Posted on 02/14/2008 12:25:11 PM PST by Interesting Times
"I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty."
Who can forget this now-infamous July 29, 2004, Democratic National Convention acceptance speech when the party's nominee publicly set his course for the next few months?
"At the heart of the 2004 presidential campaign was a long-deferred national debate over whether American troops had systematically committed war crimes in Vietnam, as John Kerry and other activists had insisted, and as Hollywood, the media and much of the American public had long assumed," begins Chapter One of To Set the Record Straight: How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs and the New Media Defeated John Kerry.
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At root, co-authors Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler provide readers a remarkable and painstakingly notated historical account of the cultural war that coursed beneath the 2004 presidential election — a cultural war that pitted mainstream media against truth, and brought to the forefront of political influence the likes of Internet bloggers, talk-radio hosts and a handful of humble but righteously indignant veterans who simply refused to cave in on their cause. But on the way toward documenting that point, the book offers much more.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
Swift Vets ping...
Cool article!
best time and money I ever spent!
I think Pickens should leave that $million in a long term investment. ;-)
Doesn’t look like he’ll be having to cash out any time in this century.
I have no reason to doubt the charges made by the SwiftBoatVets. The single greatest factor for me against John Kerry as far as character was his Senate testimony in (I think it was) ‘71. He made charges without naming any individual and made it impossible for any Vietnam vet to defend himself and smeared all Vietnam vets. That alone was such a singularly dishonorable and dishonest act that he merits no consideration as a man to be taken seriously. Not to even mention his sworn obligation as a Naval officer to have made proper reports to Naval authorities had been violated.
And let’s not forget that McCain sprang to Kerry’s defense and, in his role as “war hero,” attacked the Swift Boat Vets viciously, and called them liars.
McCain played an important role in assuring that the media could write them off as liars.
John Kerry defeated John Kerry long before the 2004 Presidential race.
I rather liked it myself. :)
What you wrote is very true. I’m a Viet Vet and Kerry not only cast all of us in the same boat, he disgraced his uniform and our service. I lost many friends there, and my heart was broken by his false testimony. I knew better, as he knew too, yet he lied to the Senate and tried to lie to all of us. To hell with him and may his teeth hurt every day of his life. He ain’t nothing but scum!
Doesn’t look like he’ll be having to cash out any time in this century.
I'm sure that Senator Kerry will soon provide devastating evidence to support his version(s) of events. Just as soon as he finishes rearranging his sock drawer.
Kerry sure got quiet after Pickens requested some actual documentation, didn't he?
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NEVER FORGET
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The Lies of TET
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60610
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NEVER FORGET
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McCain played an important role in assuring that the media could write them off as liars.
Yep. And the leftists continue to quote him to this day.
I don't think he CAN do that as doing so would completely destroy what's left of him.
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You can bet that I will NEVER forget and there are many others, both here and abroad, that won't forget either!
“What we still don’t understand is why you Americans stopped the bombing of Hanoi. You had us on the ropes. If you had pressed us a little harder, just for another day or two, we were ready to surrender! It was the same at the battles of TET. You defeated us! We knew it, and we thought you knew it. But we were elated to notice your media w as definitely helping us. They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the battlefields. We were ready to surrender. You had won!”
General Vo Nguyen Giap in his memoirs
Yhank you for your service to our country. I am not a vet and my trips into Qui Nhon and Da Nang back in ‘69 were just to make deliveries while working as a Merchant seaman. My Dad and other family members are Vietnam vets, however, and officers, so I am well aware of Kerry’s violations of his own oath as an officer.
I agree, Kerry's testimony is what hung the babykiller tag around the necks of those of us who served later in the 70's.
I'm not a Vietnam vet and don't know what was up with young Mr. Kerry, but I sure as heck took notice that 100 of his old shipmates and fellow officers publicly called him out about it - I've never seen the likes of it, in any of the services.
Great finishing paragraph. (Of course it quotes the book!)
Regards,
TS
If that was true, he would hardly have led President Bush throughout early 2004, only to see his poll numbers fall off a cliff in August, after the Swift Vets' TV ads, book and web site were released.
And Hanoi John keeps getting reelected.
T. Boone Pickens has a MILLION DOLLAR BET on the table to Kerry to just prove one CHARGE THAT THE SWIFT BOATERS said is UNTRUE...just ONE!!!
Another good one.
Kerry has some interesting opposition this year on the Republican side. Jeff Beatty is a Delta Force veteran with expertise in counter-terrorism and intelligence. I talked with him for a bit at CPAC, and he showed me a Gallup poll taken late last year that has him well within striking range of Kerry - just 3 or 4 points back.
Beatty is an impressive guy. You can find his Senate campaign website here.
You know, I could really use a million bucks...
Unless you are Kerry and can prove just ONE thing untrue....FORGET IT!!
You're going to split that right?
This integrity thing is such a b***h!
Regards,
TS
I don't have to be Kerry. T. Boone Pickens' challenge at the American Spectator dinner was made to anyone who cared to accept. And I do have all these files laying around...
“If that was true, he would hardly have led President Bush throughout early 2004, only to see his poll numbers fall off a cliff in August, after the Swift Vets’ TV ads, book and web site were released.”
Kerry’s previous words and actions doomed him to defeat many, many years prior to 2004. The Swifties just opened the cellar door and let the light shine in for the American public to see. And the Democrats hate the truth like cockroaches hate the light.
Have we met?
That's considerably easier to type than it was to actually make happen.
Forgive my intrusion, but, IMHO, that's far too simplistic an approach. In fact, I would argue that's the approach that the SwiftVets took into the May 4, 2004 press conference. "If we just tell what we saw. Swear to it in depositions. Then, lay it out for the American people via their watchdog the press. Everything will be ok."
Well, It didn't work out that way! It's STILL not going to work out that way if the MSM has anything to do with it. Kerry is STILL running for the US Senate and no one seems to have said 'Boo' about it.
Regards,
TS
Boo.
He sure did! I had the pleasure of listening to Pickens during a radio interview a while back (don't remember with who) when he outlined the whole thing. I was cheering as I was driving down the highway, LOL. Put up, or shut up, John Kerry!
I'd like to hear more of the same--Kerry shouldn''t be able to get away with this.
p.s. I was reading something today at Media Matters that reiterated the same slurs, saying the SBVFTs distorted, etc. It gets my blood boiling real good. (grrrrrr....)
Go for it and let us know.
“Forgive my intrusion, but, IMHO, that’s far too simplistic an approach. In fact, I would argue that’s the approach that the SwiftVets took into the May 4, 2004 press conference. “If we just tell what we saw. Swear to it in depositions. Then, lay it out for the American people via their watchdog the press. Everything will be ok.”
Well, It didn’t work out that way! It’s STILL not going to work out that way if the MSM has anything to do with it. Kerry is STILL running for the US Senate and no one seems to have said ‘Boo’ about it.”
That is because Kerry continues to run as a U.S. Senator in the most liberal state in this nation - The People’s Republic of Massachusetts. These are the same liberal hypocrites that turn a blind eye to drunken Ed Kennedy leaving a young woman to drown while he swims away and lies about the ordeal - then keep electing the scumbag for almost 40 more years as a U.S. Senator! Talk about stuck on stupid!
Kerry CAN get away with his crap in Massachusetts, but he CANNOT get away with his previous words & actions in America as a whole. The Swifties helped make sure of that.
Good article. Thanks for posting.
My pleasure.
“That’s considerably easier to type than it was to actually make happen.”
That may be the understatement of the century.
Kerry CAN get away with his crap in Massachusetts, but he CANNOT get away with his previous words & actions in America as a whole. The Swifties helped make sure of that.
I don't necessarily disagree, but I won't condemn the SwiftVets for stepping down once Kerry was defeated for POTUS, but you would think this would be the perfect issue for all of the Conservative Pac's and 527's to rally around and demand that Senator X state his position on whether or not Kerry should be in the US Senate based upon the sworn testimoney of Kerry's shipmates?
Conservatives want to gripe about liberals - well, here ya go.
Regards,
TS
Just another LIBERAL lie kabar...
Kerry signed the SF 180 [not 1080] to make the claim that he signed it. The only problem is that he restricted the release of the info. At CPAC, I met with Jeff Beatty, the guy running against Kerry this year. Good guy. He deserves all of our support.
Ping.
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