Democrats, outraged that Sinclair Broadcasting is airing parts of the anti-Kerry documentary Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal, are demanding equal time

* Democrats, outraged that Sinclair Broadcasting is airing parts of the anti-Kerry documentary Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal, are demanding equal time. They don't get it: The broadcast is equal time. Thirty years ago, Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War basked in the media spotlight while the cries of 700 POWs then in captivity went unheard.

More recently, most journalists have decided that the only Vietnam veterans whose opinions matter are the handful who vouch for Kerry's heroism. Now some of the veterans who endured both years of abuse and John Kerry's slanders are finally having their say. The 42-minute film relates the POWs' conviction that anti-war protesters prolonged their ordeal by encouraging their captors to believe that the Vietnam War "would be lost in the streets of America." One of the two Medal of Honor winners who appear declares that he will "never forget" the role the senator played in blackening the reputation of Vietnam veterans. Kerry declined an invitation to comment. Democrats have tried to spike the film, filing complaints with the FEC and the FCC. The critics haven't shown the documentary to be inaccurate, and the First Amendment protects it in any case. As for their complaint that a "blatantly partisan attack" is masquerading as "news programming": We know the feeling.

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