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Character lessons from the Kerry smear [Marie Cocco on Kerry's (sub)Standard Form 180]
Newsday ^
| Jun 14, 2005
| by Marie Cocco
Posted on 06/14/2005 8:54:46 AM PDT by johnny7
The quagmire in Iraq and the precariousness of conditions in Afghanistan provide wars enough for discussion, should anyone want a serious one. Nonetheless, the ghost of Vietnam rises again in an odd footnote to the 2004 presidential campaign. This is the belated decision by Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry to release his complete military record to media organizations. If you count yourself among those who have no interest in how the college grades of former Yale men Kerry and George W. Bush compare - they both turn out to be poor - perhaps you missed the point.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brownshirtsforkerry; bullzogby; bushhasser; doublestandard; goebbelswouldbeproud; kerrylostgetoverit; lyingliar; mediabias; mediaelites; traitor; treason; zogbyism
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What element of Kerry's character drove the senator to allow so bloody an assassination of himself? Was it a rookie's naivete? Or a Brahmin's belief - misguided in this media age - that reporting by mainstream news organizations laying bare the lies would penetrate the voters' collective psyche better than breathless Internet bloggers or the partisan cacklers on cable TV?Sounds like Ellen Goodman teamed up with Marie on a sleep-over to write this POS.
There is something Shakespearean about this episode, the tale of a good man laid low by his own psychic flaws and tragic mistakes.
Oh yea... it sounds ALL Goodman now!
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posted on
06/14/2005 8:54:47 AM PDT
by
johnny7
To: johnny7
What element of Kerry's character drove the senator to allow so bloody an assassination of himself? Was it a rookie's naivete?Or maybe the Swifties were right all along about Kerry, which limited his ability to counterattack.
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posted on
06/14/2005 8:57:19 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Drool overflowed my buffer...)
To: johnny7
Late last month, Kerry at last succumbed to critics who said he'd never made full disclosure of his Vietnam-era military file during his bid for the presidency last year. He authorized the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press to receive a complete copy of his military and medical records directly from government archives. Then why, Marie, won't the Globe or the Times provide a PDF of the signed SF-180 showing that the disclosure was indeed complete and not targeted? Why the disclosure to only two liberal-friendly papers?
This isn't a disclosure, it's an elaborate cover-up.
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posted on
06/14/2005 8:59:19 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Drool overflowed my buffer...)
To: johnny7
I stopped reading after "The quagmire in Iraq".
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posted on
06/14/2005 9:00:02 AM PDT
by
BullDog108
("Conservatives believe in God. Liberals think they are God." ---Ann Coulter)
To: johnny7
This is the belated decision by Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry to release his complete military record to media organizations. And yet he still hasn't done so. Why bemoan something that Kerry has NOT done except to lay foundation and cover to the lie that he has?
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posted on
06/14/2005 9:00:36 AM PDT
by
highlander_UW
(I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
To: johnny7
Interesting that AP is now looking at the papers. Who has access to the papers? Who has access to the Standard Form 180? When do the real experts - like the guys over on SwiftVets for Truth, who know Navy documents and procedures - get to take apart the "new" material?
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posted on
06/14/2005 9:05:31 AM PDT
by
bjc
(Check the data!!)
To: johnny7
The quagmire in IraqI couldn't read past this point.
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posted on
06/14/2005 9:10:54 AM PDT
by
Paul Atreides
(FACT: You can get more reliable information in a beauty shop, than from the media)
To: BullDog108
You know, for being intellectually stunted, liberals really are quite considerate without actually realizing it
Consider that we may well have had to read far into the article to get the point, but most liberals are smart enough to let us summarize the article in LITERALLY FOUR WORDS! Man, I wish I had that gift!
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posted on
06/14/2005 9:11:24 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
To: johnny7
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posted on
06/14/2005 9:14:25 AM PDT
by
MarineBrat
(We are taxed twice as much by our idleness. -- Benjamin Franklin)
To: dirtboy
Don't you know that this matter is every bit as fair, candid and forthcoming as, say: the investigation into Dan Rather's attempted smear of President Bush's Nat'l Guard Service?
Liberals are like children: You catch them with their hands stuck in the cookie jar and they'll still say,
"It wasn't me!"
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posted on
06/14/2005 9:15:29 AM PDT
by
tumblindice
("The ghost of Vietnam rises again." Resurrected by a lefty taking a nostalgic trip down memory lane)
To: johnny7
"It's the hidden 1972 less-than-honorable discharge, stupid!"
To: johnny7
mainstream news organizations laying bare the lies I'm still waiting on any MSM article documenting anything the Swiftees said was false. All they do is repeat "lies" over and over thinking we're so stupid we won't ask for details.
I doubt this skank has even read the book.
To: johnny7
Sounds like she's having an affair with the sound of her own fingers typing on the keyboard. You can almost hear the breathlessness.
If she'd gone on much more, we'd have read, "YES! YES! YES! YES!" (And the older woman says, "I'll have what she's having.")
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posted on
06/14/2005 9:30:04 AM PDT
by
savedbygrace
("No Monday morning quarterback has ever led a team to victory" GW Bush)
To: johnny7
I say a prayer of thanks everyday that sKerry didn't make POTUS.
There are several things I disagree with him on (most noticeably the Criminal Alien invasion) but God Bless President Bush. We are fortunate indeed.
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posted on
06/14/2005 9:34:23 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(If our nation be destroyed, it would be from the judiciary." ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: Paul Atreides; BullDog108
I wonder when
Newsweak will do a story on Clinton's Kosovo Quagmire?
And no, I'm not going to hold my breath on that one.
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posted on
06/14/2005 9:36:56 AM PDT
by
FormerLib
(Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
To: johnny7
Marie Cocco's name and picture ought to be published in the dictionary as an illustration for the word "credulous"...
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posted on
06/14/2005 9:40:34 AM PDT
by
The Electrician
("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
To: MarineBrat
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posted on
06/14/2005 9:41:22 AM PDT
by
Paul Atreides
(FACT: You can get more reliable information in a beauty shop, than from the media)
To: Paul Atreides
Caption for the one on the right;
Hup - hup - hup... watch me snap my 60-year-old femur like a twig!
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posted on
06/14/2005 9:54:10 AM PDT
by
johnny7
('Mama T' has seen her husbands 'dishonorable discharge'.)
To: johnny7
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posted on
06/14/2005 10:03:08 AM PDT
by
Paul Atreides
(FACT: You can get more reliable information in a beauty shop, than from the media)
To: johnny7
The quagmire of mainstream "journalism" (Rathergate, Eason Jordan, Newsweek Koran-gate)...ah, that's better.
Now I can continue reading.
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posted on
06/14/2005 10:06:27 AM PDT
by
Zhangliqun
(What are intellectuals for but to complexify the obvious?)
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