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Kerry Threatens TV Stations Over Swift Boat Ad (Letter Contains "Obvious Lie"; BIG Kerry Stumble!)
National Review Online ^ | 8/5/04 | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 08/05/2004 4:27:59 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Human Events reports that the DNC and the Kerry campaign are writing to television stations, stating that the Swift Boat ads is is "false" and "libelous" and that "your station may not responsibly air this advertisement."

At least one of their points in the letter is an obvious lie: "The advertisement contains statements by men who purport to have served on Senator John Kerry's SWIFT [sic] boat in Vietnam and one statement by a man pretending to be the doctor who treated Senator Kerry for one of his injuries."

Horsepucky.

Every vet in the ad says, "I served with John Kerry," but not one of them claims to have been in his boat. Most of the men are other swiftboat captains. They've been open and clear in their statements that they served in other swift boats operating within 50 yards on Kerry's side, and their statements are their observations on serving alongside him, not under him.

NR's own Byron York had the scoop on Louis Letson, the doctor, months ago. The Kerry letter insists that Letson is a "phony" because he didn't sign Kerry's sick call sheet.

The Los Angeles Times looked at the who-signed-the-form controversy back in May:

"Meehan questioned Letson's role, saying a J.C. Carreon signed Kerry's medical report of the wound. "This gentleman is not the man who is on the report," he said.

Letson said that Carreon, a lower-ranked "hospitalman," was "present at the time and he, in fact, made the entry into Lt. Kerry's medical record."

Bad move, Team Kerry. The letter from the lawyers turns this into a bigger story, and the argument that these men are "phony" doesn't seem all that strong.


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To: I_dmc
I can't help but think of the fates of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

If I'm not mistaken, at least one of the signers had his sons captured by the British. They offered to let that signer's sons go, if he would renounce his support for the Declaration. He refused. His sons were executed.

Can you imagine anyone able to do that today?

161 posted on 08/05/2004 9:50:28 PM PDT by Diddley (Hey Rip Van Kerry. The Swifties are comin' after ya'.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

bumpo


162 posted on 08/05/2004 10:00:24 PM PDT by prophetic (Dems investigate for pre 9/11intel - but now we've LOTS of Intel and they claim politics)
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To: pissant
The Cambodian incursion lie will be enough to sink Kerry. It distills well into an up or down, yes or no question, which can be shouted by hostile reporters at any press opportunity.

"Senator Kerry, Did you ever take your Swift boat all the way into Cambodia? When?"

It's such an easily provable lie, we should hammer it home.

163 posted on 08/05/2004 10:09:08 PM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: patriciamary

AMEN! ME, TOO.

That liberal _________ on Oreilly was soooo ofensive as she interrupted one of them.

Will pray they are tenacious!


164 posted on 08/05/2004 10:27:35 PM PDT by Quix (PRAYER WARRIORS, DO YOUR STUFF! LIVES AND NATIONS DEPEND ON IT)
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To: Diddley

Unfortunately, I can imagine, on both sides.


165 posted on 08/05/2004 10:44:07 PM PDT by I_dmc
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To: P-Marlowe
Here you have a lawyer for an organization that by law must be independent of the candidate threatening lawsuits on the candidate's PERSONAL behalf in order to frighten media outlets into squelching a advertisement.

Interesting that Kerry or his own lawyers are not calling the Swiftboat vets liars, could it be because then the Swiftees could sue Kerry for libel and get discovery of his records..?

166 posted on 08/05/2004 11:03:09 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: PeoplesRepublicOfWashington

Letson said that Carreon, a lower-ranked "hospitalman," was "present at the time and he, in fact, made the entry into Lt. Kerry's medical record."

"sKerry may paint himself into an uncomfy corner here. If he tries to claim that Carreon, who was not a physician, was the one who treated him, that invalidates his first Purple Heart. Per military regulations, a Purple Heart requires that a non-lethal wound received from combat action with the enemy must be receive medical treatment, and such treatment is deemed to be that supplied by a physician, not a medic or hospital corpsman. Add sKerry's claim that a corpmen provided his medical treatment (removal of a superficial splinter, followed by application of antibacterial ointment and a bandaid) to the fact that there was no enemy action during his patrol (firing a grenade launcher onto rocks on shores does not qualify as enemy action) gives a total of two reasons for his first Purple Heart to be an invalid one."


I think your post is a million dollar bit of insight that deserves it's own tread.


167 posted on 08/05/2004 11:03:41 PM PDT by FastCoyote
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To: IamConservative
John Kerry is the only person to have server honorably in Viet Nam?
That is the thing about Kerry's position: He admitted to atrocities in Viet Nam, in from of the Senate committe in '71 - but everyone else is to blame but John Kerry. The only way to not have your manhood questioned by John Kerry is to be wuss enough to support his position that he is the only American war hero. Period. Not just in Vietnam.

Kerry never accords anyone else respect for valor equal to his own, and never accords anyone else any respect at all unless they are liberals. Whether or not you have a bunch of comrades testifying against his specific claims you have to understand that actual heroes respect the valor of others too much to brag. Kerry respects the valor of others not at all, and FWIW my opinion of his description of his own valor is that he protests too much. Far, far too much.

He can boast as he will about how he will keep us unmanly people safe, but the real question of a Democratic candidate has to be, "Where are you going to find a qualified Secretary of Defense who is willing to work for you?" Because there hasn't been a good Democratic SecDef in half a century, all the way back to the Truman Administration. Even if you think Cohen was OK, he was a Republican. Les Aspin accepted responsibility for Black Hawk Down and resigned.


168 posted on 08/05/2004 11:18:48 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.)
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To: rolling_stone

That's the same reason Clinton never personally denied raping Juanita Broderick.

Kerry will not personally call these men liars. Nor will Kerry have his own attorney call them liars. So he gets the DNC lawyers and the Kerry/Edwards lawyers to call them liars and insulates himself from scrutiny and libel.


169 posted on 08/05/2004 11:39:08 PM PDT by P-Marlowe
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To: Quix
Part of me thinks McCain has some puppet master

Yup. You figured it out.

Lemme see, we could start with his second marriage to the daughter of a holder of the Anhauser-Busch franchise in Arizona.

Those of you who don't understand what this means can talk to someone from Illinois.

170 posted on 08/06/2004 12:18:54 AM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: patriciamary
I pray these soldiers do not back down

Sorry to quibble, but aren't the swift boat vets sailors?

171 posted on 08/06/2004 12:28:26 AM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

I'll add more bad statements by the presumed lawyers. First of all .. they have no leverage or legal standing to tell any organization that they "may not" run the ad.

Secondly, there are 2 key words missing from the letter .. CEASE AND DESIST. Those words are legal speak or semi-quoting what the actual legal statute says.

But .. in order to say "cease and desist", you must have legal standing .. and it's very obvious that the lawyers do not.


172 posted on 08/06/2004 12:30:21 AM PDT by CyberAnt (President Bush: America is the Greatest Nation on the Face of the Earth)
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To: patriciaruth

I was wondering where his intellectual, values pollution came from. He should have known better having been in the Hanoi Hilton and all.

It's almost like he's had a brain transplant or a values transplant or some such.


173 posted on 08/06/2004 3:45:35 AM PDT by Quix (PRAYER WARRIORS, DO YOUR STUFF! LIVES AND NATIONS DEPEND ON IT)
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To: IFIXHEAT
EVEN IF THE VETS ARE TAKING SOME LIBERTY WITH THE TRUTH WHICH I DOUBT, ITS OK FOR MICHAEL MOORE TO SPEW REAL BS AND GET AWARDS AND BE THE DARLING OF THE LEFT, BUT THE TRUTH HURTS DOESN'T IT?

Republicans are expected to be scrupulously honest and forthright.
Democrats are expected to be liars loaded with BS - because their hearts are in the "right" place and they really, really “care”.
174 posted on 08/06/2004 3:58:37 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Yep, I read the Kerry threat letter and it is full of Clintonian evasions and half-truths. It has opened a can of worms, though the media only have a taste for Republican worms (bad metaphor!).


175 posted on 08/06/2004 4:05:22 AM PDT by Puddleglum
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To: anonsquared
What a burn -- and an insightful truth:

There are nine year olds in East LA that have been shot at more times than Kerry ever was during his four months in Vietnam. That doesn't mean they're qualified to be President.

176 posted on 08/06/2004 4:31:02 AM PDT by GOPJ
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
This is the way Kerry and the Democrats plan to overthrow our government through legal manipulation and obstruction.> Kerry could have released his military medical records along with his divorce records some time ago but like the Clintons they all being lawyers know how to manipulate the system and hide things while they go on misleading this country and its people. There are many in the legal profession along with the news media that are complicit in this and they are destroying America! They have attacked President Bush for well over three years and with the help of the media they have made him into a villain and tried to destroy him and his family. They have obstructed him in Congress as well as demeaned him.This is a well designed plan the Democrats have developed and I hope America will not fall for it. For everything the Democrats claim to stand for and espouse they are liars in these claims but the so called 'Mainstream Media" continued to cover for them. Now some Democrats in Congress are sending veiled threats to the FOX News Network on Congressional stationary. Americans had better not dare allow the Democrats to take the right to weapons away from us or they will most certainly overthrow our government and install their dictator.
177 posted on 08/06/2004 4:43:19 AM PDT by gunnedah
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

"Defeat in '04 means an immediate return to Clinton-era taxes, an extremist Supreme Court for the next quarter-century, and our complete and -- oh, yeah -- unconditional surrender in the War On Terror, as well."

bears repeating.

Let the truth come out--I applaud these guys for what they're doing.


178 posted on 08/06/2004 4:53:04 AM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: patriciamary
I hope Mccain has something in his closet that can be used to shut this ass hole up once and for all

Well for starters he is a reverse fighter ace. IIRC he destroyed 4 jets before getting shot down with his fifth.

179 posted on 08/06/2004 5:54:05 AM PDT by jslade (People who are easily offended, OFFEND ME!)
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To: jslade

AND,YOUR POINT.so what I DID 30 YEARS AGOS CAN BE POINTED OUT TIME AND TIME AGAIN AND EVERYTHING ELSE AFTER Means NOTHING.When I was 20 I was great,after that I became a liar,a killer,a traitor,but who care became when I was 20 I was a hero.


180 posted on 08/06/2004 1:08:03 PM PDT by patriciamary
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