Posted on 09/17/2004 8:31:43 AM PDT by lowbridge
I'm sure we can count on Rather to verify this
Glen Beck is talking about this. I wouldn't discount this story atogether. Question DU, but if he does have a history of this that is well documented....
I think the DUmmies may be onto something here.
Jonah Goldberg put up a link at National Review that states basically the same thing.
Whether or not the photo was a set-up is not the real issue. I understand certain partison political operatives are claiming the photo was staged, but no one has come forward to challenge the thrust of the story. John Kerry should have to answer the serious questions the photo raises. Remember, there is no definitive proof the scene was set-up. Perhaps the son was just reenacting what he had witnessed another union member do, so his conduct was accurate. Why are we focusing on the identities of the people instead of the photos content? All this talk about set-up is just a distraction.
If so, the little girl deserves an Oscar.
hah - thank you dan!
bump for later
We will all soon be part of the second Ottoman Empire, at this rate.
Hey, the girl is just crying. You don't know why. Any three-year-old put in a strange situation like that is going to cry, especially when her father and big brothers start acting strangely.
If this is a set up, it is disgusting.
C'mon, the guy looks NOTHING like Sandy Berger! ;-)
I think we'll let Dan Rather answer that one! ;-)
Total BS. Its called covering your A$$. Republicans and FReepers know better than to go into enemy territory without a camera of some type because leftist/socialist/dems are bound to act like the fools they are.
So the guy has a history of peacefully protesting the people who would destroy our country and hand it over to the U.N.? And FReepers would disparege that? If it was "staged" it doesn't matter, no one was posing, or acting, and no one had to in order to get the scum to react violently for all to see.
I think the guy has done a great service to our country be further exposing how the left ignores their own call to "tolerance."
That said, I wouldn't have taken a 3yo because if something happened to her I would have to maim and kill (kidding...sort of).
Don't see any resembalance whatsoever.
1. Photographer must be there.
2. One of the kids must be a IUPAT member and probably be a rep.
3. They all have to be together.
4. They all have to be in the front row.
Look for him to hit the talk show tour and make a million, stunts like this work, I wonder what I could do?
I think the guy goes to opposition rallies. I think he wants to be a pain, which is why you go to opposition rallies. I think he he knows the kind of response he will get.
But I just don't think those pictures look enough alike for someone to conclude the union guy and his son are the same person. The guy has been vehemently denying that's his son, and says he doesn't know him at all. That kind of thing is easily established, yet he's making the talk-radio circuit adamant in his denials.
I'm not willing to discount the photo. I think the guy clearly likes to stir things up, and he probably shouldn't take his daughter to an opposition rally, but this is supposed to be a free country, and a civilized one.
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