And guess what Chris Matthews said on his own show about that... he claimed adamantely that young men joined the National Guard to avoid service in Vietnam.
I just listened to him with Max Cleland and Tim Russert discussing "the interview"... it didn't sound like the interview I heard. Also, Max Cleland claimed Bush's dad helped him get into the Guard and at first, it seemed Matthews was going to let him get away with that claim without asking for his source. But he did as him "how do you know that?" McCleland's answer? He told Chris Matthews he should read Mollie Ivans' book. That was his answer. And Chris let it ride as though the answer was reliable. Mollie Ivans is a loud mouth obnoxious democrat that has written all kinds of hate-filled garbage about the Bush's. She is anything *but* a reliable resource. I'm so annoyed I could spit. It appears Matthews is going to pound this issue and make it a major one.
And there's no evidence that anybody but the rabid, foam-at-the-mouth Kerry backers give a rat's ass about it.
They know Bush served, and they also know that most Americans were conflicted about Vietnam.
They also know that only a very few gave aid and comfort to the Viet Cong.
And, they don't like that. Here's hoping Karl Rove will carefully roll out Kerry's participation in the defeat of America in that war.
Darling Molly is the one who invented the endearing term Shrub, I believe.