Posted on 08/09/2004 6:42:04 AM PDT by gilliam
Monday, August 9, 2004
7:40 am: Former Kerry crew member Steve Gardner will appear on WOR radio in New York.
8:40 pm: Steve Gardner will appear on the Kevin Miller Show (talk radio, WPTF).
11:00 am: Steve Gardner will appear on Battle Line with Alan Nathan (talk radio, national).
8:00 pm: Steve Gardner will appear on the Bill O'Reilly Show (Fox News cable TV, national).
9:00 pm: John O'Neill will appear on the Hannity & Colmes (Fox News cable TV, national).
---------- Wednesday, August 11, 2004
8:05 am: Steve Gardner will appear on the Brad Crantz Show (talk radio, Burlington, NC).
NOW, O'Reilly has them on...after judging them harshly and dismissing the ad!!! That burns me up that he did that without even knowing any facts whatsoever!
DAVID BROCK GOES AFTER KERRY BOOK AUTHOR [08/09 08:43 AM]
NRO readers may or may not be familiar with David Brock's new outfit, Media Matters, which describes itself, "a Web-based, not-for-profit progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media." Basically, they complain that conservatives are expressing conservative opinion, all over the airwaves.
Anyway, they've used the DNC's Brown Book material on Jerome Corsi, co-author of the new book slamming Kerry's Vietnam record with John O'Neill. Brace yourself, it turns out Corsi has strong, four-letter-word-strewn opinions about Islam, the pedophilia scandals in the Catholic Church, Hillary Clinton, referred to Janet Reno as "Janet Rhino" and called Katie Couric "Little Katie Communist." There are worse examples, like when he called Chelsea Clinton names, or hoped for a plane to hit the set of the West Wing.
But basically Media Matters "uncovers" that Corsi's got strong opinions and has called people names in the past.
And I'm sure these comments will essentially designate him a "nut" in most of the nation's newsrooms. Of course, are these comments any worse than comparing terrorist Abu Zarqawi to America's founding fathers, as Michael Moore did? Some nutty views are greeted by the press with a shake of the head and a lament, "oh, that wacky Michael!" And then there are those that get you ignored.
USA TODAY TIDBITS [08/09 08:28 AM]
USA Today writes about Swift Boat Veterans for truth, and uncovers these nuggets:
Retired Army general Tommy Franks, who commanded U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, told ABC's This Week on Sunday that Kerry is "absolutely" qualified to be commander in chief...
The group's chairman and founder, retired rear admiral Roy Hoffmann, says the veterans were angered after reading historian Douglas Brinkley's book about Kerry's service, Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War. Hoffman says the biography is "replete with gross exaggerations, distortions of fact and outright lies."
As for waiting until a news conference this May to come forward, Hoffmann says, "When (Kerry) was in Massachusetts, that was Massachusetts' problem." Things changed, he says, "when he announced his candidacy to be the commander in chief."
Brinkley accuses the group of "a smear campaign." He interviewed at least seven of the men, some of whom he portrays harshly. Hoffmann, the Navy's top swift boat commander in Vietnam, is described in the book as "blood-thirsty" and "egomaniacal."
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Lt. Jim Rassmann, the man who Kerry pulled out of the river, is the first to use the magic words, attributing the ad to "the Republican slime machine." And USA Today provides less context than the Kerry Spot in their assessment of the medical report:
Louis Letson, a doctor who says he treated Kerry. He says Kerry didn't deserve his first Purple Heart because he "inadvertently wounded himself" and "there was no hostile fire." Medical records, however, note that Kerry was treated for shrapnel by J.C. Carreon, not Letson. Bill Zaladonis, who was on Kerry's boat at the time, says the men believed they were shooting at Viet Cong.
FactCheck.org, a non-partisan group that monitors political ads, says Letson's story is "based on hearsay, and disputed hearsay at that." It concludes, "There is reason to doubt" the Swift Boat Veterans' ad because of its funding and because of the discrepancies in memory between Kerry's defenders and attackers.
They don't even mention Letson's claim that Carreon was his hospitalman at the time.
DNC HITTING BACK AGAINST SWIFT BOAT VETS [08/09 08:21 AM]
CrushKerry.com reports that the "Democrat National Committee has prepared a full-scale assault against the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth to draw their character and veracity into question, according to one anonymous source inside the DNC... “We have prepared what we call ‘Brown Books’ that contain damaging military records, personal credit histories, medical histories, psychiatric histories, divorce records, you name it,” our source told us. "We've got the goods on the Veterans who oppose Kerry."
On the one hand, this is predictable. On the other hand... all 250 of these guys have bad credit reports or divorce records that suggest they're liars?
UPDATE: Instapundit concludes, "if people start dishing dirt about these guys instead of offering factual refutations, it will pretty much serve as an admission that the charges are true."
bump for Gardner and O'Neil.
On balance, we won the weekend on this issue. The Kerry people must be apoplectic.
Before the DNC assault, the vets should move on to phase II with a new commercial -- the anti-war record of John Kerry. It's irrefutable.
Good to see Fox isn't following the lamestram lead in ignoring this story. If this was about Buah, it would lead every nightly news broadcast for the next month.
Maybe people should email the other networks?
He's a FReeper? ;-)
9:00 pm: John O'Neill will appear on the Hannity & Colmes (Fox News cable TV, national).
Excellent, will be watching.
That was the first thing I looked for in this line-up. Plus I believe Gardner was ON the boat with Kerry.
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!!
Yes, he IS.
Good -- he's a natural! (Does he share his screen name?)
I believe Leston was the only Doctor at the facility, so Carreon might have treaty Kerry but Leston was the Doctor in charge and this isn't hearsay as the "nonpartisan group" Factcheck.org alleges.
His screen name is his initials. Obviously "j" and "c" but there are one or two middle initials that I'm not sure of off the top of my head so can't give you the exact screenname. But I do know he's a Freeper!
I think this was the guy who was ON the boat with Kerry over Christmas.
Prediction: O'Reilly will NOT be sympathetic to Gardner.
Monday, August 9, 2004
8:00 pm: Steve Gardner will appear on the Bill O'Reilly Show (Fox News cable TV, national).
9:00 pm: John O'Neill will appear on the Hannity & Colmes (Fox News cable TV, national).
and even better, tomorrow, when the Dems attempt their counter attack, all anyone will be discussing on the cable nets will be Amber Frey's appearance in court..
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