What did they disprove? Kerry lied on the Senate floor about being in Cambodia and even said Nixon was president on Christmas Eve 1968. Nixon wasn’t sworn into office until 30 days later.
He flimflammed a Washington Post reporter into writing about his Cambodian fairytale:
John Kerry: Hunter, Dreamer, Realist
Complexity Infuses Senator’s Ambition
By Laura Blumenfeld
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 1, 2003; Page A01
. . .It’s been a hard rap to overcome in part because Kerry is reserved. He inherited it from his mother, along with her devotion to public service. “She taught us you stiff-upper-lip it,” said his sister, Diana Kerry. “John is a man of the people. Of the little people, actually. He needs to project who he really is by simplifying.”
And who is he, really?
A close associate hints: There’s a secret compartment in Kerry’s briefcase. He carries the black attache everywhere. Asked about it on several occasions, Kerry brushed it aside. Finally, trapped in an interview, he exhaled and clicked open his case.
“Who told you?” he demanded as he reached inside. “My friends don’t know about this.”
The hat was a little mildewy. The green camouflage was fading, the seams fraying.
“My good luck hat,” Kerry said, happy to see it. “Given to me by a CIA guy as we went in for a special mission in Cambodia.”
Kerry put on the hat, pulling the brim over his forehead. His blue button-down shirt and tie clashed with the camouflage. He pointed his finger and raised his thumb, creating an imaginary gun. He looked silly, yet suddenly his campaign message was clear: Citizen-soldier. Linking patriotism to public service. It wasn’t complex after all; it was Kerry.
He smiled and aimed his finger: “Pow.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A59559-2003May30?language=printer
That was absolutely the funniest Kerry story I’ve ever read.