National Lampoon paraphrase ... right?
"Nobody move ... or the n****r gets it!"
Posted on 02/11/2004 2:42:34 PM PST by kattracks
Rep. Harold Ford, D-Tenn., who was one of Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry's earliest backers in Congress, went ballistic Wednesday morning when asked about the photo published Monday by NewsMax.com showing Kerry demonstrating against the Vietnam war with "Hanoi" Jane Fonda.
"Don't bring that up," an angry-sounding Ford told "Fox & Friends" co-host Steve Doocy.
Referring to the controversy over President Bush's military record, Ford threatened to "revive this thing on the National Guard" if questions about Kerry's Jane Fonda connection persist.
The Tennessee Democrat attempted to defend Kerry's decision to team up with Fonda after she adopted his group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, as her leading cause.
"For someone who went over there and almost gave his life, [Kerry] pretty much can say whatever the heck he wants to say, in my book," he told "Fox & Friends."
But in an audio clip played by top radio host Rush Limbaugh Wednesday afternoon, Ford continued to seethe over the photo picturing his candidate with the Vietnam War traitor.
"If you want to show pictures of him with Jane Fonda and other things, then the president ought to produce all the evidence [about his Guard service]," he railed.
Although it was not clear whether he was speaking for Kerry, Ford offered to cut a deal in a bid to halt discussion over Kerry's relationship with "Hanoi" Jane.
"I'm willing to put all of [Bush's Guard record] aside and not bring any of that up ... but you better do the same with John Kerry," proposed Ford. "It's clear where [Kerry] was [during the early 1970s] And at this moment it's unclear where the president was."
The congressman urged the GOP to keep its focus on the issues that are important to America's future rather than rehashing irrelevant details from Sen. Kerry's past.
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National Lampoon paraphrase ... right?
"Nobody move ... or the n****r gets it!"
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Thus, at best, NewsMax believed the caption ("AP Photo)" and failed to perform due diligence in a rush to put the photo and story online. At worst, NewsMax knew it was a fake, and decided to join the ranks of tabloid carnival barkers like The National Enquirer.
Either way, NewsMax has earned a prominent spot on my sh*t list. I expect to distrust leftist "news" organizations. But, when an allegedly conservative one pulls a boner like this, it gives aid and comfort to the leftists.
I also lay the blame directly on the person who created the composite. When you do that, you really need to make it obvious that it's a parody. Otherwise, you might as well be trying to smear conservatives as liars, because that's what it ultimately does.</rant>
Just my two-cents' worth.
Think so? The photos I've seen remind me of the boy with the elephant-man facial deformity in the movie, "Mask" (Cher starred in it, if that helps).
Oh, well. I'm certainly no expert on chick magnets.
Less then 24 hours after I posted the above, we now know what "next" is (which is more then we know what a Clinton "is" is.
The latest about Kerry will slow him down but not knock him off, there will be more...
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