Posted on 10/25/2004 10:11:19 PM PDT by Carling
The first documentary evidence that Vietnamese communists were directly steering John Kerry's antiwar group Vietnam Veterans Against the War has been discovered in a U.S. archive, according to a researcher who spoke with WorldNetDaily.
One freshly unearthed document, captured by the U.S. from Vietnamese communists in 1971, indicates the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese delegations to the Paris peace talks that year were used as the communications link to direct the activities of Kerry and other antiwar activists who attended.
Kerry insists he attended the talks only because he happened to be in France on his honeymoon and maintains he met with both sides. But previously revealed records indicate the future senator made two, and possibly three, trips to Paris to meet with Vietcong leader Madame Binh then promote her plan's demand for U.S. surrender.
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You're absolutely right. Without the mainstream media, we are nothing.
That's why nobody's ever heard of the Swift Vets, and nobody knows that Dan Rather's National Guard documents are really fakes.
"We," oh person of newness?
May 23, 1970 -- Kerry marries Julia Stimson Thorne in New York.
The web has become good at shooting down false stories, but not as quick at building up true ones, especially complex ones.
The Swiftvets have been effective because there is simply no denying that they exist and that they dispise Kerry. Beyond that, the public hasn't absorbed the details.
SLIMEY RASCAL.......
Nope, if I interpret the tone of your response correctly, I am not denigrating the efforts here at all.
My point is that if anything reaches up to the attention of the MSM, the debate doesn't become the information contained, but the legitimacy of the source.
Swiftvets -- They definitely had an impact. But only because we contributed dollars and were able to help them put their own adds out. Up to that point, the MSM ignored them. Then one the MSM picked up on it, all they wanted to talk about was the smear on John Kerry, rather then investigating the facts being raised by the adds.
The Dan Rather documents -- same story, the issue was that the source mislead the media, not that the media had a deliberate smear campaign.
So my point is this...we are 7 days out, the likelihood of this issue getting any traction in the media, and having any meaningful commentary, is nil.
We are the converted here, and think what you want, but my perception is that any undecideds will only give this story any creedence is if they hear it from what they think is a trusted news source ... i.e. MSM.
Isn't it getting to be a little late? With one week to go, the MSM will blow it off, and for those who do get wind of it (sKerry supporters/undecideds), will blow it off as dirty republican tricks just before the election.
See my post #347.
Great minds think alike
:-)
Thanks for the ping.
Now, raise your hand if this surprises you...
He's still a hero to some.
Go figure.
Thanks for the ping!
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Volley bump!
I assume there will be a 60 minutes piece on this??? /dripping sarcasm...
Agree, the commies of the world and our very own lying, crooked, election stealing, liberals are leading the conspiracy.
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