Posted on 09/14/2004 6:40:30 PM PDT by BobKrumm
Bob Tuke, a prominent Nashville attorney, early Kerry supporter, and head of the Tennessee chapter of Veterans for Kerry, was a guest August 11th on a local radio talk show, Teddy Bart’s Roundtable (http://www.thepublicforum.org/tbrt/). On that date Tuke let slip that he had inside information that indicated that Lieutenant Bush missed a flight physical in order to cover up his drug use. (hat tip: MooreThoughts.com, page down to “Guard Flap”) Tuke said that by the time of the debates, “We may also know why Bush failed to show up for his medical exam that caused him to lose his flight status.” When the venerable journalist, Teddy Bart, pressed him on his comment he said that, “The physical exam was scheduled for a couple of weeks after the Air Force changed its policy and decided to put drug testing into physical exams so now the speculation is out there about why would a person who has been serving for--supposedly serving for--three to four years in the Air National Guard as a pilot fail to show up for a physical so that he could maintain his flight certification status? Why?”
(Excerpt) Read more at moorethoughts.com ...
Since then events have shown that Bob Tuke and thus the Kerry campaign were in the know. First was last Wednesday’s revelation on CBS’s 60 Minutes II that there were documents recording Bush’s disobedience of an order to take his flight physical. This week then saw the rollout of Kitty Kelley’s book that was to repeat the allegations about Bush’s drug use. Finally today in The Nation Russ Baker reported that it was fear of failing a drug test that drove the young Bush to evade his commander’s order.
This was the perfect product rollout. First came the foundation: Bush willfully disobeyed an order to complete his necessary physical. Kelley then erected the frame when she brought the drug allegations back to the fore. The finishing touch was supposed to be The Nation’s expose linking the two. The MSM would then run with the story. Even more clever was the bait and switch tactic contained within this plan. Dan Rather’s report had two elements: Lieutenant Governor Barnes’ allegation of favoritism and the documents. The right’s role was to fall into what is thought to be standard Karl Rove modus operandi and attack the attacker, ie. Barnes. Left unassailed were to be the documents. After all, how could official military orders be in error? After exhausting our energies attacking Barnes, we were going to find that the real meat of the story was the skipped physical—and why it was skipped.
Only it didn’t go as planned. The foundation to the Kerry plan crumbled when documents in black and white proved to be rather transparent forgeries.
Which brings up two points. The first is obvious: how much did the Kerry camp know about these forgeries? Obviously they knew something or Bob Tuke wouldn’t have so accurately predicted both the alleged scandal and its timing. If they provided the forgeries to Dan Rather that puts the Kerry campaign in the middle of a perpetrated fraud. But what if instead Rather’s office provided the documents to the campaign? What does that say of the nexus of journalism and the DNC? Of course, it could be that one independent source provided the documents to both groups. However the timing of the news rollout—Rather, Kelley, and Baker in quick succession—makes such happenstance look too coincidental to be coincidence. Undoubtedly the Kerry campaign knew enough of the story to piece together the product rollout plan. Just what did they know? When did they know it? And who gave them the knowledge?
The second point is more esoteric: what does the Kerry campaign’s decision to rollout the Bush National Guard attack ads say about what they believe to be Kerry’s chances? Back to the earlier building analogy: once it was obvious that Hurricane Blog had destroyed the foundation—the CBS documents—why did Kerry’s campaign decide to go forward with the rest of the building? Could it be that they’re all out of options?
BTW, tomorrow (September 15th) Teddy Bart will have Bob Tuke back on for the first time since the CBS story. Might be an interesting show.
The mind boggles....
Welcome to FR. Thanks for the info.
Howlin- Can you ping the usual suspects. I promise one day I'll make a ping list or 2. ;-)
why?
We got inside their attack formations and they are still advancing while we're chewing up their rear.
Interesting
Let’s all hope that they can tie the DNC/Kerry into this scandal. Bush deserves a good bounce from this.
Sorry, saw the "moore" website and that he was a newbie...too quick on the trigger...sorry!
Yep, he signed up tomorrow to post this.
I've been hearing bits and pieces of this particular story literally for years from Migali.
Mig, a former AirForce liver also knows some folks on the far left in the photocomposition business. I strongly suspect he was involved with the forged documents.
Why the heck would you launch a troll alert on this guy? JUST because he's a newbie? Get used to it, we have a LOT of true, honest newbies right now due to this exact issue.
BobKrumm: Nice find, thank you. Welcome aboard.
Qwinn
Read post #9.
LMAO!!!
It's been a long week, hasn't it.
Love your enthusiam, though.
Bump
Welcome to Free Republic.
I'm definately saving this to read tomorrow.
So this supports the conspiracy theory that CBS timed
the ill-fated expose show to put Bush on the defensive
during 911 week.
Guess that didn't work.
This guy's name sounds like Bob Shrum, posts an article from "Moore" thoughts, and is registered as of today.
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