trashed "Unfit for Command" while touting Kitty Kelley's anti-Bush gossip?
TV reviewer Alessandra Stanley indicates she doesn't like the fact that "Stolen Honor" will hinder Sen. John Kerry's candidacy, but she nonetheless advises that "it does help viewers better understand the rage fueling the unhappy band of brothers who oppose Mr. Kerry's candidacy and his claim to heroism."
Stanley writes:
This film is payback time, a chance to punish one of the most famous antiwar activists, Mr. Kerry, the one who got credit for serving with distinction in combat, then, through the eyes of the veterans in this film, went home to discredit the men left behind. The film begins with dirgelike music and a scary black-and-white montage of stark images of soldiers and prisoners as a deep voice sorrowfully intones, "In other wars, when captured soldiers were subjected to the hell of enemy prisons, they were considered heroes." The narrator adds, "In Vietnam they were betrayed."
The imagery is crude, but powerful: each mention of Mr. Kerry's early 1970's meeting with North Vietnamese government officials in Paris is illustrated with an old black-and-white still shot of the Arc de Triomphe, an image that to many viewers evokes the Nazi occupation of Paris. ...
The film's producer, Carlton Sherwood, a former investigative reporter and a Vietnam veteran, gives his own testimony, explaining that even though he has uncovered all kinds of misdeeds in his career, the history of Mr. Kerry's antiwar activism is "a lot more personal." He recalls listening to Mr. Kerry's testimony in 1971, saying, "I felt an inner hurt no surgeon's scalpel could remove."
That pain is the main theme of the documentary, which can be seen in its entirety on the Internet for $4.99. One former P.O.W., John Warner, lashes out at Mr. Kerry for having coaxed Mr. Warner's mother to testify at the Winter Soldier Investigation, where disgruntled veterans testified to war crimes they committed. Calling it a "contemptible act," Mr. Warner, who spent more than five years as a prisoner, tells the camera that Mr. Kerry was the kind of man who preyed on a mother's grief "purely for the promotion of your own political agenda."
Up early, dangit- this old scoundrel
got me up to hunt a 'possum that keep trying to get over the fence.
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It was just a note to myself to read the thread and get busy today. Sorry. Was a bit tired and didn't change the to section.
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Do university's offer a degree in this?
The NYT's is only supporting 'Stolen Honor: Wounds that never Heal' 'cause of the wicked witch hitlery...they do not won't a rat in the WH until 2008...and that rat they hope will be hitlery. Which it won't...by that time all hitlery's little secrets will have been made so public...she'll have a hard time even being seen in public and she could be in a Fed Pen. ;o) After Bush is re-elected watch the take down of hitlery begin.
I'm sure you're right.
However, just at the minute, I'll embrace anything (within reason) to see President Bush re-elected - even the NYT playing funny internal Dem games.
ROFL!
The system here seems to be a rather unique and well tailored system...
It has many interesting facilities.
Are you into computers?
or do you prefer the telephone?
They should show Stolen Honor and pro-Kerry film Going Up River both back to back. People are smart enough to work out what is propaganda and what is the truth.
My computer skills are improving - but I started on a pretty low base.
We had portions of the pro-Kerry film shown on television today - what a crock!!!!!
Good read. This is a very strange move by the NYT. I read one who believes the motive might be to help Hitlery in '08. Another might be that the NYT sees Kerry as such a sorry human being that, should he win, he could hurt the Democratic Party's chances for many years to come. However, it is doubtful the NY Times, in its partisan blindness, realizes that the party has been losing House seats, governorships, and state legislatures over the past decade because it is becoming more and more the party of the left-wing extreme and the obscene.
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