Posted on 08/19/2004 6:24:37 PM PDT by 1066AD
ANNOUNCER: We'll sort through the charges and countercharges and the political implications and talk to a Kerry critic whose own claims are being questioned.
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THURLOW: I've had absolutely no contact with any of them, nor do I plan to, nor can they tell me to not take part in the Swift Boat group's campaign.
CROWLEY: Thank you so much, Mr. Thurlow. We really appreciate your time.
I've seen parts of the show all this week..Candy's doing a pretty even-handed job...and I don't miss all those sgtupid, inane, "hmmmms"
Well the funny thing is about this Thurlow thing is that he shows once again how hypocritical the Kerry campaign has been by saying that none of the vets served with Kerry, yet for some odd reason heres a vet who has a bronze star that was recommended by none other than John Kerry, silly rabbits.
Candy's one of those few who's earned a Pres. Bush nickname. He calls her "Dulce", I think, which is the Spanish word for Candy.
Take that Mr. Kerry.
Or, as your wife would say:
SHOVE IT
Candy does good work, not a shill for the Dims.
BUMP!
Democrat talking point alert! Oliphant on PBS Newshour? Babling on about evidence. Matthews? Wanted evidence. CNN? Evidence. Wow, they all got their marching orders. What happened to the value of different opinions regardless of whether all the facts are correct or not perspective that rules when Michael Moore's movie came out?
Guess it would have too much to ask if Oliphant actually read the book. Oh silly me!
THURLOW: Well, I think I can explain this. Now, the only firing that took place was us firing in defense in case we came under attack from people stationed on the -- on the bank. And this lasted for probably less than a minute, maybe even like 30 seconds. Then it became apparent we weren't under fire and returned all our efforts to the -- to the rescue of the three boat.
Now, an after-action report was filed on that incident. John Kerry wrote the after-action report. And it reports that he returned.
And I have seen this thing now. I have seen it in recent times. The Navy has all these things, and they're accessible simply by asking because they've been declassified.
This report was filed on that action that day. And it says he returned through 5,000 meters of automatic and semi-automatic weapons fire to get Lieutenant Rassmann. And, in fact, he did get Lieutenant Rassmann from the water.
CROWLEY: Mr. Thurlow...
THURLOW: Then John came on over to our boat, where we were working. And then, when he got back to the WTC, the Coast Guard cutter in the bay, he filed this report which -- and the reason I'm sure John filed it because the entire report has the nine boat -- I'm sorry the 94 boat, John's boat, as the central figure in all the action.
Notice the Post - nor the NY Times tomorrow - nor any other Kerry supporter in the media - has any interest in seeing this after action report nor pressed Hanoi John French Kerry to release his records as would be proper.
Crowley seems to be very even handed.
Crowley seems to be very even handed.
If the military records were made public, the report he submitted after the action on the river may be in there. Maybe that's why he doesn't want the records released!
LOL..thanks for the tidbit..
Also means sweet.
CHECK THIS EXCHANGE OUT!!! from the CNN transcript
CROWLEY: Joining me now, Democratic strategist Donna Brazile and Bay Buchanan, president of American Cause. Girl's day on INSIDE POLITICS.
DONNA BRAZILE, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Thank you.
CROWLEY: Listen, the swift boat ads. Why -- why after two weeks of letting it out there does John Kerry all of a sudden go in front of the firefighters and slug it out?
BRAZILE: I think it was important that Senator Kerry draw the line, and especially this week, you know, ten days before the Republican convention. These so-called hired guns are out there, ranting and raving about John Kerry's service.
And look, what he did today was he blew them completely out of the water. He exposed them. He said they don't know what they're talking about. He served. He served with honor and you know what? He has shrapnel to prove.
BAY BUCHANAN, PRESIDENT, AMERICAN CAUSE: You know, the problem here is he's given it more days if not some more weeks here. You want one of these stories to go away in a campaign, you give them their little time and you move on.
And he -- he's obviously brought it back up mainly for one reason: his polls are showing it's hurting him. And so he's now going to try to show it somehow involved the president, blame this on the president, try to hurt the president with it.
The president never made this an issue, Vietnam an issue in this campaign or his record, Kerry's record. He's always recognized him as somebody who went and respected that. The person who made Vietnam an issue in this campaign is Mr. Kerry, four days of a convention. This is why he says he's qualified to be commander in chief.
BRAZILE: But the real issue is hiding behind these illegitimate third party organizations. John Kerry yesterday denounced and said to MoveOn.org to pull the ads. He was right to say that.
John McCain called on President Bush to denounce these ads a couple of weeks ago. And Because President Bush has failed to act, John Kerry, of course, today once again repeated the assertion that the president should call on these veterans to stand down. That's what he did. He blew them out of the water.
CROWLEY: Do you think there's a little over-the-topness in that? You know, they're doing George Bush's dirty work for him? I mean, is -- is this group doing George Bush's dirty work any more than MoveOn.org is doing it for John Kerry? Or any of the other 527s? Because on the Democratic side there are many more 527s. So...
BRAZILE: There are a lot of 527s on both sides. But look, what Kerry said today is that this -- this group of so-called veterans lied. They did not serve. They served in Vietnam, but they did not serve with Senator Kerry.
The men who served with John Kerry, who knows him best, they have stood up. And they have said they know what happened during that period of time that John Kerry served. And John Kerry was right to blow them out of the water.
BUCHANAN: You know, when you say that the president is somehow hiding behind these donors and this group, that is completely a false accusation. There's no evidence, and in fact, it's completely not true. And there will never be...
BRAZILE: Then denounce it.
BUCHANAN: The president, he has denounced all these ads, all these 527 ads. He think this soft money ad should not be going on. He's denounced them all. That's something Kerry -- Kerry wants to pick and choose. He likes these; they work for him. These don't.
BRAZILE: No. He's been very consistent about them all.
CROWLEY: It -- with one of the MoveOn.org ads, it did take on the swift boat a week ago before the new one came out that did suggest again that the president's father got him out of the Vietnam War.
You had Wesley Clark out there, who's, you know, a front man in the best of ways for the Kerry campaign, saying exactly what the ad said. But they're not condemning that.
So do you worry that, you know, you're looking at this kind of both ways. Aren't both sides kind of equally culpable of using these?
BRAZILE: I think it's important John Kerry not sleep through these attacks on his character and sleep through the attacks on his record.
And absolutely, General Clark is an honorable public servant. To go out there -- I just want to still Bay's fire a little bit, because I know how much she loved General Clark like myself.
But look, General Clark did the right thing standing up for a fellow Vietnam veteran. And it's important that the campaign respond to these attacks. Look, the attacks are coming every day...
BUCHANAN: General Clark...
BRAZILE: ... not just from this organization, but it's coming from all quarters.
BUCHANAN: The president has been hammered and hammered from these same types of groups from Move On and the others. And you didn't hear a peep, just like Candy said. He is picking and choosing the ones he wants to denounce, and he's picking and choosing the ones he wants the president to denounce.
CROWLEY: So Bay, why not just say, "Look, I denounce this?" Why not -- I mean, why not get it off the board? If he thinks it's ugly politics, why go on? Because there's no real evidence that it's helping George Bush. In fact it may be hurting him.
BUCHANAN: I agree that at some stage you could, indeed, hurt the president. But the key here is, you know, the president has denounced them all outright.
If he says, "Listen, I don't want -- I don't think they should do this," there's going to be questions. You're all going to say to him, "What about this? What about this?" He's going to involve himself in this debate. He should just stay completely removed about it and say, "I denounce them all."
'Dulce'.... I believe means 'sweet' in Spanish.
She's way more balanced in her reporting than Woodruff.
I'd like to see her take over 'Inside Politics'.
Remember how relentless the Democrats were a few short months ago when they attempted to smear Dubya? On and on and on it went, and even long after the entire "AWOL" smear had been thoroughly debunked, the Democrats and their allies in the liberal newsrooms refused to let it die. To this day liberal newspapers still refer vaguely to something "questionable" about Bush's service record whenever they mention it in passing.
It is clear now that that Democrat smear job was the opening salvo in Kerry's "I was in Vietnam, you know" campaign strategy. Belittle Bush.... Build up Kerry. But now the scumbag Democrats are about to learn what the word "relentless" means. I hope the Swift Boat Vets continue selling books and making TV appearances until every American understands that there is something "questionable" about Kerry's service. If not downright fraudulent. Day after day, week after week, SOMEBODY will question the legitimacy of Kerry's medals and his Vietnam service.
You know what they say about "payback"....
And I suspect the Silver Star after action report will soon show up.
These Swifties are showing sKerry and the libs what real Americans are made of.
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