Posted on 08/28/2004 3:46:12 AM PDT by conservative in nyc
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The Kerry campaign has refused to release Kerry's personal Vietnam archive, including his journals and letters, saying that the senator is contractually bound to grant Brinkley exclusive access to the material. But Brinkley said this week the papers are the property of the senator and in his full control.
"I don't mind if John Kerry shows anybody anything," he said. "If he wants to let anybody in, that's his business. Go bug John Kerry, and leave me alone." The exclusivity agreement, he said, simply requires "that anybody quoting any of the material needs to cite my book."
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Kerry repeatedly said in the past that he was ordered illegally into Cambodia during Christmas 1968. His detractors claim he never entered that country at all. In "Tour of Duty," Brinkley does not place Kerry in Cambodia but, quoting from Kerry's journal, notes that Kerry's Swift boat was "patrolling near the Cambodian line." Later in the book, Brinkley writes that Kerry and his fellow Swift boat operators "went on dropping Navy SEALS off along the Cambodian border."
"I'm under the impression that they were near the Cambodian border," said Brinkley, in the interview. So Kerry's statement about being in Cambodia at Christmas "is obviously wrong," he said. "It's a mongrel phrase he should never have uttered. I stick to my story."
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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
....See a pattern here?
Ummm..........He's a Democrat?
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"I don't mind if John Kerry shows anybody anything," he said. "If he wants to let anybody in, that's his business. Go bug John Kerry, and leave me alone." The exclusivity agreement, he said, simply requires "that anybody quoting any of the material needs to cite my book."
Now, that's funny.
For the liberal media, Hillary's just the next best thing, but she's no Bubba and never will be.
It was Bill Clinton the Dems wanted, and he couldn't legally run. So what did they have in the batch? Kerry, Dean, Edwards, Gephardt...I think if they'd had more time, they'd have gone with Edwards, but once Dean began to fray around the edges, the frightened libs made a beeline for the coolest head, the most hardened and experienced politician. They're sore about this, too. They feel they've been maneuvered somehow. (They don't seem to realize that Bush-Cheney would have rendered Edwards into chop meat in no time flat.)
And I have wondered if there was some funny business in Vilsack's Iowa. Kerry needed that win so bad. He might have folded if he hadn't won it. It gave him legitimacy and momentum. Yet many libs are sure they've been snookered. He's no Bill Clinton. He's not the candidate of their dreams. The lib media aren't thrilled with the material they must work with. When you're asked to trim a Christmas tree and it's a frickin' cactus, you naturally feel a bit resentful. Even before it pricks you, and Kerry is mighty prickly stuff.
Oh yes, and there was another moment that nicked the MSM's delicate hide: Teresa "Taserer" Heinz telling a reporter to "shove it." No matter that he was working for a "right-wing rag." He was one of theirs and thus she dissed them all.
With every passing day the lib media is getting more disenchanted with Kerry, who was so little enchanting to start with. Eventually the day may come when they see George Bush as precisely the best person to spite John Kerry, the most offensive salt in the wound. Hating Kerry might just become more satisfying to them, than hating Bush. We shall see!
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This won't do Brinkley's academic reputation any good. He he!
Nobody picked on his Rosa Parks biography.His cell phone is too full to receive any more messages. Reporters, sometimes four from one newspaper, call him hourly, demanding help in sorting fact from fabrication. The vets against Kerry go on cable TV and mischaracterize his work, he says. His knee needs surgery from too much running, his baby needs rocking, boxes in his new house need unpacking. His book editor needs his next manuscript. His New Yorker editor needs his next article. And NBC needs him to stop thinking like an academic and start talking like a pundit when it puts him on camera during next week's Republican National Convention.
This is an interesting tidbit from Brinkley, after spending time reading kerry journals and interviewing him: "His is a restless, restless mind."
And this: "said Brinkley, whose Republican parents are much prouder of his television commentary during the Reagan funeral than they are of his bestseller. 'I'm in the [political] center. I honestly have to tell you that's my framework.'"
*Oblique reference to Mrs. Doubtfire recounting marital relations with her "husband."
It sounds to me by his words David Brinkley based his book almost entirely on Kerry's personal papers, individuals that John Hurley guided his way, and did little in depth or independent research.
Historian or Kerry Hack - you decide.
Some euphamisms even have a shiny flush handle on them!! ;-D
"Unfit for Command": 1
"Tour of Duty": 592
Does Amazon's sales ranking system count total sales or is it a snapshot showing how well a book is selling in relation to others during a specific time period?
In other words, "mongrel phrase" is a polite way of saying, "Bullsh!t."
Brinkley has made corrections and revisions to the paperback version, he said, but most of those are minor, spelling errors and the like. A new introduction includes a fuller version of the Rassmann story; Brinkley said that Kerry couldn't recall the spelling of Rassmann's last name during their interviews, and the historian was unable to locate the Green Beret before his deadline.
But this isn't the first time the book had to be revised after being published. From an April Boston Globe article:
Brinkley and publisher William Morrow plan to release a revised edition of "Tour of Duty" in two weeks. "I started realizing, `I've got to fix this,' `I've got to fix that,' " Brinkley says. "Nobody believed we would get to this point where every aspect of the book is being dissected."
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2004/04/29/historians_duty_pr_for_kerry/
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