Character lessons from the Kerry smear [Marie Cocco on Kerry's (sub)Standard Form 180]

Newsday ^ | Jun 14, 2005 | by Marie Cocco

[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.

[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 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!

[dirtboy]

“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.

[dirtboy]

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.

[BullDog108]

I stopped reading after "The quagmire in Iraq".

[highlander_UW]

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?

[bjc]

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?

[Paul Atreides]

The quagmire in Iraq

I couldn't read past this point.

[rlmorel]

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!

[MarineBrat]

[tumblindice]

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!"

[pabianice]

"It's the hidden 1972 less-than-honorable discharge, stupid!"

[colorado tanker]

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.

[savedbygrace]

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.")

[upchuck]

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.

[FormerLib]

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.

[The Electrician]

Marie Cocco's name and picture ought to be published in the dictionary as an illustration for the word "credulous"...

[Paul Atreides]

[johnny7]

Caption for the one on the right;

“Hup - hup - hup... watch me snap my 60-year-old femur like a twig!”

[Paul Atreides]

[Zhangliqun]

The quagmire of mainstream "journalism" (Rathergate, Eason Jordan, Newsweek Koran-gate)...ah, that's better.

Now I can continue reading.