Mystery Surrounds Kerry's Navy Discharge

New York Sun ^ | 10/13/2004 | BY THOMAS LIPSCOMB - Special to the Sun

[JennyG]

This could get very interesting. I have a feeling that the MSM will ignore it though.

[js1138]

Somebody needs to respond to this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1243687/posts?page=36#36

[EdReform]

BTTT

[Nataku X]

Same thing for GWB. There was some hotshot-in-his-own-mind writer (Village Voice's Perlstein, I think) who came around and answered Freepers' questions for an afternoon. I asked him point-blank what was the most undeniable lie that Bush made, VERBATIM.

He didn't come up with anything from Bush, only some lame EPA report.

[wrbones]

Why is that I get such a sense of satisfaction that someone is letting the facts tell the story in a newspaper?

Facts are so much more interesting than fiction when it concerns news items of the day...

[Another Thought]

This makes no sense. Carter wasn't president in 1985 -- Reagan was.

[Izzy Dunne]

Wow - what's that anvil doing up there?

[Soaring Feather]

btt!!!!!!

[Fatalis]

"A Kerry campaign spokesman, David Wade, was asked whether Mr. Kerry had ever been a victim of an attempt to deny him an honorable discharge."

This sentence strikes me as...odd.

Lipscomb was lobbing one to the Kerry camp over the fat part of the "Nixon and Colson set me up" plate. Camp Kerry didn't swing. Yet when Kerry's FBI files were stolen from his biographer they were all over any connection to Nixon they could make. Democrats love to go after Nixon like Barry Bonds after a flat slider.

Isn't it interesting that the Kerry campaign's bat is still on its shoulder? This was very artful questioning by Tom Lipscomb.

[ops33]

I appreciate the info and it only points out that it is easy to get confused using these terms. Perhaps I should have not written what I did in upper case since it may have been seen as disrespective towards others service. I was trying to make a point about Dishonorable Discharges and Bad Conduct Discharges not applying to officers but only to enlisted. I guess I did not make my point clear.

[TexasCajun]

Drudge is awake. He's posting anything BUT this story. Guess he's mad he didn't scoop it.

I have faith Drudge will put it up and he'll probably have something to add. Will the Old Media ignore this till the election, you bet! The sooner we have a Republican make the charge, the better!

[Panzerlied]

If this story gets "legs" in the MSM (and that's a BIG if) it puts the Kerry camp in a classic dilemma.

If the story is false, all he has to do is sign the Form 180 and release the information disproving it.

MSM trumpets, "Slanderous Kerry Allegations Proved False!"

Kerry waltzes into the White House.

If it is true, however----

Any bets that Karl Rowe knows EXACTLY what is in those documents?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks , I got right in, no request for a registration,...

[The Mayor]

"This section refers to the grounds for involuntary separation from the service.

BUMP!

[quadrant]

I and most freepers are unable to investigate this issue, but someone must do it. We cannot expect the media to research this claim.
It is not an issue that can be allowed to drop.
Can you imagine how serious this will be if after a Kerry victory, it is learned that the man received a less than honorable discharge from the service.

[Mike Fieschko]

Lipscomb was lobbing one to the Kerry camp over the fat part of the "Nixon and Colson set me up" plate.

And Kerry knows that the pitcher's next one might be so fat that the ball hits the bat.*

('That's Zamora', with apologies to Dean Martin.)

[Truth Table]

bttt

More comentary

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1243670/posts?page=26

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I think that Arnold like a lot us feel that Nixon was framed and removed from office by the MSM and the Washington Compost. The lies of Woodward et al about Deep Throat, now are starting to gel with a lot of us.

That was my feeling !

[tagatose]

But when a dishonorable discharge is issued, all pay benefits, and allowances, and all medals and honors are revoked as well.

Couldn't we look at his tax returns for the years surrounding the medals reissue and determine if he magically started receiving benefits?

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!