Posted on 03/04/2004 7:46:04 PM PST by ElephantMan
SOURCES:
1. CNN Crossfire / November 12, 1997; Wednesday, 7:30 pm Eastern Time (Lexis-Nexis Transcript #97111200V20)
2. The Harvard Crimson quote is available online here: http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=352185
WHY WON'T THE US MEDIA DO THEIR JOB AND REVEAL THIS TO AMERICA?
Actually, the source was Rush Limbaugh on February 11, 2004 -- 6 days prior to it hitting Free Republic -- although I agree that FR is the most effective site to get the word out through and I always come here if I want to find out if something has happened or to get info on a particular subject.
(I'm not sure if that link only works for subscribers to the 24/7 site, but I think it works for non-subscribers as well.)
I'm sure Rush wouldn't mind, since we're actually just giving him credit...
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(http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_021104/content/truth_detector_4.member.html)
Harvard Crimson 1970: Genuine Kerry
February 11, 2004
2:50 PM ET BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: All right, Harvard Crimson, February 11th - I'm sorry - yeah, okay, published today, February 11th, 2004, but it's actually a story that goes back to 1970, February 13th.
"Ten months after returning home from Vietnam, a young John Kerry strolled into the offices of The Harvard Crimson on Feb. 13, 1970 as an obscure underdog in the Democratic Congressional primary. The decorated veteran, honorably discharged after a tour of duty in the Mekong Delta, spoke in fierce terms during his daylong interview with The Crimsons Samuel Z. Goldhaber 72."
For those of you in Rio Linda, '72 is the year he graduated. If you read about something that says so-and-so Stanford '85, it doesn't mean they were 85 years old, he's a graduate of Stanford '85. This guy Goldhaber graduated Harvard '72. That's what it means. I love telling people things they don't know. Back to the Harvard Crimson story.
"But almost 34 years later, Kerrys remarks on American military and intelligence operations vastly diverge from opinions expressed by the present-day Sen. John F. Kerry, D.-Mass., the leading candidate in the Democratic primary for president. 'Im an internationalist,' Kerry told The Crimson in 1970. 'Id like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.'"
That doesn't sound so different than Kerry today. He would turn over everything to the UN as far as he's concerned. That's consistent.
"Kerry said he wanted 'to almost eliminate CIA activity. The CIA is fighting its own war in Laos and nobody seems to care.'" Well, he's voted to cut back the CIA. I don't think there is any inconsistency so far, do you? No, I don't, either.
"The Kerry campaign, celebrating primary victories in Virginia and Tennessee last night, declined to comment on the senator's " Of course they're not going to comment on this, talking about all these mainstream values these Democrats are falling for. I'm telling you, they don't know who they got here. They're going to find out. They don't know who they've nominated here. "As a candidate for president, Kerry has said he supports the autonomy of the U.S. military and has never called for a scale back of CIA operations."
Well, we got to parse this. He may never have called for it, and I don't know about that, he's voted for it. We've got the voting record. He's voted to cut back the CIA, he's voted to scale it back. And supporting the autonomy of the U.S. military? I don't think so. He wanted to turn over all this Iraq business to the United Nations. He wanted to put everything in charge. He wanted the blue helmets.
"Former Secretary of Labor, Robert B. Reich defended Kerry's 1970 statements as appropriate for their time." But they haven't changed, Secretary Reich. Said the secretary, "In the context of the Vietnam War those comments are completely understandable." They are still his beliefs, Secretary Reich-h-h-h-h-h-h.
"A spokesperson for President Bush's reelection campaign said that Kerry's 1970 remarks signaled the senator's weakness on defense. Spokesperson Kevin Madden said, 'President Bush will never cede the best interests of the national security of the American people to anybody but the president of the United States, along with the Congress.' The increasingly likely matchup between Kerry and Bush has already prompted comparisons of the senator's record " blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
"Goldhaber, '72, whose first person profile of Kerry ran in The Crimson, February 18th of '70 said yesterday that he recalled the candidate as an emerging outsider whose campaign focused squarely on his opposition to the Vietnam War, 'We lived, dreamed, and breathed Vietnam,' said Goldhaber '72. Still, Adam Clymer, '58, political director of the National Annenberg election survey at the University of Pennsylvania said that Kerry's comments would likely find their way into the Bush campaign."
Really, Adam Clymer, '58? What is your first clue? And Reich-h-h-h-h-h-h forecasted that GOP research will extend far beyond Capitol Hill. Really? What geniuses these guys are. "Said Reich, 'If Kerry is the nominee, Republicans will try and search back into everything he ever said on every issue."
We'll do that, but we're not going to have to go any further back than the Vietnam war, the Iraq war and the war on terror. Everything he said in his voting record and the CIA, it's all there. It juxtaposes nicely; it flows nicely and geometrically from what he said In The Harvard Crimson in 1970 to today. It flows. It's just a matter of time.
END TRANSCRIPT
Read the Articles...
(The Crimson: Old Crimson Interview Reveals A More Radical John Kerry)
(The Crimson: John Kerry: A Navy Dove Runs for Congress - .2.18.70)
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One of the true ironies of the time.
Seems to be the purpose of the Media lately. In the name of freedom of speech, they petition for the banning of the second Amendment. Strange folks, in a hurry to chop down the tree they live in.
Surely your not suggesting that he had the Kennedy Klan pull strings so that he would get most favorable status.
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