Posted on 08/23/2004 6:35:15 AM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment
Let's not hear any more talk about how high-minded the left was about Bob Dole and his medals eight years ago. The Nation argued that Bob Dole got his first Purple Heart for a self-inflicted wound. Robert Ellis, who, like Dole 10th Mountain Division in World War II, sought to debunk the "myth" of Dole's heroism:
The truth about Dole's war record is considerably less than awe-inspiring. Yet the myth endures, and with the candidate running on the contrast between his and Clinton's military record, his campaign isn't eager to give a more accurate account. Dole, at the behest of his handlers, is less reticent about his service than in the past, but he mainly speaks about his wound and rehabilitation. He has passed up several opportunities to correct the exaggerated versions in biographies, and in the case of his self-wounding has even approved a sanitized account in which his maladroitly hurled grenade goes unnoted. Journalists continue to portray him as a hero, winner of two Bronze Stars. Joe Klein, for example, writes in Newsweek that Dole knows "what guns do. He also knows what politicians do, which is rarely anything quite so dramatic as leading an army into battle." Such attempts to make political capital out of Dole's war service go beyond the respect due him for the role he played as a soldier with the 10th Mountain Division.
A presidential candidate's fellow veteran makes claims, charging the candidate wasn't the hero his party says he was? Unprecedented!
Yep. The Left is high-minded and we're simply low-life scumbags if we question THEIR record. When it comes to double standards, liberal hypocrisy knows no bounds.
He'll never forget when Truman ordered him into battle against the Krauts. . . . .
Remember the clip where Bob Dole fell into the audience? The media probably ran that 5,000 times.
I'm guessing if he had muttered "G-D SOB Knocked Me Down" we would have heard that clip a lot.
During the 1996 cmpaign I had heard of this from my brother in law's father. He had served in 10th Mtn and said that Sen Dole was wounded by dropping a grenade. I asked himwhy would the Army isue citations and medals for such stupidity to a 20 year old shavetail with no political connections? He said that everyone in the Division had heard the story and gave no reason why the medals were given.
What was IKE even doing in Europe? Everyone knows the Germans had NOTHING to do with Pearl Harbor! It was just a distraction to keep people from noticing that they couldn't get Tojo.
1) They would always include skerry's Senate testimony
2)They would always mention that the "high campaign official" was in fact a Prisoner of War for 6 years that VOLUNTEERED for the Bush campaign.
3) Demand that skerry release the OFFICIAL records, not some campaign screed.
To repeat, the media in the United States is pathetically, unprofessional and deserves the Stalin/Goebbels award for best propaganda organization in America
Oh yes, he was the target of the lefties hate machine.
Is the Navy really all that radical?
I think that they do know how to report objectively but that there is in their minds a "higher purpose" in promoting Kerry. Lately, I think that the media has started to believe that they are in a bad Disney movie.
VVAW was pretty radical and considered political assasination even...
Yes but you NEVER hear that skerry actually was a member of an org. that advocated Assasination. That's why he loves the art of character ASSASINATION.
4) The media should make Kerry answer: "When were you in Cambodia" and "What atrocities did you personally commit and what atrocities did you have personal knowledge about?"
Someone in the Establishment Media is going to crack. There's too much juicy stuff on the Kerry side and Bush Bashing is strictly dullsville.
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!!!!
You could be right. I think that another vulnerability is the Hillary camp.
If Kerry loses big, that is a bonus for her. Considering how much data she has collected, I think there is a lot of potential there. She hasn't had to do much as the SwiftVets have done it for her. Now she is going to head up a committee to look into the links to the GOP. She will find a way to blame the GOP while she smears Kerry.
I remember that as well. It was used in the '92 campaign as a way to counter the draft dodger charges against Slick.
The substance, such as it was, had to do with the circumstances under which G.H.W. Bush was shot down. There were insinuations that he machine gunned Americans in the water and bailed out too fast. Despicable lies. Trudeau in "Doonesbury" really played it up.
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