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*****HUMAN EVENTS FIRST-RUN EXCLUSIVE*****: POWs Join Swift Boat Vets in Criticism of Kerry
Human Events Online ^ | August 20, 2004 | Human Events

Posted on 08/20/2004 7:08:59 AM PDT by hinterlander

Edited on 08/20/2004 7:30:57 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Here's the newest ad from the Swifties.

* Moderator note. For those using Firefox browser, you may need to use this link to see the ad

http://a1281.v125028.c12502.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1281/12502/v0001/eaglepub.download.akamai.com/12502/sellout.wmv


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ad; ads; election; goodbyekerry; humanevents; kerry; pow; swift; swiftboatveterans; swifties; thepartysoverso; turnoutthelights; veterans; vietnam
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To: CedarDave

Thank you for your service.


461 posted on 08/20/2004 9:08:08 AM PDT by RightWingMama
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To: angelrod

Rush is going to have O'Neill on. Yay!


462 posted on 08/20/2004 9:08:08 AM PDT by abnegation (If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness TR)
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To: doug from upland
While I was unable to serve in the military, I watched how good servicemen were treated during that time.

I lived during the time where I saw the returning Vietnam vets, honorable men, brave decorated men get spit on, slandered, accused of all manner of crap. Nothing can forgive those vermin and all their ilk for what they did. I just hope and pray they receive tenfold the humiliation and contempt they dished out.

I believe it is an American attribute, even a basic human attribute that we don't take kindly to those who cannot (or should not have to) defend themselves being treated shamefully and abused horribly.

While I did not serve, I felt most deeply the insult that was heaped upon our military personnel for honorable service in an honorable endeavor. We should have won that damn war and easily would have were it not for the socialist scum media and their syncophants in this country telling nothing but lies about the war in Vietnam.

463 posted on 08/20/2004 9:08:28 AM PDT by el_texicano (Liberals are the real Mind-Numbed Robots - No Brains, No Guts, No Character...Just hate)
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To: Dems_R_Losers
This may be the single most devastating TV ad in political history

I believe that posterity will remember it as such

464 posted on 08/20/2004 9:09:00 AM PDT by BSunday
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To: hinterlander

Perfect let's see the left wing dump on these guys


465 posted on 08/20/2004 9:09:53 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: Chad Fairbanks

Wow.


466 posted on 08/20/2004 9:10:20 AM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Some of my best friends are white, middle-class males.)
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To: ican'tbelieveit

You're right. I don't know if McCain did this deliberately (and kudos to him if he did), but his "complaints" about the first ad gave it far more coverage than it would have otherwise received.


467 posted on 08/20/2004 9:10:35 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium . . . sed ego sum homo indomitus")
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To: FreeAtlanta
In the business world, it's called "stress puppy".

I thought it was called adrenaline addiction. My brother had it. It made me insane when we worked together. I believe that prepartion off the field is the key to winning on the field. He liked to do just the opposite.

In any event, WE'RE DOOMED (from the Fed Ex commercial)

468 posted on 08/20/2004 9:10:53 AM PDT by staytrue
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To: hinterlander

This is a thing of beauty. Bravo to these men for standing up for themselves.


469 posted on 08/20/2004 9:11:03 AM PDT by dbwz (CAN THE BAN!)
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To: hinterlander
I have the full text of the ad on my site:

FULL TEXT



Patriot Paradox

470 posted on 08/20/2004 9:11:09 AM PDT by sonsofliberty2000 ("If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." Thomas Paine)
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To: TexasNative2000
Kerry is toast and his own words are doing the damage.

I agree absolutely with that. Kerry himself has said recently that he finds his own Senate testimony in 1971 to be "over the top" and that he is uncomfortable hearing it. I hope he hears it again and again and again...

471 posted on 08/20/2004 9:11:21 AM PDT by T. Buzzard Trueblood ("You bet we might have." John Kerry on whether he would have gone to war in Iraq)
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To: hinterlander
Kerry - "Bring it on!"

Swiftvets - "Oh, it's already been brung!"

472 posted on 08/20/2004 9:11:51 AM PDT by BSunday
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To: adam_az
I'm sure a number of researchers have those quotes available at a moment's notice. McCain needs to be careful what he steps in here.

I lived in Phoenix for about 14 years, so I know a little bit about having McCain represent me. I assume the az in your screen name menas you're in Arizona.

473 posted on 08/20/2004 9:12:05 AM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: abnegation

Rush is having Michelle Malkin on at 1 Eastern today. John O'Neill will be on on Monday at 1 Eastern.


474 posted on 08/20/2004 9:13:06 AM PDT by jackbill
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To: mattdono

Not a problem. I totally understand why you chose that pic. It perfectly illustrates his gestures.


475 posted on 08/20/2004 9:13:36 AM PDT by SuzanneC
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To: angelrod
I too stand in awe. These guys are responsible for one of the most devastating political ads in history. It has to be going much better than they could possibly have hoped for. Awesome!

I could only listen to it -- and that was enough. This is a masterful ad -- JF'nK's own voice, and the real (torture!!) effects it had on these guys. If NOTHING else, these guys have just made JF'nK's "war record" talk a club to use against him.

I think this may well cement the in the public's mind the impression that John Kerry is in fact a shameless hypocrite.

476 posted on 08/20/2004 9:13:36 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: JFC
is this other site a fraud?
http://swiftboats.net/

It may or may not be a fraud but, in either case, it is riddled with inaccuracies.

It shows kerry as having been on PCF-66 for his entire time there. He wasn't. It doesn't list him as being on PCF-44 or PCF-94. He was.

Whether these are deliberate errors or innocent ones doesn't matter -- the site is a totally unreliable source of information.

477 posted on 08/20/2004 9:13:38 AM PDT by Bob
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Rasmussen is supposed to start polling on this specifically to find out people's opinions of sKerry's Vietnam Service and their opinion of the Swiftvets. Stay tuned, this stuff is going to start showing up big time in the polling next week. I can't wait to see how the Sunday Screaming Face Shows handle this. They have some critical editorial decisions to make. How much in the tank for Kerry they are will be shown this week. They know it. There is no more wiggle room.


478 posted on 08/20/2004 9:14:59 AM PDT by jayef
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To: sonsofliberty2000

It rocks!!! The ad is powerful whether you read it or view it. The POWs are what make it work. You can't call them all liars since they lived through the torture and whatnot and thanks to Kerry and his ilk, the reception of an ungrateful nation that spat on them and dishonored their sacrifices. Its time to set the record straight.


479 posted on 08/20/2004 9:15:48 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: finnigan2; Chaguito
"Kerry will fall back on his "Unfortunate youthful over enthusiasm."

Kerry's already made his statement on this:

Boston Herald - Aug 7 2004:

Sen. John F. Kerry [related, bio] expressed pride in his 1970s antiwar activism yesterday as controversy continued to swirl over a TV ad accusing him of betraying his fellow veterans when he protested the Vietnam war.

``I stood up against the war in the 1970s,'' Kerry said. ``Some people still don't like that, and they're still trying to fight that. That's 35 years old. But I'm proud of what I did to stand up. And I learned a lot.''

480 posted on 08/20/2004 9:16:16 AM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
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