The Christmas in Cambodia story of John Kerry was repeated as recently as July 7, 2004 by Michael Kranish, a principal biographer of Kerry from The Boston Globe. On the Hannity & Colmes television show, Kranish indicated that Kerry's Christmas in Cambodia was a critical turning point in Kerry's life.
FOX HANNITY & COLMES
July 7, 2004 Wednesday
HEADLINE: Is Kerry Hiding Dark Secrets?
GUESTS: Michael Kranish, Nina Easton
BYLINE: Sean Hannity, Alan Colmes
(snip)
HANNITY: You know, does he have a moral core? Is he somebody that will do anything for political expediency, to satisfy some political ambition?
KRANISH: Sean, I don't know if it's -- that's a question that obviously some of the critics will raise. And I think what's fair to look at is how he was affected by Vietnam.
He himself would say that you really have to look at a lot of his thought process as what was happening during Vietnam. And in one short anecdote I'll tell you, that in Christmas of 1968, he was on a small boat with his men, basically in Cambodia at a time when Richard Nixon was telling the American public that we're not in Cambodia.
And he basically became skeptical. Well, the government is saying this, but he knew himself that wasn't true. And it's also why he says he came back to protest the war that he had served in.
HANNITY: Well, Michael...
KRANISH: So, from his perspective, and he's trying to -- I think what he would say a little bit -- I can't speak for him obviously -- is that, you know, you look at a situation, very traumatic and sometimes you change your mind.
And clearly in Vietnam, when he volunteered, he served, came back to lead the protest.(snip)
Kranish doesn't seem to know that President Nixon wasn't inaugurated until January 20, 1969.
They keep repeating the same lie.