Posted on 08/19/2004 6:40:03 PM PDT by HawaiianGecko
Have you noticed the typical mainstream media and their handling of the Swift Boat affair? Chris Matthews has Max Cleland on his show. Now what the heck does Max know about the SwiftVets? NOTHING! Then he has Willie Brown and Michelle Maulkin on together. Matthews slimes Maulkin and doesn't let her talk at all, but a stop watch to it if you don't believe me. He let's Willie run his mouth uninterrupted. Willie doesn't know anything about the SwiftVets or Kerry's lies, neither does Michell at this point in time, however, this woman is a tremendous researcher and she will get to the bottom of this story. Max Cleland and Willie Brown have no intention of discovering the truth, nor does Chris Matthews. Everyone is running out their favorite pundits, none of whom are swiftboat veterans, with the exception of Fox News. Britt Hume on "Special Report" brings on a Colonel to discuss how citations are sponsered and how much truth is really behind them. This gentleman explains how medals were given away freely in Vietnam do to low morale. He said that if you see an enlisted man with a Silver Star, he honestly did something of valor, but if you see on officer with a Silver Star you can take it with a grain of salt. He also furthers the real discussion by stating that the real story is in all the tons of documentation that really exists on some Navy base (I didn't catch the name), and that this is where all of the reporters should be to get the story straight. NOW CLEARLY, Fox is trying to further the story and get at the truth. Dana "kerry" Milbank of the Washington Post was on a bit earlier explaining how proof now exists that Lt.JG Thurley who received a Bronze Star for the same incident, proves that the Swiftboat vets are lying. I really have no idea where this man received his education, but I can tell you that a critically thinking man would never use that as proof. Thurley immediately came out and said he received his Bronze Star based upon the lying report that John Kerry submitted. That he still stands with a dozen other men that claim there was absolutely NO HOSTILE FIRE during the hours it took them to salvage the #3 boat and it's men after it was blown up with a mine.
Point I'm making is that Fox News is the only organization that is trying to further the story. The rest of these pinheads are simply staffing their shows for ratings.
I saw the part where Chris was harping on Michelle. Asking her if she thought Kerry shot himself to get a purple heart. Not asking her if she thought Kerry got a purple heart for an accident. That was about all I could stand.
Chrissy better be careful about pissing off Michelle Maulkin. She's about ten times tougher and a thousand times smarter than he is. She'll eventually find a way to have him for lunch, mark my words.
Yeah, he was trying to put words into her mouth. He did receive a "self inflicted" wound from shooting that M-79 grenade into the bank. Far cry from "shooting himself" and Matthews knows it. Chris Matthews is simply becoming a mouthpiece for Kerry.
What? Mainstream media less than fair and balanced? I'm shocked. Shocked and saddened. Deeply saddened actually.
Amen to that
What I noticed was: a. blanket coverage; b. panic in liberals' voices. John Kerry's quagmire.
Well the mainstream cannot ignore it anymore, not since their messiah actually came out and trembled about it today.
Hardball is nothing but a Chris Matthews fan club get-together.
The show is soft just like the host.
Can someone post the "real" e-mail addresses to these pimps so we can give them our point of view? I know...won't do any good...but I have voted Republican all my life and some of them were elected. So...I want to cast my "vote" to the liberal networks...I'll feel better knowing that one of them had to make a trip to the trash can to throw me out!
Cirlcing the wagons across the spectrum. Must've gotten the Kerry fax.
I think we are about to se a whole trainload of media talking points unloaded onto the public airwaves in an attempt to stop the swifties before we get too close to the election to recover. This is going to get reeeealy nasty around the time of the Repub convention in NY. Be prepared for a bunch of in your face loud mouthed verbal vomit.
Cleland, while I respect and admire his service, was wounded while going after beers.
Unfortunately, truth for its own sake is not even a consideration for them. They serve the propaganda interests of the Democrat Party and thus, rather than search for truth in the matter, resort to ad hominem attacks on those who raise issues that do not serve their agenda.
If one assumes for the sake of example that the charges against Sen. Kerry were true, would these "journalists" advise those who knew the truth to remain silent or disclose what they know?
Obviously, a truth-seeking journalist would advise them to tell what they know and then verify the truth or mendacity of what they have said.
On the other hand, these propagandists, masquerading as journalists, insist that they remain silent and, if they will not, seek to destroy their credibility regardless of the truthfulness or lack thereof of what they are saying.
If they were not afraid of this, they would merely seek to refute the charges.
I don't know how she's been reporting on this. But I'd like to see Michele really get offended over Matthews treatment and make it her mission to collect the unvarnished facts on these various Kerry incidents. She could do it, before Vietnam, during, after.
One thing I learned-- don't ever try to BS a Vietnam vet. They can sniff BS coming from 1000 yards away. Kerry should already know this, being a Vietnam vet himself. Kerry has no common sense, and the "mainstream" media is starting to become aware of this.
I think while reality is sinking in among the "mainstream" media, the rest of us wait, and somewhere, some group of higher-ups in the Democrat Party are working their rear-ends off on "Plan B."
Maybe the media is providing cover until Plan B is ready for prime time? Otherwise I am starting to suspect that GWB is going to win this one with a walk.
Honey, John Kerry is damaged goods. We need to prepare for a new candidate.
I am convinced that it is all down hill from here.
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