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.
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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