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What did John Kerry know, and When did he know it
Me | 09/21/04 | Rocketman

Posted on 09/21/2004 12:20:40 PM PDT by Rocketman

We know know that at least two top level Kerry campaign officials were in cohoots with CBS on Memogate -- Max Cleland and Joe Lockhart. We also know that The DNC was in the thick of it and that the the Kerry Campaign and DNC had issued talking points so when the CBS report hit on September 8th that they would all hit the beach in a coordinated attack. Melding the DNC the Kerry Campaign and the News media as one.

This illegal act can not be allowed to stand.

Every effort must be brought to bear to press Kerry to answer what did he know and when did he know it.

The Kerry Campaign must divest itself of everyone who was involved in this -- or go down in flames with them

This is not a small matter of little consequence this is the press and a candidate trying to subvert an election.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bushguardservice; kerrycampaign; memogate; rathergate
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This needs to be the focal point of the next few weeks. Kerry can not be allowed to speak until he answers this question and cleans house.
1 posted on 09/21/2004 12:20:40 PM PDT by Rocketman
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To: Rocketman

These are the documents Sandy Burger stuffed down his pants and stole from the Archives...


2 posted on 09/21/2004 12:24:53 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Molon Labe! FMCDH!)
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To: Rocketman

April. Seems to me this is when John Kerry began hammering louder and more vehemently upon his background as a Viet Nam Vet, too. It certainly, to me, explains why he focused his convention time upon "reporting for duty".


3 posted on 09/21/2004 12:25:29 PM PDT by Alia
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To: Rocketman

Well, this could be a good chance for CBS to do some accurate reporting. They already know most of the details, so the investigation would be pretty small.


4 posted on 09/21/2004 12:25:36 PM PDT by CriticalJ
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To: Rocketman
Maybe you have stumbled onto the key to John Kerry's campaign appearances.

It is not even October and it would be imposible at this point to find a dozen people who could believe John Kerry knows anything about anything.

5 posted on 09/21/2004 12:25:47 PM PDT by hflynn
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To: Rocketman
Kerry can not be allowed to speak until he answers this question and cleans house.

Hell, I'm still waiting for him to answer the Swift vet's charges. Good thing I'm not holding my breath til he does.

6 posted on 09/21/2004 12:27:07 PM PDT by AlaskaErik
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To: Rocketman
I don't think Kerry & Co knew about the docs. I think they had the docs created hunted down the docs to give credence to the lies that they have been spewing for months. With all the documented claims by the Swifties, K & Co had to come up with something. Since there was no dirt, they created found some.

I question the timing of this new evidence. I find it very suspect... /sarcasm

7 posted on 09/21/2004 12:27:26 PM PDT by Semper Vigilantis (Separation of CHURCH & State, not GOD & State, Demwit! JFKerry: AWOL since April 1969)
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To: Rocketman

This needs to be taken up by a major organization who can develop a campaign, run ads, motivate reporters to ask questions, etc. etc. Any suggestions? Maybe a new 527 group?


8 posted on 09/21/2004 12:28:16 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Alia
Addendum: John Kerry's focus during his party's convention, truly blew my mind. I thought he was wasting perfectly good time by doing his "reporting for duty" bit. He should have been laying out his "vision" for America. And he didn't. So much of his campaign has been so "other worldly". But, now, in context, makes a great deal of sense. Why he was saying what he way saying. Question: Does this then also explain his wife's latent talents in the bizarre and rhetoric she has employed?

Hm. I guess this is a BAD HAIR DAY for the DNC...

9 posted on 09/21/2004 12:29:25 PM PDT by Alia
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Every effort must be brought to bear to press Kerry to answer what did he know and when did he know it.

That depends on which day you ask him.

Shalom.

10 posted on 09/21/2004 12:31:50 PM PDT by ArGee (After 517, the abolition of man is complete)
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To: Truth29

Judicial Watch?


11 posted on 09/21/2004 12:32:12 PM PDT by SolomoninSouthDakota
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To: Rocketman

Does anyone remember when Terry McAuliffe started using the "AWOL" term out of nowhere? Also the Tom Harkin "Bush lied" tirade the day after the 60 Minutes II airing of the "memos" and, of course, lest us not forget the Operation Fortunate Son ad campaign by the DNC that immediately started airing. It must be my imagination, Mr. Lockhart.


12 posted on 09/21/2004 12:32:28 PM PDT by infogeekmom
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Mounting evidence now suggesting that the Kerry goons/DNC had the docs created after the story formulated that there were at one time, documents that reflected on GWBs NatGaurd record....and it makes sense...these maggots were so desperate to believe that the "charges" were true, and that there were at one time, real documents, they had the forgeries made.

Talk about criminal desperation. This is what CBS (et al) are covering up, in my estimation. Every day, more evidence hits the street that points to this exact scenario. The DNC, especially McAwful, all the way into the Kerry camp, were in on it. Heck, the Kerry camp was citing documents clear back in April when they were all over GWB, trying to attack his record then.


13 posted on 09/21/2004 12:34:16 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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What did they know - Rather, Lockhart, Cleland et al - and when did they know it?

Demand an answer.


14 posted on 09/21/2004 12:48:25 PM PDT by Malleus Dei
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DNC had issued talking points so when the CBS report hit on September 8th that they would all hit the beach in a coordinated attack.

Interesting observation. The only DNC "talking point" I saw was from Terry McAwful saying that the memos came from Karl Rove. Was this repeated from other DNC surrogates or were there other "talking points" spewed...if so what were they?

It would certainly prove a connection with CBS and the DNC if we had the date/time and who said what in unison after the first CBS broadcast.

15 posted on 09/21/2004 1:02:40 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
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To: SolomoninSouthDakota
"judicial Watch?"

Maybe, but they lose most of their cases. Any FReepers with the necessary contacts should suggest this line of attack as a strategy.

16 posted on 09/21/2004 1:17:08 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Rocketman
I have long contended that the government is hopelessly entangled in campaign regulation already; Rathergate just provides one more example.

Fundamentally the First Amendment allows journalists to have an agenda, and in the early days of the Republic Hamilton and Jefferson fought their political battles by sponsoring newspapers to publish their perspectives. Journalism was politics, straight up. Conventional wisdom has it that that was a scandal. It was not, and is not.

What is a scandal is when the government makes "some animals more equal than others." The FCC does that by licensing particular broadcasters in particular locations at particular frequencies and power levels "in the public interest."

That would have been recognized as patently absurd in the founding era. The reason it was so easily adopted in the twentieth century is that by then mass-market journalism was playing get-along-and-go-along, with journalists pretending to be objective and viciously flaming those who did not go along.

Why Broadcast Journalism is
< Unnecessary and Illegitimate

17 posted on 09/21/2004 1:21:43 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

HMMMM I kind of notice how Terry McAwfuls dropped out of sight the last couple of days. I just know his hands are deep in this!


18 posted on 09/21/2004 1:22:36 PM PDT by Bush gal in LA
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Now that the left is scrambling to find Rolo Tomasi, er--I mean, Lucy Ramirez, they will almost certainly use this as an excuse to avoid discussion of the Kerry campaign's involvement and keep alive the fantasy that Rove was behind this.

My question is this, if Ben Barnes is a Kerry advisor and his single largest fundraiser, if Bill Burkett passed "information" to Max Cleland in August, if Mary Mapes secured the documents by getting Kerry-advisor Joe Lockhart to call her source, if "Operation Fortunate Son" was timed to coincide precisely with the 60-Minutes piece that aired the documents, then what DIDN'T the candidate know, and when, exactly, is he supposed to not have known it?


19 posted on 09/21/2004 1:32:50 PM PDT by Hank All-American (Free Men, Free Minds, Free Markets baby!)
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To: AlaskaErik
I do understand what you are saying but if a concerted effort is made to ask what did Kerry Know and when did he know it -- this would suck all the oxagen out of his already sputtering campaign.

As I see it this has real legs and would force him to back track and seriously respond or he will be swamped with this question in every sound bite.

The swifties he said they are liars and bushed it aside this can not be deal with as it is an attack or fault of someone else its him and his people this is why this is powerful.

20 posted on 09/21/2004 2:12:26 PM PDT by Rocketman
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