Will the Boston Globe print a retraction?
BTTT!
The ad will do some damage to Kerry regardless of how hard the DNC works to brand the Swiftboat Vets as liars. The controversy is a good thing because the ad is getting lots of free airplay on radio and tv nation-wide.
Jim Angle, sitting in for Brit Hume, just reported the retraction story, without correcting it. Grrr.
Jim Angle just reported the Michael Krainish, Globe story as truth. He quoted the Krainish story, which quotes Elliot as saying his statements against Kerry make him look a little silly. I am so mad. I can't believe it.
Maybe this was all a brilliantly conceived and executed rope-a-dope operation. Kranish is discredited, along with the Globe. Both must now defend against the charge that their "reporting" on Kerry is deceptive, given Kranish's role in Kerry's book. More media attention will be focused on Elliot, Letson (Kerry's doctor in '68, his lawyers' denials notwithstanding) and the substance of the ad. SwiftVets must have known it would be tough to break through the media's tendency to ignore or discredit Kerry's criics; lots of them have experience in planning battles. Whether by design or no, they have helped give the story legs.
Unless Elliot comes out and fixes this right away, he is the Achilles heel the Dems need to end this ad.
My email to Fox News:
Why are you reporting the supposed "Retraction" of George Elliot's affidavit concerning John Kerry's war record as straight news? Whatever happened to fair and balanced?
In an ad released today, Elliot reconfirms his original statement.
Elliot says the Boston Globe article was "extremely inaccurate and highly misleading."
The author of the piece in the Globe is Kerry's authorized biographer and the Boston Globe correspondent for the Kerry campaign.
Further, the author, Mike Kranish, wrote the forward to the official Kerry Campaign book.
Yet Fox News did not seem to feel that these points were worth mentioning by either Shep Smith or Jim Angle.
I don't know anymore than you do who's telling the truth. But if Fox News wishes to continue to enjoy it's reputation as at least moderately evenhanded, it might consider telling both sides of such an important story.
I might as well be watching CNN.
John Kerry is either a "war hero" or a "war criminal"
Can't have it both ways.
John Kerry and War Crimes in Vietnam
(He was in command of a Swift Boat
and ordered his men to do these things.
Listen to this 1971 audio clip
LONG BEFORE THE '04 Election)
http://www.streamload.com/jmstein77/Kerry2.mp3
Swift Boat Vets documented TRUTH, not the media PING!
DON'T BELIEVE THE TV AND CABLE NEWSROOMS!
BOSTON GLOBE 'REPORTER' COMMISSIONED TO WRITE CAMPAIGN BOOK FOREWORD -- WHILE COVERING KERRY...
at:
"..But Captain George Elliott claims the Kranish article is "extremely inaccurate" and highly misstated his actual views..."
MEDIA LIED, ON PURPOSE, ABOUT SWIFT BOAT VETS, TODAY!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1186614/posts
(The previous address had insufficient bandwith and was constantly overloaded.)
This is an excellent site to Bookmark:
Veteran claims misquote on Kerry; Globe stands by its story
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1186841/posts
The Globe is holding the party line as of Saturday AM.