October 13, 2004 10:33 pm ET
Syndicated columnist and FOX News Channel contributor Charles Krauthammer claimed that "we haven't had any discussion on" Senator John Kerry's anti-Vietnam war testimony before the Senate foreign relations committee in 1971. In fact, Media Matters for America has documented voluminous discussions on this topic, including discussion by Krauthammer himself.
Krauthammer's remark came on the October 12 edition of FOX News Channel's Special Report with Brit Hume during a discussion of the controversy surrounding Sinclair Broadcast Group's decision to force most of the 62 TV stations it owns or manages to broadcast -- just days before the November 2 election -- the anti-Kerry documentary Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal, which features former POWs critical of Kerry's 1971 testimony:
KRAUTHAMMER: Look, the whole uproar about this [Sinclair's decision] is ridiculous. CBS spends five years on a story on the president's service in the National Guard -- a trivial story, which it twice already been looked at in the year 2000 and earlier this year, and people complained ultimately because of the documents. A legitimate issue, Kerry '71, anti-war stuff, and we haven't had any discussion on it. We ought to have it. It's absolutely correct.
MMFA has documented more than 20 separate instances of reporters and pundits -- including Krauthammer himself -- not only discussing Kerry's testimony but distorting the facts in order to attack Kerry. Here's a sampling of previous "discussion" of Kerry's 1971 testimony:
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