”His boat took 188 enemy hits”: Another Kerry Swift Boat story surfaces

Original FReeper research citing Times-News (Burlington, NC) | 09/30/2007 | Fedora

[calcowgirl]

Oops, sorry--CORRECTION:

I found him being a writer for the “National Newspaper Enterprise Assn” from 1971-1973, with an office in NY.

[Uri’el-2012]

DD 180 , John

[Joe Boucher]

I can take a 22 single shot rifle and do quite a bit of damage.
Very accurate and the projectile does bounce around like a ping pong ball.
Scratch a cross in the projectile and it will split apart upon impact and tear up everything.
course my Kimber 45 seems to do an even better job.

[irishtenor]

I heard, from somewhere, that John Kerry was in Viet Nam. Probably a rumor. If he really was, he should have told us when he ran for office, not keeping it hid. Modesty, I guess.

[calcowgirl]

FYI, Newspaper Enterprise Assn was a subsidiary of Scripps-Howard news service.

(okay... i’m done pokin’ around! lol)

[sonic109]

Sandy Burger , good one !

[sonic109]

Kerry is old news and of zero consequence anymore.He was always an anti American jerk and everyone knows that . I doubt anyone in his own party bothers to even talk to him anymore. His name is synonymous with looser.

[Fedora]

Yes, the medical report on Kerry’s first PH was only shown to select friendly reporters and has never been released. There should also be Special Forces files pertaining to Rassmann and other SF personnel involved. Kerry’s personal FBI file was also not released when the VVAW files were declassified.

It will always be possible for Kerry’s supporters to dispute other eyewitnesses. For that reason I’ve taken the approach here of focusing on the internal discrepancies within the documentary record and within Kerry’s own account. Those won’t go away no matter how much Kerry disputes the Swifties.

[Fedora]

Thanks for the correction and additional info!

[Beckwith]

[Fedora]

In that photo Kerry looks suspiciously like Shaggy from Scooby Doo.

[JRios1968]

Except that Jean Francois Kerry makes Shaggy look hip.

[rogue yam]

I doubt a thin skinned Swift boat could take 188 hits from anything bigger than a .22 short.

Kerry's claim is that he was hit by 188 grains of rice.

[dirtbiker]

All hail John F’in, recipient of Three Purple Scratches!

AW, H*LL!

[Fedora]

Kerry makes Velma look hip.

Come to think of it, Kerry also looks kinda like the ghost of Mr. Hyde from that one episode:

"And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it wouldn't have been for those meddling Swift Boaters. . ."

[JRios1968]

[dirtbiker]

Where's the flood, Bud?

[Fedora]

He wore those so that way in case his Swift Boat sunk, he could wade to safety without having to change pants.

[grey_whiskers]

Or as the Hildebeast said,
"Gasping for air, I could hardly breathe..."

Dems are good at these kind of self-induced heroics.

Cheers!