Kerry melt-down following Gibson GMA interview

ABC Evening News

[A Citizen Reporter]

Peter Jennings just ran a piece on Kerry's Vietnam history. Included in the piece was a bit of video after this morning's interview with Charlie Gibson. Kerry (thinking he was off-camera) ripped out his earpiece, and said "I feel like they're doing the work of the Republican National Committee."

[elhombrelibre]

Or good manners, or simple human decency, or a sense of humor...the list could go on. We're dealing with a preening poseur, and a gigolo to boot.

[mass55th]

"I was a bit skeptical today, when Rush claimed that ABC (GMA) had gone after Kerry because he had lied to Peter Jennings."

I can see Jennings being miffed that Kerry lied to him. Jennings is as pompous an ass as Kerry. In Jennings' eyes, it's okay for Kerry to lie to everybody else, but shame on you if you lie to Peter.

[hole_n_one]

I take it you haven't heard about the Chris Matthews boycott?

[GOP_1900AD]

"They are the biggest bunch of ... " ;) Yep, he still hasn't learned. Good! Keep 'em coming Johney boy!

[CFC__VRWC]

Thanks for the info. I had heard about the Kerry lie to Jennings on Rush today, but didn't catch the date. I saw "1985" up-thread, and figured that was the interview date.

[LucyJo]

"No, they're doing the work of the Clintons."

BIG BINGO!

[elhombrelibre]

UPDATE, Miss Marple!

[LdSentinal]

I was supporting the boycott, but had to break the picket line to see how Chris Matthews spins this.

56 minutes into the show -- Matthews finally gives a blurb about the GMA interview.

[sinkspur]

Here it comes.

Jean Shaheen is such an incoherent, bumbling bimbo.

And, she's his National chairman!

[Peach]

If you or I had our word or honor impuned and we could prove our point with a videotape, we'd get the darned tape.

Kerry should be demanding a copy of the tape to PROVE his point. But he won't because, of course, he's lying.

[hole_n_one]

Boycott's over?

[BulletBobCo]

Saw it in Colorado, mountain time. Doesn't appear to have been edited. West coast should see in entirety as well. Well worth the wait.

[Cultural Jihad]

Maybe "Kerrette's Syndrome?"

That would explain a lot. :D

[BlessedBeGod]

ABC is owned by Disney and they are desperate for ratings. Don't look too deeply here. Eisner is in big trouble and knows it.

I don't think Petah would take orders he didn't like from Eisner.

[sinkspur]

I'm just killing time until the NHL playoffs start.

[Riley]

I disagree. The Commies may be evil, but they're not stupid. They know that this election is lost as far as the Presidency is concerned. Hilliary doesn't want to run against an incumbent Republican president during wartime.

No, they'll let (read 'engineer') Kerry go down in flames. She doesn't want to go up against 'incumbent advantage'. She'll hit us next time, in '08. If Kerry wins, then the party will pretty much have to support him for re-election in '08. He's a dud, and the party bigs are pragmatic, if nothing else. She doesn't want to wait until 2012 for a shot at the White House. There is a train of thought on FR that suggests that the Clintons are behind a lot of the damaging stuff that is coming out about Kerry. I think they're right.

[OXENinFLA]

THE KOOL-AID FROM CAMP KERRY

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Throwing Vietnam Medals

UPDATED 4.26.04

RIGHTWING FICTION: John Kerry lied about throwing his medals during a Vietnam War protest.

FACT: The day after John Kerry gave his famous speech before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22 of 1971 where he asked the committee "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam?" and "How do you ask a man to die for a mistake?," the VVAW made its final planned public act of the demonstration by organizing a medal returning ceremony. A wood and wire fence was erected around the Capitol, and thousands of veterans then lined up to return to the government their medals, ribbons, discharge papers, and uniforms by throwing these items over the fence. Many veterans made a statement before returning the military paraphernalia and the protest took hours because of the long line of protestors returning their medals. The veterans who could not attend the event in DC had surrogates throw the medals on their behalf. John Kerry threw back combat ribbons representing awards he won in Vietnam. He also returned the medals of two veterans who could not attend the event.

John Kerry is proud of the work he did to end the Vietnam War. He returned his ribbons as a symbolic gesture to make the point that the Vietnam war had to end. For John Kerry, the symbolism of medals and ribbons is interchangeable: "We all referred to them as the symbols they were representing," he told "Good Morning America" on ABC. The point was to end the Vietnam war and to keep more young American men from dying because of President Nixon's failed policies. At the time, Kerry said, "I am not doing this for any violent reasons, but for peace and justice, and to try to make this country wake up once and for all." [Tour of Duty, Douglas Brinkley]

1971: Oliphant Writes About Kerry’s Medals, But Actually Means Ribbons:

“Medals and other military mementos were flung…John Kerry of Waltham, Mass., a former Navy lieutenant and now a leader of the group, who became a national figure last week said before he threw his medals over the fence: ‘I’m not doing this for any violent reasons, but for peace justice, and to try to make this country wake up once and for all.’ ” [Boston Globe, 4/24/71]

2004: "Never Any Confusion" from Reporter Who Covered Kerry in 1971:

“Thomas Oliphant, who was reporting on the event the event that day for the Boston Globe, recalled that Kerry reached over the fence to place his own service ribbons as well as medals he had received from other veterans. ‘I never had any confusion about what he did,’ said Oliphant, now a Boston Globe columnist, ‘that he had kept his Silver Star, Purple Hearts and Bronze Star.’ ” [John F. Kerry: The Complete Biography by the Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best, pps 127-128; 2004]




RIGHTWING FICTION: It was dishonorable for John Kerry to give back the military ribbons he had been awarded.

FACT: Quite the opposite. John Kerry returned his ribbons as a symbolic gesture to make the point that the Vietnam war had to end. It was an emotional and dramatic way of waking up the country and preventing more young American men from dying. Thousands of veterans participated in the ceremony, and photographs of the Capitol steps show that medals, ribbons, other insignia, and discharge papers were thrown. Kerry also returned the medals of a WWII veteran and a Vietnam veteran who asked Kerry to return their medals. The Nixon Administration made John Kerry one of its targets and Kerry's rightwing foes have been smearing his name and his service ever since. [Tour of Duty, Douglas Brinkley]

[hole_n_one]

Sharks @ Avalanche (ESPN)
Woo Hoo!

[sinkspur]

Hardball ended with Matthews asking Shaheen if we'd be in Iraq right now under a President Kerry.

She said "I don't know."

Matthews: "Isn't that the crux of Kerry's problem? Nobody knows."