Posted on 03/13/2004 2:23:02 PM PST by kahoutek
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:13:59 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Presumed Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry says his credibility was not affected by his previous association with a man who fabricated his military credentials while serving as executive director of a prominent antiwar group that included Mr. Kerry, CNSNews.com reports.
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Whatever you say, Ketchup Boy.
I've met a few of these jerks and nothing, nothing pisses me off more than this.
Kerry is going to have to put an addition onto his website's "D-Bunker!!" LOLOL!
Kerry Lied In Press Conference Where He Refused To Apologize For Calling Republicans Liars
Compiled | March 12, 2004 | Hon
Posted on 03/12/2004 2:03:30 PM EST by Hon
Yesterday, John Kerry held a press conference on Capitol Hill where he adamantly refused to apologize for calling his GOP critics "the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen."
However, in the course of this brief press conference Kerry told at least two lies himself:
Kerry Says Credibility Not Damaged By Former Comrade's Lie
By Melanie Hunter
CNSNews.com Deputy Managing Editor
March 11, 2004
(CNSNews.com) - Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry Thursday said his credibility was not affected by his previous association with a man who fabricated his military credentials while serving as executive director of a prominent anti-war group that included Kerry."I think our credibility was tremendous," Kerry told CNSNews.com's Marc Morano during a press conference on Capitol Hill Thursday. Kerry was surrounded at the press conference by Democratic members of the U.S. Senate.
Al Hubbard appeared with Kerry in 1971 on NBC's Meet the Press , was introduced as a former decorated Air Force captain who had spent two years in Vietnam and was wounded in the process. In reality, Hubbard had lied about his military rank and other issues, as later investigations revealed.
Kerry said he hasn't spoken to Hubbard since the week of April 19, 1971 , "and everybody was disappointed by what they learned back in 1971. To his credit, [Hubbard] did serve his nation. He had simply exaggerated his particular position. But nobody knew it at the time, and those things happen."
It's clear that Kerry lied on at least two counts.
Hubbard did much more than misrepresent his rank. Hubbard claimed to be a pilot, to have held the rank of captain, to have seen atrocities and to have been wounded while in Vietnam. None of this was true. There is no record that Hubbard ever went to Vietnam. He was not wounded.
But at the time even, John Kerry defended Hubbard, citing the confession as proof of Hubbard's integrity. "Al owned up to the rank question," Kerry said. "He thought it was time to tell the truth, and he did it because he thought it would be best for the organization." Source
The funny thing is Kerry even confronted Hubbard with this information--during a showdown at at VVAW meeting in July 1971--which is after the date Kerry now claims he last spoke to Hubbard.
From Gerald Nicosia's book, Home To War pg. 211:
In St. Louis in July , two months after Dewev Canvon III, VVAW held its most turbulent national meeting to date. Many remember it as the meeting where John Kerry and Al Hubhard went head to head . Kerry made a long speech punctuated at frequent intervals bv the demand: "Who is Al Hubbard?" Voicing his opposition to Hubbard's various political and social agendas, Kerry even challenged Hubbard to prove he was a Vietnam veteran. Feeling supplanted, and weakened politically by the impending resignation of arch supporter Mike Oliver (who was about to leave for California as a field organizer), Hubbard "freaked out," screaming insults at Kerry from the opposite end oft he hall. Each time Kerry would denounce his authenticity, Hubbard would bounce up out of his chair, holding his back and grimacing, as if in great pain, and at one point he even pulled up his shirt to exhibit his scar.
Kerry wrote a rave review for Nicosia's book. He had a book party for it in his Senate office. So he is aware what is in it. It looks like Kerry is lying when he now claims to have had not further contact after April 1971.
It is certainly clear that Kerry lied about the extent of Hubbard'd misrepresentations about himself. But Kerry seems to lie about a lot of things.
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