Posted on 08/05/2004 4:27:59 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Human Events reports that the DNC and the Kerry campaign are writing to television stations, stating that the Swift Boat ads is is "false" and "libelous" and that "your station may not responsibly air this advertisement."
At least one of their points in the letter is an obvious lie: "The advertisement contains statements by men who purport to have served on Senator John Kerry's SWIFT [sic] boat in Vietnam and one statement by a man pretending to be the doctor who treated Senator Kerry for one of his injuries."
Horsepucky.
Every vet in the ad says, "I served with John Kerry," but not one of them claims to have been in his boat. Most of the men are other swiftboat captains. They've been open and clear in their statements that they served in other swift boats operating within 50 yards on Kerry's side, and their statements are their observations on serving alongside him, not under him.
NR's own Byron York had the scoop on Louis Letson, the doctor, months ago. The Kerry letter insists that Letson is a "phony" because he didn't sign Kerry's sick call sheet.
The Los Angeles Times looked at the who-signed-the-form controversy back in May:
"Meehan questioned Letson's role, saying a J.C. Carreon signed Kerry's medical report of the wound. "This gentleman is not the man who is on the report," he said.
Letson said that Carreon, a lower-ranked "hospitalman," was "present at the time and he, in fact, made the entry into Lt. Kerry's medical record."
Bad move, Team Kerry. The letter from the lawyers turns this into a bigger story, and the argument that these men are "phony" doesn't seem all that strong.
Correction: Not the same LYING AND MISREPRESENTATING that the slimes at MoveOn.org do but to organize, set up and run ads like them.
Okay, carry on!
I AGREE.
This is very odd because McCain used the same exact misrepresentation of "on". Kerry and McCain are speaking from the same contrived page, he has his assignment.
"I deplore this kind of politics,” McCain said. “I think the ad is dishonest and dishonorable. As it is, none of these individuals served on the boat (Kerry) commanded.
Traitor to his party working for traitor to his country.
YES! Exactly!
Evidently John Fn Kerry thinks that SWIFT is an acronym for "So What, I Fought Too."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Jamais reculez á tyrannie un pouce!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! Never give an inch to tyranny!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Bottom line: If what the swifties say is true, then Kerry is toast. IF they are lying, it will hurt Bush.
The "Christmas '68" episode that Hugh Hewitt read today from the Unfit to Serve transcript will crush horseface, if true. Apparently Kerry, on the Senate floor in 1986, re-lived his "illegal incursion into Cambodia" on Christmas of 1968, secretly ordered there by Nixon. Only problem, Nixon wasn't inaugurated until Jan 20, 1969, and Kerry was in his barracks with everyone else that day, 50 miles from the Cambodian border.
Kerry's sympathetic biographer left this whopper out of his book. If this is true, and it can easily be verified, then all of Kerry's self proclaimed "heroics" need to be examined.
In another thread, it was said that these boats had 6-man crews. They had more people than that lined up at the Democrat convention. Therefore 'served with' by necessity means more than 'on his boat,' in their own usage of their rhetoric.
Sad, but true.
Bingo.
This "oh, deary deary dear" fretting and wringing of hands over the possibility that someone, somewhere may actually give us a real mean, hard look is a great way to win elections... for the other guy.
We're fighting a slavishly liberal-compliant mass media, and subhuman propagandists (Michael Moore, etc.) of every stripe and hue. Defeat in '04 means an immediate return to Clinton-era taxes, an extremist Supreme Court for the next quarter-century, and our complete and -- oh, yeah -- unconditional surrender in the War On Terror, as well.
This isn't France, and FReepers don't roll over and offer their bellies to the enemy. We only have twelve weeks left in which to save this country -- IS IT WORTH IT, OR ISN'T IT -- ?
I *think* you're right.
Sure hope so.
The saddest part of this is that if Kerry was a Republican the left wing press would have been all over the claims Kerry has made about his service record (and that would be perfectly OK). But since the presstitutes no longer report news but support leftist causes, it takes a paid ad to get this information out to the American people. And now Kerry is trying to suppress even the ad. THAT would be treated as as fascist tactic by the press if a Republican would have done it.
I'm not convinced this will do more harm to Kerry than to Bush. But the underlying problem is the dereliction of duty of the leftist press. They're scum.
I hope the story of that ad gets over quick and the ad doesn't run. This will backfire. Why would you keep reminding people of "Kerry's Strength". Use his record to attack him. These idiots are going to get Kerry elected. Take this money and mention his vote against body armour for our troops. This will be more effective.
Have LONG felt that 95% or more of their accusations were at least initially generated by
tons of guilt and projection from their own habitual SOP (Standard Operating Procedures).
Also when they mention Vietnam in should mention "we honor his 4 months of service in Vietnam." Remind people subtley it was only 4 months.
that's one of the thing I like about you..
you don't hold back.
Best FRegards,
Part of the problem
may be assuming that
traitorous, liberal, power grubbing, Marxist, globalist idiots
HAVE
cognitions
instead of electrical shorts along the synapses of their slug neurons.
IF the swifties are telling the truth, then it needs to be said. Let the chips fall where they may.
SKERRY'S A GREAT MANIPULATER OF SYSTEMS AND SOME types of individuals.
BILLDO is a great manipulator of the SHEEPLE masses. SKERRY IS NOT.
He does have some good mass manipulators on his side, though.
Kerry is just a front for the powers that be. Now, why he is a front is anybody's guess?
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