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?
seared, seared! The jury will disregard the last 50 statements from the witness.
Up the creek without a paddle?
Maybe Brinkley is waiting for the 180
"... Purple Heart, baby," the two-fisted fighting man codenamed 'Heiress Hunter' by his fellow soldiers kept repeating to himself, like a mantra. "Oh, yeah. Purple Heart for the ol' Johnster, you damn betcha -- !"
Brinkley (and Kerry) may be waiting until later in the campaign so the SBVFT have less time to research and dispute the article.
I made sure to grab a first-edition of Belleslies' crapfest, but was careful to get it used-but-perfect from half.com, so that the sleaze received no royalties from me. Have archived it along with printouts of all the lies, for future reference.
Did exactly the same thing with Aldork's Earth in the Lurch.
I just made my new car-window sticker this morning:
If enough of this sort of thing happens, word will spread fast. Even some lefties may check it out for "oppo research" and come away stunned. We can hope.
Brinkley = Kranish
Boston Globe on Kranish: "Kanish did not write the introduction to the official Kerry Edwards campaign".
Sorry, Google cache for the book doesn't lie...
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:cxZw7ydSwWsJ:www.publicaffairsbooks.com/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display%3Fbook%3D1586483145+kranish+kerry+edwards&hl=en
More on Kranish...
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2004/08/kranish_is_cook.html
As a "historian" you would think Brinkley would be able to properly resolve which boat Rassmann was on.
For the record, Brinkley "revised" on the Cambodia missions...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/13/wus13.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/08/13/ixworld.html
"But Mr Brinkley rejected accusations that the senator had never been to Cambodia, insisting he was telling the truth about running undisclosed "black" missions there at the height of the war.
He said: "Kerry went into Cambodian waters three or four times in January and February 1969 on clandestine missions. He had a run dropping off US Navy Seals, Green Berets and CIA guys." The missions were not armed attacks on Cambodia, said Mr Brinkley, who did not include the clandestine missions in his wartime biography of Mr Kerry, Tour of Duty.
"He was a ferry master, a drop-off guy, but it was dangerous as hell. Kerry carries a hat he was given by one CIA operative. In a part of his journals which I didn't use he writes about discussions with CIA guys he was dropping off.""
They also need time to see if anyone has evidence against the "I must have been there sometime in January 1969" story that they floated after the Christmas in Cambodia fiction was exposed.
Like the rest of the Kerry supporters?
The blogs have done the investigative reporting that the MSM should be doing.
Brinkley has already committed to a January timeline in Tour of Duty and
there is no way for Brinkley to retrofit Kerry into Cambodia in January-
unless Brinkley wants to look like Jayson Blair of the NYT.
The best the Kerry campaign can do is to say that Kerry rode his bike into Cambodia,
wearing camo bike shorts and carrying the CIA agent on the handlebars.
He knows this how? Oh, he read it in Kerry's revised journal.
But Brinkley is already pushing Kerry's revised timeline. Seems to me that he is ready to walk the plank for Kerry.
Novelists probably do more fact-cheking than the HACK "HISTORIAN"!!
What a smart man O'Neill is by NOT commenting on a RUMOR!!!!! he WILL shoot Lap Doug Brinkley, the HACK HISTORIAN out of the water....that's why LD Brinkley hasn't come out with a new fiction yet!!
You are the man, HR! AKA El Hombre.
I can envision a whole new publishing genre, the "What I Learned" series...
What I Learned From Michael Bellesiles's Book
What I Learned From Joe Ellis's Book...
Absolutely. If I were in Brinkley's position, I would not do anything, but leave the impression that there is evidence to support Kerry's Amazing Cambodia Adventure. As the scandal of the Xmas lies slowly dies down, the spinners will keep gently hinting that there is something there. The press will report it lovingly.
Anyone have an email for Brinkley and New Yorker?
That was funny :)
Now is the perfect time to jump on Kerry's new and improved Cambodia lie: PROVE KERRY'S STATEMENTS ARE TRUE with sworn statements and archival documentation.
Alger Hiss was the only person who believed his lie about not being a Soviet agent. Kerry is in the same position, insisting that his fantasies are true when they are not. If Kerry persists in his delusions of being a clandestine warrior, he is simply not fit to be commander in chief.
Brinkley's reputation is already tarnished for his flacked "Tour of Duty" (I prefer 'Tour of Dooty',) but it will be ruined completely if he comes out with the New Yorker piece, as reported by the Drudge Report.
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