What a great article! There's so many zingers you can hardly keep up--go get 'em, Ann.
Yes, this is one of Ann's best. Some of her zingers:
* Kerry was in Vietnam for only four months, which, coincidentally, is less than the combined airtime he's spent talking about it. It takes a special kind of person to get that many people to hate your guts in so little time.
* The last time this many people hated one person after only four months was when Margaret Cho had her own sitcom.
* But our young Eddie Haskell managed to annoy other servicemen even before he came home and called them war criminals.
* After three months of combat, Kerry had collected enough film footage for his political campaigns, so he went home. He even shot three different endings to the episode where he chases down a VC guy after test audiences thought Kerry shooting a wounded teenager in the back was too much of a "downer."
* After filming his last staged exploit, Kerry reportedly told a buddy, "That's a wrap. See you at the convention in about 35 years."
* Kerry is demanding to be made president on the basis of spending four months in Vietnam 35 years ago. And yet the men who know what he did during those four months don't think he's fit to be dogcatcher.
* The only way Swift Boat Veterans for Truth could get less attention would be to go on "Air America" radio. * After reading "Unfit for Command," I am pretty sure Kerry doesn't want a neutral tribunal deciding who's telling the truth here.
* The veterans are: liars, bigots, idiots, politically motivated, and I was never alone in a hotel with Paula Jones.
* Apparently, before being permitted to engage in free speech against Democrats in this country you have to: (1) prove that you are not a Republican, (2) take a vow of poverty, and (3) purchase the right to speak in a TV ad. On the basis of Clown Wilson, Michael Moore, George Soros, Moveon.org, etc., etc., etc., I gather the requirements for engaging in free speech against a Republican are somewhat less rigorous. Hey! Maybe John Edwards is right: There really are two Americas!
* O'Neill has said he will take no royalties on his book but will donate all his profits to the Navy. So I think even under liberals' rules, O'Neill is allowed to have an opinion.
* When Democrats are this terrified of a book, it's not because they have a good answer.
A great writer she is.