ANTI-KERRY VETS HANG TOUGH

Drudge Report ^ | Fri Aug 06 2004 13:37:12 ET

[Brian Mosely]

The following statement from Swift Boat Veterans for Truth concerns an article appearing in morning edition of the Boston Globe:

"Viet Vet Captain George Elliott describes an article appearing in today’s edition of the Boston Globe by Mike Kranish as extremely inaccurate and highly misstating his actual views. He reaffirms his statement in the current advertisement paid for by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Captain Elliott reaffirms his affidavit in support of that advertisement, and he reaffirms his request that he ad be played.

“Additional documentation will follow.

The article by Mr. Kranish is particularly surprising given page 102 of Mr. Kranish’s own book quoting John Kerry as acknowledging that he killed a single, wounded, fleeing Viet Cong soldier whom he was afraid would turn around.

“Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has more than 250 supporters who are revealing first hand, eyewitness accounts of numerous incidents concerning John Kerry’s military service record. The organization will continue to discuss much of what John Kerry has reported as fact concerning his four-month tour of duty in Vietnam.”

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[jimbo123]

http://www.drudgereport.com/dnc89.htm

BOSTON GLOBE 'REPORTER' PAID TO WRITE CAMPAIGN BOOK FORWARD WHILE COVERING KERRY

Contact Boston Globe Ombudsman for filing ethic complaints against Mike Kranish:

Phone 617-929-3020 or, to leave a message, 929-3022. E-mail: ombud@globe.com

[hobbes1]

Someone needs to confront McAnus with his statement s circa 1973, vis-a-vis Kerry.

But after he was released from the Hanoi Hilton in 1973, McCain publicly complained that testimony by Kerry and others before J. William Fulbright's Senate Foreign Relations Committee was "the most effective propaganda [my North Vietnamese captors] had to use against us."

"They used Senator Fulbright a great deal," McCain wrote in the May 14, 1973, issue of U.S. News & World Report. While he was languishing in a North Vietnamese prison cell, Kerry was telling the Fulbright committee that U.S. soldiers were committing war crimes in Vietnam as a matter of course.

Sen. Ted Kennedy, a key Kerry presidential backer, was "quoted again and again" by jailers at the Hanoi Hilton, McCain said.

[longtermmemmory]

His past and present show a consistent anti-american bent.

Kerry has been a tool easily manipulated and weak.

This is his Dick Cavett debat with O'Neil of the swift vets

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1186437/posts?page=3

The media is protecting one of their own LITERALLY. Druggie hippies for druggie hippies.

[pepperhead]

Rush just mentioned this reporter is writing a book or something like that for the Kerry Campaign

That might leave a mark. Hope the lefties keep stirring the pot.

[windchime]

Bump!

[barryallen]

the Boston globe making a misstatement?? i dont believe it for a second (sarcasm)

[Destro]

Is there a more rleiable source out there than Drudge to counter the Globe's claim? Or will this also blow up in the face if he said what he said on tape.

[ex-snook]

"The General paused. His eagle like eyes swept over the hillside. He said with pride, "There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great World War II, you WON'T have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, "Well, your Granddaddy shoveled shit in Louisiana." No, Sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say, "Son, your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son-of-a-Goddamned-Bitch named Georgie Patton!"

And a salute to all who served in Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait and Iraq did not shovel sh't somewhere.

There is plenty reason to whack Kerry for what he did when he returned. However he was in uniform, he was at the front, he risked his life and he was lucky the near misses didn't get him in the head or blow his limbs off. Criticism for front line service is pretty thin political gruel.

[OXENinFLA]

< asbestos hat,jacket,pants,socks,gloves>

[cake_crumb]

"How many people here suspect Lt. Elliott played that lefty reporter like a grand piano?"

The thought did run through my mind. The Dems are stupid enough to assume politcs with a little payback, rather than pure payback. Kerry deserves everything he gets...and more.

[Toespi]

In trying to go to the Swift Boat Vets web page to get an address for a contribution, I used the following web addresses:

www.swiftboatvets.com and www.swiftboatvets.org

Both of them took me to Salon.com/Joe Conason/s article. Why did this happen?

[Eva]

Rush just said that he just got word that the Krainish book , Kerry Edwards will not be published. It has been withdrawn by the publisher.

[abnegation]

This is the correct one:
http://www.swiftvets.com/

[Right Wing Professor]

Here's something interesting. The publidher's web page for Kerry-Edwards deosn't mention Micahel Kranish. But he is prominently named in the google cache .

I'm sure, of course, there's a perfectly innocent explanation. Snicker.

[timpad]

www.swiftvets.com

The other URL's have been hijacked by Salon.

[laurenmarlowe]

Thanks for the ping Tonk.

[pepperhead]

If McCain is smart .. he'll stay out of this

McCain isn't smart. The media will be looking for him and he will jump in front of the camera and run his mouth like he always does.

[Toespi]

Can they do that?

[Petronski]

This has now become a Kerry campaign effort to snuff-out the swift vets' story.

[stylin_geek]

The press is not supposed to be on anyones side. Unfortunately, MSM is blatant in its bias towards Sen. Kerry.