Dems Hiss GOP Punch Line (You'll never believe what the girlymen are whining about NOW...!)

New York Daily News ^ | 3/24/04 | Maggie Haberman

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Democrats were crying foul yesterday after a Bush campaign official managed to cross-reference Vietnam and "Seinfeld" in criticizing an ad for John Kerry.

"John Kerry's campaign seems to be summed up this way: 'I went to Vietnam, yada yada yada, I want to be President," Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt told The Washington Post.

Holt's swipe came as a put-down to a new ad by the Massachusetts senator touting his war hero status. On the TV sitcom "Seinfeld," "yada yada" was shorthand for information someone would rather gloss over.

Kerry spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter immediately demanded an apology, and former Sen. Max Cleland (D-Ga.), who lost both legs and his right arm in the Vietnam War, went ballistic.

"I think it's despicable," Cleland said. "It seemed the impact, or the intent [of the comment], was to say, 'Hey, I'm a Vietnam veteran and that's my main qualification to be President.'"

He pointed out that President Bush didn't serve in Vietnam, and said, "When you trash one of my fellow Vietnam veterans ... you're trashing me and my 3.5million fellow veterans who [served]."

But Bush campaign spokesman Kevin Madden told the Daily News: "John Kerry is running an ad that never mentions his 19-year Senate record ... one of higher taxes and a weak national defense."

Cutter zinged back: "Perhaps George Bush's campaign can be summed up this way: 'I lost 3 million jobs, turned record surpluses into record deficits, denied affordable health care and prescription drug coverage to most Americans, yada yada yada, four more years.'"

[Ann Archy]

That Crying baby LOOKS like Max Cleland.

[Ann Archy]

Alger Hiss...also a Democrat Traitor.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

I would argue with you about this

No, you would not. You'd be arguing with yourself (which is entirely your perogative, of course).

"We'll simply have to agree to disagree, then" means precisely what it says: no more, and (certainly) no less. Any mistaking of this simple phrase for an invitation to debate the matter further would be, I'm afraid, a demonstrable error on your part, and no business of my own.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Why don't these @ssholes just go ahead and say, "Whaaaaa! Bush is campaigning against us. Please, stop. You're not allowed to say anything bad or true about us and you're not allowed to say anything true or good about Bush. Stop. Whaaaaaaa!"

Because they already have the liberal media in this country to say it FOR them, silly! :)

[inyurhed]

I see your point. It is a bit offensive to females and girls to be compared to RATS. Would "S$#*heads" work for you? ;)

[Redcloak]

Perhaps he was mis-quoted. Maybe he really said "Yatta"...

Why "Yatta" would upset any Democrat is beyond me!

[Matchett-PI]

"Girly men" is an oxymoron.

Feminized males can no more be called "men" than unstable, wishy-washy relativists can be called "people of conviction".

The correct term for emotionally immature males is, "girly boys".

[Political Junkie Too]

"John Kerry's campaign seems to be summed up this way: 'I went to Vietnam, yada yada yada, I want to be President," Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt told The Washington Post... On the TV sitcom "Seinfeld," "yada yada" was shorthand for information someone would rather gloss over.

John Kerry... No soup for you!

-PJ

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

YOU can agree to disagree, but I have not agreed to disagree. Get it?

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

I have no issue with "S$#*heads" ;)

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

YOU can agree to disagree, but I have not agreed to disagree. Get it?

Oh, brother! LOLOLOLOL!!!!!

[HitmanLV]

This ad probably drove Larry David up the wall. The Sienfeld producer and star of Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO is a raging liberal, and his wife co-hosted that Hollywood 'Hate Bush' gathering a couple of months ago.

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

"The correct term for emotionally immature males is, "girly boys"."

If "girly men" is an oxymoron, then so is "girly boys". And you can't be serious that girls have a corner on emotional immaturity. Boys are as emotionally immature as girls, and I have known many emotionally immature men, too. Also, people -male and female- exhibit emotional "immaturity" and emotional "maturity" (depending on the opinion and judgment of the observer) at different times and in different circumstances. Just as most intellectually "mature" people can be relativists on certain subjects, and have deep convictions on others...

[Just mythoughts]

"Will Media Hold Kerry to Same Standard:No Vietnam in TV Ads? (Vietnam Movie Produced by Kerry)
MRC ^ | Friday March 5, 2004 | BrentBaker


Posted on 03/05/2004 9:11:13 AM PST by fight_truth_decay


So, given the news media's standard that any fleeting scenes of a day when 3,000 Americans were killed is inappropriate exploitation, can we expect the media to apply the same standard to John Kerry in the future about Vietnam where more than 50,000 Americans were killed?


Kerry's primary campaign has already showcased video of him in Vietnam, video a 1996 Boston Globe revelation suggests may have been from a staged re-enactment conducted by Kerry.

On FNC's Special Report with Brit Hume on Thursday, the Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes mockingly quipped about any Kerry use of Vietnam: "‘57,000 Americans died there. How could he be so hypocritical to demean them by using them in an ad?' That's what you could argue. Of course it's preposterous just as it's preposterous these claims that are made by critics of Bush."

Back on February 27, OpinionJournal.com's "Best of the Web" column by James Taranto picked up on how in a column The Hill newspaper, a paper which covers Capitol Hill, National Review's Byron York reported that "there is a movie about Kerry's Vietnam experience, produced and directed by John Kerry." York described a 1996 report in the Boston Globe:

"Kerry told reporter Charles Sennott the oft-repeated story of the February 1969 firefight in which Kerry attacked the Viet Cong who ambushed his Swift boat....

"The future senator was so 'focused on his future ambitions,' Sennott reported, that he bought a Super-8 movie camera, returned to the scene, and re-enacted the skirmish on film. "It was that film, transferred to videotape, that Kerry played for Sennott. "'I'll show you where they shot from. See? That's the hole covered up with reeds,' Kerry said as he ran the tape in slow motion... "Through hours of watching the films in the den of his newly renovated Beacon Hill mansion, it becomes apparent that these are memories and footage he returns to often,' Sennott wrote."

For the February 27 "Best of the Web" column: http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110004750

For York's piece in the February 26 edition of The Hill: http://www.thehill.com/york/022604.aspx

-- Brent Baker

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1 posted on 03/05/2004 9:11:16 AM PST by fight_truth_decay
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Here is one reference to JFKerry's movies reenacting his "gun fights"!

Am looking for more.

[Just mythoughts]

"Excerpts from National Enquirer story about Kerry
National Enquirer | February 12, 2004 | Hildy


Posted on 02/12/2004 11:16:48 AM PST by Hildy


Although there are a couple of threads about the NE story, as far as I can tell nobody has posted the highlights. So here goes:


"John Kerry is so vain that one former girlfriend says he always wanted to make love where he could see himself in the mirror!"

...The first time he took Hollywood star Dana Delany home, his big move was showing her video clips taken of him in the Navy while he was in Vietnam. She never went out with him again.

He dated Morgan Fairchild and Michelle Phillips - and they've both donated to other Democratic candidates for the 2004 election. What does that tell you they think of him now?.

"Kerry could compete with Bill Clinton as a womanizer. Between his two marriages, he was notorious for hitting the singles bars in Boston and Washington with a posse of wealthy friends.

"Even after he was married, a gorgeous 22-year old blonde was spotted leaving his Boston townhouse in 1998, while his wife was in Nantucket...

Many voteres would be surprised to learn about Kerry's lineage, too. "Kerry is not Irish, although he doesn't go out of his way to explain his true roots," said the source. "Massachusetts is the most Irish-American state."

His grandfather, Frederick Kerry was born Fritz Kohn. A Czech Jew, Fritz changed his name and converted to Catholicism to avoid anti-semitism. A family member claimed the name Kerry was chosen by dropping a pencil on a map of Europe. The pencil landed on County Kerry in Ireland.

Frederick and his wife Ida, a Hungarian Jew who also convereted to Catholicism, immigrated to the US in 1905. Frederick worked in the shoe business.

Nut on Nov. 23, 1921, he walked intoa bathroom at Boston's Copley Plaza Hotel, took out a gun and put a bullet in his head. Articles from the time cite financial difficulties as a possilbe motive for the suicide.

...By the late 1980's, Kerry was floundering financially without the help of a wealthy wife.

For months at a time, he found himself homeless, forced to live with lobbyist friends or his former brother-in-law, David Thorne.

But his financial situation changed when he met his second wife, Teresa Heinz, the widow of Pennsylvania Sen. H. John Heinz, heir to the condiment fortune. Teresa inherited 550 million from her late husband.

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[StAnDeliver]

When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not your friend.

[StAnDeliver]

Ya beat me to it!

[bondjamesbond]

"I think it's despicable," Cleland said. "It seemed the impact, or the intent [of the comment], was to say, 'Hey, I'm a Vietnam veteran and that's my main qualification to be President.'"

I think they are keeping Cleland in a closet, and they just roll him out to feign outrage whenever any Republican mentions the word "Vietnam".

[xm177e2]

Republicans say: Kerry is running with only one credential, service in Vietnam

Democrats say: HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE HIS SERVICE IN VIETNAM??? UNPATRIOTIC SWINE!

It's pathetic, really. There was no criticism of Kerry's service; the criticism is entirely of his OTHER credentials. And the Democrats only prove the Republicans right when their response is not "look at all of his other credentials" but "John Kerry served in Vietnam and Bush didn't!" <-- which is exactly what the Bushies are accusing Democrats of saying...