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I think if the story told by O'Neil and the Swiftvets were somehow conclusively proven to be true in a way that not even Terry McAuliffe could dispute, then Chris Matthews' head would explode.
If not the Swift Vet story in particular, this election cycle will break the back of the lib media - they will either adapt to reality or perish.
Keep complaining and boycotting - they don't care but their boards and their advertisers do.
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Just came from the NYTimes website where I searched for Cambodia. NADA on Kerry, but an Aug 8 reprise on Nixon's resignations.
Pathetic and true.
In my own personal campaigning for Pres Bush - my biggest challenge is my old-time Democrat mother. She listens to Peter Jennings every night. She subscribes to the blatantly Democrat newspaper in her city. I asked her last week why she would vote for Kerry and her answer was because she doesn't like Bush. I said "well Mom, you are so intelligent - you would cast your vote for someone just because you don't like the other guy? What issue is it about Kerry that you like so well? She couldn't come up with a single thing. But I guarantee you she will go vote for Kerry and she is so typical of voters who listen to the media. I relate this to you as representative of why we have got our work cut out for us - to reach as many people as we can with the real issues.
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OH BALONEY! There are no CRACKS! The RATS and their slaves the mediaWHORES are more solidified then EVER!!
EMAIL THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST
In January 1969, Sandusky's boat, PCF-94, came under attack during one such ambush. Lt. Ted Peck, the officer in charge, and another crewman were seriously wounded. Sandusky had to take command.
The boat was sinking and on fire, but Sandusky steered it back to safety. They counted 155 bullet holes in the boat and found a live enemy rocket in the main cabin. It had come to rest in a sack of potatoes.
For his actions, Sandusky would receive the Bronze Star.
With their officer headed home, the crew of PCF-94 needed a leader. And Lt. j.g. John Kerry, whose crew on PCF-44 had rotated back home, needed men to lead.
"I was sure glad he came along," Sandusky said, "because to be honest, I didn't want to take command."
From Jan. 30 to March 13, 1969, Kerry and the crew of the PCF-94 would conduct 18 missions in the Mekong Delta river system. In that time, Kerry would earn a Silver Star, a Bronze Star and add two Purple Hearts to the one he received earlier.
Bingo! Yachtzee! Alston received his serious wounds in that same exact battle that took Peck out of service. On January 29th, Alston was medevaced out to a hospital with head wounds and no records indicate that he ever returned to the unit. Kerry took command of PCF-94 the next day. Alston never served a day under Kerry's command. In fact, Kerry received a replacement, Fred Short, on 28 February as a replacement for Alston.
Now what does that tell us about Kerry and his Viet Nam narrative?
1. He and Alston conspired to deceive people about Alston's service under Kerry. That conspiracy was intended to give John Kerry cover against exactly the kind of campaign he faces from the other Swiftvets.
2. The "end of January" language on Kerry's website was intentionally vague in order to fuzzy up the timeline and keep Alston's true status a secret. Obviously, Sandusky remembers the dates well enough, and Kerry could easily have gotten them from him if he wanted to be as specific as his other dates on the timeline.
3. The DNC either were saps or actively participated in the conspiracy in order to assist Kerry in his Viet Nam mythology. Otherwise, why would they have allowed David Alston to speak at the convention about his experiences serving with John Kerry on the boat?
4. Kerry's band of brothers have some complicity in this cover-up as well. Those who served on PCF-94 surely remember that Alston never served under Kerry; Sandusky specifically recalls Peck being wounded and removed from command, but he wouldn't remember that Alston left at the same time?
5. One could argue that they served on the same boat, of course, and I look forward to that Clintonian parsing used in Kerry's defense. After holding Alston up as an expert on his leadership, he'll be hard pressed to explain how that expertise came to Alston from a hospital bed miles away from Kerry and his old PCF.
If this gets out to the mainstream media, this story kills Kerry's campaign. This isn't just a guy embellishing his war record -- this is a deliberate and longstanding attempt to mislead and defraud people by creating his own witnesses after the fact. That he could have done such a clumsy job should disqualify him for higher office on that basis alone
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Clearly, if this person got their news from NPR, the NYT and CNN the big news filter is either largerly overblown or doesn't exist.
In answer to the question in the title.
I would certainly hope that the media falls flat.
I do not believe the media practices the 1st Amendment to the betterment of our Country!
And I lived through it, complaining and seeking complete truth and "the rest of the stories;" here it is more than fifty years later and the end is in sight.
I've lived long enough to see lesser accomplishments such as the end of the USSR. Now for the important stuff.
North Vietnam's General Giap's Most Valuable Guerillas are about to be captured. (Tried, convicted and hanged?)
only if we're lucky
WOW! I pray this is true.
Bump to read more later.