Posted on 08/19/2004 4:15:39 PM PDT by GRRRRR
I'm sure you can tell who is who by who is asking who questions...
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Thurlow was excellent.
Chris is carrying the water (and balls?) for Kerry
I am shaking I am so angry at his bullying tactics. Thurlow got in 2 sentences that weren't interrupted. I am going off to get the #s to call, and will post them.
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My reaction. Crissy looked like a slick lawyer with a guilty client, Larry Thurlow like an unslick man under attack from a guy who couldn't shine his shoes.
Yeah, I'm looking now for the phone numbers now...I wanna beat the pelt right offa Matthews...what a slimy skunk!
While I'm here, I put a plug in for the Swifties!
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I am disgusted. Chris Matthews is revolting in his bias.
Amen to that. Crissy is a dimocrap shill and Thurlow an honest patriot who doesn't want a self-promoting fraud as CIC.
Chrissie Matthews is nothing more than a Democrap shill who hates President Bush after he had the guts to stand up to Saddam Hussein.
Whether the president wants to use the swiftboat vets as a campaign issue has nothing to do at all with them. It is not their concern. Their job is to tell the truth as they see it regardless of what Bush or lisping overweight Democrat propagandists think of it.
SEGMENT TWO with Washington Post Reporter Micheal DOBBS, who did the Anti-Thurlow (Kindergarten level) article:
TV Channel 65 Thu Aug 19 18:18:23 2004
>> Michael dobs is the washington post reporter. Let's talk about that citation. You report on a front page story today. The citation for larry thurlow, the gentleman we just talked to. His bronze star was earned because, as well as other things, he was under enemy fire at the time. He denies that again on the show. He says not only did he not go under enemy fire, he did the brave action he took to save those crewmen on the other swift boat, but that that language came from john kerry. Any evidence of that?
>> There's no proof of that at all. It is based on his claim and the claim of some others who are veterans that it was john kerry that wrote the after action report. In fact, mr. Thurlow was the senior officer in that particular engagement. So it's just as possible to suppose that he wrote the action, after action report. As mr. Kerry. There's no evidence from the document itself as to who wrote the report. Also --
>> Is it a fair assumption on the part of mr. Thurlow that it was mr. Kerry's words? He was the only one who submitted a report that they would have had to get that information that they were under automatic weapons fire, etc., From the person who filed a report if no one else did?
>> I think probably the after action report could have been the work of several different people. Each reporting on what their own boat did. I don't think that all the language in mr. Thurlow's citation could have come from that after action report either. And there were many things that mr. Thurlow were doing that are mention in the his citation that john kerry was not in a position to observe.
>> I was in iowa when mr. Rasman made his very dramatic appearance in one of the cities in iowa during the fight for the caulkcause of action uses out there. It was very dramatic when he was talking about being in the enemy water and he was afraid for his life to stay least. He saw the boat commanded by john kerry come and save him. He said he was under fire at the time. I'm almost positive. That has been his account right through today. That he was under enemy fire. Is he to be believed?
>> Mr. Rasman, he he is convinced that bullets were hitting the water around him. And his account is corroborated by the crew member on john kerry's boat. It's disputed by --
>> Thurlow.
>> And two of the other skip here's were on the river at the time.
>> So we have very close eyewitnesses, numerous eyewitnesses, including the man whose life was saved, and we have john kerry's word up against the commander of another boat on the scene. And then we have to look at what was in the citation and assume that some battle commander made a decision as to who was telling the truth.
>> Well, all the boats were within a few hundred yards of each other. But i think that not a single -- both the citations and the after action reports were probably the work of more than just one commander. Because they all mention several different boats.
>> What do you make of this belief that john kerry had a plan? I mean, it was almost doctrinal on mr. Thurlow's account a few minutes ago. I can imagine a person having a notion they would like to be a notion in a war. I guess a lot of guys would like to be a hero. It might have helped if he was politically intended down the line. The idea that he had a specific plan to doctor evidence to try to create the notion he was a hero, where is that notion coming from besides mr. Thurlow?
>> It is his personal opinion. Some of the other swift boets boat officers who are opposed to mr. Kerry say --
>> Politically.
>> Say something very similar. There's no evidence for it apart from their statements.
>> That's right. Mr. Thurlow had no tangible evidence and he admitted that of what he was saying. Up next, senator max cleland
Matthews is wasted flesh. To think he takes up oxygen and other natural resources that could be used by someone who actually produces something worthwhile for society...What a crime.
Thurlow did a damn fine job. Obviously had some practice by now.
Amazing how Chrissy over and over wanted Thurlow to bite on Bush saying something...but Thurlow (quite correctly) would not touch it!
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