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?
On the other hand, Freepers are smart and well educated. I was certain y'all would know exactly whom I was talking about.
John / Billybob
they're having trouble getting the coals burning. takes one hot fire to get the poker hot & Hanoi Johnnie's tales of hats & escapades is as hole filled as Christmas in January. Brinkley's credibility is nill at this point, he's exposed as a shill for Kerry, as is the Boston Globe, which have swallowed these kinds of phony frauds for so many years without the slightest level of scrutiny given to the many obviously ludicrous details. Frankly he shouldn't have taken this redux job, it's a lose-lose situation and to actually try and publish such a facade is absurd on its face. to have trouble completing the effort is merely just further testimony to the fraud that is seared - seared - into one Hanoi John French Kerry.
I believe Brinkley originally published that Kerry had quit his leadership post of the VVAW before the Kansas City assassination vote meeting. Where did Brinkley get that info, you ask? Of course, he got it from the lying Kerry. There is no evidence that he quit earlier, and ther are witnessess who place him in Kansas City.
It will be real interesting to see how they respond to his introduction. Polite applause, cheers, silence? They're too respectful a group to boo him.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Even at the time of his book's publication, I felt his method of determining gun ownership based on wills was flimsy.........He maintained, as I remember, that he had the proof then that gun ownership was not as widespread as had previously been thought. Am I remembering that correctly?
You're right about the lib media eating it up, but he was digraced when his "research" did not pass muster....even lost his job, didn't he?
It has just begun to connect with the conservatives. If this story connectes with the public, it has far reaching implications, beyond Kerry's candidacy.
Polite applause. I expect the talk will be typically boring tripe, lacking in detail but "sounds good" bites. Kerry will, and has every right to, mention that he served the country in Vietnam, but I bet he doesn't make a big deal out it. He will promise $$$ to veterans, but only if he is elected.
In fact, I'd say Brinkley is toast!
If people had half the sense the average freeper had it would be funny. They don't and it is a toss up whether the spin is working.
Waiting to see what the final version of the story will be.
It reminds me of Winston Smith, inventing a past for "war hero," Ogilvy, in 1984.
Otherwise known as a novelist.
bump
To which Kerry would reply, "No problem. I have absolutely rock solid proof that I was in Cambodia. Here is my movie review of Apocalypse Now which proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt."
Brinkley is still struggling to resolve existing accounts with Kerry's latest claims that he also managed to blow up the Death Star, while fighting alongside two 'bots, a wookie, and Obi-Wan Kenobi. :)
They haven't got their story together yet. I heard Hewitt raise this with O'Neill. He asked O'Neill what his response is to rumors that Brinkley was putting an article in the New Yorker saying that Kerry was mistaken about XMAS Eve, but he did go into Cambodia on secret missions in Jan and February. O'Neill refused to comment on the rumor. He just said that he would comment once Brinkley came out with the article. Once Brinkley supplies some details, he will be shot out of the water once again. More than likely he is using Kerry's journals, which are mostly fiction.
I do agree. The press is talking about it and the DNC spin doctors are trying very hard to make the story go away. I do hope you are right.
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