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
Nice find, Lando! Welcome back.
LOL! I got banned at DU's prior sites so many times that I had a list of names all made up and ready to go. It was kind of fun, but after awhile I realized it was like poking at a rabid dog. Pointless.
So now I just lurk over there. I saw your posts. Their responses were funny, in a sad way. Typical of the left.
Lando
Great article. Thanks for posting it!
Kerry is such a fraud. He has tried to have his hair styled similar to JFK's. . .Tosses the football to be like JFK. . .Water sports like JFK. . .Nothing about him is real.
FAX YOUR POST TO THE RNC, WHITE HOUSE, AND YOUR STATE GOP HQ, 73 TIMES A DAY UNTIL THEY GET THE HINT.
Pray for W and Our Troops
LOL, you are the 'sound effects' man!!
Evertime Moveon runs an ad the swiftboat vets ad should follow it up. Two can play at this game.
I think it would be a good idea to drag Canada out to the middle of the Pacific and put
Australia up there.
You asked about an e-mail address for Albert Hunt.
Don't waste your time. The man's mind is closed.
I subscribe to the WSJ but never read Hunt's columns. Gotta watch my blood pressure, you know.
Google is your friend (at least at the moment). Looks like they are organizations allowed by the tax code (and the FEC) to promote candidates/issues in some tax free manner outside of the contribution/finance limits of the actual candidates and party's $$$ limitations.
Al Hunt has a well-earned reputation as a clinton butt-boy.
Bump it hard, bump it straight, bump it to the top!
So true..so much for a Free (Truthful) American Press...stinking liberal press. :/
Can you show me how to re access thos old comversations?
I was never told that I was to be banned and I just went to bed. Next am I was gone.
I was curious about what the last "answers" they gave me.
Dumb handle over there in retrospect.
Great article - too bad we don't have a single journalist like him in the USofA
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