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I'm impressed with your loyalty to IMUS . . .

I'm impressed with his style. He's looking at this in terms of "in due course." He gave Kerry some rope, now it's up to f'n to see what he does with it when and if more comes out. Imus' ramblings over the last few minutes about Drudge and other things is just to put Kerry on notice. Stay tuned.

I agree with your take on Imus and his treatment of Kerry this morning. Imus IS quirky and does not see the world like most of us. It's what makes him interesting and infuriating at the same time. Imus hosts people he likes and remains relatively loyal to them. He's not sure whether this story is true or not and was not going to accuse someone he likes on national radio of something he is not sure is true. However, he DID bring it up. I agree that Kerry gave a non-denial denial but the important thing is that Imus took it to be a denial. If this story gets legs and Kerry is shown to be dallying with an intern, I think Imus will be FURIOUS and will nail him later on. Imus gave him the rope and Kerry tentatively took it. A good first step.

IMUS style is to refer to Vice President Cheney as a fat pig liar.

Wow, something really impressive about IMUS!

Your loyalty is misplaced. Are you an Imus staffer? LOL. ...

Imus,
What a wussy interview of Kerry.

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 today runs on his 4 months in Vietnam, yet is never challenged on his post-military activism.You could have and should have challenged him on his hypocritical use of his war record while never apologizing for his extreme comments and his defamation of the US military in Vietnam. Questions you should have asked but didnt:
- Does Kerry think Vietnam military service was a shameful military exercise or something to be proud of? If he is proud of his service, how does he now feel about his anti-war activism?
- Kerry said, "I think there has been an exaggeration" with regard to the terrorist threat in the South Carolina debate. Why did he say that? Was 9/11 no big deal to him? Does he feel Al Qaeda has been full destroyed?
- Does Kerry regret his defamations against the military in 1971 and does he apologize for it? Or does he still stand by his characterization of the US military in Vietnam as engaged in "crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command"?
- Does Kerry claim that his service of 4 months in Vietnam means he will protect our nation better? What should we make of Kerry's 35 years in politics tearing at our national security institutions, defaming our military, voting against military budgets, and being wobbly on matters of defense and security? Hasnt he really been "weak on defense" as a Senator?
- Does Kerry believe invading Iraq and deposing Saddam Hussein was a mistake? If he was President, would Kerry have let Saddam stay in power, given what we know now? For how long? For how long would sanctions last? How can he justify his vote against the Gulf war in 1991?

Sorry, man, you did a great service to Kerry, but not to the audience. You totally wussed out.