...without offending the tradition of Santa Claus?
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Posted on 08/23/2004 2:36:13 AM PDT by RonDog
I need your advice.See, for example:A friend of mine whose political opinions I respect is concerned that our using the image of Santa Claus to attack John Kerry is a REALLY BAD idea.
I, on the other had, think that this could be a GREAT idea.
Here's the deal...Until now, we HAVE been FReeping John Kerry at his appearances all across the USA with the images of "flip flops" and "Flipper" the dolphin - to force the mainstream media to talk about the ease with which John Kerry fundamentally changes his positions on issues of vital national importance, revealing Kerry's apparent lack of core principles.And this works. :o)
`Flipper' video tweaking Kerry won't be a flop
Chicago Tribune ^ | 07/29/2004 | John Kass
Posted on 07/29/2004 8:10:26 AM PDT by KeyLargo
`Flipper' video tweaking Kerry won't be a flop
John Kass Chicago Tribune
July 29, 2004BOSTON -- "They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning/No one you see, is smarter than he/And we know Flipper, lives in a world full of wonder/Flying there under, under the sea!"The last time I heard that joyous theme to the old TV show "Flipper"--about the smart-alecky dolphin and his boy, Bud--I was a kid, walking back to school after a lunch of grilled cheese and Campbell's cream of tomato soup.
But there it was again Wednesday, during the airing of a humorous Republican documentary on John Kerry's flip-flopping on Iraq as he angled for the Democratic nomination.
The Republican timing couldn't have been better, since Kerry makes his own important speech at the Democratic Convention here Thursday night and must convince voters he's decisive on national security, an issue that Democrats acknowledge has been their weak point for years.
The 11-minute Republican video was e-mailed to about 8 million voters on Wednesday. You can judge for yourself and see it at www.DemsExtremeMakeover.com. It uses Kerry's own words, from his own mouth, in TV interviews to highlight his evolution. It shows how Kerry changed course to appeal to his party's political Left as he outflanked Howard Dean.
It is devastating. And, even worse for Kerry, it is funny. A roomful of reporters cracked up when we heard the "Flipper" theme. So expect to hear the song over the course of the campaign...
CLICK HERE for the rest of that threadNow, however, with the release of Unfit for Command, there has been considerable interest in John Kerry's fabrications and embellishments (aka "lies") about his military service.So, the time may be right to add a NEW image to our attacks of John Kerry: Santa Claus.
See, for example, from:
And from DFU SONG: Magical Mystery Tour (you can join Kerry in Cambodia!) :Get a Santa Suit and Hound Kerry (Shameless Vanity)
Puddleglum
Posted on 08/11/2004 6:57:20 AM PDT by Puddleglum
I wish we could have a freeper show at every Kerry speaking site wearing a Santa suit and holding up a sign saying "Tell us about Christmas in Cambodia!" They could also have leaflets with excerpts from his Cambodia-boasting speeches and news articles...
To: doug from uplandGood one, Doug!
As Grampa Dave says: "Christmas, 1968: Kerry with his Swift Boat Crew
in Scambodia. Kerry is wearing his CIA hat that came from Richard Nixon
a month before Nixon was sworn in as President."
5 posted on 08/19/2004 12:24:16 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
How can we best communicate the "Christmas in Cambodia" story......without dishonoring the all-American image of Santa?
ping
...without dishonoring the all-American image of Santa?
Well: Kerry, like Santa, DOES carry a large, lumpy bag full of money around with him, wherever he goes... :)
How can we best communicate the "Christmas in Cambodia" story...See also:
A very Kerry Christmas
U.S. News and World Report ^ | August 30, 2004 | John Leo
Posted on 08/22/2004 3:23:58 PM PDT by billorites
A very Kerry Christmas
Some people wondered how long the major media would be willing to ignore the Christmas-in-Cambodia story. Well, the answer is in: at least 10 or 11 days. I first noticed the story August 6 on Glenn Reynolds's Instapundit blog. Soon it was all over the Internet, the conservative press, talk radio, and some cable shows. But the networks, the New York Time s , the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and other major media didn't run the story. Some papers, like the Kansas City Star, got protests from readers on what appeared to be a news blackout. Finally, after an agonizingly slow response from the Kerry campaign, big media took account of the issue, muffling and burying the story they didn't want to carry in the first place.The story is simple and by now well known. For 25 years John Kerry has said repeatedly that on Christmas or Christmas Eve of 1968 he took his swift boat into Cambodia on a covert and illegal mission. He said he got shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians or by "our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas." In 1979, Kerry wrote a piece for the Boston Herald noting that "the absurdity of almost being killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real." Kerry was wrong about Nixon, who was not yet president at the time--a minor and unimportant slip--but he said the memory of the Cambodian Christmas "is seared--seared into me."
The anti-Kerry Swift Boat Veterans for Truth book, Unfit for Command, argued that Kerry had never been in Cambodia. That charge was easily challenged as partisan. But a book supportive of Kerry and written with his help, Douglas Brinkley's Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War, said Kerry was on patrol 50 miles from the Cambodia border on Christmas Eve 1968 and spent Christmas Day writing journal entries back at his base. As the Washington Times argued in an editorial, all living commanders in Kerry's chain of command denied that Kerry had been in Cambodia, and three of Kerry's swift boat crew denied they or their boat had been in Cambodia during Christmas 1968. Two others refused comment.
Like the issue of President Bush's National Guard service, the Cambodian Christmas story is important only for the light it may shed on a candidate's mind and character. But unlike the Bush story, Kerry's Cambodian story set off no media frenzy. Glenn Reynolds wrote of the big media: "They're damaging themselves as more and more people notice that they're ignoring it." Boston Globe reporter Anne Kornblut was asked to comment on the Cambodian Christmas story on Meet the Press. She blew off the question, possibly because her paper hadn't yet bothered to report the story.
Borderline. When the Los Angeles Times finally decided to notice the story, it had an obvious problem: How should it report news it had ignored for 11 days? Simple: Lump it in with Kerry's other Vietnam controversies in a long, boring, and indecisive report ("what actually happened about 35 years ago along the remote southern coast of Vietnam remains murky" ). And high up in the story, let readers know that the Times thinks the issue is old, irrelevant, and narrowly partisan ("the [anti-Kerry] ad, the book, and the people behind them have become staples of conservative talk shows and Internet sites" ). Of course, one reason it was a "staple" of conservative media is that the major news media ignored it. The Times did come up with one nugget of information: An archived Navy report said Kerry's boat destroyed a junk on a beach on Christmas Eve. A coordinate used by the military fixed the site at 40 to 50 miles south of the Cambodian border. This information seemed damaging to Kerry, but the Times helpfully pointed out that the junk incident occurred so early in the day (7 a.m.) that Kerry had plenty of time to take his boat over the Cambodian border before nightfall. Kerry spokesman Michael Meehan offered a slightly different explanation--Kerry was on or near the Cambodian border on Christmas. This seems like a smooth way of withdrawing the Christmas-in-Cambodia claim.
This is odd. Previously, Kerry was very specific--it was definitely Christmas or Christmas Eve and he was 5 miles inside Cambodia, not at or near the border. The event was "seared" into his memory. Perhaps Kerry is vague because he was on a secret mission, but if it was so secret, why did he spend 25 years talking about it? Perhaps the Christmas in Cambodia was just a self-dramatizing touch that Kerry made up and never expected to get called on. He has said he was heading upriver like Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now. An interesting story. It isn't too late for a big-time media outlet to grow curious about it...
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Kerry is wearing his CIA hat...See also:
Kerry's Kurtz Chronicles continue:
Hugh Hewitt provides an introduction to the unanswered questions
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, August 18, 2004 | Hugh Hewitt
Posted on 08/18/2004 3:24:28 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Kerry's Kurtz Chronicles continue
Posted: August 18, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Hugh Hewitt
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Last week, John Kerry recanted the detailed and emotional story of his Christmas Eve, 1968, illegal mission into Cambodia that he has been telling for 30 years, most notably in a movie review of "Apocalypse Now" that he wrote for the Boston Herald on Oct. 14, 1979, in a statement on the floor of the Senate on March 27,1986, and in an AP story from 1992.
Faced with mounting evidence that this brazen fabrication was crumbling, Kerry spokesmen acknowledged that Kerry wasn't in Cambodia on Christmas Eve, 1968, but hung tough on Kerry's having been across the border on several occasions in early 1969. Here is the statement released by the Kerry campaign midweek:
During John Kerry's service in Vietnam, many times he was on or near the Cambodian border and on one occasion crossed into Cambodia at the request of members of a special operations group operating out of Ha Tien.
On Dec. 24, 1968, Lieutenant John Kerry and his crew were on patrol in the watery borders between Vietnam and Cambodia deep in enemy territory. In the early afternoon, Kerry's boat, PCF-44, was at Sa Dec and then headed north to the Cambodian border. There, Kerry and his crew along with two other boats were ambushed, taking fire from both sides of the river, and after the firefight were fired upon again. Later that evening during their night patrol they came under friendly fire.
It is an acknowledged fact that Swift Boat crews regularly operated along the Cambodian border from Ha Tien on the Gulf of Thailand to the rivers of the Mekong south and west of Saigon. Boats often received fire from enemy taking sanctuary across the border. Kerry's was not the only United States riverboat to respond and inadvertently or responsibly cross the border. In fact, it was this reality that lead President Nixon to later invade Cambodia itself in 1970.
The odd part of this statement is the "inadvertently" adverb. Kerry's never stressed any accidental crossings of the Vietnam-Cambodia border. He's always been on secret though illegal missions, including one that he spoke of in June 2003 to Washington Post reporter Laura Blumenfeld in which he produced his magic hat:
A close associate hints: There's a secret compartment in Kerry's briefcase. He carries the black attache everywhere. Asked about it on several occasions, Kerry brushed it aside. Finally, trapped in an interview, he exhaled and clicked open his case.
"Who told you?" he demanded as he reached inside. "My friends don't know about this."
The hat was a little mildewy. The green camouflage was fading, the seams fraying.
"My good luck hat," Kerry said, happy to see it. "Given to me by a CIA guy as we went in for a special mission in Cambodia."
Kerry put on the hat, pulling the brim over his forehead. His blue button-down shirt and tie clashed with the camouflage. He pointed his finger and raised his thumb, creating an imaginary gun. He looked silly, yet suddenly his campaign message was clear: Citizen-soldier. Linking patriotism to public service. It wasn't complex after all; it was Kerry.
He smiled and aimed his finger: "Pow."
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Tony Bennett, Hollywood stars at "secret" fundraiser for John Kerry in SANTA MONICA:
Thursday (8/26)
from a reliable source | August 22, 2004 | RonDog
Posted on 08/22/2004 9:11:00 AM PDT by RonDogFrom a reliable source:
-- snip --
I personally like the idea of dressing up as SANTA CLAUS, wearing a "CIA hat"- to shift the focus from the difficult to resolve (he said, they said) issues about Kerry's fraudulent medals...
...to his PROVEN lies about "Christmas in Cambodia" - and his "lucky hat" from a CIA operative...CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread
A friend of mine whose political opinions I respect is concerned that our using the image of Santa Claus to attack John Kerry is a REALLY BAD idea.So, what say YOU?I, on the other had, think that this could be a GREAT idea.
This will all be over before Nov 2, and give Santa plenty of rest time. After all, Santa costumes have been used in all kinds of awful ways, and he just seems to tank on. It will all be history in a few weeks after. IMO the Santa figure with a long nose is the most effect mental picture of the whole swift thing so far.
From Why We're Refighting Vietnam - Blame McCain-Feingold :
To: chucklesSource
5 posted on 08/23/2004 1:21:32 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Christmas isn't about Santa Claus, it is about Jesus.
So, Use Santa! :)
I guess Santa Claus shooting Nerf bullets at kerry would be a bit over the top. We'd all be rolling on the floor laughing, but think of the children. Maybe a South Viet Namese uniform, with reindeer antlers, and a Super Soaker.
FReep away. Remember, the previous administration didn't do the Jolly Old Elf any harm when X42 walked around for 8 years saying, "Come here, little girl, and sit in Santa's lap..."
I prefer to call it "Holiday in Cambodia", in reference to the '80's punk band Dead Kennedy's tune of the same name.
Qwinn
Come on now, he mistakenly went there in January, so cut Santa a sprout.
BINGO!
Hell, There goes another of my favorite singers that's gone to the toilet. Barbra went a long time ago. Now I've got to pitch my Toney Bennett music. Thank God there's some country stars on GW's side.
I guess Santa Claus shooting Nerf bullets at kerry would be a bit over the top.
Who's gonna write Johnny's Purple Heart for his nerf wounds?
So, Use Santa! :)
I agree with this. Santa can pass out leaflets showing why Kerry's on his naughty list - because of Christmas in Cambodia.
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