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FNC: Bush Volunteered for Vietnam, CBS's Mapes Knowingly Omitted from Story
newsbusters.org ^ | August 25, 2009 | Brad Wilmouth

Posted on 08/26/2009 7:56:27 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

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To: Huskrrrr

Even SNLIVE admitted their politics in comedy sketches.

So much satire in 0bama and Pelosi yet they quit the politics now that 0bama their man is in.

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/


21 posted on 08/26/2009 8:25:21 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: Senator John Blutarski

Thanks. All’s I heard on last nights news report was that he was turned down after he volunteered for Vietnam because he did not have enough flight hours logged.


22 posted on 08/26/2009 8:28:14 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives
Documents suggest special treatment for Bush in Guard [Post 47]
23 posted on 08/26/2009 8:29:31 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("It (Gov't) can't make you happier, healthier, wealthier, and wise" - Sarah Palin 07/26)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

No kidding!


24 posted on 08/26/2009 8:30:10 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: domenad

You know, I have a problem with this. If this is true, then why didn’t Bush defend himself when all this was going on? If this is true, this demrat “politics of personal destruction” gambit could have and should have been killed still born.

Even in the face of an incessant barrage of spurious attacks by the dems over the 8-year Bush administration, he just stood there, wrapped in the cloak of his “New Tone” nonsense, and virtually said nothing.

Maybe someday someone can make sense of it. I really don’t understand people who will not stand up for themselves. I come from a Philadelphia row home. If you touch me I guarantee I’ll touch you back in such a way that you’ll not be able or not want to get in my way again.


25 posted on 08/26/2009 8:30:40 AM PDT by dools007
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To: silverleaf

“if joining the Air Force in the 1960’s and early 1970’s made you a “draft dodger” then we have a LOT of us!”

And, a supreme slap in the face of every Airmen ever.

That angle implies that Air Force is not as important or valiant as the other War Fighters. It’s truly heinous.

And though service “rivalries” exist, they are (generally) of a fraternal nature. My uncle did 3 tours (Army, Special Forces) and I *know* for fact that there were several times where air support is probably why he’s still alive.

I guaran-damn-tee that when put back-to-back, every Marine, Airmen, or Infantrymen would identify themselves as one thing: brothers.

I call them all (Guardsmen too) something simpler: patriots, period.

O’Reilly is a suck a$$, anyway. His act is really over done and filled to the brim with cynicism. This is a minor difference between him and the Mapes and Rathers of the world.


26 posted on 08/26/2009 8:30:45 AM PDT by mattdono (The platform I want: Stop spending my money. Stop sending my money. Stop taking my money.)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives
I agree with everyone else that this was an outrageous deliberate omission by Mapes designed to deceive. However, I also blame Bush! Where was he and his campaign to forcefully knock this down? I never knew Bush volunteered, and if I didn't I doubt the average Joe did.

No, sadly much of the blame is on Bush who, for most of his public life felt it undignified to respond to buckets of slime hurled at him. On some level you simply HAVE to respond or have surrogates respond, or -gasp- have the RNC do some work.

The problem with being to dignified to respond means that all the flat out lies stick and directly impact the entire party of supporters.

27 posted on 08/26/2009 8:34:39 AM PDT by Obadiah (Obama: Chains you can believe in!)
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To: dools007

I hear ya. Good point. I am not persay defending Bush in this light but I recall the MSM at this time-frame having more respect than nowadays. (Specifically Dan Rather) as being one of the old school cronies. Therefore their spin was more so believed and any Bush defense was drowned out.


28 posted on 08/26/2009 8:35:29 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: dools007

As well as, the liberals perfected demonizing Bush and making him out as stupid, the big bad boogey man of war-BTW there were WMD they were moved to Syria- so well... everyone fell for it.


29 posted on 08/26/2009 8:37:56 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: Huskrrrr

Mary, you MAGNIFICENTLY ignorant slut.


30 posted on 08/26/2009 8:40:28 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

CBS

See? BS.


31 posted on 08/26/2009 8:40:50 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Obama - fooling fewer people every day.)
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To: Obadiah

see posts # 29 & 29.


32 posted on 08/26/2009 8:41:12 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: Obadiah

ooops posts # 28 & 29


33 posted on 08/26/2009 8:42:30 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: Right Wing Assault

I like that!


34 posted on 08/26/2009 8:42:46 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: zot

the story I mentioned


35 posted on 08/26/2009 8:43:30 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

any Bush defense was drowned out
Exactly! The ‘Defense’ was ignored. Many blogs had the low down on this and tried to get the attention of the SRM.

If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, did it make a sound?


36 posted on 08/26/2009 8:47:25 AM PDT by griswold3
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To: Senator John Blutarski

I have read the same thing about the F-102 being ‘a handfull’ to fly. The son of a Hollywood actor (Dean Martin?) was killed in the early 70s flying a F-102 as a member of the California Air Guard. F-102’s were built for continental air defense mission and were not fighter-bombers. I remember seeing pictures of F-102s in revetments in the first year or two of Vietnam, and then they were withdrawn when it was decided that we didn’t need them there in the air defense role but could do with the F-110.


37 posted on 08/26/2009 8:49:50 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: griswold3

‘I can see Russia from my window’ on SNLive was reported in a non biased documentary as people thinking that WAS Sarah Palin. The MSM will do ANYTHING to make Palin, Bush, any conservative out to be a nut case.


38 posted on 08/26/2009 8:56:57 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: GreyFriar
Sorry but Martin was killed flying a F4-C Phantom.

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/27/us/dean-martin-s-son-is-dead-in-jet.html

One thing many don't know is that the century series ( F-100 through F-111 ) of aircraft had a quirk where they would explode. Design weakness in the engines and fuel systems was the culprit. They had just started seeing results in solving the problem about the time President Bush got out.

39 posted on 08/26/2009 8:59:21 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

How come I have known for a number of years that President Bush volunteered for Vietnam, but Bernard Goldberg didn’t know until now? Maybe Goldberg doesn’t read Free Republic?


40 posted on 08/26/2009 8:59:27 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Global Warming Theory is extremely robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it)
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