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" His lawyer training should have taught him "once you ring the bell you can't unring it counsel." Even worse is he didn't checkout in disclosure that there weren't more and better witnesses out there to discredit what he was saying. As I said; This is leaving one hell of a huge black and blue and sickly green bruise Dems."
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I sure hope so, SandRat!!! I just fear that since this whole thing peaked on Friday, by Monday no one (but a few) will care enough to report on it. By late Friday, pretty much all media was reporting George Elliott took back what he said. NOT TOO MANY FOLLOWED THROUGH, though where he took back his statement; and I don't think many will pick it back up on Monday.

See here: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040806/us_nm/campaign_kerry_vietnam_dc_6

That's BARELY mentioned - no wait - it's not EVEN mentioned mainstream press I've see that he changed his mind back again and said he DID NOT DESERVE what he received.

Even so called Fair and Balanced FOX didn't say it, as far as I saw. Never said he went back to his ORIGINAL claim. (Gotta wonder, just who was pressuring George Elliott in the first place, don't ya? In my mind's eye, I was having a very weird view.) LOL. Then he came back to his senses, in my estimation. I really think this needs to get hammered big time --- that Vietnam Veteran Elliott WENT BACK TO HIS ORIGINAL STATEMENT. This message is fading fast!

A big PS: here's a google news search site about this. "Misquoted by the globe" Wow, pretty underwhelming, eh?

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&tab=wn&scoring=d&q=%22misquoted+by+the+globe%22

Actually, what's REALLY troubling, there are 5 links right now as I post. There were 14 just a few minutes ago.

Just to set your impression clear, Elliott did not change his statement between May 4 and August 8 of this year. Not once. He did not "retract" and then "go back" to wehre he was, he has consistently held the same position. More particularly, that Kerry had not been forthcoming about the events that led up to an award of the Silver Star. Note, however, that Elliott did support the issuing of the Silver Star, as recently as 1996. So, he did change his mind between 1996 and 2004. He more carefully explains the reason he changed his mind in this regard, in his affidavit of August 6, 2004. Note however, his position in the July 21 affidavit and his August 6 affidavit are EXACTLY THE SAME.

The media engaged in bald-faced misrepresentation and lie.

Well, I can only go by our local MSM and the Tucson RED Star (Arizona Daily Citizen) had three Switie boat stories in the paper and on their web site. In the paper the Swifties URL was printed and on the paper's wed site all three stories had a link to the swifties URL. Compared to one very lame and weak Kerry counter story. All three of the TV stations have had a Swiftie story at every showing since the story broke so that's all of Southern AZ that's getting it.

Maybe there is some hope at the local level if not at the national level.