He wants to wait to see if the latest revision needs revising.
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.
Waiting to see what the final version of the story will be.
bump
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.
seared, seared! The jury will disregard the last 50 statements from the witness.
Up the creek without a paddle?
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.""
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.
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.