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Low blows and dirty tricks in grand tradition
The Telegraph - uk ^ | September 18 2004 | Alec Russell

Posted on 09/18/2004 2:54:34 AM PDT by Brian Allen

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<< The lowest blow against Mr Kerry has been the largely unsubstantiated attack on his medal-winning record in the Vietnam War from a group [of his former service colleagues] called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. [Its] well-funded campaign, including television advertisements in marginal states, has [Illustrated the fraud that is all he chose to make into] .... the central plank of Kerry's campaign - his [Much-vaunted] "war record."

While vicious and largely uncorroborated, the "attacks" on Kerry's [Largely fictional and/or fantasized] Vietnam "record" appear to have been brutally effective in [Revealing the Truth in the face of] .... a [Fully justified] lingering public uncertainty over the Democratic candidate. Since the advertisements were launched in August, Mr Bush's approval ratings have started to rise and Mr Kerry's to sink. >>

Limey moral relativity exposed and seen at its slimey worst.

In America -- and in the rest of the Real , Moral, world, Mr Russell, the word and sworn testimony of two hundred and fifty-odd American Men who served alongside of [And as often as not, when he ran away, instead of] Kerry -- and up-close witnessed his scurrilous activities while he fabricated a home movie -- and while he later-on aided and abetted America's enemies in time of war and became almost single-handedly responsible for more than three million subsequent deaths -- count as SUBSTANTIATION and to all but lying Limey moral relatives are accepted as having CORROBARATED one another

1 posted on 09/18/2004 2:54:35 AM PDT by Brian Allen
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Geez, is this guy writing from the deck of Kerry's home at the beach? Could he be any more partisan? It's scary that people actually think this way.


2 posted on 09/18/2004 3:06:01 AM PDT by patj
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"Fuelled by shadowy cash, the attacks get uglier and uglier."

I don't know about anyone else here, but I find the word "attack" repulsive when someone is merely presenting the truth about someone else --- for example the Swift Boat Vet ads. They are not attacks, they are merely presenting their opinions after being with Kerry in Vietnam, eyewitnesses to his trechery! It is not an attack, in reality it is an exposition of truth and greater perspective.

Just had to say that.

3 posted on 09/18/2004 3:06:32 AM PDT by beyond the sea (Free Martha Mitchell......... and Jail Teraaaaaayza - let them run around naked, at least the kids)
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To: Brian Allen

The grandest exercise in projection of all time.

The democrats continue to ascribe the behavior of the DNC, the Kerry Campaign and their surrogates to the Republicans.


4 posted on 09/18/2004 3:10:10 AM PDT by Beckwith (John Kerry, sign the Form 180 - petition at http://www.SignForm180.com)
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<< Geez, is this guy writing from the deck of Kerry's home at the beach? Could he be any more partisan? It's scary that people actually think this way. >>

Scary?

Nah.

It is OBSCENE when a supercilliously-low-life foreign dnc lickspittle is published in the Limey paper that fraudulently misrepresents itself as being "conservative" -- and that actually represents and projects and impugns US with -- only the envy-motivated, hatred-engined and rage-driven low-level loathing directed our way by the vast majority of its unwashed indoctrinees! [AKA: "Readers']


5 posted on 09/18/2004 3:35:35 AM PDT by Brian Allen (Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice no virtue -- B.G.)
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The lowest blow against Mr Kerry has been the largely unsubstantiated attack

An outright lie. There are plenty of affidavits. It is Kerry himself running on the Viet Nam platform. He's the idiot who is still trying to fight a very old war instead of the one before us.

It's "mudslinging" when a leftist fraud is exposed. The left can dish it out but not take it. They must control the news or they have a tantrum.

6 posted on 09/18/2004 3:42:14 AM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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So it is with a sense of desperation that Democrats are crying foul. But more sober heads say low blows are nothing new. The difference is that the Bush campaign has ruthlessly focused on the weaknesses of the challenger.

That's the crux of it in one sentence.

The Democrats' complaint isn't that there's too much negative advertising, it's only that the ads against Kerry are effective while those against Bush are not.

7 posted on 09/18/2004 3:53:09 AM PDT by tdadams ('Unfit for Command' is full of lies... it quotes John Kerry)
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"Fuelled by shadowy cash, the attacks get uglier and uglier.">>>>>>>>>>>>

I thought at first this guy was talking about Move-on.org and George Soros. Nothing more shadowy than a billionaire
who hides his money offshore and uses it to attack an American President. The Swift Boat money isnt shadowy it comes from the small pockets of American patriots.


8 posted on 09/18/2004 3:56:04 AM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I aint wrong, I aint sorry , and I am probably going to do it again.)
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To: beyond the sea

I agree. "Attack" is a so-called loaded word. It's meant to elicit a negative reaction where one isn't necessarily merited.


9 posted on 09/18/2004 3:59:04 AM PDT by tdadams ('Unfit for Command' is full of lies... it quotes John Kerry)
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But more sober heads say low blows are nothing new. The difference is that the Bush campaign has ruthlessly focused on the weaknesses of the challenger

??? Most campaigns focus on the strengths of the opponent?

10 posted on 09/18/2004 3:59:52 AM PDT by maryz
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The Democrats appear to have no answer to the Drudge Report, which has been responsible for feeding a range of uncomplimentary stories

Of course they do, it's called CBS.

Only difference, Matt has legitimate sources to base his stories on, and Dan has forgeries.

11 posted on 09/18/2004 4:00:37 AM PDT by dawn53
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Irritating, snarky article. But in the broken clock tradition:"...a difference it is of aptitude rather than values". (But, but, but...I thought the Rats were supposed to be the "smart" ones).


12 posted on 09/18/2004 4:04:39 AM PDT by lainde (Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades!!)
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"... to the death knell of American democracy."

It's not a DEMOCRACY, it's a REPUBLIC (and it's not FREE). You didn't understand this in 1776 and you still don't understand it today!
13 posted on 09/18/2004 4:13:45 AM PDT by leprechaun9
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What a bunch of caca


14 posted on 09/18/2004 4:14:20 AM PDT by fml ( You can twist perception, reality won't budge. -RUSH)
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If the current trend is anything to go by, it may need something even more explosive - and dirty - than a fake ambassador's letter if this incumbent is to go the way of Grover Cleveland.


Did anybody else notice this closing? If that's not an outright incitement to more forgeries, I don't know what it is. I'm really fearful of some kind of "nuclear" charge, an October surprise. Get ready folks. When the libs start squealing about dirty tactics and low blows, they're merely preparing the ground for their own cynical and vile tricks!


15 posted on 09/18/2004 4:37:41 AM PDT by bastantebueno55 (Viva Jorge W Arbusto)
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Isn't it just retarded to keep on harping on the Swift Boat ads and completely disregard all the other 527's who have been smearing Bush for more than a year?

Thank God MoveOn.Org's advertisements have been so positive and truthfull! NOT!


16 posted on 09/18/2004 4:39:17 AM PDT by Trippin
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"Fuelled by shadowy cash, the attacks get uglier and uglier."

I've given my shadowy pittance (I'm not rich) to the Swiftvets and I even gave my real shadowy name and shadowy occupation.

Swiftvets give you the most bang for your buck...Their admin costs are low, They broadcast the truth (all history and no promises), and they don't send you $100 in direct mail for every $1 you send them.

17 posted on 09/18/2004 4:54:01 AM PDT by Tom Bombadil
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"The Democrats appear to have no answer to the Drudge Report, which has been responsible for feeding a range of uncomplimentary stories, true and false, about Mr Kerry into the news cycle."

Geez, here we go again. Air America all over. Drudge does something unheard of in this time and place: He just REPORTS the FRIKKIN NEWS.

ALL of the news. Why can't they get this through their heads?


18 posted on 09/18/2004 5:05:35 AM PDT by OpusatFR (Let me repeat this: the web means never having to swallow leftist garbage again. Got it?)
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To: patj
Rotate your head to the left 180 degrees. You can then think in the warped pattern of the Guardian writers.

Lefties always see things in a weird way. Never through the eyes of free people. If attacks aren't true, they don't hurt. Ask Bush. He has endured relentless attacks on his character, his honor, his policies and is still standing tall.

Kerry couldn't even put up a defense against a couple of old vets with a few hundred thousand dollars. Just think what would have been if the Swifties had 80 million to dump on Kerry. Tells you a lot about character, and the truth ... all you need to know.
19 posted on 09/18/2004 5:12:19 AM PDT by snooker (French Fried Flip Flopper still Flouncing, be careful out there.)
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To: Brian Allen

This little turd has been the Telegraphs US corespondant for far too long.

Even worse is that every Thursday, the Telegraph has a sample copy of the New York Slimes, as a give away, with selected Slimes stories.

It has been fascinating and very frustrating, to see how the journo's on the Telegraphs true colours have come out, since Conrad Black has been unable to exert influence.

The paper is a shadow of its former self, one can only hope the new owners,the Barclay Brothers sort it out, otherwise it is going down the tubes.


20 posted on 09/18/2004 5:37:59 AM PDT by crazycat
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