Lando 
Posted on 08/08/2004 4:33:40 PM PDT by Lando Lincoln
Now that the truth is coming out about John Kerry's Vietnam war record his sycophantic media groupies are losing their grip. For instance, arch lefty Albert Hunt of the Wall Street Journal became positively combustible when he found that John Kerry had been exposed for the fraud he really is.
According to this paragon of journalistic virtue it's grossly unfair to "focus attention on John Kerry's Vietnam War record and subsequent protests."
Given that John Kerry made his Vietnam war record a central issue of the election campaign and actually invited scrutiny, how can Hunt seriously complain when those who served with Kerry pick up his gauntlet?
I don't recall Hunt complaining about the DUI charge against President Bush that was illegally dug up by a Democrat, nor did Hunt slam Democrats for their constant AWOL charges against Bush. In fact, Hunt has been found missing in action with respect to the outrageous lies that his Dem mates have been blasting at President Bush since he won the election.
Hunt's hypocrisy became manifest when he complained that these vets were "being significantly funded and directed by Texas fat cats and political operatives who have more than a passing relationship with Bush political guru Karl Rove."
Never mind that vicious 527 organization like Media Fund, MoveOn.org and ACT are being funded by Bush-hating "fat cats" like George Soros who have poured millions into these hate groups.
Compare this expenditure by rich Dems with the $500,000 budget that is funding these vets' ad. And what is Hunt's response? Smear these vets as puppets of "Texas fat cats" who are operating under the influence of the sinister "political guru Karl Rove."
But what of the 21 Congressional Medal of Honor winners who signed a letter condemning John Kerry and supporting Bush? Are they also puppets whose strings are being pulled by evil financial forces deep within the heart of Texas?
John Kerry betrayed those he served with by slandering their reputations and giving aid and comfort to the enemy. It's ironic that though Hunt used the pages of the Wall Street Journal to whitewash Kerry's treasonous activities as a "moderating influence", Hanoi thug Col. Tin recently admitted to the very same newspaper that the leaders of the U.S. anti-war movement (read Hanoi's war movement), were "essential to our strategy" of defeating the US and conquering South Vietnam.
Could it be that Hunt does not even read his own newspaper?
The Hunt strategy of defending John Kerry is to continue the practise of slandering all those who served in Vietnam by charging them with atrocities. That he deliberately chose to ignore that from day one of the war Hanoi had implemented a merciless policy of committing widespread systematic atrocities against the people of South Vietnam should tell us all we need to know about the moralising Mr Hunt.
What needs to be recognised is that some soldiers will always commit atrocities, regardless of attempts by the high command to stop them. It happened during WW II and it happened in the Korean War. So did crimes committed by individual soldiers without the knowledge or acquiescence of the high command and their political masters render these wars unjust? Like it or not, that's the logic of Hunt's argument, if you can call it that.
Regardless of Hunt's infamous slanders to the contrary, US atrocities were few and far between while communist atrocities were countless, truly barbaric and a genuine matter of policy. The Hue massacre where thousands of South Vietnamese civilians were systematically murdered by communists was a truly savage example of a red terror at work — and one the left has tried to flush down its Orwellian memory hole.
In his book Unheralded Victory Mark W. Woodruff, a former Marine officer who fought in Vietnam, neatly nailed the charge about US atrocities with the statement: "In spite of Dich van myths to the contrary, American involvement in the war was not notable for it misuse of power."
If you ever read Unheralded Victory you'll be left wondering whether you will ever again trust anything a journalist tells you. But if you have any sense, Albert Hunt should have the same effect on you
What was notable about Hunt's hysterical screed was the absence of any reference to John Kerry's senate record. Is this because Kerry had continually voted to savage the America's intelligence agencies and its military?
Perhaps Hunt was reluctant to draw attention to the fact that Kerry had sided with America's enemies against Ronald Reagan and that if Kerry and the rest of the appeasers had won the day Central America would be a Marxist-Leninist Gulag backed by the Soviet empire.
The truth, and Hunt knows it, is that John Kerry never got a damn thing right. He was, and always will be, on the wrong side of history and on the wrong side with respect to the security of the United States. And that's why Hunt is supporting him.
Although it would take too much of my time to fully expose Hunt's disgusting lies (in any case, the vets he slimed can take care of themselves) I still have no hesitation in calling him a, political bigot, a vicious liar and a loathsome hypocrite. And much the same can be said for John Kerry.
The situation was some what better in Australia with Roy Eccleston, Washington correspondent for Rupert Murdoch's Australian's, writing that the vets' ad was being "bankrolled by rich Texas Republican Robert Perry." Eccleston is another lefty journalist who has yet to see anything wrong with rich Dems financing anti-Bush hate groups.
Although he was restrained the anti-Bush Eccleston still had to finish by quoting John Kerry: "I would have told those kids very politely and nicely that the president of the United States had something that he needed to attend to."
It didn't surprise those of us acquainted with Eccleston's style of journalism that he omitted to mention that Kerry had confessed earlier on that he and his fellow Dems were attending a leadership meeting when the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were attacked, and that afterwards "Nobody could think."
Apparently this inability to think continued for about 40 minutes.
Nevertheless, I guess we must be grateful that for once Australia's media lefties were able to show more restraint than John Kerry and some of his media pals.
Journalist accuses America of war crimes in Iraq by an Australian reporter who shares Albert Hunt's vile views on the US military
The media, Abu Ghraib and the forgotten massacres. Exposes media hypocrisy regarding atrocities. As always with the vast majority of leftist journalists, it's their ideology that defines the crime.
Gerard Jackson is Brookes' economics editor
You need to get the Admin mod to add a foot note to the title (Skewers Al Hunt!)
His editor must have changed the title, since the vile/evil Hunt was the obvious poster boy lunatic for this oped.
I would love to see a journalist from this side of the ocean write a piece such as this without getting slammed as a hack, but thats not gonna happen.
Lando
Lando
If I would have found this article I would have pinged you.
Where are American Journalists?
Simply Outstanding!
I witnessed atrocities on a daily basis.
What the cooks did to whatever it was we were eating was definitely against the Geneva Convention!!!
(yes, I was a (REMF)
How pathetic our media is......ALL of it.
---The Hunt strategy of defending John Kerry is to continue the practice of slandering all those who served in Vietnam by charging them with atrocities.---
Kerry's in a corner on this one. Their only hope is to try and change the subject.
Please excuse my ignorance...but why are all of them called 527 groups?
BUMP!
I just about didn't go to the link, then I realized that you posted it.
Once I started reading, I go well, someone has Al Hunt's vile # down pat.
Hopefully the AM will make the edit for you. Ping me when it happens.
John Kerry : "war hero" or a "war criminal"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1186991/posts
Answer the question Kerry!
Did you lie about your "heroics" or the "war crimes"?
Can't have it both ways!
RELEASE ALL YOUR MILITARY RECORDS
INCLUDING YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS
THAT INCLUDE THE TREATMENT
FOR THE 3 PURPLE HEARTS.
BEFORE NOV 2nd!
(Bush never said he had all his military records
BUT you did.)
Unless you are hiding something?
Are you?
It's now Aug, where are ALL the records that were promised in April?
PS A "summary" is NOT what you promised.
WASHINGTON, April 21 /U.S. Newswire/ --
The Kerry Campaign announced today that online at
http://www.johnkerry.com
are the official Naval records and the after-action combat reports
that are part of the public record at the Naval Historical Center,
Operational Archives Branch in Washington, DC.
What follows is a summary list of the pages on the website
and a summary of the after-action combat reports.
The direct address for the official Naval records is:
http://www.johnkerry.com/about/military_records.html
Photograph of John Kerry meeting with Comrade Do Muoi, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, in Vietnam. Photo displayed in the War Remnants Museum (formerly the "War Crimes Museum") in Saigon. The June 2, 2004, edition of "Viet Nam News" is held beside the Kerry photograph to confirm the date the photo was taken. English-language placard below photograph reads: "Mr. Do Muoi, Secretary General of the Vietnam Communist Party met with Congressmen and Veterans Delegation in Vietnam (July 15-18, 1993).
I was trolling on DU the other night (Know Thy Enemy) and pretended to be my Liberal sister asking "what am I supposed to say to my conservative brother about all these swift boats guys???" (boo hoo). I got answers such as "Kerry's record stands on its own" "Ignore your stupid brother" but no specific response or answers. I pressed harder and harder, protesting that "we can't just ignore this (and the like)" so they responded like all Liberals when trapped by facts.
They banned me.
Lando
" his sycophantic media groupies are losing their grip"
The Dems are melting down over the SBVFT ad and upcoming book.
Fri night, Bill Press subbed on the Alan Clomes radio show.
It's obvious what the new Democrat talking points are, don't defend Kerry-trash President Bush's ANG service.
Press's comments were:
1) President Bush is dishonorable for not demanding that this ad be pulled.
So, the WH gets zero credit for their remarks on Thursday, Aug 5 by Scott McClellan :
"and we have not and we will not question Senator Kerry's service in Vietnam."
2) Press then launched into a slanderous diatribe calling George Bush " a draft dodging, AWOL, Alabama pencil pusher."
Tonight, on the national radio call in show-Around the Beltway, hosted by Bruce Dumont, the Democrat representative on the panel said :
" If George Bush had any honor, he would demand that this ad be pulled."
" Karl Rove and the Texas oil companies are behind this ad."
And my personal favorite, which indicates the depths of Democrat desperation -
"There is no evidence that George Bush ever served in the military."
It's pretty obvious that the Democrat MO is not to defend Kerry, but, to besmirch George Bush and of course, the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth.
I would love to see President Bush host a reunion at the WH of his Air Wing.
Does anyone have an email address for Albert Hunt?
You're welcome. It was a tight squeeze. Use the Abuse Reporting system to get our attention for stuff like this. We'll see it faster than Freepmail
Years ago I used to watch The Capitol Gang regularly. Al Hunt is the reason I quit. I cant stand it now.
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