Posted on 03/12/2004 10:32:07 AM PST by doug from upland
Reporter Thomas Lipscomb wrote the story which is linked above in the NY SUN. It has the potential to end the Kerry presdential run.
I had a great conversation with Lipscomb a short while ago. This story was too hot for some of the majors. But Lipscomb assured me it is well-sourced and is dead on.
Two witnesses have placed John Kerry at a Kansas City meeting of the hierarchy of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War in November of 1971. At that meeting, they actually took a vote about assassinating United States senators. It was called "The Phoenix Project" and was the brainchild of Scott Camil. Kerry spokesman David Wade has denied Kerry was at the meeting.
The two witnesses who place Kerry at the meeting are Terry Du-Bose and Randy Barnes. What is very interesting is that Barnes is a big Kerry supporter and the head of Missouri Vets for Kerry. As a supporter, Barnes would certainly not make up a story that would hurt his candidate. He told Lipscomb of Kerry's attendance at the meeting.
Think of the implications. If the mainsteam media and major news networks do their homework, they may discover that a man who wants to be president was at a meeting discussing the possiblity of assassinating United States senators. That is a conspiracy. Instead of the White House, does John Forbes Kerry belong in the Big House?
Get on the phone to newsrooms and shame them into covering this story. A major mainsteam journalist returned by email in about a half hour after I sent him info. He finds it "interesting." Let's see if pursues it. He is notable enough, that if he does the story, all hell will break loose in the presidential campaign.
Note: Lipscomb is not a right-wing ideologue. He did a recent story defending Kerry over his medals. He also recently did a story in which he went after George Bush's National Guard service. He told me that he expected to find a drunken rich kid with coke up his nose. Instead, he discovered that Bush actually did more than make up the meetings he had missed and he honorably fulfilled his duty. And Terry McAuliffe knows it.
(Actually respooling a reel ;-)
On the original New York Sun thread (linked at the beginning of this one), this "letter" is discussed. Though Brinkley was told by Kerry there was a letter he sent in the summer of '71, Kerry does not have a copy and the VVAW does not have a copy, and the NY Sun reports the "oral" resignation after the meeting that Kerry denies attending.
It appears Kerry wanted to convey that he quit before the November meeting and denies attending because he does not want to be linked to it at all (I say again, though, his campaign has reached out to "Scott the Assassin" who came up with the plot, and asked Scott Camil to join the campaign).
Thanks for the CSPAN headsup, but reading FR is all the politics I can take right now. I'm watching a movie on TBS whilst freeping. :)
The Dems are putting on major, major voodoo propaganda on Kerry's "hero" status during Nam and projecting Bush as nothing short of a "rich boy" college kid just short of being AWOL.
And they're doing an amazing job of it. If you were an average "Joe Sheeple" being presented with this, it wouldn't look at all good for Dubya.
This is how the Dems are portraying Bush against Kerry:
Mother Jones Propaganda Machine
George W. Bush and John Kerry both spent their mid twenties in uniform. The similarities end there.
February 8, 2004
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