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| Erebus |
Posted - 10/23/2004 : 09:29:35
http://www.rogerlsimon.com/mt-archives/2004/10/stolen_honor_a.php
October 23, 2004: "Stolen Honor" - A Review
The Wall Street Journal is outraged this morning, as well it should be, in its lead editorial - "Sinclair and Watergate" - at the suppression of the film "Stolen Honor." The documentary was held back from television airing by the Sinclair Network because of a full-court press on the network by Democratic Party partisans, including the threat of lawsuit. The Freedom of the Press implications of this are obvious and disconcerting, to say the least. But read the WSJ for that. [snip]
Kerry lied about his fellow soldiers in a serious and, it seems evident, conscious manner, going so far as to say they cut off peoples' ears, raped and pillaged like Genghis Khan. Even given the passions of the time, this defamation is hard to explain. No wonder the Democratic Party wants us to look away. I wanted to look away. It is hard to conceive someone of so little moral compass is going to lead us in a time of war. Still, I suppose I could forgive Kerry if he had apologized for this in full as the recklessness of youth. But until now he hasn't. The Democratic Party knows this too. That's why they also want us to look away. It is over thirty years ago and therefore, they wish us to believe, beyond the statute of electoral limitations. No it's not. [snip]
comments by readers at Mr. Simon's site:
Democrats are outraged--OUTRAGED!--that there should exist any media voice that they do not control. Perhaps democrats control Hollywood, the major newspapers, and most cable and broadcast networks. But that's not enough. They have to control it all.
The minions of the DNC fear the voices of the people who knew John Kerry, and the voices of those who suffered because of John Kerry. They want to bury all those voices beneath repetitions of "I have a plan," and "I will bring our allies together to do the job right."
Warning: Past performance may predict future actions. Caviat voter.
Posted by: legion at October 23, 2004 06:44 AM
The Democratic Party has been screaming about the Bush administration's supposed crushing of dissent for well over a year now: supposed challenges to everybody's patriotism, the alleged rightwing conspiracy to prevent distribution of Fahrenheit 911, hysterical Hollywood speeches about the inability of Hollywood to make hysterical speeches, etc., etc.
What I seem to see, however, is Democratic (and media) attacks against the free expression rights of the Swift Boat Veterans, court challenges, accusations against the Bush Administration for supposed complicity, more lawsuits against Sinclair and political threats to limit its broadcasting rights, Michael Moore's threatening critics with libel suits. All of this while CBS invents evidence about Bush's NG duties thirty years ago and the MSM ignores the charges against Kerry, some of which concern quite recent conduct, such as bogus claims about Christmas in Cambodia even on the Senate floor and in interviews over the past few years.
I do not see the Bush administration filing court challenges to try to suppress Fahrenheit 911, or Moveon's ads, etc. even as the top ranks of the Democratic party leadership attend private screenings of Moore's film, give Moore a privileged place at its convention sitting aside an ex-President, and openly coordinate their activities with extremely well-funded 527 organizations. (Even the initial suggestion by some Republican congressmen that hearings be held to investigate the CBS memo reports was quickly opposed by most of the pro-Bush commentariat as a restriction on free speech.)
Is it my imagination that there is an appallingly hypocritical double standard here? Is there some authoritarian streak on the left that wants to restrict speech they don't like?
Gabriel Gonzalez - Paris
Posted by: Gabriel Gonzalez at October 23, 2004 07:05 AM
"I was astonished that Kerry wasn't prosecuted under the UCMJ [Uniform Code of Military Justice] when he made his blanket accusation on national TV and treated with the enemy in Paris." From a post by Cap'n Billy above.
Maybe he was and that is the reason the Federal Form #180 [for release of ALL Kerry military records] won't be signed. In a New York Sun newspaper article http://www.nysun.com/article/3107 ... there is a story about that very thing. Mr. Kerry just might have been adjudicated under the UCMJ and been given a BCD [Bad Conduct Discharge]; take a look.
Posted by: Ron at October 23, 2004 08:37 AM |
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| VoVat |
Posted - 10/24/2004 : 18:09:21
quote:
Kerry lied about his fellow soldiers in a serious and, it seems evident, conscious manner, going so far as to say they cut off peoples' ears, raped and pillaged like Genghis Khan.
Yeah, I'll bet it was a LOT more like Attilla the Hun.
"Signature quotes are so lame." --Nathan |
| Monsieur |
Posted - 10/23/2004 : 10:23:33
quote:
Originally posted by Erebus
Monsieur, I don't understand the nature of your question, but no, not you personally.
edit: KoK points me to the "enemy in Paris" phrase, which I hope you interpret as meeting with the North Vietnamese.
Oh.
It's quite easy to misinterprete, though.
I will show you fear in a handful of dust |
| The King Of Karaoke |
Posted - 10/23/2004 : 09:57:54
Is it okay to play games with peoples lives? Bush must think so.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/245275p-210124c.html
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| The King Of Karaoke |
Posted - 10/23/2004 : 09:54:07
quote:
Originally posted by Erebus
Monsieur, I don't understand the nature of your question, but no, not you personally.
This line Erubus
treated with the enemy in Paris.
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| The King Of Karaoke |
Posted - 10/23/2004 : 09:44:00
I was tuning in the shine on the light night dial
Doing anything my radio advised
With every one of those late night stations
Playing songs bringing tears to me eyes
I was seriously thinking about hiding the receiver
When the switch broke ’cause it’s old
They’re saying things that I can hardly believe.
They really think we’re getting out of control.
Radio is a sound salvation
Radio is cleaning up the nation
They say you better listen to the voice of reason
But they don’t give you any choice
’cause they think that it’s treason.
So you had better do as you are told.
You better listen to the radio.
I wanna bite the hand that feeds me.
I wanna bite that hand so badly.
I want to make them wish they’d never seen me.
Some of my friends sit around every evening
And they worry about the times ahead
But everybody else is overwhelmed by indifference
And the promise of an early death
You either shut up or get cut up;
They don’t wanna hear about it.
It’s only inches on the reel-to-reel.
And the radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools
Tryin’ to anaesthetise the way that you feel
[chorus]
Wonderful radio
Marvelous radio
Wonderful radio
Radio, radio...
- Elvis Costello
Sounds like he's talking about conservative radio (media) to me.
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| Erebus |
Posted - 10/23/2004 : 09:37:20
Monsieur, I don't understand the nature of your question, but no, not you personally.
edit: KoK points me to the "enemy in Paris" phrase, which I hope you interpret as meeting with the North Vietnamese. |
| Monsieur |
Posted - 10/23/2004 : 09:32:57
You consider me as your enemy, Erebus?
I will show you fear in a handful of dust |
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