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Douglas Brinkley's Cambodia Save for Kerry New Yorker Article Not Ready for Print?
Sunday, August 15, 2004 | Kristinn

Posted on 08/15/2004 2:30:57 PM PDT by kristinn

Last Thursday, The Drudge Report touted an exclusive report that John Kerry biographer Douglas Brinkley was rushing to publish in The New Yorker a corrected version of Kerry's seared memory of being in Cambodia on Christmas Day, 1968.

However, The New Yorker's press release issued today for their next issue, dated August 23, 2004, contains no mention at all of the piece by Brinkley.

Hmmm....still in rewrite, perhaps?


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To: aynrandfreak
"I already covered for you once, now where's the evidence that you were in Cambodia in January?"

Well he has this hat that says " I violated Cambodian Waters and All I Got Was This Lousy Hat"
21 posted on 08/15/2004 2:51:36 PM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: kristinn
cambodia has become too obvious a lie, and thus too hot to handle, even for the new yorker.
22 posted on 08/15/2004 2:53:21 PM PDT by smonk
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To: kristinn

Brinkley is through...tie your ship to idiots, you will die with them...


23 posted on 08/15/2004 2:54:22 PM PDT by ApesForEvolution (DemocRATS are communists and want to destroy America only to replace it with the USSA)
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To: kristinn

Brinkly is pissed that the title "Swimming to Cambodia" is already taken.


24 posted on 08/15/2004 2:54:28 PM PDT by Semper Paratus
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To: All

Must be running the stories past the rest of the newsroom and seeing which one gets the fewest laughs.


25 posted on 08/15/2004 2:56:27 PM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: Semper Paratus

Kerry is all too willing to throw Brinkley over the side of the swift boat. This new article is going to get plenty of scrutiny on the blogs. Brinkley is a complete idiot if goes along with this game.


26 posted on 08/15/2004 2:58:16 PM PDT by TheExploited (R-Illinois)
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To: Kozak

ROFLOL!!


27 posted on 08/15/2004 2:59:55 PM PDT by ApesForEvolution (DemocRATS are communists and want to destroy America only to replace it with the USSA)
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To: kristinn
If Kerry can't give a verifiable date and sear it anew into his mind he is going to be the next inventor of the Internet.
28 posted on 08/15/2004 3:00:11 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.)
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To: TheExploited

Yes.

Last week someone posted that Tony Snow said there were 9 versions of the Christmas in Cambodia story that had already been floated.

At least one or two more can be added to that total.

[It would be interesting to see of them, side by side, with variations shown.]


29 posted on 08/15/2004 3:03:05 PM PDT by TomGuy (After 20 years in the Senate, all Kerry has to run on is 4 months of service in Viet Nam.)
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To: TomGuy
"It would be a difficult authoring task--to reconcile some 50 previous statements by Kerry about his Christmas in Cambodia 1968, while Nixon [who wasn't sworn in until January 20, 1969] is sending secret troops to Cambodia."

"On more than one occasion, I, like Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now, took my patrol boat into Cambodia. In fact, 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."

John Kerry wrote his Review for "Apocalypse Now" on Oct 14, 1979 in the Boston Herald

30 posted on 08/15/2004 3:05:44 PM PDT by lstanle
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To: kristinn
The difficulty in lying now is that whatever pathetic cover they attempt now is going to be scrutinized by 250 witnesses who were there. The Band of Traitors is being stretched real tight!!

He has a flat tire on his $7,000 bike yesterday and windsurfing at the windiest spot on earth and no wind for his sails!! He must be starting to feel the heat??

Pray for W and The Truth

31 posted on 08/15/2004 3:08:28 PM PDT by bray (Yaaaawn Tax , Tax , Tax & Kerry wants your paycheck!)
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To: Mike Darancette

Kerry invented Cambodia.


32 posted on 08/15/2004 3:26:18 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Commander McBrag and the Cambodian Caper)
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To: kristinn

Do you think Brinkley would jump ship at this point in order to save his own skin ..??

I mean .. I think this constant rewrite is making Brinkley look very bad .. even though the information he was given may have been tainted. Isn't an historians job to interview and then find the TRUTH. Evidently, Brinkley didn't bother with the opinions of anyone else.


33 posted on 08/15/2004 3:26:56 PM PDT by CyberAnt (President Bush: The only way to Peace is through Victory!)
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To: kristinn

He wants to wait to see if the latest revision needs revising.


34 posted on 08/15/2004 3:27:04 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Commander McBrag and the Cambodian Caper)
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To: jackbill
Hey, you can't sear things in your brain overnight. They need to allow for some searing time.

That's true, and besides that, he would have to preheat the grill with the lid closed first.

35 posted on 08/15/2004 3:28:29 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Commander McBrag and the Cambodian Caper)
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To: Congressman Billybob
"Witness the anti-gun historian from Vanderbilt who lost both his reputation and position for such a fault."
_________________________________________________________________

Will you settle for Emory? ;-)

    Michael Bellesiles (the "Fraud") was a highly regarded historian at Emory University in 2000, when he published the book in its first edition with Vintage. The work's basic thesis was that early Americans were far less dependent upon, skillful with, and inclined to use firearms than the NRA would have you believe. The book's evidence was thrown into question, the author shamed, and publication discontinued in 2003.

As more and more liberal academics are exposed as liars and frauds, it becomes increasingly difficult to remember who came from Emory, who came from Holyoke, who came from fill-in-the-blank. We probably need a super-computer that can handle a massive database for this.

36 posted on 08/15/2004 3:38:07 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: bray

there was no WIND at the Windsurfing spot on earth??? You are kiddding, right??


37 posted on 08/15/2004 3:44:28 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: CyberAnt

Doug Brinkley is a HACK HISTORIQAN LIBERAL!! He will NOT change, but honest people will look at hs writings with a jaundiced eye.


38 posted on 08/15/2004 3:45:38 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: King Prout

the campaign took two days off, today and tomorrow, just to address this emerging catastrophe... Kerry will pull some stunt at the VFW on Wednesday to try to "put this past all of us, so that we can look to the future with unity."

You watch, the RATS are up to something that smells, the MSM will peddle it from sunup to sundown.


39 posted on 08/15/2004 3:50:21 PM PDT by mwl1
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To: Ann Archy

Well .. I don't know much about him .. thanks for your opinion.


40 posted on 08/15/2004 3:53:01 PM PDT by CyberAnt (President Bush: The only way to Peace is through Victory!)
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