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While concluding a segment on racism involved in anti-Obama protests, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews promoted the book of one of his guests, liberal historian Douglas Brinkley, and proceeded to rant: "There’s so much right-wing crap on the best seller list these days. It’s great to see a book that you might want to put on your shelf and let your respected friends see you actually reading." Brinkley’s book, Teddy Roosevelt: The Wilderness Warrior, did make the New York Times best seller list, coming in at twenty one. However, the list’s top ten was dominated by "right-wing crap." Michelle Malkin’s...

Supermodel Christie Brinkley's hubby Peter Cook is a deviant who repeatedly ignored warnings to stay away from teen Diana Bianchi. Southampton Village Police Officer Brian Platt recalled his first encounter with Cook, who has since admitted to hiring, pursuing and eventually bedding Bianchi. Platt told Brinkley: "That bas**** husband of yours is having an affair with my teenage daughter and he won't stop. I warned him twice and he won't stop." Brinkley has a 10-year-old daughter with Cook, and an 11-year-old son he adopted. She filed for divorce shortly after Platt's revelation. Cook, 49, gave Bianchi, now 22, $300,000 to...

* MISTRESS: I GOT HIRED JUST FOR SEX If Christie Brinkley wanted to utterly humiliate her two-timing husband, she sure as hell got her wish yesterday. In a gasp-inducing first day of their divorce trial, the supermodel's lawyers exposed her wayward husband, Peter Cook, as a sex-crazed, porn-obsessed pervert who hired an 18-year-old girl at his architectural firm just to get her into bed. The normally staid Suffolk County courthouse in Central Islip turned into an adults-only peep show when the 49-year-old cad admitted under oath that he habitually ogles online pornography, (gratifies himself) in front of strangers via a...

Bianchi The doe-eyed beauty at the center of Christie Brinkley's divorce case took the stand yesterday as the star witness and dished on the sordid affair that was ultimately the death knell for the supermodel's marriage......and even wore a rosary on her wrist. Bianchi spoke with a tiny, shaken voice as she recounted the intimate details of their tawdry trysts and the money he showered her with. She met Cook when she was just a 15-year-old clerk in a toy store in 2003. In 2005 Cook hired the young stunner to work at his Hamptons architecture firm when she...

The shamefaced soon-to-be ex-husband of Christie Brinkley burst into tears in Long Island divorce court today ....

If John Kerry had been elected President of the United States in November 2004, especially with the incoming majority Democrat Congress, it is highly likely that Iraq would be in the midst of a civil war, Iran’s regional influence would have increased, Israel would be in more jeopardy than it is now, two Supreme Court seats would be occupied by clones of John Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg instead of by John Roberts and Samuel Alito, judicial decisions would have given even more “rights” to enemy combatants, domestic entitlements and earmarks would have skyrocketed, the Bush tax cuts would be...

Tulane historian Douglas Brinkley has provided the first extended look at Ronald Reagan's personal diaries ("The Reagan Diaries" HarperCollins, 2007). He makes clear this is not the entire edited collection, which is being prepared separately, but just a sample---if a large one running 680 pp. He also alerts the reader that perhaps the first genuine, reliable biography of Reagan is forthcoming by former advisor Martin Anderson and his wife, which is reassuring after the debacle of "Dutch" by Edmond Morris. Several themes stand out. First, any notion that any of the liberal journalists ever had that Reagan was lazy evaporate...

David Brinkley wrote this little book years ago. My wife and I found it at a flea market (wouldn't you know it) years ago. Fifty cents was just enought to bring home a gentle and courteous man's words of wit and journalistic acumen.As the Liberty Journal wrote of his manner, "with his near rapier-thrust of amiable malice ............ many pieces of armor are pierced. "Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion will pleasantly beguile."As Booklist commented on David's book, "It captures an urbane newsman's sense of the absurd in politics and in daily life."And from the San. Francisco Chronicle, "A gem..........

ONCE AGAIN we have a full-grown woman — in this case, a 19-year-old from Long Island — claiming to be the innocent victim in a high-profile extramarital affair. When are women going to learn, I found myself thinking as I watched Diana Bianchi toss her beautiful locks and confess to one of those pushy and obsequiously empathetic TV news reporters that she had stumbled into an affair with her employer, one Peter Cook, a.k.a. Mr. Christie Brinkley. “I didn’t expect him to take it to another level,” she said, with a strangled giggle. “It” being a flirtation. “Another level” being...

uly 25, 2006 -- EXCLUSIVE I HAVE been asked to deliver a message. I hereby deliver this message. Do not shoot the messenger. My sole participation is to see this message is delivered. Christie Brinkley's husband, Peter Cook, about whom all civilization has recently read, wants to say: "I love my wife. I have loved her since the day I met her. Please . . . I love her." Then: "For a lifetime I've tried to prove how much I love her. This is an aberration." Then, amid tears: "I'm sorry. I'm contrite. I'm stupid. Foolish. No excuse."

THE FAILED, DYSFUNCTIONAL CLINTON PRESIDENCY(DECONSTRUCTING CLINTON'S HOFSTRA SPEECH) part1: The "Brinkley" Lieby Mia T, 12.26.05 (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)   ne would think that after bill clinton's shameless--pathetic, really--Hofstra apologia, Doris Kearns Goodwin and those 400 other hog-and-bow-tied-save-clinton retrograde-obsessing historiographers would finally get it. But then, we are talking leftist lobe here.... The speech, full of poses, poll-tested phrases and prevarication, was just another example of the clintons' utter contempt. For the people, for the presidents, for the presidency, for the country, for the Constitution... and, ultimately I suspect, for themselves. This endeavor is the...

NEW YORK - In the first major book deal related to Hurricane Katrina, historian and best-selling author Douglas Brinkley is planning "an analysis and narrative of the ongoing crisis in New Orleans in historical context," according to his publisher William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins. The book, tentatively titled "The Great Deluge," is scheduled to be published by Morrow early next year. Financial terms were not disclosed Monday and there was no immediate word on whether any proceeds would be donated to charity. "Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history," Brinkley, a professor at the...

http://www.c-span.org/ Brinkley Interview Tonight C-SPAN interviews Douglas Brinkley, author of "Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War." Prof. Brinkley talks about how he came to write the book, the controversy surrounding John Kerry's Vietnam service, Sen. Kerry's run for the presidency, and much more.

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This is the story of a military veteran whistleblower. He spoke out against someone he thought was dangerous for the nation, talked to local newspapers, and appeared on talk shows. In return, he was vilified by reporters, threatened by a political operative, fired by his company, and now he's broke.His name is Steve Gardner. He's also known as "The 10th Brother," as in Band of Brothers. He's one of two members of Sen. John Kerry's 12 Vietnam swift boat crew members who refused to stand with Kerry at the Democratic Convention. The other man remained silent. "They said I had...

As if O'Reilly doesn't have enough trouble stirring around him these days.... Last night on Factor he and Kerry biographer, Douglas Brinkley, had a smooch-fest to celebrate the paperback release of Brinkleys's Tour of Duty. Left unsaid, by both, was the fact that O'Reilly publicly praised Brinkley's book before its original, hardback printing. Can we say, "HUGE CONFLICT OF INTEREST"? In fact, the obviously love-struck Brinkley liked O'Reilly's thumbs-up so much they both agreed to publish....

As if O'Reilly doesn't have enough trouble stirring around him these days.... Last night on Factor he and Kerry biographer, Douglas Brinkley, had a smooch-fest to celebrate the paperback release of Brinkleys's Tour of Duty. Left unsaid, by both, was the fact that O'Reilly publicly praised Brinkley's book before its original, hardback printing. Can we say, "HUGE CONFLICT OF INTEREST"? In fact, the obviously love-struck Brinkley liked O'Reilly's thumbs-up so much they both agreed to publish....

While changing channels I caught a commercial with Lou Dobbs announcing Brinkley is going to be on his show tonight talking about his controversial book Tour of Duty. He did this last nite on O"Blowhard and now it looks like he's going to get another chance. Yet again, POW'S and vets get trashed by Kerry and his ilk. Time to majorly freepmail these two. Lou Dobbs http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4.html?7 Douglas G Brinkley dbrinkle@uno.edu

On Sunday, October 17 at 6:00 pm and at 11:45 pm ET -------------------------------------------------------- Interview with Douglas Brinkley, Author of "Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War" followed by segment featuring John O'Neill, author of "Unfit for Command" Description: Douglas Brinkley talks about how he came to write "Tour of Duty," the research he conducted for the book, and the criticism he has received from groups like Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The interview is followed by a talk given by John O'Neill, co-author of "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry."

My lawyer readers will immediately recognize this as an invitation to Kerry supporters to make a motion for partial summary judgment on the SwiftVets' claims. This short paragraph from a New York Times article perfectly illustrates the liberal media's widespread characterization of the results to date of the SwiftVets' campaign (boldface added): Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which drew national attention with advertisements making unsubstantiated attacks against Mr. Kerry's military service, has less money and uses several strategies to stretch its dollars, said one of its leaders, John O'Neill. To find a similar example from the blogosphere, one need look...

NEW YORK Stung by a quote attributed to him in Friday's New York Times, author and historian Douglas Brinkley issued an unusual clarification this afternoon. In a news analysis titled "Truth Be Told, the Vietnam Crossfire Hurts Kerry More," Jodi Wilgoren quoted Brinkley commenting on recent attacks against both Kerry and Bush relating to their Vietnam era service: "Every American now knows that there's something really screwy about George Bush and the National Guard, and they know that John Kerry was not the war hero we thought he was." This "not the hero we thought he was" had to raise...

Kerry biographer David Brinkley quoted in the New York Times: Every American now knows that John Kerry was not the war hero we thought he was.

Douglas Brinkley, author of the John Kerry biography Tour of Duty, was on Steve Malzberg's radio show today. He called on John Kerry to release his military records, saying: "Clearly some of these military records should be made available to the press." Brinkley also said that if the Navy investigation reveals deception in connection with Kerry's medals, it "could be" the "death knell" for Kerry's campaign. Professing uncertainty about what to make about the Swift Boat Vets' claims, Brinkley said: Right now it's unclear. So we have to just wait to see what all this adds up to. While the...

---Snip--- The Kerry campaign has refused to release Kerry's personal Vietnam archive, including his journals and letters, saying that the senator is contractually bound to grant Brinkley exclusive access to the material. But Brinkley said this week the papers are the property of the senator and in his full control. "I don't mind if John Kerry shows anybody anything," he said. "If he wants to let anybody in, that's his business. Go bug John Kerry, and leave me alone." The exclusivity agreement, he said, simply requires "that anybody quoting any of the material needs to cite my book." ---Snip--- Kerry...

John Kerry's Final Mission in Vietnam John Kerry's last mission in Vietnam was a deadly Swift boat patrol up the Bay Hap River where everything was ventured but nothing gained -- except another medal and more horrific memories. By Douglas Brinkley March 13, 1969, would prove among the worst and best days John Kerry spent in Vietnam. Three years earlier, with the main thrust of the antiwar movement yet to come, Kerry had graduated from Yale University, delivering his class oration. Although he had just signed up with the U.S. Navy, in that address he questioned U.S. involvement in Southeast...

Kerry’s March 13, 1969, “Medals” According to the records, Kerry claimed in the casualty report he prepared on March 13, 1969, that he was wounded as a result of a mine explosion. Within a short period, he presented his request to go home on the basis of three Purple Hearts. By March 17, 1969, Kerry’s short career in Vietnam was over. Regarding the action on March 13.1969, Kerry’s medals were once again a complete fraud. Notwithstanding the fake submission for his Bronze Star, Kerry was never wounded or bleeding from his arm. All reports, including the medical reports, make clear...

What kind of a historian is Douglas Brinkley anyway? These days Brinkley is acting a lot less like a historian and a lot more like a PR flack for John Kerry, the subject of Brinkley's flattering bestseller "Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War." Brinkley proclaims his independence from the Kerry campaign -- "This is my book, not his," he writes in "Tour" -- but he's become a major player in the Kerry agitprop machine.

The anti-war group that John Kerry was the principal spokesman for debated and voted on a plot to assassinate politicians who supported the Vietnam War. Mr. Kerry denies being present at the November 12-15, 1971, meeting in Kansas City of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and says he quit the group before the meeting. But according to the current head of Missouri Veterans for Kerry, Randy Barnes, Mr. Kerry,who was then 27,was at the meeting, voted against the plot, and then orally resigned from the organization. Mr. Barnes was present as part of the Kansas City host chapter for the...

<p>WASH TIMES 2/11 Rep. Sam Johnson, Texas Republican, who spent nearly seven years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Vietnam, said yesterday the photograph of Mr. Kerry with Miss Fonda will hurt him nevertheless. "I think it symbolizes how two-faced he is, talking about his war reputation, which is questionable on the one hand, and then coming out against our veterans who were fighting over there on the other," Mr. Johnson said. Mr. Johnson recalled that his North Vietnamese captors played recordings of Miss Fonda telling U.S. troops to give up the war. "Seeing this picture of Kerry with her at antiwar demonstrations in the United States just makes me want to throw up."</p>

A small and totally nonpolitical event this week that probably will not affect the course of human affairs.In New Haven, Connecticut, a fifteen-year-old boy ran away from home and, having no place to live, set up house in an apartment building at the bottom of the elevator shaft – a place where nobody ever looks. He brought in a bed, lights, stereo, a hot place, books, magazines. He rigged the elevator telephone so he could call outside; he rigged the controls so he could park the elevator on higher floors to get himself more headroom; and he might have lived...

This is a jittery moment in our country. We await al-Qaida's next move, while the War on Terrorism has melted into a game of shuffle-the-boxes on the government organization chart. Every politician in America has been on television warning Saddam Hussein that he's got just a few months to use those weapons of mass destruction we're darned sure he's got. The stock market and the economy are torturing us with their indecision. And, look, is there global warming or what? But America is blessed. We have an institution designed to provide a soothing balm of continuity in turbulent times like...