KERRY & MEDIA TO ATTACK BUSH

The liberal media see their favored candidate heading towards the dumpsters. Instead of reporting why this is the case, the liberals in the media conspire to ramp up their attack on Bush and any real or perceived Republicans that happen to be handy.

Last month they were writing hit-pieces on the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. That is, the media coordinated an attack on the 254 Swifties and supported the two or three who still back Kerry.

Even liberals get an opinion. The problem is, they should not publish that opinion as hard news, which they do. Because, the true fact is that the Swifties have enough eye witness reports to convict Kerry in any court for falsifying reports to the Navy.

Last week the liberal cross-dressers in the media and Kerry campaign said they are going to start ramping up the meanness and go after President Bush hot and heavy. Well, I have a question for the liberal media: Can I play, too?

Remember now, I know some of you toke and snort. I also know which of you drink more than your share of adult beverages. If I think about it some, I'll bet I can also match up who was playing extracurricular games with whom. All readers should know that journalists are "public figures" and so we can let out all sorts of interesting truths about their lifestyles with impunity. So there's my little notice to the media. Are we still getting nasty?

Last week we saw the leftist Associated Press and CBS again conjure up stories about that old canard of Lieutenant George Bush missing Guard meetings. No news there, but evidently the far left media has nothing else nasty to say about Bush.

Well, turn around is fair play. Let's look at Kerry's record. As posted, Kerry's DD-214 form is obviously not correct. Most probably, Kerry received the discharge he deserved: Bad Conduct. That was because of his antics with the Vietnam Veterans Against The War while he was still a commissioned officer in the Navy. I'm not really sure about the Navy, but I know darn well that the Army would have had something to say if I started a communist front organization like that while still being in the reserves. My bet is that they would have had me sitting in the brig at Fort Knox, for starters.

Simply put, Kerry will never allow his military records to become public because he received something other than an honorable discharge and then had it changed after becoming a senator. Kerry is ashamed of his military records, as he should be.

So, where is the liberal media on this? AWOL, of course. They support communist sympathizers.

Tell Kerry to put up -- or shut up and go away. Voters have a right to see everything in this faux hero's record.

There's another little problem American voters should be aware of. Kerry was treated for medical and psychiatric problems. Two are manifest by sleepwalking, which he admits. Kerry received both medical and psychiatric treatment for whatever reasons. Voters deserve a full report on that, else we cannot judge his trustworthiness as our nation's top cop and as commander of our armed forces.

Many in the media know of these problems. It's no secret. Yet, they never mention it. Why? If it were George Bush, they would be trumpeting that loud and clear, demanding all records be released.

We already know that Kerry is a compulsive liar and cannot hold a working opinion more then a few moments. What causes these problems? What else will we find in Kerry's medical and psychiatric records? Come on, media, stop protecting Kerry. The American people need to know.

Then there are the tax records. How did it happen that the billionaire Kerrys only had $5.49 million of income in 2003 and paid just $677,000 in taxes? Is it true that they only paid 12% on over five million bucks in income? Kerry wants American workers making $200,000 to pay 38%. Why is this stuff not news?

And why hide Teresa's income tax forms? Voters have a right to know which of the communist, socialist, anarchist and environmental groups she is funding. Why is she so ashamed of it?

The rabid liberals in the media and Kerry campaign want to ramp up the meanness? Okay. But that street runs both ways. John Kerry has a lot of skeletons in his closet to talk about.

Prepare

CBS stands by challenged documents on Bush
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- CBS News acknowledges memos it received about President Bush's service in the Air National Guard are difficult to definitively authenticate, but says they came from "solid sources."

Some forensic experts were quoted by news organizations, including The Associated Press, saying the memos appeared to have been computer-generated with characteristics that weren't available three decades ago.

On Friday's "CBS Evening News," anchor Dan Rather said that "no definitive evidence" has emerged to prove the documents are forgeries.

"If any definitive evidence comes up, we will report it," Rather said.

The show broadcast excerpts of interviews with Marcel Matley, a San Francisco document expert, who said he believed the memos were genuine.

CBS can state "with absolute certainty" that the disputed memos could have been produced on typewriters available in the early 1970s when the memos are purported to have been written, the network said. Rather said the typeface and style of the memos were available on typewriters since well before the 1970s.

But CBS News said in a statement: "The documents are backed up not only by independent handwriting and forensic document experts but sources familiar with their content." Matley was the only expert cited, and he focused on signatures on the memos.

Matley and Rather acknowledged the memos were difficult to definitively authenticate because CBS has only photocopies, not the originals. Matley did not return a telephone message left at his office immediately after Friday's report.

At question are memos that carry the signature of the late Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, who was the commander of Bush's Texas Air National Guard fighter squadron. They say Killian was under pressure to "sugar coat" Bush's record, and Bush refused a direct order to take a required medical examination and discussed how he could skip drills.

Casting further doubt on the memos, The Dallas Morning News said in a report for its Saturday editions that the officer named in a memo as exerting pressure to "sugar coat" Bush's record had left the Texas Air National Guard 1 1/2 years before the memo was dated.

The newspaper said it obtained an order showing that Walter B. Staudt, former commander of the Texas Guard, retired on March 1, 1972. The memo was dated Aug. 18, 1973. A telephone call to Staudt's home Friday night was not answered.

"60 Minutes" relied on the documents as part of a Wednesday

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CBS stands by challenged documents on Bush

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON CBS News acknowledges memos it received about President Bush's service in the Air National Guard are difficult to definitively authenticate, but says they came from "solid sources."

Some forensic experts were quoted by news organizations, including The Associated Press, saying the memos appeared to have been computer-generated with characteristics that weren't available three decades ago.

On Friday's "CBS Evening News," anchor Dan Rather said that "no definitive evidence" has emerged to prove the documents are forgeries.

"If any definitive evidence comes up, we will report it," Rather said.

The show broadcast excerpts of interviews with Marcel Matley, a San Francisco document expert, who said he believed the memos were genuine.

CBS can state "with absolute certainty" that the disputed memos could have been produced on typewriters available in the early 1970s when the memos are purported to have been written, the network said. Rather said the typeface and style of the memos were available on typewriters since well before the 1970s.

But CBS News said in a statement: "The documents are backed up not only by independent handwriting and forensic document experts but sources familiar with their content." Matley was the only expert cited, and he focused on signatures on the memos.

Matley and Rather acknowledged the memos were difficult to definitively authenticate because CBS has only photocopies, not the originals. Matley did not return a telephone message left at his office immediately after Friday's report.

At question are memos that carry the signature of the late Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, who was the commander of Bush's Texas Air National Guard fighter squadron. They say Killian was under pressure to "sugar coat" Bush's record, and Bush refused a direct order to take a required medical examination and discussed how he could skip drills.

Casting further doubt on the memos, The Dallas Morning News said in a report for its Saturday editions that the officer named in a memo as exerting pressure to "sugar coat" Bush's record had left the Texas Air National Guard 1 1/2 years before the memo was dated.

The newspaper said it obtained an order showing that Walter B. Staudt, former commander of the Texas Guard, retired on March 1, 1972. The memo was dated Aug. 18, 1973. A telephone call to Staudt's home Friday night was not answered.

"60 Minutes" relied on the documents as part of a Wednesday segment - reported by Rather - on Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard from 1968 to 1973.

Former colleagues of Killian disagreed Friday on the authenticity of the documents.

One, who appeared in the TV newsmagazine segment, said Friday he did not see anything in the memos that made him think they were forgeries. Robert Strong noted he's not a forensic expert and isn't vouching for the documents.

"I didn't see anything that was inconsistent with how we did business," Strong said in an interview. "It looked like the sort of thing that Jerry Killian would have done or said. He was a very professional guy."

Both Wednesday and Friday, Strong was the only associate of Killian quoted by CBS as supporting the memo's contents.

Retired Col. Maurice Udell, the unit's instructor pilot who helped train Bush, said Friday he thought the documents were fake.

"I completely am disgusted with this (report) I saw on '60 Minutes,'" Udell said. "That's not true. I was there. I knew Jerry Killian. I went to Vietnam with Jerry Killian in 1968."

Killian's son also questioned some of the documents, saying his father would never write a memo like the "sugar coat" one.

Several of the document examiners said one clue that the documents may be forgeries was the presence of superscripts - in this case, a raised, smaller "th" in two references to Guard units.

Rather said typewriters were available in the early 1970s which were capable of printing superscripts. CBS pointed to other Texas Air National Guard documents released by the White House that include an example of a raised "th" superscript.

That superscript, however, is in a different typeface than the one used for the CBS memos. Document examiner Sandra Ramsey Lines of Paradise Valley, Ariz., who examined the documents for the AP, said she was "virtually certain" they were generated by computer.

Lines said that meant she could testify in court that, beyond a reasonable doubt, her opinion was that the memos were written on a computer.

CBS has not revealed its source or sources for the documents or the names of experts besides Matley it said examined the memos before Wednesday's report.

Bush spokesman Scott McClellan said Friday the White House, which distributed the memos after obtaining them from CBS News, was not trying to verify their authenticity. "We don't know if the documents are fabricated or authentic," McClellan told reporters traveling with the president to West Virginia.

McClellan suggested the memos surfaced as part of "an orchestrated effort by Democrats and the Kerry campaign to tear down the president."

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Associated Press Correspondent Kelley Shannon contributed to this report from Austin, Texas.

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