Posted on 05/31/2004 8:09:15 PM PDT by Kaslin
Democratic Senator - and certain presidential nominee - John F. Kerry gave the middle finger to a Vietnam veteran at the Vietnam Memorial Wall on Memorial Day morning, NewsMax.com has learned.
Ted Sampley, a former Green Beret who served two full tours in Vietnam, spotted Kerry and his Secret Service detail at about 9:00 AM Monday morning at the Wall. Sampley walked up to Kerry, extended his hand and said, "Senator, I am Ted Sampley, the head of Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, and I am here to escort you away from the Wall because you do not belong here."
At that point a Secret Service officer told Sampley to back away from Kerry. Sampley moved about six feet away and opened his jacket to reveal a HANOI JOHN tee-shirt.
Kerry then began talking to a group of school children. Sampley then showed the tee-shirt to the children and said, "Kerry does not belong at the Wall because he betrayed the brave soldiers who fought in Vietnam."
Just then Kerry - in front of the school children, other visitors and Secret Service agents - brazenly 'flashed the bird' at Sampley and then yelled out to everyone, "Sampley is a felon!"
Kerry was referring to an incident 12 years ago when Sampley confronted Senator John McCain's cheif aide, Mark Salter, in a Senate stairwell after McCain repeatedly offended POW families at a Senate POW hearing. Sampley, whose father-in-law at that time was MIA in Laos, followed Salter into the stairwell and, when they emerged, Salter had a bloody lip and a broken nose.
Sampley's group, Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, has garnered huge national attention and been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post and on MSNBC's Scarborough Country. Tens of thousands of Vietnam vets have registered their opposition to Kerry through Sampley's group.
Clearly Sampley has gotten under Kerry's skin once again.
BTTT
He will never make it to the debates at this rate.
Rush just mentioned this incident on his show.
Mods: I went searching for this article after Rush started talking about it. It was very hard to find. Why is it so buried? Personally, I think you ought to put it back on the front page under breaking news so more people can read it. I'm sure there were LOTS of Freepers who were not on FR yesterday and never had a chance at this thread. JMHO
Pure BS....Check out the last link in this snipette of the News Max web page.....
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Hopefully a patriotic American will have a camera ready to record the next Kerry outburst, as the media has no desire to do so. Since he has a hair trigger, and a propensity to react publicly, it shouldn't be that difficult to prod him into photo op. We all know, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Right. I acknowledged this on #178.
They do have a lot of links on their page (Newsmax that is) and it is difficult to find what you are looking for sometimes.
When this article was posted last night I was sure hoping there would be another source in addition to NewsMax. Rush read the NewsMax article verbatim on the air a little while ago without questioning its credibility. It seems that if there were school children, SS, and "others" present when the bird-flipping happened, there should be someone who can cooberate this report.
Why did I ONLY hear this on Rush and not on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN..... Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm??????
Kerry has NO CLASS and he is a hot head. He is an a*sh*le, a Clymer. He is full of Barbra Streisand. He is as hot headed and immature as Howard Dean!!!! He just hasn't screamed......... yet.
BUMP
Actually, the info in that story came from Andrea Peyser's column in the New York Post. You can blame Newsmax for rewriting the story, but you should also blame the New York Post for running it in the first place.
Color me skeptical, but I do not believe that Kerry shot the bird. There had to be so many cameras to catch the act....yet no one did?? I would have to have an independent eyewitness tell me so.
On Memorial Day while supposedly honoring the troops at The Wall (of Shame, thanks to Kerry), Yaaaaawn Cut & Ran Carry flips off a "Brother"??? This guy is Bob Dull only angrier!
Pray for W and Our Veterans
I have issues with Mr. Sampley and some of the things he has done and said in the past...BUT the bumper sticker is outstanding. I display mine proudly and bought three of them for friends.
Remember, It's hard to believe that a decorated Viet Nam war veteran would come back to accuse and pillory his "brothers". It's also rather hard to believe that a sitting senator would go on public radio and drop the f-bomb when discussing the POTUS. So I'm not unconvinced that ef'n would stoop so low as to "finger" one of his "brothers" who he considers to be a political enemy.
I haven't seen the pics of him laying on the slope after his fall on skis or a bicycle post crash photo. He was surrounded by people with cameras during those episodes, too.
I was glad to hear Rush mention it on hus program. That gives it a huge boost in public awareness.
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