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Bush Bows to Rival's 'Heroic' Military Service (LA Slimes proves what lying whores they are)
LA Slimes ^ | 8-29-04

Posted on 08/29/2004 1:07:55 AM PDT by ambrose

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The president continued to defend his own service, saying, "On the other hand, I served my country. Had my unit been called up, I would have gone."

Those remarks came as statements concerning Bush's National Guard service by former Texas House Speaker Ben Barnes were publicized.

Barnes said he was "more ashamed at myself than I've ever been" because he helped Bush and the sons of other wealthy families get into the Texas National Guard so they could avoid serving in Vietnam.

"I got a young man named George W. Bush into the National Guard … and I'm not necessarily proud of that, but I did it," Barnes, a Democrat, said May 27 in a video clip recorded before a group of Kerry supporters in Austin.

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(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004electionbias; goebbelswouldbeproud; houston; latimes; latimesbias; lyingliars; mediabias; nationalguard; texas; thebiglie
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Look what those filthy lying Rat Scumbags did here... they cite the following quote:

"I got a young man named George W. Bush into the National Guard

and I'm not necessarily proud of that, but I did it," Barnes, a Democrat, said May 27 in a video clip recorded before a group of Kerry supporters in Austin.

See the ellipsis in bold? What text did these scumbags leave out? I'll tell you what... they left out the part where Barnes said he got Bush into the Guard WHILE HE WAS LT GOVERNOR. Even a cursory look at this Rat Scumbag's bio shows that he wasn't Lt. Govenor until 1969. Bush entered the Guard in the beginning half of 1968. Barnes was a representative to the UN in Geneva during 1968. Might be a little hard for this Rat sack of crap to pull strings in Texas while in Geneva, wouldn't you say? That's why the Rat puke said he did it while Lt. Governor. But he wasn't Lt. Governor when Bush entered the Guard...

Thus, those filthy treasonous pukes at the LA Times decided to employ the ellipsis to omit this inconvenient fact, and instead replace it with their lying puke propoganda.

Barnes bio:

http://www.klru.org/texasmonthlytalks/archives/barnes/bio.asp

Confirmation as to his term of office as Lt Governor:

http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/ltgov.html

1 posted on 08/29/2004 1:07:55 AM PDT by ambrose
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To: KQQL; Torie; Dales; onyx; daviddennis

see comment 1


2 posted on 08/29/2004 1:08:36 AM PDT by ambrose (http://www.swiftvets.com/)
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To: ambrose

LOL! Was Barnes in Cambodia too?

What is it with Dems continually confusing 1968 and 1969?


3 posted on 08/29/2004 1:11:23 AM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment (Question Liberal Authority)
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To: VisualizeSmallerGovernment

Having their acid trip flashback days back in 68-69.


4 posted on 08/29/2004 1:13:54 AM PDT by walangkatapat
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To: ambrose


I just read that Barnes's claim had been debunked.
Damn, they lie with impunity, courtesy of our dishonest,
agenda-driven, Bush-hating press.


5 posted on 08/29/2004 1:14:54 AM PDT by onyx (JohnKerry -- the standard bearer for the unbearable)
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To: ambrose

typical media bias, lying on purpose. They cut that part out because they knew it was a lie but they still used the quote in their article.... amazing.


6 posted on 08/29/2004 1:15:01 AM PDT by GeronL ("This is going to be a recordbreaking year for election fraud by the Democrats.")
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To: ambrose

This is INDEED outrageous. That use of an ellipsis was almost downright -criminal- from -any- journalistic standard, an absolutely obvious attempt to misrepresent an easily provable lie as truth!

Qwinn


7 posted on 08/29/2004 1:28:03 AM PDT by Qwinn2
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To: walangkatapat

Most druggies I've met don't have very much seared... SEARED into their memories.


8 posted on 08/29/2004 1:33:09 AM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment (Question Liberal Authority)
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To: Timesink; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; ...
Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

Look what those filthy lying Rat Scumbags did here... they cite the following quote: "I got a young man named George W. Bush into the National Guard

and I'm not necessarily proud of that, but I did it," Barnes, a Democrat, said May 27 in a video clip recorded before a group of Kerry supporters in Austin.

See the ellipsis in bold? What text did these scumbags leave out? I'll tell you what... they left out the part where Barnes said he got Bush into the Guard WHILE HE WAS LT GOVERNOR. Even a cursory look at this Rat Scumbag's bio shows that he wasn't Lt. Govenor until 1969. Bush entered the Guard in the beginning half of 1968. Barnes was a representative to the UN in Geneva during 1968. Might be a little hard for this Rat sack of crap to pull strings in Texas while in Geneva, wouldn't you say? That's why the Rat puke said he did it while Lt. Governor. But he wasn't Lt. Governor when Bush entered the Guard...

Thus, those filthy treasonous pukes at the LA Times decided to employ the ellipsis to omit this inconvenient fact, and instead replace it with their lying puke propoganda.


9 posted on 08/29/2004 1:41:17 AM PDT by weegee (YOU could have been aborted, and you wouldn't have had a CHOICE about it.)
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To: Qwinn2

This is the same paper that ran a photo composite of 2 digital images as a photo from Afghanistan or Iraq last year. The LA TIMES, USA TODAY, NEW YORK TIMES, and other "established" papers have been exposed as the liars they are, ready, willing, and able to fabricate news as they see fit.


10 posted on 08/29/2004 1:43:06 AM PDT by weegee (YOU could have been aborted, and you wouldn't have had a CHOICE about it.)
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To: ambrose; All
Barnes?

Ex-Lawmaker Says He Helped Bush With Guard
 Everyone on this thread should see this post by Freeper mass55th. He absolutely nailed Barnes on his lie about getting Bush into the Texas ANG.
 It's interesting that Barnes is claiming this, since he didn't become Governor until 1969. and Bush had already been inducted into the Air National Guard in 1968.   Here's the link--
 Click Here
 1999 Article on Barnes:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/barnes092199.htm

11 posted on 08/29/2004 1:55:38 AM PDT by backhoe (Has that Clinton "legacy" made you feel safer yet?)
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To: backhoe

Thanks Backhoe.
Now I'll bookmark this thread.


12 posted on 08/29/2004 1:57:15 AM PDT by onyx (JohnKerry -- the standard bearer for the unbearable)
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To: ambrose
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/2/prweb103472.htm

  

  

John Kerry's "The New Soldier" -- Why Is This Book So Hard to Find?
John Kerry's "The New Soldier" -- Why Is This Book So Hard to Find?

Kerry supporters are willing to pay hundreds of dollars to get a copy of Kerry's hard-to-find book, The New Soldier. Some of those bidding on Ebay reveal why.

(PRWEB) -- An unusual thing is happening over at Ebay. One of John Kerry’s books, The New Soldier, received a bid of $355 and didn’t even meet its reserve price. Another copy of the book is up to $147.50 and the bidding isn't over.

It isn't common for the books of presidential contenders to be that expensive. Wesley Clark’s book, Winning Modern Wars, is also available on Ebay. One copy has an asking price of $15.00, another is going for $9.99. Kerry's other books are selling at similarly reasonable prices.

One of the potential buyers says she was drawn to bid on the book because she is a Vietnam vet and interested in Kerry's viewpoint.

Another of the bidders said he'd recently donated to the Kerry campaign because he believes Kerry is the man to beat Bush. “John Kerry and his friends were right to do what they did in Washington, D.C. back then. I think the acts discussed in the book show great insight at an early age and quite frankly I want to read the manuscript to make sure my assumptions are correct.”

But the reason why a former library book with no dust jacket and “slight wear" might fetch an asking price of over three hundred dollars is somewhat more complex.

The description in one of the Ebay listings reads, "Due to the controversial nature of the book, most copies were pulled off the shelves when Kerry decided to run for office making this book a rare find."

The seller of the first book stated that he is a Republican with an open mind and had got his copy signed at the Old Capitol mall in Iowa City when Kerry was campaigning there recently. But he had some reservations about the item he was selling. “I am a marine and do not care for the cover of the book,” he said. Because “what they are actually trying to do is mock the Iwo Jima flag raising done by the marines in the past.”

Iwo Jima is where nearly 7000 marines died in World War II. Six marines were forever immortalized in a photograph as they raised the American flag over the island. Only three of the six ever got to go home again.

The cover of "The New Soldier" features a group of long-haired men mimicking the famous photograph with an upside down flag.

We'll probably be seeing a lot more of this rare book in the coming months.


13 posted on 08/29/2004 1:58:19 AM PDT by ppaul
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To: ambrose

The Old Media is dying. And they're becoming more unhinged by the day. The Big City liberal newspapers can't well defend Kerry's Vietnam record so they look at Bush's again. It won't damage the President cause the truth is on his side with respect to National Guard service and they haven't found 250 National Guard Vets to say the President is unfit to command. All they found was one Democratic political hack who says "Whoops, I thought it was a mistake to help Bush join the NG!" If that's the best they can do, they really are lazy as well as excessively partisan. I'd have expected them to find the goods. I give this scribbling that passes for journalism an "F." The public knows a partisan hit piece when it sees one.


14 posted on 08/29/2004 2:02:01 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: onyx
Thanks for looking...
15 posted on 08/29/2004 2:10:49 AM PDT by backhoe (Has that Clinton "legacy" made you feel safer yet?)
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To: ambrose

Great catch. Someone needs to contact the editor and throw this in their face. This is something straight out of Pravda in the days of the Soviet Union.


16 posted on 08/29/2004 2:20:09 AM PDT by Avenger
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To: ambrose

The idiots in the press tend to forget that W's father was in WWII. He would not have tried to get his son's unit or his son out of going should they have been called up. The press always tries to make out the Bush's to be some kind of power hungry family. They have the Kennedy's to use as an example. Why do they hate the Bush family? Because they are a good family and that drives the liberal press crazy!


18 posted on 08/29/2004 2:40:25 AM PDT by Cricket24
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To: ambrose
Even a cursory look at this Rat Scumbag's bio shows that he wasn't Lt. Govenor until 1969. Bush entered the Guard in the beginning half of 1968. Barnes was a representative to the UN in Geneva during 1968.

The article is technically correct that Barnes was also Speaker of the House during that time he was the UN rep. But he specifically said that he was Lt. Gov. when he helped Bush, which is not true.

19 posted on 08/29/2004 2:40:55 AM PDT by NYCVirago
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To: ambrose

Good work. Your post is a perfect example why the Swift Boat Vets have marked the day America turned its face away from the MSM. The culmlative effect of a thousand cuts like yours will bleed them to death.


20 posted on 08/29/2004 2:49:47 AM PDT by nathanbedford (Attack, repeat, attack... Bull Halsey)
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