John Kerry to strike back at "infidelity"-coverage, will appear on Imus-Show [LIVE THREAD]

ShortNews ^ | Friday the 13th 2004

[tallhappy]

02/13/2004 02:44 AM

John Kerry to strike back at "infidelity"-coverage, will appear on Imus-Show

Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry is set to strike back at the "infidelity"-coverage by "Drudge Report" joining Don Imus on his Friday morning talk show.

"Drudge Report" had first broken the news of intense US media investigation into the two-year relationship of Kerry and a young woman, which is said they had since Spring 2001. The woman is said to remain at an undisclosed location in Africa.

[WOSG]

sorry should have cc'ed you.

[Shaka]

Kerry is Imus' man...makes no difference. The media is too focused on a non-story AWOL. Where was the press when Clinton was proclaimed a draft-dodger? I have'nt heard a peep about this sudden concern about military service. The media is in for the long haul, they won't the President gone. Scandals be damned..they are on board with Kerry.

[leadpenny]

The media is as diverse as is the membership on FR.

[leadpenny]

Appreciate it.

[RetiredArmy]

I was called a baby killer in the Atlanta airport in 1972. f'n John was probably the reason for it. I had never heard that term in earlier years. Only in the early 70s.

[Jackie-O]

Kerry probably only agreed to make his appearance today with the stipulation that the topic only be brushed upon, and then swiftly brushed off. I'm sure Kerry realizes that the question had to be asked so he allowed Imus to ask.
He will stay in denial until some hard evidence comes to light ala Lewinski-gate, or the girl comes foreword and admits to an affair.

[weegee]

If the National Enquirer broke this story, why does the media (MSNBC, Salon, Kerry's webforum, etc.) persist in blaming the "right wing" Drudge Report for it?

[xkaydet65]

Granted it's not the greatest character reference, howeverI don't think it's a telling factor in voter choice.Johnson cheated on Lady Bird, Nixon was faithful to Pat. Both men lied like rugs about Vietnam. Johnson sending men there when he believed it was a losing cause. Nixon keeping them there for 3 years and then taking basically the same deal he could have gotten in '69, with the same end result. Both should rot for their actions, and marital fidelity had nothing to do with it.

[BlessedByLiberty]

When I proudly cast my vote against John Kerry, I will do it with you and the military in mind.

On behalf of my family I thank you, and every member of the military, who allow us to wake up every morning and live in freedom, for your sacrifices and your service.

[leadpenny]

I was spit on in SF as I was preparing to leave for my 2nd tour in Nov69.
I blame one man - LBJ!

Kerry is a lot of things but he was not responsible for what happened.
He was not a corrupt CinC with a corrupt Defense Department.

[leadpenny]

Imus doesn't play that way.

[Cboldt]

Kerry probably only agreed to make his appearance today with the stipulation that the topic only be brushed upon, and then swiftly brushed off. I'm sure Kerry realizes that the question had to be asked so he allowed Imus to ask.

Oh, I dunno. I think Imus marches to his own drummer. I don't listen to Imus much because I don't find his schtick entertaining. I believe that Imus chose the direction of this morning's interview, and isn't amenable to direction from his guests.

I do agree with the speculation that Kerry will either deny or "no comment" the story. My intuition is that one object of the media and DNC is to paint this as an RNC-planted story, and another object is to paint any person who is taken aback by the story as a busybody.

[BlessedByLiberty]

Washington Times reporting it, saying Kerry denies infidelity. He did no such thing - here we go with non-denial denials. Tired of the Democratic Reruns.

Kerry denies allegations of infidelity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1077553/posts

[WOSG]

"I was called a baby killer in the Atlanta airport in 1972. f'n John was probably the reason for it. I had never heard that term in earlier years. Only in the early 70s."

As one who was too young in 1972 to say this then ... thanks for your service.

It is sad how the radical activists' smears got accepted by so many people back then, and Kerry shares some blame for that.

[Cboldt]

He did not deny the affair. He said he was not going to discuss it. The last firm No was not a denial but an affirmation that he was not going to talk about.

I agree with all of that. Kerry's assertion could be taken any one of a number of ways, and on reflection, reading his words, he was basically saying that nothing would surface (on the boiking interns story) that would cause Imus to disrespect Kerry to the extent that Imus would be against Kerry being president.

[WOSG]

"Kerry is a lot of things but he was not responsible for what happened. "

Let's focus on what Kerry was responsible for - his own words. He lied in his tesimony to Congress ...

In 1971, John Kerry became a leader of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War protest group. Kerry testified to Congress that American soldiers in Vietnam had "personally 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, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam." Kerry testified, "We all did it." He said his claims were "not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command."

The awful allegations of fellow veterans being war criminals were based on trumped up stories. B.G. Burkett points out in his book "Stolen Valor" that Kerry used phony veterans to testify to atrocities they could not possibly have committed. Kerry had engaged in defamation and slander against the military in order to further the anti-war cause.

Kerry was viewed by the Nixon White House as a formidable anti-war opponent, because Kerry's war record as a Navy Lieutenant would insulate him from charges of being unpatriotic. Yet the group that Kerry helped lead, VVAW (Vietnam Vets Against the War), was quite radical. In protests, members mocked the uniform of United States soldiers by wearing tattered fatigues marked with pro-communist graffiti. They also marched under the flag of the Communist Viet Cong. The group, including Kerry, advocated the "People's Peace Treaty," a supposed "people's" declaration to end the war that was reportedly drawn up in communist East Germany. It proposed peace on the terms of the Viet Cong and the Communist Hanoi regime. Kerry publicly supported Hanoi's position to use our POWs as a bargaining chip in negotiations for a peace agreement.

Kerry's war service was a stage prop to garner attention to his anti-war activism, and it was a useful shield to deflect criticism of how damaging his words and actions were to those who served in the military. Kerry even suborned his own medals as literal props for political theater when he threw what appeared to be his medals over a fence in front of the Capitol building in protest, on camera. Yet years later his medals turned up displayed on his office wall when medals became something to be proud of again.

[leadpenny]

No, I'm not going to focus on that stuff. Those of us who were there saw and, in many cases, did things we are not proud of. It's all a matter of degree. Bad things happened. My Lai was just the tip of the iceberg. My point was that Kerry is not responsible for it. LBJ and, as others have said, Nixon was. You said my loyalties were misplaced. Who are you to tell me where my loyalties should be?

[HRoarke]

Sorry for the bad gouge, I had him momentarily confused with Col. Campenni.

Sampley's group has been pretty active on their own.