"The Point" on John Kerry
As I've mentioned before, Mark Hyman, Vice President of Corporate Relations for Sinclair Broadcasting, also does a political commentary segment called "The Point" for Sinclair's News Central news feed.
Recently he commented on the whole flap regarding Kerry's 1971 Congressional testimony on the Vietnam War:
JOHN KERRY'S AMERICAN WAR CRIMES
"[They] raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped 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 countryside ..."
These were "not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command."
This horrific account of war crimes and human atrocities should make everyone cringe. It is vile and disgusting. Only the lowest form of military combatant would be guilty of such heinous acts. And where did such tragedy occur. In Saddam's Iraq? Bosnia? Haiti?
No. The guilty who committed daily acts of war crimes against humanity are the U.S. military. Or so says Senator John Kerry. These are direct quotes from the testimony he personally delivered before the U.S. Senate on April 22, 1971.
So John Kerry which version is it? Now that you're running for President and Commander-in-Chief is the U.S. military made up of war criminals that fought for a country you testified was "the biggest nothing in history" or is it the victorious liberators of the Iraqi people that you voted against supporting in 2003?
On the News Central Web-site, he links to Kerry's testimony and recommends that readers check it out for themselves (obviously not something his audience can readily do when hearing his commentary on TV or radio).
But in his testimony, it is quite clear that by "the biggest nothing in history," Kerry is referring to our involvement in Vietnam, not our country:
I would like to talk about the feelings these men carry with them after coming back from Vietnam. The country doesn't realize it yet but it has created a monster in the form of thousands of men who have been taught to deal and 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 betrayal that no one so far has been able to grasp. We are angry because we feel we have been used in the worst fashion by the administration of this country.
Furthermore, do I really have to point out that one can reasonably believe both (1) that some members of the U.S. military committed war crimes in Vietnam and (2) that some members of the U.S. military were "victorious liberators of the Iraqi people"?
Finally, the vote that Hyman claims was "against" "the victorious liberators of the Iraqi people" was the vote on the $87 billion bill. Never mind that the true object of Kerry's concern was not the bill's funding of our troops per se but rather how the bill was going to be paid for. And never mind that the President himself threatened to veto a version of the bill that he didn't like. Clearly Kerry's vote was a cheap shot at our troops.
So if you're one of the many viewers across the country who get to catch Mark Hyman's "The Point" on a Sinclair station, you perhaps had the pleasure of being grossly misled by a Fox-esque political hit on your local news by Sinclair's Vice President for Corporate Relations.
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