Posted on 05/31/2004 8:09:15 PM PDT by Kaslin
Democratic Senator - and certain presidential nominee - John F. Kerry gave the middle finger to a Vietnam veteran at the Vietnam Memorial Wall on Memorial Day morning, NewsMax.com has learned.
Ted Sampley, a former Green Beret who served two full tours in Vietnam, spotted Kerry and his Secret Service detail at about 9:00 AM Monday morning at the Wall. Sampley walked up to Kerry, extended his hand and said, "Senator, I am Ted Sampley, the head of Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, and I am here to escort you away from the Wall because you do not belong here."
At that point a Secret Service officer told Sampley to back away from Kerry. Sampley moved about six feet away and opened his jacket to reveal a HANOI JOHN tee-shirt.
Kerry then began talking to a group of school children. Sampley then showed the tee-shirt to the children and said, "Kerry does not belong at the Wall because he betrayed the brave soldiers who fought in Vietnam."
Just then Kerry - in front of the school children, other visitors and Secret Service agents - brazenly 'flashed the bird' at Sampley and then yelled out to everyone, "Sampley is a felon!"
Kerry was referring to an incident 12 years ago when Sampley confronted Senator John McCain's cheif aide, Mark Salter, in a Senate stairwell after McCain repeatedly offended POW families at a Senate POW hearing. Sampley, whose father-in-law at that time was MIA in Laos, followed Salter into the stairwell and, when they emerged, Salter had a bloody lip and a broken nose.
Sampley's group, Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, has garnered huge national attention and been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post and on MSNBC's Scarborough Country. Tens of thousands of Vietnam vets have registered their opposition to Kerry through Sampley's group.
Clearly Sampley has gotten under Kerry's skin once again.
I hope someone got some photos!!!
That's always fun. I'm kicking myself since I haven't been up North (Au Sable) this year yet.
I'm somethat skeptical as well, but this just fits the Johnny Kerry MO.
Can people check to see if there are any videos, voice recordings or pictures of this incident? This caught on tape could be the end of Kerry!
That is what I am worried about. He could be a knowing or unknowing decoy. The beast couldn't have survived this many months examination of her record. I give her handlers credit for intelligence, if not ethics and patriotism.
But the VVAJK site might have something later.
And, not to stand up for John Kerry or anything, but I can only assume that those who are offended by Kerry's lack of tact in this supposed incident were likewise offended by the Bush-Cheney open-mic conversation about Adam Clymer four years ago.
Ten seconds have passed and, oh yeah, Ted Sampley is still a kook...and hardly the "hero" some pass him off to be, IMO.
http://www.miafacts.org/prankster.htm
Those who sing the praises of a Ted Sampley or Chris Hitchens ought to, you know, take even a tenth of a second to consider the source.
Just a thought.
Isn't there a place for this guy on the national GOP ticket? Somewhere he and Kerry would cross paths a lot...
ITA!! That takes some serious cajones!!
He was lucky that the ss guy did not shoot him.
He cussed out the SS agent didn't he?
If this is true, dear God, I can't wait for the debates. I keep telling my dad that he'll f'ing implode on national television.
Astute observation. Is NewsMax backing off the story?
Yep .. he did that too
Sampley for president!!
Lol. Doesn't take much digging to get his number.
I can't WAIT to hear Rush and Hannity tomorrow.!!! if this isn't enough to make some decent Americans change their vote to Bush, NOTHING will!! How disgusting!
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