"Stolen Valor" on Election Eve

It came over the wires yesterday. And libs erupted like Mt. St. Helens.

"Sinclair Broadcast Group, one the nation's largest broadcasting groups, has instructed its stations to pre-empt their regular programming just days before the upcoming presidential election to air the anti-Kerry documentary Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal."

Well. Nothing wrong with that, is there? I mean, after all those Bush-bashing books and Bush-bashing rockers and Bush-bashing fascist tycoons and Bush-bashing extremist 527s and Bush-bashing crockumentaries and Bush-snuffing off-Broadway plays and Bush-smearing network "news" pieces utilizing fabricated documents, surely not even the Left could find fault with one li'l ol' movie that is less than entirely worshipful of John Kerry playing on a paltry 62 TV stations in a few battleground states, right?

Uh-huh.

"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 Democrat senators sent a letter to the Federal Communication Commission asking that it investigate whether Sinclair's plan was an improper use of public airwaves.

"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.'

"DNC 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.'"

Ol' Chad even issued a thinly-veiled threat on Fox this morning:

"We've got thousands of people now very mad jackballed up calling these stations, protesting, threatening boycotts of their sponsors. I think they're going to regret doing this and they better hope we don't win."

Sinclair Broadcasting better hope Kerry doesn't win? Or else what, Chadster? He's going to send U.S. Marshalls over to their headquarters to shut them down, arrest the entire staff, round up their families, confiscate all 62 of their TV stations, and send them all off to the Alaskan Gulag along with the Swiftboat Vets and all registered Republicans? What other nuggets of this reign of terror wet dream would you like to disclose for us? And just who the hell do you think you people are, anyway?

All I can tell you, little man, is two things:

1) Remember what happened to Maximilien Robespierre; and

2) You better hope we don't win.

UPDATE: Isn't Kerry supposed to be a smart guy? So how is it that he learned absolutely nothing from his fiasco with the Swiftboat Vets?

"Complaints against the Sinclair broadcasting network by John Kerry's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee may have backfired, with non-Sinclair TV stations now expressing an interest in airing the documentary Stolen Honor.

"'A few other TV stations around the country have contacted the producer of this documentary as well,' Sinclair spokesman Mark Hyman told nationally syndicated radio host G. Gordon Liddy on Tuesday. 'So there appears to be some growing interest in making this available to the nation's viewers.'"

Shall we talk about Kerry's judgment again? And his brittle ego, which appears to be his only "core principle"? If he is as predictably vain as he appears, you think foreign leaders won't pick up on that and manipulate a President Kerry effortlessly, and produce disasters of like proportion?

True leaders have two traits in common: (1) they have thick skins and (2) they realize that it isn't all about them.

John Kerry has now confirmed and reconfirmed that he has neither.

See Stolen Honor. Check your local listings for time and station.