George W. Nixon and Sinclair's Hail Mary Propaganda Play

The Sinclair Broadcast Group plans to force its 62 affiliate TV stations to air an anti-Kerry hit piece next week. Each station (coincidentally located in election battleground states) stands to lose hundreds of thousands of advertising dollars because of this stunt).

Cheered on by Nixon's Swiftboat Liars For Bush (who never served with John Kerry in Vietnam), Sinclair's spokesfascists have long claimed that Senator Kerry accused his fellow soldiers of war crimes.

This is a lie!

This is a lie!

This is a lie!

Don't be seduced by the edited quote in the Swift Liars' ads and Sinclair's propaganda piece:

...they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, tape wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs...

Fortunately, Senator Kerry's Congressional testimony has been preserved in its entirety. Read the actual transcript or watch John Kerry's testimony:

Here is what Senator Kerry actually said:

I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.

It is impossible to describe to you exactly what did happen in Detroit, the emotions in the room, the feelings of the men who were reliving their experiences in Vietnam, but they did. They relived the absolute horror of what this country, in a sense, made them do.

They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, tape wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the country side of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.

We call this investigation the "Winter Soldier Investigation." The term "Winter Soldier" is a play on words of Thomas Paine in 1776 when he spoke of the Sunshine Patriot and summertime soldiers who deserted at Valley Forge because the going was rough.

We who have come here to Washington have come here because we feel we have to be winter soldiers now. We could come back to this country; we could be quiet; we could hold our silence; we could not tell what went on in Vietnam, but we feel because of what threatens this country, the fact that the crimes threaten it, no reds, and not redcoats but the crimes which we are committing that threaten it, that we have to speak out.

I would like to talk to you a little bit about what the result is of the feelings these men carry with them after coming back from Vietnam. The country doesn't know it yet, but it has created a monster, a monster in the form of millions of men who have been taught to deal and to trade in violence, and who are given the chance to die for the biggest nothing in history; men who have returned with a sense of anger and a sense of betrayal which no one has yet grasped.

As a veteran and one who feels this anger, I would like to talk about it. We are angry because we feel we have been used in the worst fashion by the administration of this country.

In 1970 at West Point, Vice President Agnew said "some glamorize the criminal misfits of society while our best men die in Asian rice paddies to preserve the freedom which most of those misfits abuse" and this was used as a rallying point for our effort in Vietnam.

But for us, as boys in Asia, whom the country was supposed to support, his statement is a terrible distortion from which we can only draw a very deep sense of revulsion. Hence the anger of some of the men who are here in Washington today. It is a distortion because we in no way consider ourselves the best men of this country, because those he calls misfits were standing up for us in a way that nobody else in this country dated to, because so many who have died would have returned to this country to join the misfits in their efforts to ask for an immediate withdrawal from South Vietnam, because so many of those best men have returned as quadriplegics and amputees, and they lie forgotten in Veterans' Administration hospitals in this country which fly the flag which so many have chosen as their own personal symbol. And we can not consider ourselves America's best men when we are ashamed of and hated what we were called on to do in Southeast Asia.

In our opinion, and from our experience, there is nothing in South Vietnam, nothing which could happen that realistically threatens the United States of America. And to attempt to justify the loss of one American life in Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos by linking such loss to the preservation of freedom, which those misfits supposedly abuse, is to use the height of criminal hypocrisy, and it is that kind of hypocrisy which we feel has torn this country apart.

snip

Mr. Kerry: Each day to facilitate the process by which the United States washes her hands of Vietnam someone has to give up his life so that the United States doesn't have to admit something that the entire world already knows, so that we can't say that we have made a mistake. Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, "the first President to lose a war." LINK

John Kerry made no accusation.

Rewind. Play.

John Kerry made no accusation.

John Kerry was chosen by 150 soldiers to address the US Congress for them.

To those of us who were momentarily seduced by Nixon's promise to end the war in Vietnam and then purposely betrayed, I say...

Don't fall for the lies again.

If you believe these Nixon Swiftboat Liars For Bush and the Sinclair Broadcast Group, enlist in George W.'s Army and then tell me that his perpetual war is peachy keen... if you ever get to come home..

By the way...

Sinclair's CEO and COO (The Smith Brothers of Baltimore) have sold $23 million of their company's stock this year, and the stock has been dropping steadily for quite a while now. (Harken, anyone? LINK)

I can't help but think that Sinclair is trying to dupe rightwing sheeple into pouring new advertising dollars into its leaking coffers.

Click Here To Contact
The Sinclair Broadcast Group
affiliate TV station in your viewing area and post your comments (and any plans you might have to boycott their advertisers forever) regarding their plot to preempt local programming for a Hail Mary, Mother of George W. Get-Enough-Votes-To-Cheat-Again Propaganda Piece!