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Kerry Spokesman Sets Limbaugh Straight on Swiftboat Smears (Classy mouthpiece, Jean-Francois)
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Posted on 11/12/2007 9:09:43 AM PST by Sub-Driver

11/09/2007 Kerry Spokesman Sets Limbaugh Straight on Swiftboat Smears

WASHINGTON D.C. – Kerry spokesman David Wade issued the following statement today in response to Rush Limbaugh, who said on his radio show that Kerry’s Swift Boat attackers in 2004, “were right on the money and nobody has disproven anything they claimed in any of their ads, statements, written commentaries, or anything of the sort.”

“At first I thought, that’s not Rush, that’s just the OxyContin talking. Nonetheless, this is a despicable but unsurprising new lie from a man whose closest brush with combat came when customs officials tried to take away his Viagra. This portly peddler of hate is once again wrong on the facts. John Kerry served his country with honor in Vietnam, and has fought for his fellow veterans ever since. The lies and smears of the Swift Boat Veterans for Bush were disproved conclusively in 2004 by the men who fought by John Kerry’s side in Vietnam, by the military’s own records, by investigative journalists, and by the incredible contradictions that exposed these right wing smear artists. It is long past time that we end the politics of fear and smear that we have seen used against decorated veterans from John McCain to Max Cleland and John Kerry. Rush Limbaugh’s ignorance and determination to divide Americans is just another reminder that you can’t spell ‘Rush Limbaugh’ without the letters L-I-A-R.”

The watchdog group Media Matters has provided an excellent fact check of the Limbaugh smear, proving once again that when it comes to slandering veterans, the right wing is wrong. The fact check can be found at: (http://mediamatters.org/items/200711090008?f=h_latest)


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To: Sub-Driver

This is a spokesman? Better get your money back, Liveshot!


41 posted on 11/12/2007 9:22:48 AM PST by Freedom_Fighter_2001
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To: Sub-Driver
Where is the SF180, John !

42 posted on 11/12/2007 9:24:31 AM PST by Uri’el-2012 (you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)
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To: Pietro
Like shooting fish in a barrell.

More like dynamiting fish in a fish bowl.
43 posted on 11/12/2007 9:24:54 AM PST by JamesP81
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To: JamesP81
All they can is whine like girls. John F*ckin' should come up with evidence or sit down and shut up!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

44 posted on 11/12/2007 9:24:58 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Sub-Driver
Even before I’m through three the second paragraph there are 2 personal attacks on Rush and multiple falsities in trying to defend Kerry.

This prevaricator (Kerry) and all of his minions (leased and otherwise) need to be still and of their own accord depart from us; to exist in perpetual silent self-exile.

45 posted on 11/12/2007 9:26:24 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: lady lawyer
Thank Heaven for the Swift Boaters. They were effective, but they dealt only with a side issue. The big issues are the nature of Kerry’s original discharge and the treason he committed by meeting with the enemy in Paris, while still in uniform.

In part II of their book, "Unfit for Command", they did thoroughly discuss Kerry's meeting with the enemy in Paris and his other anti-war and treasonous activities.

Unfortunately, the lame stream media never talked much about part II of the book. They only talked about part I, Kerry's and the Swiftboatvets time in Vietnam. I don't remember the lame stream media giving any coverage to Kerry's trip to Paris or his other anti-war activities after he returned. They gave Kerry cover in not discussing Kerry's meeting with the Communists in Paris.

Also, other than Kerry's infamous speech before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971, I can't remember the Swiftboatvets mentioning Kerry's trip to Paris or other anti-war/treasonous activities in any of their commercials that they wrote about in part II of their book.

46 posted on 11/12/2007 9:26:37 AM PST by AmericaOne (Sneaking In is NOT Immigration!!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

They were telling the truth. I’ll keep saying it, supporting the Swiftvets was the best time and money I ever spent


47 posted on 11/12/2007 9:27:13 AM PST by RDTF ("Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear". Mark Twain)
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To: Bahbah
What! You mean Kerry did spend Christmas in Cambodia after all? (Heheheheh)

Yeah, and he was sent there by PRESIDENT Nixon in DECEMBER 1968, when Nixon wasn't sworn in until January 1969. Talk about Kerry's "fact-checking". . . .

48 posted on 11/12/2007 9:27:17 AM PST by hsalaw
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To: RC2
Out of all the guys that served with Kerry, I think two of them supported him.

It was more than that...but it was only those that served on his boat, and whom he later did favors for...and not even all of those. All the others in his flotilla who said anything of him disputed him. He was also forced to concede everal major parts of his accounts, and his own diary conceded others.

49 posted on 11/12/2007 9:27:17 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: SERKIT
This does not make Kerry the “better man”

Hardly conclusive, since it's likely that Kerry is, in fact, not a man at all.
50 posted on 11/12/2007 9:27:23 AM PST by JamesP81
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To: Sub-Driver

Perhaps one should ask a marine which person he/she respects...Kerry the clown, or Limbaugh the magnificent. (As for the drugs, seems he did far better on drugs than Kerry could do when sober.


51 posted on 11/12/2007 9:28:49 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Sub-Driver

“At first I thought, that’s not Rush, that’s just the OxyContin talking.”

That is a slanderous smear. Rush has been going to court agreed drug testing and has been clean.

Where is Kerry’s military record that he claimed he’d make public?


52 posted on 11/12/2007 9:29:00 AM PST by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: Sub-Driver

And still Mr. Heinz has not submitted his SF-182 Form like he promised he was going to.


53 posted on 11/12/2007 9:29:10 AM PST by Always Right
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To: Sub-Driver; All

Anyone disagree with these numbers?

Number of Purple Hearts “earned” by Kerry: Three.

Number of days in hospital recovering from his war wounds: Zero.


54 posted on 11/12/2007 9:29:11 AM PST by aculeus
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To: Sub-Driver

Was David Wade wearing the hat when he made this statement? I’d have no doubt that it was the truth if he was wearing the hat...


55 posted on 11/12/2007 9:29:32 AM PST by philled ("CNBC?...You might as well be doing ham radio at that point."-- Dennis Miller)
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To: Sub-Driver
LOL, this looks as if it was written by a high schooler. Notice he never even addresses the fact Kerry NEVER has released ALL his medical records nor has be produced a signed copy of his Form 180 to prove he even authorized their release as he claims.

Also notice the typical name calling the left cannot seem to avoid. They kind of remind one of a PMS deranged individual.

56 posted on 11/12/2007 9:29:47 AM PST by aroundabout
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To: Sub-Driver

Media Matters is an “in-credible” (not-credible) source.


57 posted on 11/12/2007 9:30:16 AM PST by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: Argus

Those weren’t “lies” per se, they were the incorrect “exagerations” of an “angry young man” (who served the Communist enemy cause by engaging in such a treasonous smear).


58 posted on 11/12/2007 9:32:11 AM PST by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I would have been embarrassed to put my name on that response. I just can’t understand why they keep trying to rewrite history. Facts are facts Jack!


59 posted on 11/12/2007 9:34:26 AM PST by Sunshine Sister
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To: weegee

Cmon JFK do a 180 and sign the 180!


60 posted on 11/12/2007 9:34:28 AM PST by Always Independent
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