Posted on 08/05/2004 2:30:38 PM PDT by ArcLight
Kerry has nothing to fear but Truth itself!
Me thinks he doth protest too much. (Or not)
"and had fled the scene of a battle."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is the first we've heard of Kerry fleeing a battle!
Perhaps the Kerry band of lawyers are going a bit 'deep' themselves?......
Someone mentioned on another thread that if Kerry or the DNC sues, the SBVs would have discovery rights (i.e. legal standing to request and receive Kerry's medical and service records). Can anyone confirm or deny that this would be the case?
Very interesting set of circumstances. If the lawyers feel that Kerry is being defamed, go ahead and sue the individuals, take it to court, and have everyone involved testify as to what they remember. It will be a great spectacle for TV and the kind of publicity that could easily sink someone's aspirations. Who do you think this will affect the most? Bush or Kerry.
On Hannity, a station manager for WTMJ in Wisconsin said they got the fax-memo-threat, but they are running the ad anyway.
Signed affidavits to the UPI -- the swift vets are organized, capable, and ready for this battle... and recognize that the MSM is clearly hostile to them.
I am beginning to feel that the RATS have nominated a compromised candidate who lied to them.
I don't see anything about it on john john's scamsite.
Earlier today, I couldn't find anything on the swiftboat vets' tv ads, on any of the alphabet media, not even on Fox News. The last, unfortunatley doesn't surprise me, their (newscorp) president & coo peter chernin just endorsed the flying monkey from taxachussets. I also heard that CNBC is altering Dennis Miller's show to be less confrontational politically, i.e., Dennis is being censored for his republican views.
Now there is one story and one story only on the swiftvets making it's way into our living rooms, that is second string kerry vp john mccain calling the swiftvets a bunch of bums & liars (dishonerable and dishonest to be specific)for daring to exercise their 1st amendment rights.
This story actually broke back in May, but AP has been waiting for someone sleazy enough to present it in a manner they deemed worth repeating.
It's not like the "Swift Vets for Truth" made any secret of their organization. Also, given its makeup, how hard would it be for Kerry to drop a single mole into their organization, to sabotage it (by inventing false charges against him) and to gather intel about what they would claim against Kerry and any weaknesses in those claims? If Kerry couldn't accomplish that much, I don't think he'd be capable of running our armed forces and intelligence services.
I think you and I both know, that's true.
The Swift Boat Vets hit a nerve, my man, they struck a nerve.
Open his service file!
and while your at it
Release the tape!
crickets
Oh well, worth a shot!
Thurlow appeared on MSNBC with Rassman to discuss the ad this afternoon - as usual, the network gave Rassman the last word - his whole defense was not much more than "this happened thirty-five years ago, why wasn't it questioned then, it's dirty politics to question it now" - Thurlow was unfortunately non-asserive and didn't jump in to tell Rassman that his "rescue" was by the usual standards probably such a common and unremarkable event that no one would have thought it would have resulted in a medal for anyone, let alone Kerry, who apparently showed up late on the scene and, according to Thurlow, wasn't in any danger at all himself.......
So Kerry's releasing his military records??
On Hannity, the WTMJ station manager said he called the atty's listed on the memo and asked them if they were threatening to sue.
They, of course, denied they were and said the fax-memo was 'just a request.'
So, it sound like they are trying a bluff in hopes of intimidating stations. WTMJ called their bluff. Wonder how many other stations will?
A complicating point here is that the Kerry/DNC lawyers have written to broadcasters warning them not to run the ad, not to the SBV for producing it; apparently, if they sue, they will sue broadcasters who run the ad. A few posters on other threads have pointed out that the liberal media will now have a plausible excuse to refuse the ad. Luckily, there are at least some conservative outlets that will run it, so these will be outlets that will be sued.
Mr. O'Neill, I recollect, took over Kerry's boat when he ran went home.
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