Junior Dems going after FreeRepublic and Swift Boat Veterans

Political Animal/Media Matters ^ | 8/6/04 | Kevin Drum, various

[lonewacko_dot_com]

FReeper and co-author of 'Unfit for Command' Jerome R. Corsi, PhD is being attacked on WashingtonMonthly and MediaMatters.

From WashingtonMonthly:

LUNATICS?....A few misguided souls took issue with my cavalier dismissal of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth as "certifiable lunatics" yesterday. If you're one of them, I have two words for you: click here.

It turns out I was being too kind....

That leads to this MediaMatters page:

While much has been written about the identity and history of John E. O'Neill -- one of the authors of the forthcoming Regnery book Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry (whose links in the GOP go back to his days as "protégé of Nixon-era dirty trickster Charles Colson") -- little has been said about his co-author, Jerome R. Corsi, PhD.

That's followed by a list of his posts on FR, with links. The only one I looked at was taken out of context.

And, they even go into his pet names for our favorite celebrities, such as "Little Katie Communist". And?

[lonewacko_dot_com]

Also, note that Media Matters employs Duncan B. Black, who is better known as Atrios of atrios.blogspot.com

A Usenet posting I saw with the same information as the Media Matters page identified it as having come from Daily Kos, which may or may not be accurate. Kos is the blogger who said "fuck 'em" regarding the four contractors who were killed in Iraq a couple months ago.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Regardless of who is or is not a looney, this whole issue would go away for Kerry if he would RELEASE ALL OF HIS MILITARY AND MEDICAL RECORDS.

While he's at it, Teresa's tax returns would clear up a lot of things.

[concerned about politics]

Those Swift Boat Vets are Viet Nam War heroes. They all received medals of honor. Are they attacking war heroes now? I thought that was taboo!

I guess they want all records opened, then, so we can see who's telling the truth and who is lying, aye? Seeing that all the Vets concerned are equally qualified for the presidency, according to Kerry's rules, let us find out who's the most qualified.
Release all Kerry's military records (like the honorable President Bush freely released his).

[Just mythoughts]

Hey this is the "reenactment" of that Vietnam war all over again and the enemy is still the same. JFKerry is their "commander-in-chief" and he reported for duty last week.

The time has come to engage this bunch of cowards head on, too many of we American quietly took all their lies, and degradation of this nation and no more, they want a fight its time to expose them for the low life they are.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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

[ConservativeMan55]

Check out this thread of Anti-John Kerry signs!

[USMCVIETVET]

Liberal Washingtom Monthly blog also has some defenders of Corsi and of SwiftVets. -- Many supporters and opponents use colorful or coarse language on blogs. All should reign in bile, and speak well as they would before their mother.

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

Perhaps they can take my post out of context. I just gave $100 to the Swift Boat Vets, and I am so proud of them.

[WVNan]

So, did anybody see anything that Corsi said that wasn't true?

[plain talk]

This is weak stuff for consumption of lefties and talking head journalists. They are trying to dissuade talking head journalists from touching any of this stuff. It could work. However, if the vets get more of a forum for telling their story besides the sound bites in the ad then it will be powerful, powerful stuff. This attack-the-messenger stuff will not work effectively against multiple eye-witnesses if they get a chance to get their story out. The sliver doctor's story is good stuff.

[unsycophant]

Kos is the blogger who said "fuck 'em" regarding the four contractors who were killed in Iraq a couple months ago.

What a punk.

[txhurl]

Ben Stein's ready to field for the swiftvets, too. He's more respected than many realize.

[Bob J]

What's even more amazing is now that Lady Hon has been outed as neither conservative nor human, some supposedly loyal posters here will still run back play in the dung with beetles.

[Watery Tart]

I am SO tired of Kerry being referred to as a "war hero." Who started this, when did they do so, and upon what do they base their title?

[Brian Allen]

The Bonny Fwank in trousers-Anne-Lewis-led John Kerry Campaign has pulled a Monica Lewinski on US and just about all of US -- just as we did when the same manifestation-of-evil machine "leaked" Lewinski -- have fallen for it.

Here we are froth-and-foam-flecked fuming about a Birnam Wood charade that Kerry carefully staged and shot thirty-five years ago on location in South East Asia and meanwhile the candidate's intervening thirty-five years whose only connecting thread has been his consistent and persistent aid and comfort to our nation's enemies and which have included the Hanoi-John treasons, the failed congressional run and lieutenant-governorship and years and years of effectively-failed senate membership.

I love the Swift-Boat Men and all they stand for but by focusing on them we are validating Kerry's claim that his thirty-five years ago sixteen weeks on location in Vietnam qualifies yet another "DemocRAT" less-than-a-man who has never had a job or met a payroll to be president of the United States of America? To achieve Dunsinane?

We want that Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane?

Lets please move on to the other thity-five years.

BUMPping

[88keys]

Seems every time I "click on" to some article/web-site purporting to rebut the Swift Boat Vets, it ultimately takes me to Joe Conason and "Salon"...what's that all about? And BYW, is Conason a P.H.D. of any kind? (Not that that's any guarantee, of course, but you know what I mean!)

[plain talk]

The Sat morning fox money shows have devolved into political shows (kinda wget tired of broker dudes aruing about politics). I sure hope Stein is on as he will come to their defense. Not sure about any of the others include Forbes himself. For the most part, conservative media people are scared to death of this.

[cpdiii]

Today John Kerry said he would have us out of Iraq in a year.
If you are one of the terrorist in Iraq what would you plan of action be today? If I may be so bold as to put myself in the mindset of the terrorist this is what I would think:

1. If John Kerry is elected my enemy will leave Iraq.
2. If I can kill more American soldiers it will make the
election of John Kerry more likely.
3. My enemies enemy is my friend.

John Kerry's lies about the war in Vietnam caused more American Soldiers to die. The Vietnam Veterans against the war (LED BY JOHN KERRY) were essential to the war effort of North Vietnam, per General Giap the commander of the North Vietnamese Army.

The actions of John Kerry 30 plus years ago resulted in deaths of American Soldiers by provided aid and comfort to the enemy. The actions of John Kerry today provide aid and comfort to the enemy and DO RESULT in the death of American Soldiers.