Media failed to find facts behind Bush's service record

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | February 11, 2004 | Thomas Lipscomb

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

What is the old saying? "A lie gets two laps around the field before truth can get out of the gate."

[mystery-ak]

another good one.

[1066AD]

Wasn't it Goebbels who said if you repeat a lie often enough it will become truth ?

Here's an allied story today:
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20040210-082910-8424r.htm

[axel f]

Whatever Bush's history, there is one presidential candidate who the communist North Vietnamese credited with helping them to defeat the United States. And it wasn't Bush.

Don't you think that if we had a patriotic press that this would be pointed out?

[Hon]

"Whatever Bush's history, there is one presidential candidate who the communist North Vietnamese credited with helping them to defeat the United States. And it wasn't Bush.

Don't you think that if we had a patriotic press that this would be pointed out?"

Is there any documention for that?

[axel f]

I've heard Rush say that the North Vietnamese leader (whatever his name was) credited Vietnam Vets Against the War with helping to defeat the U.S.

Didn't Kerry head up this group? Or play a major part in it? If not, oops, sorry.

[kevao]

No AWOL in Alabama. Yet another intelligence failure from the Liberals. And they want to be in charge of national security?

[Hon]

"What is the old saying? "A lie gets two laps around the field before truth can get out of the gate.""

I've also heard it put: "a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets out of bed."

The point being that it is much easier to do lie than to ferret out the truth.

The Dems and their shills in the media count on this.

[Conspiracy Guy]

You don't need documentation, any more than the dems need it. Just say it over and over.

CG

[Kirkwood]

It is more than a lie, it is the deliberate effort to assassinate the character of the president.

[Hon]

"I've heard Rush say that the North Vietnamese leader (whatever his name was) credited Vietnam Vets Against the War with helping to defeat the U.S.

Didn't Kerry head up this group? Or play a major part in it? If not, oops, sorry."

Kerry was a major leader of VVAW. Sometimes he is listed as a co-founder.

(Funny fact, he was eventually kicked out because so many in the group thought he was a phony. Another funny fact--his co-founder, Al Hubbard, was a phony--who never even went to Vietnam.)

It would be great to find a citation where a Vietnamese credited the VVAW. That would be very enlightening.

[Steven W.]

That is the group started by Hanoi John and supported so strongly by Hanoi Jane, yes.

[ZULU]

The only thing the media is interested in is fostering a Bolshevik agenda by sandbagging Republicans and conservatives and pillow-fighting degenerate liberal (That's redundant isn't it? Oh well.) Democrats.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

And Kerry doesn't have "the answer" because he is taking advantage of a partisan political fantasy that has stayed aloft this long because of the lousy job done by the press in reporting on it.

The press isn't doing a lousy job. It's doing exactly what it's supposed to do, slam President Bush.

[cwb]

It's interesting that you bring that up...because there are a couple people who have openly questioned Kerry's Silver Star. While I would hate to impune Kerry's record, if we are going to play gotcha games, then someone should look into why Kerry got an award for chasing down an injured and retreating soldier only to deliver the "coup de grace". I'm sure if Kerry was a Republican, the liberal peaceniks would be having a debate over whether this was a war crime.

[PogySailor]

And Kerry doesn't have "the answer" because he is taking advantage of a partisan political fantasy that has stayed aloft this long because of the lousy job done by the press in reporting on it.

The media isn't interested in the truth. Just the dogfight. Witness yesterdays pack of jackals in the WH press corp. What are they going to talk about? Kerry's long list of non-exsistant legislative achievements?

[Wolfstar]

Media failed to find facts behind Bush's service record...

THEY DIDN'T FAIL — THEY DIDN'T WANT TO FIND THE FACTS

...stayed aloft this long because of the lousy job done by the press in reporting on it...

Not a lousy job at all for a deliberate political smear begun by the DNC and carried "aloft" by their shills in the so-called mainstream media.

[rwfromkansas]

bump

[Wolfstar]

They are blinded by hatred that will eventually destroy them.

I'm afraid it's going to destroy this nation long before it destroys them.

[Thebaddog]

And think about the fact that Kerry comes home and talks graphicaly about atrocities he's been aware of. If he was an officer over there wouldn't he have had responsibility to stop the criminal acts or to report them? And couldn't he have been held responsible for some acts under his command?