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Kerry: strange, stuck-up... and stupid (Steyn Alert)
Telegraph ^ | 8/24/04 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 08/24/2004 6:17:18 AM PDT by xlib

...Pat Oliphant, who appears in the Washington Post and many other newspapers, offered a cartoon showing the Swiftees as Bush-backing deadbeats sitting round a bar bitching: "I never seen Kerry do nothing hee-roic," says one loser. "Damn right," says another. "You and me was right there in latrine maintenance. We orta know."

The redneck spelling's a nice touch, ain't it? I wonder which of the anti-Kerry campaign's 254 Swift vets, including 17 of Lieutenant Kerry's 23 fellow officers, Oliphant thinks were in latrine maintenance. Maybe he's got in mind fellows like Paul Galanti, who appears in the latest anti-Kerry ad and whose plane went down over North Vietnam in 1966. He was held in the "Hanoi Hilton" Viet Cong POW camp until 1973. That's seven years getting tortured by the gooks, only to be mocked by some lame-o cartoonist as a redneck latrine operator...

I said a couple of weeks back that John Kerry was too strange to be President, and a week or two earlier that he was too stuck-up to be President. Since I'm on an alliterative roll, let me add that he's too stupid to be President. What sort of idiot would make the centrepiece of his presidential campaign four months of proud service in a war he's best known for opposing?

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kerry; marksteyn; sbv; steyn; vietnam
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/08/24/do2402.xml
1 posted on 08/24/2004 6:17:18 AM PDT by xlib
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To: xlib
"some lame-o cartoonist"

Classic. Steyn Bump.

2 posted on 08/24/2004 6:19:09 AM PDT by Corporate Law (<>< -- Xavier Basketball - Perennial Slayer of #1 Ranked Teams)
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To: xlib

Mark Steyn was in a series of gay porn movies in Amsterdam? Man, you learn something every day... :D


3 posted on 08/24/2004 6:19:25 AM PDT by CanisRex (Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. --Lazarus Long)
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To: xlib

Thank God someone else thinks the elite Senator Kerry is a fool.


4 posted on 08/24/2004 6:19:27 AM PDT by Vision ("This is in God's hands now")
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To: xlib

Already posted

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1197766/posts


5 posted on 08/24/2004 6:20:13 AM PDT by Constitution Day (...Reporting live from the Holy Barbecue City of Wilson, NC...)
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To: Constitution Day

I searched "Steyn" and "stupid", but didn't find it.


6 posted on 08/24/2004 6:21:35 AM PDT by xlib
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To: xlib

No biggie. Sometimes the search function has problems, I think. :)


7 posted on 08/24/2004 6:22:23 AM PDT by Constitution Day (...Reporting live from the Holy Barbecue City of Wilson, NC...)
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To: xlib

LOL!

Classic!

LOL !


8 posted on 08/24/2004 6:25:03 AM PDT by nuconvert (Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.)
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To: xlib
I searched "Steyn" and "stupid", but didn't find it.

I never thought I would see "Steyn" and "stupid" in the same sentence.

9 posted on 08/24/2004 6:25:03 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("Despise not the jester. Often he is the only one speaking the truth")
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To: xlib

"If this campaign were any more inept, Michael Moore would be making a documentary claiming Kerry's a Republican plant secretly controlled by Karl Rove and the House of Saud."

That Steyn is too smart for his own good- he's figured out our secret plan!!


10 posted on 08/24/2004 6:43:55 AM PDT by brothers4thID (We are going to take from you to provide for the common good)
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To: xlib

I think Mark Steyn has had Kerry pegged for years. This column is great, as usual.


11 posted on 08/24/2004 6:57:03 AM PDT by 68skylark
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To: 68skylark
I listened to Savage last night and he was basically saying the same thing.
Savage actually called President Bush and "real man" for putting up with all the attacks by people like Moore.
He said Kerry is buckling, that he can not handle criticism.
It is true!
Kerrys self aggrandizing has come back to bite him in the arse!
12 posted on 08/24/2004 7:02:18 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: xlib

Great article. This guy is good.


13 posted on 08/24/2004 7:04:48 AM PDT by mgist
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To: CanisRex
Mark Steyn was in a series of gay porn movies in Amsterdam? Man, you learn something every day...

And we though that Mark just had a bigger brain than the other pundits.

14 posted on 08/24/2004 7:15:10 AM PDT by BlazingArizona
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To: xlib
His hagiographer Douglas Brinkley, after an intriguing interview with the Telegraph's David Rennie, seems to have entered the witness protection programme.

Brinkley is now avoiding this mess not available to defend Kerry? Has anyone heard more about this? Wasn't Brinkley supposed to be coming up with the correct Kerry in Cambodia story?

15 posted on 08/24/2004 8:26:56 AM PDT by ghost of nixon
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To: ghost of nixon
This is the BEST "Bang for your political buck" - EVER!

Click the logo to donate to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

16 posted on 08/24/2004 8:32:54 AM PDT by Chieftain (Support the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and expose Hanoi John's FRAUD!)
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To: mgist

If you read the entire article, you can't help but laugh at the ads appearing immediately to the right of Steyn's column.

One says, "John Kerry needs you. Help take back the whitehouse."

Another, "Help us beat Bush. donate $50 to MoveOn...Help take back America."


I'm sure most people after reading Steyn's article will be responding to these well place ads. {SARCASM}


17 posted on 08/24/2004 8:40:38 AM PDT by proudpapa (of three.)
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To: xlib
His hagiographer Douglas Brinkley, after an intriguing interview with the Telegraph's David Rennie, seems to have entered the witness protection programme.

BWAAAAAAA

18 posted on 08/24/2004 8:53:42 AM PDT by TigersEye (Intellectuals only exist if you think they do!)
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To: proudpapa
Hmm. I saw similar adverts on the Telegraph's Web page.

Funny thing, though, is that the Telegraph is a UK paper, albeit with a global readership. The Dems wouldn't be soliciting political contributions from foreigners, would they?

19 posted on 08/24/2004 9:37:31 AM PDT by Chemist_Geek ("Drill, R&D, and conserve" should be our watchwords! Energy independence for America!)
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