WOW..What a bunch of hypocrites. What a whiney bunch of babies. And they
want
to lead this country..???? Gee....when Farenheit 9/11 plays it's lies and
distortions all over the country....the Democrats say "First Amendment".
Now we have a documentary about Kerry, all true, and the Democrats whine
and
weasel and complain. They sound like the wet panty little girls they
really
are.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaa...........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dems Oppose Plan to Air Anti-Kerry Film
Oct 11, 3:05 PM (ET)
By LIZ SIDOTI

WASHINGTON (AP) - 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.

Based near Baltimore, the company owns or manages affiliates of major
broadcast
networks in several states, including Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania.

Mark Hyman, a vice president of corporate relations for Sinclair who also
is a
conservative commentator for the company, said Monday the show would
contain
some or all of the 42-minute film as well as a panel discussion of some
sort.
He said final details had not been worked out.

The documentary, called "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 that 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.

However, Sinclair's Hyman said, "The documentary is just a part of a
special
news event that we're putting together. We've invited one person to be a
guest.
That's Senator John Kerry." The company posted a note on its Web site
Monday
afternoon urging people to call Kerry's headquarters to urge his
participation.

Chad Clanton, a Kerry campaign spokesman, said, "Everything is on the
table but
it's hard to take an offer seriously from a group with such a fierce
partisan
agenda, a group that's clearly not interested in the truth."

Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe said the company
was
acting as a mouthpiece for the Republican Party rather than a legitimate
news
outlet.

"In this election cycle, they have put their money where their right-wing
mouths are," he said. "Sinclair's owners aren't interested in news.
They're
interested in pro-Bush propaganda."

Campaign finance records show that the company's executives have donated
thousands of dollars to Bush's campaign. In April, the company was in the
news
for refusing to run a "Nightline" show in which hundreds of names of
American
troops killed in Iraq were read by ABC anchor Ted Koppel.

Hyman called the allegations about the documentary "absolutely absurd."

"Would they suggest that our reporting a car bomb in Iraq is an in-kind
contribution to the Kerry campaign? Would they suggest that our reporting
on
job losses is an in-kind contribution to the Kerry campaign?" he said.
"It's
the news. It is what it is. We're reporting the news."

Carlton Sherwood, a Vietnam veteran and former journalist who made the
film,
said Monday that he felt the media had not explored the period of Kerry's
life
after he returned from Vietnam, including when he testified before the
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee alleging atrocities in Vietnam.

"For 33 years, we've been saying that how Kerry portrayed us was utterly
false.
It was purgatory of the worst kind. It was slander," Sherwood said. "But
no one
wanted to talk about it. Everybody ran for cover."

Sherwood, based in Harrisburg, Pa., said the film took six weeks to make,
and
Sinclair contacted him last month upon the film's completion. He said he
was
told last week of the company's plans to run it, and that the company was
not
compensating him for the film

Gajr