I agree. Let's now take a peak into the editorial decision making at the major news networks...
Posted on 08/11/2004 6:41:38 AM PDT by kristinn
In an interview this morning on Fox and Friends, Kerry spokeman Jeh Johnson backed off of Democrat presidential nominee Senator John Kerry's repeated statements that he had spent Christmas 1968 on a secret mission in Cambodia.
Fox's Brian Kilmead asked Mr. Johnson whether Sen. Kerry would release the action report from January 20, 1969 regarding purported action in Cambodia.
Mr. Johnson said, "I believe you're referring to an incident that happened near Cambodia. Okay, well John Kerry has said on the record that he had a mistaken recollection earlier. He talked about a combat situation on Christmas Eve, 1968, which at one point he said occurred in Cambodia. He has since corrected the record to say it was someplace on a river near Cambodia and he is certain that at some point subsequent to that he was in Cambodia. My recollection, my understanding is he was not certain about that date.
Mr. Kilmead brought up Sen. Kerry's 1986 floor speech in the Senate where he talked about spending Christmas in Cambodia as being "seared---seared" in his memory.
Mr. Johnson replied, "I believe he's corrected the record to say it was someplace near Cambodia, but he is not certain whether it was actually in Cambodia but he is certain that there was some point subsequent to that that he was in Cambodia."
Mr. Johnson also repeated Sen. Kerry's canard that he left Yale in 1966 and turned down all options to further his education by choosing to serve his country. As was (barely) reported in March of this year, Sen. Kerry asked for and was denied a one year deferment to study in Paris.
HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA LYRICS - Dead Kennedys
So you been to school
For a year or two
And you know you’ve seen it all
In daddy’s car
Thinkin’ you’ll go far
Back east your type don’t crawl
Play ethnicky jazz
To parade your snazz
On your five grand stereo
Braggin’ that you know
How the niggers feel cold
And the slums got so much soul
It’s time to taste what you most fear
Right guard will not help you here
Brace yourself, my dear¡
It’s a holiday in cambodia
It’s tough, kid, but it’s life
It’s a holiday in cambodia
Don’t forget to pack a wife
You’re a star-belly sneech
You suck like a leach
You want everyone to act like you
Kiss ass while you bitch
So you can get rich
But your boss gets richer off you
Well you’ll work harder
With a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers
Till you starve
Then your head is skewered on a stake
Now you can go where people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need, my son¡.
Is a holiday in cambodia
Where people dress in black
A holiday in cambodia
Where you’ll kiss ass or crack
Pol pot, pol pot, pol pot, pol pot, etc¡.
And it’s a holiday in cambodia
Where you’ll do what you’re told
A holiday in cambodia
Where the slums got so much soul
I agree. Let's now take a peak into the editorial decision making at the major news networks...
I think Steve would have been better. I liked the way he interviewed O'Neal. Every time they discuss this story, Brian gets a sour look on his face like he just ate a lemon. And I love Brian.
This is straight out of Orwell's 1984. Down the memory hole?
Where did he do that?
The media would be well advised to take that attitude toward the Swift Vets and stop treating them with contempt.
LOL!
I agree with you on this. Although the united support of the Swift Boat Vets is damning, it still amounts to "he said-she said" (though with documents, of course). But there is an emotion running through the country right now that doesn't want to hear this, because servicemen and women are fighting and dying in far away lands today, and it appears unseemly to question ones actions after so long and with the awards he received.
However, it was Kerry, who now receives the benefit of the doubt about his record, who smeared ALL Viet Nam servicemen with his recorded testimony to Congress about killings and atrocities that did not happen. I have no doubt that his actions prolonged that war and led to the deaths of additional US fighters there. This is what must be exposed, and one reason so many of us Viet Nam vets are so incensed at his trumpeting and embellishing his actions in Viet Nam now, when it only helps him in his goal of becoming President. He is a deceitful person and an opportunist of the worst kind with no integrity and no loyalty except to himself.
I will be away until after 9pm tonight....ping me to anything important.
Missing Rose Law Firm billing records.
Vince Foster commited suicide.
Ron Brown died in a plane crash.
Cattle futures investment of $1000 makes $100,000.
ETC ETC ETC.....
Did he correct it like he corrected this?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189092/posts
How Mr. Johnson can look himself in the mirror in the morning is beyond me.
So you been to school for a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
In daddy's car thinkin' you'll go far
Back east your type don't crawl
Play ethnicky jazz to parade your snazz
On your five grand stereo
Braggin that you know how the niggers feel cold
And the slums got so much soul
It's time to taste what you most fear
Right Guard will not help you here
Brace yourself, my dear
It's a holiday in Cambodia
It's tough kid, but it's life
It's a holiday in Cambodia
Don't forget to pack a wife
Your a star-belly sneech you suck like a leech
You want everyone to act like you
Kiss ass while you bitch so you can get rich
But your boss gets richer on you
Well you'll work harder with a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers til you starve
Then your head skewered on a stake
Now you can go where people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need my son:
Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people dress in black
A holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll kiss ass or crack
Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot [etc.]
And it's a holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll do what you're told
A holiday in Cambodia
Where the slums got so much soul
Preformed by the Dead Kennedy’s, lived by John F'in Kerry...
You are wrong, Kerry's dad DID where a condom. Kerry is still having effects from the strain.
You know that and I know that, but John Kerry successfully asserted for years that he distinctly recalled being in Cambodia on Christmas Eve, 1968, while at the same time Nixon was telling the American people no troops were in Cambodia:
Kerry's Cambodia Claims Scrutinized
In an Oct. 14, 1979, letter to the editor of the Boston Herald, Kerry wrote: "I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. The absurdity of almost being killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real."
I want Kerry and his minions confronted with the entire context of Kerry's Cambodian tale and be made to account for every blasted word and implication he was stating.
It seems one damning report has now gone down the memory hole. Very interesting. This may be something you want to let Drudge know about.
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