From the JFK DEMO-lition derby...
Sinclair Broadcasting is scheduling a documentary for broadcast on its 62 television stations two weeks before Election Day, featuring a look at John Kerry's anti-war activities upon returning from the briefest of tours in Vietnam. The documentary is "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal" and includes interviews with POWs and their wives, who discuss how Lt. Kerry's 1971 testimony before Congress prolonged the torture of those POWs, whom he accused of war crimes.
DNC chief Terry McAuliffe said Sinclair was putting "their money where their right-wing mouths are." That's clever, Terry -- did you make that up all by yourself?
Knowing that Senator Kerry would cry foul, the company invited him to come on the air and address anything in the film. Instead of standing up like a real man, however, the DNC (on his behalf) submitted a complaint to the FCC, hoping to shut down free political speech in an election year. The FCC rightfully denied the request. What is it about the people's First Amendment right to free speech that makes Democrats so nervous around election time?
The Kerry camp is now in full panic mode, knowing that this will hurt the senator. "Listen, they better look out there at Sinclair Broadcasting. ... I think they're going to regret doing this, and they better hope we don't win," threatened Kerry spokesmouth Chad Clanton. Now, them's fightin' words! (We note with interest that none of this same bunch are demanding the withdrawal of Michael Moore's "Fahrenhet 911," scheduled for airing on the eve of the election.)
This week's "Alpha Jackass" award:
"Christopher Reeve just passed away, and America just lost a great champion for this cause, somebody who was a powerful voice for the need to do stem cell research and change the lives of people like him, who have gone through a tragedy. Well, if we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again." --John Edwards, politicizing Reeve's death before the body was even cold
The rejoinder... "For Edwards to make the claim he did is the worst demagoguery I've heard in Washington in a quarter century. To imply that Christopher Reeve was kept in the wheelchair because of the policies of the Bush administration on stem cells is ridiculous and insulting." --Charles Krauthammer, M.D., syndicated columnist, a man who has dealt nobly with paraplegia since a diving accident in 1972
This week's "Braying Jackass" award:
"But let me just say to America: I am not proposing a government-run program." --John I-Have-A-Plan Kerry
DEMO-gogue debate quotes...
"I want to make sure we have judges who interpret the Constitution of the United States according to the law." --John Kerry
You've got that backwards, Senator!
"I believe that I can't legislate or transfer to another American citizen my article of faith. ...[M]y faith affects everything that I do and choose." --John Kerry
Your "faith" would seem to be mighty shallow, Senator, if it allows you to support the barbaric practice of partial-birth abortion
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