Tainted Media

Townhall.com ^ | February 18, 2005 | Thomas Sowell - Op-Ed

[El Oviedo]

The recent resignation of CNN's news director, Eason Jordan, after his outrageous remarks about our military at an international forum were reported on the Internet, is only the latest in a series of media scandals, of which Dan Rather's forged documents were just one. Media bias does not consist in having liberal or conservative opinions but in how you do your job -- or don't do it.

One document whose authenticity is not likely to be questioned by the mainstream media is the honorable discharge on Senator John Kerry's web site. Yet who in the major media has investigated why that honorable discharge is dated during the Carter administration, when Kerry's military service ended years earlier?

This is the same media that spent months investigating George W. Bush's military record and, even after key allegations were revealed to be based on forgeries, continued publicizing rumors and innuendoes. They didn't stop even after the President signed Form 180, opening all his military records to the public.

[El Oviedo]

Months after the election, Democratic candidate Kerry has still a number of questions to answer and he has not answered all of them. Thomas Sowell elaborates some of the juicy ones.

Why was Kerry's honorable discharge happened during the Carter (a Democrat) Administration when he was supposed to be out of the military years before then?

Why has he not sign the Standard Form 180 that permits opening his military records to the public?

Is his "Reporting for Duty" appearance on nationwide TV that hynotized the liberals into tremendous applause just a Fonzi scheme to win votes?

Is there a liberal Democrat out there that knows the real answers and have the guts to come out and tell us?

Perhaps we should let the media ask Prof Sowell's questions to ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, PBS, and CNN and see if Kerry will then tell the truth.

I want to know.

[BienHoa69-70 RVN]

The Swift Boat Vets were all over this story but the old irrelevant media such as SeeBS and the Castro News Network ignored it in order to protect Kerry.

[GaltMeister]

Everytime I think about John Fraud Kerry I smell a RAT.

[o_zarkman44]

John Kerry and company almost perpetrated the hugest scam on the American People in History.
Never in my knowledge of American History has a Presidential Candidate been allowed to hide the truth about military service and other faux accomplishments from the people, because of a conspiracy by partisan news presenters.

The liberal media is now paying the price for outright fraud and innacuracy. They know their conspiracy has been exposed and they are naked in front of the American people.
I predict we will see bankruptcy and/or mergers of news agencys. I for one will not shed a tear for their consequences of crimes against our Constitution.

[Cicero]

Kerry and his friends cannot be permitted to continue hiding his treason in Vietnam and its aftermath. The election is over, but the campaign to have his records released and to hold him accountable must continue.

[txradioguy]

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[txradioguy]

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[txradioguy]

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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"Some of the public have begun to wake up but more need to do so.
Many in the media also need to wake up to what they are doing, or failing to do,
when their politics taints their work."

TownHall.com ^ | February 18, 2005 | Thomas Sowell

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[txradioguy]

Thanks TOnk. As always you come through when we need you.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[jriemer]

John Kerry and company almost perpetrated the hugest scam on the American People in History.

Those are big words considering the previous titleholder for "Hugest Scam on the American People in History" was the Democratic events between the November 2,2000 election and the Florida Recount Fiasco gaining traction.

[68 grunt]

I wanna know, too! Until the MSM comes up with the truth their whole validity is in question. In question hell! Sum6itches are the enemy!!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This gross double standard is the real media scandal, even more than the forged documents, which were after all the responsibility of just one network and one program.

Shout it to the WORLD!

Let us enumerate some instances:

1. The Kerry failure to sign Form 180:
2. Jordan Eason's comments at Dravos regarding the targeting of Journalists by the US Military:
3. The Hot Pursuit of the Texas National Guard Story about the President:
4. The CBS using a Forged Document in the Texas National Guard Story;
5. The Double Standard in the Hot Pursuit of Jeff Gannon and his question of the President.

Some stories were pursued very aggressively by the Main Stream media (when the President or the Republicans could be tarnished), and others were pursued very weakly or not at all ( when Kerry, other leftists journalists or institutions or someone on the left might be tarnished)..

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping.

[MEG33]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1345874/posts
Tainted media [Kerry's 'honorable' discharge?]
TownHall.com ^ | February 18, 2005 | Thomas Sowell


Posted on 02/18/2005 5:32:05 AM CST by johnny7

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Tainted media [Kerry's 'honorable' discharge?]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1345874/posts

"Some of the public have begun to wake up but more need to do so.
Many in the media also need to wake up to what they are doing, or failing to do,
when their politics taints their work."

TownHall.com ^ | February 18, 2005 | Thomas Sowell

For those who say the GOP can't acknowledge Swift Boat Vets,
they are wrong.

Karl Rove also exposed the false testimony by Hanoi Kerry in 1971

Rove Credits Swiftvets With 'Energizing' Bush Vote (Thank You Karl Rove!)

"...Rove recalled that his uncle had done several tours of duty in Vietnam.
I've never been able to think of Colonel Verhi as somebody who would have
'raped and pillaged in a manner reminiscent of Genghis Khan,'"
a reference to Kerry's 1971 Senate testimony where he accused Vietnam veterans
of committing widespread atrocities."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1345603/posts

Viet Nam Vet Ollie North nailed Hanoi Kerry on his false 1971 testimony.

"Kerry testified under oath before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971 that Americans in Vietnam had "raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war."

Set aside the horrific and defamatory nature of these accusations and ask this: Did he witness these atrocities? Did he try to stop them? If not, was he held accountable for dereliction of duty? If he knows the perpetrators, did he ever see that they were brought to justice? If not, why?"

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ollienorth/on20040220.shtml

And FR's own Interesting Times nailed Hanoi Kerry for his lies in 1971

AFFIDAVIT OF STEVEN J. PITKIN combat veteran of the Vietnam War
(Kerry pressured him to give false Winter Soldier testimony)
http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=PitkinAff

Pitkin Affidavit
AFFIDAVIT OF STEVEN J. PITKIN
STATE OF FLORIDA

COUNTY OF PALM BEACH

Before me, the undersigned authority, personally appeared Steven J. Pitkin, known, to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to this instrument, who, after first being duly sworn by me, upon oath stated:

1. My name is Steven J. Pitkin. I am over the age of twenty-one years, and I am fully competent and able to make this affidavit. I am able to swear, as I do hereby swear, that all facts and statements contained in this affidavit are true and correct and within my personal knowledge.

2. I am a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, having served with the Ninth Division of the U.S. Army beginning 25 May 1969. A mortar explosion wounded me, my wounds gradually became infected, and I was treated in an Army hospital in Okinawa. I contracted hepatitis C from blood transfusions I received during that time. I left Vietnam on 28 August 1969 and was honorably discharged from the Army on 9 September 1970.

3. Medals received for my Army service include: Combat Infantry Badge, Army Commendation Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal, RVN Cross of Gallantry, Air Medal, Purple Heart.

4. During my service in Vietnam, I neither witnessed nor participated in any American war crimes or atrocities against civilians, nor was I ever aware of any such actions. I did witness the results of Vietcong atrocities against Vietnamese civilians, including the murder of tribal leaders.

5. Upon my return to the United States I encountered anti-war protestors who, at various times, threw feces, spit, and screamed obscenities.

6. I joined Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), at Catonsville Community College in Baltimore in 1970.

7. In January of 1971, I rode in a van with John Kerry, a national leader of the VVAW, and others from Washington D.C. to Detroit to attend the Winter Soldier Investigation, a conference intended to publicize alleged American war crimes in Vietnam. Having no knowledge of such war crimes, I did not intend to speak at the event.

8. During the Winter Soldier Investigation, John Kerry and other leaders of that event pressured me to testify about American war crimes, despite my repeated statements that I could not honestly do so. One event leader strongly implied that I would not be provided transportation back to my home in Baltimore, Maryland, if I failed to comply. Kerry and other leaders of the event instructed me to publicly state that I had witnessed incidents of rape, brutality, atrocities and racism, knowing that such statements would necessarily be untrue.

9. In April 1971, I attended a VVAW protest in Washington D.C. known as “Dewey Canyon III.” During this event I was present when protestors, including John Kerry, threw medals and ribbons over a fence outside the U.S. Capitol. I witnessed a man holding a bag of ribbons and medals and handing them out to other protestors. I saw that many of the ribbons and medals were not those that would be received by veterans of combat in Vietnam.

10. During the “Dewey Canyon III” protest, others and I confronted protestors who were wearing or carrying Vietcong flags.

11. After the “Dewey Canyon III” protest, I was no longer invited to meetings of the VVAW in Baltimore, and ended my association with the organization.

12. I joined the 5/20th Special Forces Group of the Maryland National Guard in 1974, was graduated from paratrooper “jump school” with honors in 1976, joined the Coast Guard in 1978 and served there until my retirement in May 1997.

(signed) Steven J. Pitkin

Further affiant saith not.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15th Day of September, 2004.

Jonathan Feldman
Commission # DD235268
My commission expires July 28, 2007

Now can anyone name 1 so called MAIN Stream Right Wing Media
personality

(we know Russert on tv and Imus on radio from the Left have)

that has asked,

in 2005,

these questions?

"Asked Kerry when he will sign Form 180.

(Even though President Bush signed his Form 180)

Or why Kerry is still in the US Senate.
This is in violation of
U.S. Constitution Amendment 14 Sec 3

Or when Kerry will set the record straight
on his false testimony in April 71"

BUT he's still attacking President Bush in '05

Kerry Trashes Bush in Baghdad Jan '05

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315333/posts

Kerry: Bush Still Hiding His Guard Records Feb '05

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1341323/posts

[HRoarke]

Russert is the worst of the bunch...feigns toughness by asking the question but silent since the interview where Kerry promised to sign the form.