(AP) Kerry has been reaching out to fellow soldiers for help battling the fallout from a group of veterans who accuse him of lying about his record. Robert "Friar Tuck" Brant, a member of the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, said Kerry called him Sunday night and asked if he was aware of the group's activities.
(AP)"I said, `I am one, John,'" said Brant, who had appeared at a news conference announcing the group in May. "There was a moment of hesitation and he said, `I appreciate your honesty.' He said, `Well, why are you?'"
(AP) Brant said he told Kerry he was most upset about Kerry's protests after returning from the war, when he accused soldiers of committing atrocities. "I said, `You know that's not true,'" Brant said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "That's been simmering in me about 35 years."
(Actual) KERRY: "Why are all these swift boat guys opposed to me?"
(Actual) BRANT: "You should know what you said when you came back, the impact it had on the young sailors and how it was disrespectful of our guys that were killed over there.
(AP) Brant said Kerry said he didn't mean everyone in the war was involved in the atrocities.
(Actual) KERRY: "When we dedicated swift boat one in '92, I said to all the swift guys that I wasn't talking about the swifties, I was talking about all the rest of the veterans."
(AP) The Massachusetts senator also offered to meet to discuss their differences, Brant said. He said he declined, saying, "I know what I know."
(Actual) Kerry then asked if he could meet Brant -- man to man -- face to face.
(Actual) Brant declined the invite, explaining that Kerry was obviously not prepared to correct the record on exactly what happened during Vietnam and what happened when Kerry came back.
The leftist media is doing their frenetic best to salvage the candidacy of this sophomoric phony SOB.
It's amazing to watch the audacity of it it, isn't it?