Kerry's War Stories

Accuracy in Media ^ | 4/19/04 | Cliff Kincaid

[areafiftyone]

Senator John Kerry had asked the Defense Department to investigate a series of allegations made by the Toledo Blade about a U.S. Army platoon in Vietnam allegedly killing unarmed civilians back in 1967. The Blade series has now won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Of course, getting such a prize doesn't make a story true.

Janet Cooke of the Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize for a phony story about a child heroin addict. The prize was returned. The New York Times won a Pulitzer for Walter Duranty's stories about Stalin's Soviet Union. Duranty was later exposed as a liar who covered up the mass murder of millions, but his prize was not returned. Jack Kelley, the ex-USA Today reporter who faked major stories, was nominated by his editors for a Pulitzer Prize five times. These same editors have subsequently reported that parts of one of Kelley's most gripping stories, an eyewitness account of a suicide bombing that helped make him a 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist, were untrue.

[TommyDale]

Upon investigation, it was discovered that Kerry's first war injury occurred when a paper airplane struck his middle finger, creating a slight paper cut.

[GailA]

bob woodward is a known liar too bob woodward

[Blood of Tyrants]

The second was when he fell down skinning his knee while stoned out of his gourd in Viet Nam.

[DCPatriot]

Upon investigation, it was discovered that Kerry's first war injury occurred when a paper airplane struck his middle finger, creating a slight paper cut.

Here they come. Joke after joke after joke...albeit most poor.

It's NOT funny!

When in the heck is the GOP hierarchy going to grow some cajones and DEMAND an explanation and proof of these so-called medal qualifying injuries?

It would seem to me it would be powerful enough to expose this Cretin Kerry for the sham and fraud he is, and put him in Dukakis status once and for all.

[areafiftyone]

When are we going to have real investigative journalism. The liberal media has been giving Kerry and free ride and will continue to do so. In the meantime they are slamming Bush left and right and while coddling Kerry.

[speekinout]

Was this excerpting necessary? All of the silly exerpting is making FR one of the least readable sites on the Net.