And Kerry has NO LEGITIMATE EXCUSE not to release his journals. The exclusivity agreement is a lie.
So says the Washington Post.
Damning words.
This sounds as if Brinkley's decided his hide and reputation are more valuable than Kerry's.
Not only do we need to see his journals and letters - which are probably filled with lies - but we need to see the official after action reports from the military. I heard the retired military expert tell Brit Hume on FoxNews several days ago that there are those reports filed somewhere in the archives. They will tell the real story as a radio person was always in contact with patrols in case they got into trouble. LET'S GET THE AFTER ACTION REPORTS.
Brinkley's getting testy. Hey, he's the one who sold his soul to the devil. I bet he's ticked because Unfit for Command has sold more copies than his book.
Mmm, the Washington Post??? Now this story is really spinning out of control. The media will protect Kerry only so long as the individual members of the media don't feel they are being scooped by others members of the media. Once that starts happening they only care about their reputations for getting it first.
"W" should say: "I agree that this has gone on long enough, and it's time to lay this all to rest, right here, and right now." "I know that you have been too busy campaigning to handle this efficiently and with finality, so I have brought with me a form 180 for you to sign, releasing all of your service records, so that we can put this all behind us, and prove that whay you have said is the truth." "I'm with you man!"
At that point he should reach into his jacket and pull it out, walk it over to Kerry and hand it to him, reach into his pocket and produce a pen.
Case Closed.
Kerrys whole career is built on lies. It didnt matter so much when he was a Senator just voting the way Kennedy told him to each time, But when he tries to take the BIG JOB it matters.
John Kerry should write another book this one with the truth in it and a lot of apologies.He should name this book " A Step too far"
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"It's a mongrel phrase he should never have uttered. I stick to my story."
So is Douglas Brinkley now calling JFKerry a "mongrel"????
Seems Douglas is feeling some heat!!!
That sucking sound you hear is Brinkley's reputation as a historian going down the drain. He must have decided to try to salvage a modicum of it, but it's really too late. His accounts of Kerry's heroics put him in the same catagory as Maureen Dowd in their lack of credibility.
Michael Dobbs, also at the WP, wrote about Brinkley's refusal to let him see Kerry's journals. Strange that every thing is secret about Kerry's Vietnam experience.
Like an onion, the lies are revealed layer by layer.
Brinkley's reputation for scholarship and objectivity has been ruined as a result of his press agent flackery in Tour of Duty.
So young Lurch, the lying gold digger, turned against America and it's soldiers in sevice and found out the Devil was right. And now he is seeking a chance to turn against his country on a much larger stage.
25 years later, the Devil embraced him and said, "What did I tell you? Just hang in there, I'll go get some lawyers and my friends in the media."
Could I be wrong, but is the MSM starting to turn on John Kerry? I hope so! Want to see him disgraced and sent into the black hole from whence he came to the Nth degree! What a low life piece of vermin John Kerry is!!!
"It's a mongrel phrase ..."
That's Dem-speak for lie.
He puts himself in the political center with Republican parents yet writes a fawning biography about the most liberal senator in the country....does'nt compute.
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"These days, Brinkley is acting a lot less like a historian and a lot more like a PR flack for John Kerry," wrote Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam. In its review, the New York Times referred to "the odor of salesmanship that lingers around 'Tour of Duty.' "
Brinkley will be a commentator for NBC during the RNC convention -- a "PR flack" indeed.
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"I don't mind if John Kerry shows anybody anything," he said. "If he wants to let anybody in, that's his business. Go bug John Kerry, and leave me alone." The exclusivity agreement, he said, simply requires "that anybody quoting any of the material needs to cite my book."
Now, that's funny.
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This won't do Brinkley's academic reputation any good. He he!
Nobody picked on his Rosa Parks biography.His cell phone is too full to receive any more messages. Reporters, sometimes four from one newspaper, call him hourly, demanding help in sorting fact from fabrication. The vets against Kerry go on cable TV and mischaracterize his work, he says. His knee needs surgery from too much running, his baby needs rocking, boxes in his new house need unpacking. His book editor needs his next manuscript. His New Yorker editor needs his next article. And NBC needs him to stop thinking like an academic and start talking like a pundit when it puts him on camera during next week's Republican National Convention.
This is an interesting tidbit from Brinkley, after spending time reading kerry journals and interviewing him: "His is a restless, restless mind."
And this: "said Brinkley, whose Republican parents are much prouder of his television commentary during the Reagan funeral than they are of his bestseller. 'I'm in the [political] center. I honestly have to tell you that's my framework.'"
*Oblique reference to Mrs. Doubtfire recounting marital relations with her "husband."
It sounds to me by his words David Brinkley based his book almost entirely on Kerry's personal papers, individuals that John Hurley guided his way, and did little in depth or independent research.
Historian or Kerry Hack - you decide.
Brinkley has made corrections and revisions to the paperback version, he said, but most of those are minor, spelling errors and the like. A new introduction includes a fuller version of the Rassmann story; Brinkley said that Kerry couldn't recall the spelling of Rassmann's last name during their interviews, and the historian was unable to locate the Green Beret before his deadline.
But this isn't the first time the book had to be revised after being published. From an April Boston Globe article:
Brinkley and publisher William Morrow plan to release a revised edition of "Tour of Duty" in two weeks. "I started realizing, `I've got to fix this,' `I've got to fix that,' " Brinkley says. "Nobody believed we would get to this point where every aspect of the book is being dissected."
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2004/04/29/historians_duty_pr_for_kerry/