Did NBC Edit Out Kerry's Admission on Military Records? (removed 'because my record is not public')

Many readers have written us, expressing outrage that when NBC's Dateline rebroadcast Tom Brokaw's interview with John Kerry, which was previously shown on MSNBC, Kerry's admission that not all of his military records have been released was edited out. Other bloggers are accusing NBC of covering up Kerry's admission that he has repeatedly lied about making all of his records public.

There is no question that a key line got edited out. Here is the original exchange as it appeared on MSNBC:

Brokaw: Someone has analyzed the President's military aptitude tests and yours, and concluded that he has a higher IQ than you do. Kerry: That's great. More power. I don't know how they've done it, because my record is not public. So I don't know where you're getting that from.

And here is how the exchange was shown on the much more heavily-watched Dateline:

"Someone has analyzed the president's military aptitude tests and yours, and concluded that he has a higher IQ than you do." Kerry: "That's great. More power. I don't know how they've done it."

Superficially, this is rather damning. But if you read the complete transcripts of the two versions of the interview, you will see that they are quite different. The Dateline version included some exchanges that were not played on MSNBC, and MSNBC included others that were cut from the Dateline version.

Power Line readers are news junkies who are tuned in to the issues surrounding Kerry's military service that have been raised by the Swift Boat Vets and others. Realistically, however, the number of non-junkie listeners who would have understood the significance of the sentence that Dateline cut from Kerry's answer is close to zero. My guess is that whoever edited the video footage for Dateline had no idea that the omitted material was significant.

There is no question that the mainstream media covered up for John Kerry with respect to his military service. But they didn't do it by this minor bit of editing. They did it by never--ever--asking him the basic question: "Why won't you make all of your military records public?"

It's true that the Kerry campaign has falsely claimed that all of his records are publicly available, but they can't seriously maintain that position if it is subjected to any scrutiny. The Navy has said that it has around 100 pages that have not been released because Kerry has not signed the necessary form. That is an indisputable fact. So if a reporter asked Kerry the question, he would have to come up with some kind of an answer. And it is hard to see what answer he could give that would not lead no additional, more penetrating, questions.

But the mainstream media, while constantly slandering the Swift Boat Vets as disseminators of "discredited" information, have slammed the door on "legitimate" discussion of Kerry's military record by refusing to ask him the most basic of questions: what is in your records, and why won't you let the voters see them?

That's the real cover-up. And because that cover-up has been so successful, NBC could have played the full version of the IQ exchange, and hardly any viewers would have been the wiser.

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BIAS, MALFEASANCE, AND SINS OF OMISSION

Notwithstanding routine protestations to the contrary, America's mainstream media is on a 'Jones' to undermine a President in wartime, and collude with leftists to assist a candidate, who not only gave aid and comfort to the enemy 30 years ago, but also was their pawn.

New documented archive evidence proves that John Kerry was either a knowing co-conspirator with the communist Vietnamese (while he was still subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice), OR he was a "useful idiot". Regardless of which of the available options is true, he is certainly 'Unfit for Command'...at ANY level.

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This is HOT...and the media (even the once dependable Fox News) is too chicken excrement/scared spitless to even try to discredit it?

The documents from 1971 were found in the Texas Tech Vietnam archives in Lubbock, Texas.

They reveal the Vietnamese communists were not just 'talking' but were in fact guiding and directing the American antiwar movement. They used meetings in Paris between their delegation to the Paris Peace talks and American antiwar activists to direct (not advise) efforts in the U.S.

In the summer of 1970 John Kerry reportedly met with Madame Binh, the Viet Cong's chief negotiator in Paris. He subsequently returned to the U.S. to push for Madame Binh's '7-Point Peace Plan'. He made his pitch in Washington. D/C. in July 1971.

Kerry didn't use the Binh 7-Point Plan as a 'guideline' for his recommendations...he used (and implemented it) as an Operations Order...complete with Surrender, Admission of Guilt, Reparations, the whole magilla. [Read: Hanoi's American Puppets?]

Everything Madame Binh instructed Kerry to do, he DID. He did so either as a complicit co-conspirator, or as a 'useful idiot'...you decide.

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