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KERRY SPEAKS WITH BERG'S FATHER:
ABC NEWS ^ | 5-13-2004

Posted on 05/13/2004 1:32:55 PM PDT by marginoferror

Kerry tells CBS affiliate in Little Rock, Ark. that he has spoken with Nick Berg's father ... later at Doe's, print pooler Jill Zuckman of the Chicago Tribune asks Kerry when he spoke to Berg ... Kerry refuses further comment says "that's private" ... Zuckman asks "why did you mention it on television?" ... Kerry: "I'm not going to say anything about when, where or how." ... DEVELOPING

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kerry; lurch; nickberg
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To: Only1choice____Freedom
"Opportunist."

Yup!

I wonder if Carrie has talked to all the *other families* of Americans who have died in Iraq? I bet not!
41 posted on 05/13/2004 1:46:28 PM PDT by GottaLuvAkitas1 (Call me Spooky Mulder, but I think Hillary leaked the "abuse" photos)
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To: marginoferror
What did he say? "Yo, Mike, I know you're on my side and I could use your public support. When I'm elected, I'll demand an investigation of your son and possibly give you a job in my administration, but right now, we've got to keep the situation surrounding Abu Ghraib on everyone's minds."
42 posted on 05/13/2004 1:46:38 PM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: Red Badger
No, John Effin Kerry doesn't have any shame...he's a Democrat.
43 posted on 05/13/2004 1:47:08 PM PDT by AngieGOP (Inga binga binga. Binga binga boo)
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To: carmine
How long before father Berg is on Chris Matthews' show?
44 posted on 05/13/2004 1:47:11 PM PDT by My2Cents ("Well...there you go again.")
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To: anniegetyourgun
be careful here folks.

as disgusting as this is, the Dems are not stupid. Other threads are running now about Berg, the Dems may have information that they feel they can use to put a spin on this - other then the anti-Bush rantings of his father.
45 posted on 05/13/2004 1:47:26 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: marginoferror
What ya wanna bet he got his f-ing a-- chewed out.

Maybe someone has a photo of a Berg family member standing over a naked Kerry with big blue rubber gloves.
46 posted on 05/13/2004 1:47:51 PM PDT by Mark in the Old South
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To: lilylangtree
He's trying to recruit him for his "Band of Brothers" road show.
47 posted on 05/13/2004 1:47:54 PM PDT by Semper Paratus
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To: marginoferror
X asks Kerry who are the foreign leaders who support him.

Kerry says "That's private."

Sound familiar?
48 posted on 05/13/2004 1:47:54 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Sender
"Berg described the Patriot Act as a "coup d'etat." He added: "It's not the same America I grew up in."

Me neither, at three score plus I can still remember when we were free.
49 posted on 05/13/2004 1:48:02 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: marginoferror
Macabre, what a mortician!!!

Pray for W and Our Brave Troops

50 posted on 05/13/2004 1:48:28 PM PDT by bray (Diversity Divides, Jesus Unites!)
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To: kevao
At least Kerry gave the guy two days to grieve before exploiting him. That's gotta count for something

It proves he can count to two. It probably took them that long to get through the camera hoard on that's family's doorstep.

51 posted on 05/13/2004 1:49:28 PM PDT by alancarp (NASCAR: Where everything's made up and the points don't matter.)
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To: My2Cents
Yes apparently the father was extremely anti-Bush, pro-lefty for a long time. He probably works for the Kerry campaign now. I'm not sure what the unfortunate son's political stripes were.
52 posted on 05/13/2004 1:49:48 PM PDT by Sender (<a href="http://www.democrats.org/">Miserable Failure</a>)
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To: My2Cents
"How long before father Berg is on Chris Matthew's show?"

Let's start a pool. I say by next Tuesday.
53 posted on 05/13/2004 1:49:56 PM PDT by AngieGOP (Inga binga binga. Binga binga boo)
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To: oceanview
I don't know...kinda hard to "spin" that video...I think that every time the father speaks and / or is spoken about, people will be reminded of what happened to his son...
54 posted on 05/13/2004 1:50:03 PM PDT by danneskjold ("Somebody is behind this..." - George Soros)
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To: Roux
"I think John Effin' Kerry should watch out who he associates himself with."


Yeah, I keep expecting him to appear with the parents of John walker, Jose Padilla, and whatever other homegrown terrorist he can dig up.

55 posted on 05/13/2004 1:51:00 PM PDT by cripplecreek (John Kerry, the Eddie Haskell candidate.)
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To: Semper Paratus
I got a campaign thing in the mail for Kerry. I am going to put a Bush/Cheney bumper sticker in it and send it back in their envelope.

I feel sorry for Nick... his dad sounds like a jerk playing his son's death for attention.

56 posted on 05/13/2004 1:51:22 PM PDT by just me
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To: Sender
PHILADELPHIA, May 13 (Reuters) - The father of Nick Berg, the Pennsylvania contractor beheaded in Iraq, on Thursday directly blamed President George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for his son's death. "My son died for the sins of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. This administration did this," Berg said in the interview with radio station KYW-AM.

Two days after the publication of a video showing the execution of his son by five masked men, Berg attacked Bush administration for its invasion of Iraq and its sponsorship of the Patriot Act, which gave increased powers of surveillance to the federal government.

Berg described the Patriot Act as a "coup d'etat." He added: "It's not the same America I grew up in."

This reminds me of the Wellstone funerally mentality. If that had been my kid who had been brutally butchered there is no way in hell I would be able to function enough to be talking to the press and making coherent political speeches/statements.

57 posted on 05/13/2004 1:52:37 PM PDT by CajunConservative
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To: oceanview
While we've watching the Dems pull some real boners, I'm not suggesting they are stupid. Just ruthless, hateful, and politically expedient.
58 posted on 05/13/2004 1:53:00 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: talleyman
"why did you mention it on television?"
"I decided to talk about it before I decided not to talk about it."


LOL. Thanks for the laugh talley, I needed it.
59 posted on 05/13/2004 1:53:10 PM PDT by subterfuge (Liberalism is, as liberalism does.)
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