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?

[stockpirate]

You will not see him release any of these records. I think he is on anti-depress.

[MeekOneGOP]

Very interesting thread. Thanks for posting this, lonewacko_dot_com .....

Junior Dems going after FreeRepublic
and Swift Boat Veterans

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

My thanks to Traumer, Arrowhead1952 and Conspiracy Guy for the concept of this pic

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[R. Scott]

The unfortunate truth is that too many peoples' 'reality' is whatever the media want it to be. People believe what they read and hear, especially if they hear it over and over and over.

I constantly hear from Hanoi John’s supporters - “I’ll believe it when I see it on ABC, CBS, NBC or even CNN”. When a story critical of Hanoi John does (very rarely) appear, they come back with - “Well, you can’t believe everything to see on TV”.

[section9]

A good thing, actually. This will lead to a lot more hits to FR from people generally and in those in the MSM who might actually want to investigate Kerry's time in the Mekong delta (iirc).

Any libs reading this, such as Drum or Atrios? Well guys, your candidate is a certifiable ass clown. Would Bush have reacted this way? Nope, he would have kept his cool while it blew over. Look what he did with Moore's flick. He kept his mouth shut while others did the spadework on Moore's agitprop film (Sullivan, Hitchens, et. al., took Moore apart). That's good aikido, in my book.

Kerry doesn't know how to use his opponent's momentum against him. Bush does. Kerry lets his vanity and his ego get in the way of his good sense. Instead of letting this story die, Kerry has magnified it.

Four more years, guys. Get used to it.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[eeriegeno]

It's interesting that Kerry claims to be a 'war hero' but refuses to release ALL of his military and medical records while GW Bush did release all of his records when his military service was questioned! What is Kerry hiding?

Also, Kerry seems to be focused on the 7 minutes after GW was informed that a plane had hit the WTC. We, as voters, ought to be focused on where John Kerry was for the 7 minutes preceding the VVAW vote to assassinate US Congressmen......

[Bahbah]

Well, well, no wonder Hillary wants to get control of what goes on on the internet. FR is here and it isn't going away.

[Phsstpok]

Those Swift Boat Vets are Viet Nam War heroes.

Absolutely!

They all received medals of honor.

I'm pretty sure that's not true. I don't doubt that many of them received honorable medals, but there are 250 members of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. There were only 245 Medal of Honor winners in all of the Vietnam conflict (1964 - 1972) and they certainly weren't all given to Swift Boat officers who served in 1968 with John Kerry.

Are they attacking war heroes now?

Yep. The dims are pretty sleazy. It's real hard for them to squawk about anything anyone says about Kerry after the way they've embraced the lunatic fringe, including Michale Moore and the Deaniacs.

[devolve]

         

[TC Rider]

Why does anyone pay any attention to Media Matters AKA David Brock, a man who is a pathological liar by his own admission?

[No Surrender No Retreat]

I wish he would say that in front of me. The little besumthin commie. American Blood Is Precious! Bush/Cheney2004

[Ciexyz]

So much for the right of free speech!

[Spacetrucker]

Need I remind you (not saying that you don't know already) that the easiest way to disover the "OTHER SIDE"'s true intentions is to listen to what they accuse conservatives in general of doing. They seem awfully fond of using derrogatory phrases & adjectives to describe us.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the history lesson of who wasn't/isn't who they claim to be on FR.

We have a lot of old embedden trolls on FR, who work 24/7 to destroy this country. Then many are banned trolls, who resurrect themselves with new posting names.

[Valin]

Junior Dems going after FreeRepublic and Swift Boat Veterans

A Freeper (don't remember who) once said "Freerepublic where political debate is a contact sport."
So bring it on Junior! But bring your big boy pads cause you'll need em.

[Grampa Dave]

This is an excellent summary of the evicted trolls on FR and the embedden ones not evicte, yet:

"Lady Hon. LOL. Antifreeping became so mean and ugly I guess I can understand a little why the newer un-afers don't want to get caught posting there. Most probably don't want their friends to know that they are involved in such filthy behavior, and especially involved with people who file complaints against FR with everyone under the sun, or work with the opposition to help get Kerry elected because they hate FR *that much*. There are some who don't seem to think it matters, that it's all giggles and fun--and maybe it doesn't matter--but then why do they hide their FR identities? Wish I understood. :: shrug ::
It's shabby behavior to say the least.

"As President Bush said, 'You're either with us, or against us.' If it works for him, it works for me."

Besides their hatred of FR, many have been haters of the Bush Family for over a decade. They were the first to pile on GW in 2000.

The hatred of GW is a true mental disease. Out here in N California we are seeing more No Bush, Anyone but Bush, Vote No Bush type of bumper stickers. There are very few Kerry stickers on vehicles. Their entire movement overt and covert is based on hating GW.

[Valin]

Backlash2" is St**e G***ert from New York, who used to be married to some actress named Felicity La Fortune-he might still be--and who has a fixation on several people from this site (most especially BobJ, who owns a large conglomerate of pizza places). You can always tell it's him because he links to Bob's posts and tries to encourage people to take Bob on and 'call his hand' or whatever. Steve used to post here years ago as "Mojo" and returned as a lady named "Hon" a few months ago. It didn't work out.

As upper midwest regional VICE president for the American Society of Steve's I've check our rolls and don't find his name. There fore he cannot be a REAL Steve.

[Ciexyz]

I went to that site and yes, all the FR posts by John Corsi are taken out of context, esp. the one asking "I hear Kerry is practicing Judaism. What religion exactly is he now?" This sounds sinister if one didn't know the background of the discussion, which I assume was posters questioning what flip flop Kerry was making to appeal to yet another special interest group.

[Grampa Dave]

Great!

The 9110 Franchurian Dork Candidate, le Jacquestrap Kerri, will handle the Islamoterrorists with sensitivity while our familes, friends and nation are destroyed.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[bvw]

Throw away the rear-view mirror.