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Stolen Honor Debunking?

Sun Aug 29, 2004 at 06:50:39 PM PDT

In my ongoing and, frankly, enervating argument with my Fundy Repug Uncle, he now wants me to check out the anti-Kerry movie, Stolen Honor.    I know that its director, Carlton Sherwood, is, as John Gorenfeld reported is a Moonie shill.  What else is wrong?
I did a little research myself quickly: Ronald Webb, quoted on the home page of Stolen Honor is not politically neutral.  He's praised Nixon and Kissinger, and served as an assistant secretary of the FAA during the first Bush administration.  Lexis-Nexis gives me nothing on him, but maybe I don't know how to search properly.

As for the other POWsquoted from, I haven't been able to find out much about Ralph Gaither (there's a photo of him with Reagan, New York Times, January 29, 1983, pertaining to POW issues).  Robinson Risner's already well-known as a POW, and there's some dubious but not damning info available about him on Lexis-Nexis: he was close friends with Ross Perot (July 9, 1992, Atlanta Constitution); named as a alternate delegate to the UN by Reagan in 1985; worked on Nancy Reagan's anti-drug campaign; chairman of the federally funded Texas War on Drugs during the first Bush admin.  James Warner, another ex-POW quoted by Stolen Honor is former Reagan White House domestic-policy adviser, 1985-88.  As of April 2003, Warner is also Assistant General Counsel of the NRA.

Connections to the Republicans for the latest bunch of anti-Kerry veterans?  Looks like it.  Someone with better skills at journalism than I have will have to connect more dots.

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