Live Thread: Kerry to hold news conference at 2PM EST

10/31/2006 | NRO

[Pete]

The Corner is reporting that John Kerry will hold a news conference at 2PM to discuss his recent comment.

[melancholy]

If I were one of the kids listening to him, I'd rathe rbe stuck in Iraq than stuck in Teereezzzzzaaaa!

Wow, anytime! LOL

[Steve_Seattle]

"Chris Matthews opens by saying "republicans are jumping on a sentence Kerry made yesterday in California"

As if the Dems and the media don't jump all over every Republican gaffe.

[metesky]

Dufarge recognized your voice, then Howie called you by name.

Good job.

[oyez]

For Kerry, sometimes wish I could:

[BigSkyFreeper]

I heard on FOX News Radio on the bottom of the hour update say that at the conclusion of Kerry's statement that the White House demanded Kerry apologize instead of making stump speeches.

[kevkrom]

A source close to Kerry tells NBC News that he was trying to make a "tough and honest joke" about Bush and that in the process he omitted two words which changed the intended meaning. Per the source, Kerry meant to say that he can't "overstress the importance of a great education" and that "if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy... You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq." Kerry mistakenly dropped the "getting us" from his initial remarks.

All Kerry had to do was say that, apologize to the troops for accidentally insulting them, and he would have been fine. The fact that he didn't do those simple, sensible things says that he said exactly what he meant to say.

[SoCalPol]

Duncan unlike Frickin Kerry doesn't remind people he too is a VN war Vet. Army Ranger, Bronze star.

[Chena]

What just happened on Fox? Shep was doing that interview and all of a sudden, he was gone, and that gal (Bridgett) looked like she had jumped into her chair. The interview was abruptly interrupted.

[Lucky9teen]

That is good... LOL

[DrGunsforHands]

I'm just hoping he won't be the last DNC victim of Rove's mind control device.

[atomic conspiracy]

I wonder what Kerry and Madame Binh (VC negotiator) really said to each other back in '72.

Binh: Why did you shoot our boy in the back, you evil imperialist mercenary?
sKerry: Because he was a f***ing terrorist, you commie twit!
Binh: Not good enough, running dog of the Nixon hegemony.
sKerry: Hey, the kid was just a peasant!
Binh: Ah, I see now. Welcome comrade, we will work well together.

[piasa]

NEW: John Kerry aide says senator accidentally "mangled" Iraq statement

In Kerry's book that qualifies him for yet another Purple Heart.

[Timeout]

Any word yet whether Kerry's put himself in for a medal for this self-inflicted wound?!

[CougarGA7]

His "joke" was a disrace and told like they often are by these elitists. But on the plus side, the fall out has been hilarious. Maybe it was one of those delayed punchline jokes.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well now,...this is getting really good!

For a quick view this thread from the Hugh Hewitt Blog has this:

Return of the Kerry Magic!

I like the title.....

[Carolinamom]

HELP! As fast as I read, I am always 100 posts behind. LOL

[greyfoxx39]

Now stick your foot in it Nancy-boy

Wunnerful, just wunnerful!!

[onyx]

FNC cut him off --- cut both Hunter and Shepard -- they're back now.

[Grampa Dave]

As our DIL would say : eeeooowww!

[Cinnamon Girl]

"But I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time; never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people."

ACTUAL QUOTE: "Let me make it crystal clear. As crystal clear as I know how. I apologize to no one for my criticism of the president and his broken policy. If anyone owes our troops in the fields an apology, it's the president and his failed team and a Republican majority in the Congress that has been willing to stamp, rubber stamp, policies that have done injury to our troops and to their families. My statement yesterday, and the White House knows this full well, was a botched joke about the President, and about the President's people, not about the troops. The WH's attempt to distort my true statement is a remarkable testament to their abject failure in making America safe...... We're not going to stand for this... I'm not going to be lectured by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, who's taking of day off of mimicking and attacking Michael J. Fox, who's now going to try and attack me and lie about me and distort me, no way. It disgusts me that a bunch of Republican hacks, who never wore the uniform of our country, are willing to lie about those who did. It's over..."