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This is stunningly blatant hypocrisy from the Left. They are seeking to ban a film that opposes Kerry, from airing on TV two weeks before the election—while at the same time, they have no objections to Moore’s plans to air the fraudulent Fahrenheith 911 on TV the night before the election.
WASHINGTON – The Democratic Party and 18 senators are objecting to a broadcasting company’s plan to air on 62 TV stations a critical documentary about John Kerry’s anti-war activities after he returned home from Vietnam three decades ago.
Sinclair Broadcast Group has asked its television stations – many of them in competitive states in the presidential election – to pre-empt regular programming to run the documentary as part of an hourlong program two weeks before the Nov. 2 election.
...The documentary, “Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal,” chronicles Kerry’s 1971 testimony before Congress and links him to activist and actress Jane Fonda. It includes interviews with Vietnam prisoners of war and their wives who claim Kerry’s testimony – filled with “lurid fantasies of butchery in Vietnam” on the part of U.S. troops – demeaned them and led their captors to hold them longer.
The Democratic National Committee planned to file a complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday contending that Sinclair’s airing of the film should be considered an illegal in-kind contribution to President Bush’s campaign. Also, 18 Democratic senators sent a letter to the Federal Communication Commission asking that it investigate whether Sinclair’s plan was an improper use of public airwaves.
The Democrats, who can’t get enough of claiming that their own rights to free speech are infringed, can’t wait to try to shut the TV airing of that film down.
But a pro-Kerry film is perfectly okay with them.
Fahrenheit 9/11: According to Variety, Michael Moore’s dream of getting Fahrenheit 9/11 onto television the night before the presidential election is close to fruition.
The documaker is producing a three-hour pay-per-view event that will run Nov. 1, the night before Election Day.
“The Michael Moore Pre-Election Special” will consist of a screening of Fahrenheit 9/11 bookended by interviews with politically committed celebrities who’ll talk about the charges leveled in the movie and the importance of voting in the presidential election of 2004.
Come to think of it, the Left keeps pretending that Bush lied to us, yet they don’t mind at all that their propagandist, Moore, lies blatantly.
Among the rank-and-file on the Left, many may well be ashamed of the outright hypocrisy of their leadership.
A very funny new anti-Kerry ad is now up at ClubForGrowth.net.
Announcer (Male): THERES NOTHING WRONG WITH MAKING A DECISION AND THEN CHANGING YOUR MIND.
BUT IF YOU NEVER COMMIT TO WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN, WHO WILL EVER COMMIT TO YOU?
From Newt Gingrich:
For more than six months, U.N. observers, delegations from the House and Senate and aid workers from organizations such as Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders have witnessed and spoken out against what the State Department has correctly called the genocide that is being committed in Darfur by the janjaweed militias. Despite its repeated denials, it is clear that the government of Sudan is funding these attacks.
Yet in the face of all the evidence, incredibly, Sudan continues to hold a seat on the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. How can that be? How, if that is the case, can the commission have any moral standing whatsoever? How can it affect change or protect human rights?
It seems plain and obvious that Sudan must be stripped of its seat and that it cannot possibly sit in judgment of the human rights records of other countries. Yet under U.N. rules, that’s exactly how the Commission on Human Rights operates.
...over the years the commission has been corrupted by political games that have allowed some of the world’s worst human rights abusers to sit in judgment of others and to shield themselves from criticism. Known human rights abusers such as Algeria, Cuba, Syria, Iran, Pakistan and Zimbabwe have all served on the commission. In 2003, Libya was elected to chair the panel by a bloc of African and Middle East nations. The consequences are unmistakable: While the victims of abuse and torture suffer and die, the commission systematically ignores their plight and blocks efforts for intervention.
If the commission is to have any meaning, the United Nations should decree that countries charged with genocide and countries with totalitarian governments are not eligible to serve. And the Security Council must remove Sudan from the commission and ask the African nations that nominated it to appoint a respectable member.
But Kerry wants to defer many U.S. actions to the approval of the U.N. Kerry offers no serious plans for us to defend ourselves from terrorists. His election would make Americans less safe, rather than more safe.
Swift Boat vets gathered recently in Washington:
Shot down over North Vietnam in 1967, Maj. Day suffered numerous injuries, managed to escape from his prison, walked for two weeks through the jungle eating live frogs before he was recaptured.
He then spent the next six years as a prison cellmate of John McCain, who would become a Republican senator, at the prison the Americans called, with bitter irony, the “Hanoi Hilton.” Maj. Day’s presence in the room is palpable. Even in a group of decorated war veterans, he stands out as a living legend.
The others sheepishly introduce themselves and are honored just to shake his still-firm hand.
“Kerry betrayed us by telling the people we were committing atrocities,” Maj. Day says. “A man who does that is not fit to lead. It’s impossible to let this man masquerade as a war hero and someone who has leadership. To imagine this guy who betrayed us becoming president and him being the leader of our armed forces is just unthinkable.”
The following is from an excellent essay by Orson Scott Card, whom I have the honor to call a friend. (Via LFG ):
“Iraq is a mess. And it’s a mess because of two people: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.”
Those words were spoken by John Edwards recently.
...Kerry almost certainly will make the right decision on every issue. After all, if you take every possible position on every question, one of them is bound to be right.
The trouble is that the real President can’t vacillate. He can’t send troops in and at the same time not send them. He can’t go with one plan and at the same time go with another. The President has to commit, and then work with the consequences.
Senator Kerry has never had to do that. Neither has Senator Edwards.
It’s easy to say, “I would have done it better.”
But in all their attack rhetoric, have you ever heard them say exactly what they would have done differently?
More to the point, have you ever seen any evidence that before the fact, they advocated the course of action that would have avoided the problems we’ve had?
But if you’re going to blame the President and Vice-President, and no one else, for every single thing that’s gone wrong in Iraq, then let’s carry that principle all the way. Most of Iraq is recovering quite nicely from the war and already has services that are better than they were under Saddam. They live with far less fear and far more freedom than they ever had, with better to come.
When would-be recruits to the police and military are murdered by terrorists, what do the Iraqis do? They recruit in larger numbers!
It is obvious that the Iraqi people are eager to take responsibility for their own nation. Most of them want us to leave, not because they hate us, but because they want to stand on their own two feet. And our military is working with them to train them and get them ready to do exactly that—so we can go home.
...Here’s the reality check. The mess in Iraq is caused by murderers, rebels, thugs, and self-righteous fanatics. For Edwards to say that the mess is “because of” President Bush and Vice-president Cheney is so monstrously false that it offends not just common sense but common decency for a candidate for such high office to utter such an unspeakable charge.
The murderers are the ones who are guilty of their crimes. The messmakers made the mess. Our President and Vice-president have been doing their job: sticking to the mission they embarked on and seeing it through to a successful conclusion.
And there is no sign whatsoever that Kerry or Edwards know how to make a decision at all, let alone how to stick to a decision and respond to the unpredictable events that always come up in military matters.
Read the whole thing.
The Left holds Bush and Cheney responsible for the actions of those who are trying to kill us. It’s a fantasy in which we have god-like power over the behavior of others. It’s an appealing one, which has been the basis for many Hollywood films. But it’s a fantasy none the less. I believe it was George Bernard Shaw who said:
All the trouble in the world comes from people living down to fiction, instead of up to facts.
