Kerry Knows What Sunk His Ship

THE RANT.US ^ | NOVEMBER 24, 2004 | LT. COLONEL ROBERT LANZOTTI

[CHARLITE]

Despite my total disgust with the biased media, I had decided to move to another topic. That is, until today when I heard John Kerry discuss the reasons for his failure to win the presidency. I didn’t mind his excuse regarding his party’s failure to get out the vote, even though his people got him more votes than any other candidate, save President Bush, in the history of our nation. How’s that for gratitude? But rather, it was his comments regarding how FOX Cable News, Sinclair Broadcasting, and talk radio had done him in. This excuse was so pitifully lame that it deserves response and yet, more pounding on the keys by yours truly.

[ChadGore]

Kerry Knows What Sunk His Ship

November 24, 2004 - I’m in a rut. As a new writer (well I’m old, but new as a Rant columnist) I’ve hit the wall. Can’t seem to shake the topic of….liberal media bias. To my credit, I’m not the Lone Ranger in this regard. Virtually every political writer has been pounding the keys on this subject, almost non-stop during and since the 2004 campaign. And why not….even liberals, the honest ones at least, will surrender in agreement that the major TV networks shamelessly supported Senator Kerry throughout his presidential run, and their news was utterly and egregiously biased in that cause. Equally guilty too were those paramount publications that my hometown newspaper, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, philosophically and politically aligns itself with. That would be: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Their collective biased agenda, both TV and press, is so obvious and obstinate that the ‘M’ word (monopoly) has begun to increasingly creep into the writings of many who are as repulsed as I am with the current state of our journalistic conglomerate.

But, despite my total disgust with the biased media, I had decided to move to another topic. That is, until today when I heard John Kerry discuss the reasons for his failure to win the presidency. I didn’t mind his excuse regarding his party’s failure to get out the vote, even though his people got him more votes than any other candidate, save President Bush, in the history of our nation. How’s that for gratitude? But rather, it was his comments regarding how FOX Cable News, Sinclair Broadcasting, and talk radio had done him in. This excuse was so pitifully lame that it deserves response and yet, more pounding on the keys by yours truly.

The problem in Kerry’s statement is that he received an overwhelming advantage of favorable press and air coverage by the media throughout his campaign. That is, the media that avails itself to most Americans…..ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN. Hence, the verification that mainstream TV news is becoming a monopoly.

FOX Cable News, whose slogan is ‘Fair and Balanced,’ reaches much fewer Americans, yet does, in fact, provide much less biased coverage than the aforementioned TV networks. FOX, unlike the other TV networks, attempts to sort out fact from fiction and stresses informing rather than reforming.

The Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., was criticized by Kerry because they released a program entitled “Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal,” narrated by 17 American prisoners of war in North Vietnam who claimed that John Kerry’s 1971 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had both increased their suffering and prolonged their internment. While there is no proof that Kerry’s 1971 Congressional testimony did, in fact, cause more torture and lengthened POW internment, there was no doubt that the testimony of these true American heroes gravely wounded the man who reported for duty at the Democratic National Convention impersonating himself as a Vietnam war hero. I saw ‘Stolen Honor,‘ albeit at 12:30 AM, one of the limited showings in the Atlanta Metro area, and the comments directed at Kerry were damning, particularly coming from this band of 17 brothers, brothers who had a helluva lot more than 120 days of honorable duty under their belt.

Talk radio lives and dies by numbers. The success of conservative talk radio is a reflection of the market. There are alternatives to conservative radio….just push a button or twist of the dial. Interestingly, liberal talk radio has been tried repeatedly, only to fail. Its failure always equates to audience numbers and profits, but I prefer to believe that that liberal media fails because it is not attuned to America’s main street moral values. The majority of Americans reject homosexual marriage, denounce secularism, and abortion as a means of birth control. They believe in the right to bear arms and they believe in fighting and winning the global war against terrorism. They despise the condescending reference to being labeled evangelical morons and want to continue referring to God in pledges and wherever and whenever they please. The success of conservative radio broadcasts a dismal story for liberals.

Throughout Senator Kerry‘s presidential run there were numerous opportunities for repudiating his performance as a heroic sailor. Most of that information could be delved from the book, “Unfit For Command.” Or, from many of Senator Kerry’s Swift Boat contemporaries. Thousands of veterans sought affiliation to the cause of Vietnam Veterans for Truth and they likewise had a story to tell about this man who had once called them all war criminals. Yet, there was never any attempt to discredit this man who threw away his medals in protest, then somehow later recovered them to be displayed in his Senate office. There never was mention of the book that John Kerry authored, “The New Soldier,” the antithesis of the kind of military leader that John Kerry would have you believe he represented. Nothing was ever heard of his leadership role in the anti-war organization, Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Nor was anything said about John Kerry’s photograph being displayed in North Vietnam’s War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City where he is recognized as THEIR war hero. Nor did the mainstream media let us know that Senator John Kerry still refuses to sign a Standard Form 180 which would open his military records for public review. And John Kerry thinks FOX, Sinclair, and talk radio did him in? Really!

What do you suppose the margin of the Republican victory would have been if John Kerry had been asked to stand up to the scrutiny of a non-partisan mainstream TV media and the elite press? Certainly, way beyond three points. Unfortunately, the current de factor perspective of the mainstream media has become, in effect, propaganda, the unfair and unbalanced kind. News has gone from information to reformation. You can’t blame all the Kerry voters for voting for the wrong man. Without the full story, coupled with biased reporting, decision making becomes fuzzy, even for the Hollywood intelligentsia.

You know what….I’m not in a rut. If anybody is in a rut…it’s the mainstream news media. They are the ones responsible for polarizing our country and if they want to gain the some semblance of credibility they think they deserve, then they better find a way to climb out of the rut they’ve dug for themselves.

[Cobra64]

"Kerry Knows What Sunk His Ship"

Failing the lie detector test, or looking in the mirror and seeing a dead man walking?

[Polybius]

.......it was his comments regarding how FOX Cable News, Sinclair Broadcasting, and talk radio had done him in. ...

Last week, it was Osama bin Laden that had done him in.

Kerry: Bin Laden Cost Me Election

[Aussie Dasher]

Kerry is a total goose.

We've got the same thing down here: a vanquished leader blaming everone else for his defeat.

It's just typical of the liberal mindset. None of them will take responsibility for anything.

[dansangel]

But rather, it was his comments regarding how FOX Cable News, Sinclair Broadcasting, and talk radio had done him in.

What's that sound I hear? Ah! It's the w-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-hmbulance!

What a pathetic loser.

[hiredhand]

The reason that Kerry lost is because he has such a lack of character, vision, wisdom and insight, that he did NOT notice something critical.

He did NOT notice that he incited masses of people who don't pay any attention to the MSM...don't take part in polls....screen all their phone calls...understand that homosexuality is WRONG...abortion is murder.

These people are a majority Christian, or strong keepers of our traditional Judeo/Christian value system, and are either plugged into the "blogosphere", or exchange important information with those who are.

THIS is why the left was so surprised. Of course they didn't see it coming. It simply wasn't predictable. I think a lot of us had a good idea the outcome was going to be as it was, but even we couldn't prove it before hand.

Kerry lost because he incited those who might have otherwise marginally opposed him. He transformed people who many times choose to (unfortunately) not be involved.

The irony of it all is that he did this to himself based on a platform of NO SUBSTANCE other than keeping a hatred for his opponent.

[The_Reader_David]

Yes, but this week he got it right (though he forgot to mention the internet): he lost (and was a losing candidate from the start) because the liberal media no longer have a monopoly. Anyone who cared to know what Kerry was really like could find out from conservative talk radio, internet sites like FR, Sinclair's piece (or rather the internet postings of the full film they only excerpted), Unfit for Command and the Swiftboat Veterans ads.

His whole strategy depended on the MSM providing a smokescreen which would keep people from remembering his treasonous testimony before congress, his voting record, and the positions he had taken both in and out of the senate since returning from Vietnam. Thanks to the 'new media', even though the MSM dutifully played its assigned role, and never wrote about or broadcast his record, vilified the Swifties, and even went the extra mile with their lame attempts at October surprises, his strategy was doomed from the start.

[Outraged]

What do you suppose the margin of the Republican victory would have been if John Kerry had been asked to stand up to the scrutiny of a non-partisan mainstream TV media and the elite press? Certainly, way beyond three points.

Yep...If the press was even objective, it would have been massive for Bush. Kerry, as Gore and Clinton, was falsely kept alive by their faithful life-support-system of the monopolistic left-wing press.

[highflight]

"it’s the mainstream news media. They are the ones responsible for polarizing our country"

The above excerpt deserves repeating.

I resent that President Bush is accused of being a "divider not a uniter" especially because he has declined to step down in the gutter of personal destruction a la Clinton, Kerry, Kennedy et.al

[paudio]

it was his comments regarding how FOX Cable News, Sinclair Broadcasting, and talk radio had done him in...

Wait... I thought Kerry was blamming OBL video? Could he change his mind? Cannot be the case! He never changed his position...!!!

[dansangel]

I resent that President Bush is accused of being a "divider not a uniter" especially because he has declined to step down in the gutter of personal destruction a la Clinton, Kerry, Kennedy et.al

Oh absolutely. But until the left has the strength and wherewithall to pull themselves out of the gutter of blind hatred, this country will remain divided.

Shame on them all.

[MHGinTN]

"What do you suppose the margin of the Republican victory would have been if John Kerry had been asked to stand up to the scrutiny of a non-partisan mainstream TV media and the elite press?" It's really no mystery why the BM (big media) pushed so hard for Ol' Feckless. Follow the money: the laimstream press makes far less if the race is a runaway. The big media pukes are a fifth column in the liberal assault to destroy this Republic, to be supplanted with a liberal 'utopia' (read a bloody hell). Think of what we all missed for the next four years: homosexuals given special species status for marriage and every other aspect of the government ruled programs, solidification of abortion on demand, cannibalism of embryo-aged humans, cloning for designer stem cells and killing to harvest them, tax increases in every conceivable segment of society, environmental policy run amok. My, my, why aren't we as sad as the blue state democrat voters?

[dirtbiker]

It's just typical of the liberal mindset. None of them will take responsibility for anything

That is because THEY are perfect, THEY never make mistakes. If THEIR high ideas and plans go down in flames, it's because WE didn't do it correctly and WE didn't...(fill in the blank. Usually, because of underfunding....)

In THEIR minds, it is OUR fault

[Aussie Dasher]

And it'll be our fault NEXT time, too!

[Aussie Dasher]

He might...but then, he might not.

[26lemoncharlie]

You have certainly hit the nail on the head! This is why the Socialist cannot be TRUSTED to be in authority in any of the governmental positions or offices. Look at the CIA and State Dept. These two agency have become so corrupt and liberal, they cannot be trusted for a simple evaluation of our allies, let alone a complicated report on the covert actions of our enemies.

The French and the other members of the UN sis not want the US to go into Iraq, we all know why now. The Oil For Food Scam would be uncovered, their Golden Goose would be cooked.

The Socialist argue that we should reach across the aisle and listen to their "Wispers of Sweet Nuthins", Why did Mieta stay at Transportation, Why did Clarke Stay in the White House, Why did the head of the CIA stay. Why did any of the CLintonista's volunteer to stay, PATRIOTISM is what they will tell us -- I believe that is a lie.

They stayed to trip up the incoming President, to do anything and everything to discredit him and cause him to fail. To place our country is such a position of Jepordy cannot be accepted as Patriotism. They were about to replace our Constitutional Republic form of Government with their brand of Socialism. ---- We cannot allow this to happen!

[CHARLITE]

I agree with you, "highflight." Of all of the many issues I have with these dastardly liberals, the one that most infuriates me is the way in which they kindled a "hate Bush" movement out of nothing. They did it. They started the division........and they began it when they saw with "shock and awe" how beloved, admired and appreciated our president was with his superb handling of the post 9/11 situation. The liberals just couldn't stand that!

So they decided to develop an agenda featuring Bush as an "illegitimate president" ("selected" not "elected"), and from there, they cultivated hatred. President Bush didn't deserve that. He genuinely came to Washington to unite, and to "reach across the aisle" as he had successfully done as Governor of Texas. But the Kennedy-Pelosi-Daschle (and quietly, behind the scenes, Madame Kleen-tone) all conspired to inveigle 54 million Americans to vote against Bush. As Bob Lanzotti's article points out, none of this hate Bush campaign would have made it out of the sewers where it was hatched, without the avid help of the liberal media, and it is for THAT that I now hate all of them.