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Thursday, Oct. 21, 2004 New York Times: Every Network Should Show 'Stolen Honor'

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."

1 posted on 10/21/2004 11:50:28 AM PDT by senna
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To: senna

for those who think this is weird......hellary


2 posted on 10/21/2004 11:51:47 AM PDT by kingattax
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To: senna

The Times has jumped ship on Kerry to await Hillary's arrival in 2008.


3 posted on 10/21/2004 11:51:48 AM PDT by RockinRight (Bush's rallies look like World Series games. Kerry's rallies look like Little League games.)
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To: senna

Am I dreaming? This is the NYeT???


7 posted on 10/21/2004 11:55:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (Ask not for whom the Freeper freeps, they freep for thee........)
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To: senna
Is the NY Times jumping ship, or did the thought of a nuclear bomb going off in Manhattan finally bring them to their senses.

Daniel 2:44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

10 posted on 10/21/2004 11:56:55 AM PDT by HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath (Proverbs 10:30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.)
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To: senna

why does the link go to the crooks at Newsmax?


11 posted on 10/21/2004 11:57:02 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: senna

13 posted on 10/21/2004 11:57:59 AM PDT by mattdono ("Crush the democrats, drive them before you, and hear the lamentations of the scumbags" -Big Arnie)
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To: senna
How can the networks NOT SHOW IT? It is not partisan politics,,,it is HISTORICAL FACT!!! Geeezz!

This is a historically factual piece--using John Kerry's VERY OWN WORDS AND ACTIONS!! I guess the media wants to minimize Kerry's own words and actions--where he FLAUNTS the fact,,,with 'in your face' comments,,,,that he is a SELF-ADMITTED WAR CRIMINAL!

16 posted on 10/21/2004 12:01:42 PM PDT by stockstrader
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See #1. Wow.
21 posted on 10/21/2004 12:07:25 PM PDT by Fatalis (The Libertarian Party is to politics as Esperanto is to linguistics.)
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To: senna

I still think they want Bill as Gen. Sec. of the UN and Hillary as President of US in 2008. Kerry's on the chopping block now.


23 posted on 10/21/2004 12:12:16 PM PDT by sitewriter
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To: senna

this is nothing more then a pathetic attempt by the Slimes to prove they are not partisan.....letting Bremer and Tommy Franks respond to kerri as well....when this stuff (points of view directly opposed to the agenda of the Slimes) shows up on the front page or is highlighted on their site (one had to search to find the Tommy Franks piece earlier this week while Krugman's hiddeous mug was front and center) then I'll buy it...


30 posted on 10/21/2004 12:26:11 PM PDT by God luvs America (Support Our Troops....Don't vote for Kerry!)
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To: senna

I agree with the Times. Show it! Why are Vietnam vets always disenfranchised from the rights that all other ordinary citizens enjoy?


33 posted on 10/21/2004 1:16:43 PM PDT by TigersEye ("Where there is life there is hope!" - Terri Schiavo)
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36 posted on 10/21/2004 1:30:34 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (GET OUT THE VOTE NOV 2 ! IF YOUR NEIGHBORS OR RELATIVES NEED A RIDE TO THE POLLS OFFER TO HELP)
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To: senna
Those kinds of distortions are intended to hurt Mr. Kerry at the polls. Instead, they mainly distract viewers from the real subject of the film: the veterans' unheeded feelings of betrayal and neglect.

And just where does she think those feelings of betrayal and neglect came from?

43 posted on 10/21/2004 3:19:13 PM PDT by knuthom
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To: senna

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46 posted on 10/22/2004 8:24:59 PM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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