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Kerry Spokesman Sets Limbaugh Straight on Swiftboat Smears (Classy mouthpiece, Jean-Francois)
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Posted on 11/12/2007 9:09:43 AM PST by Sub-Driver

11/09/2007 Kerry Spokesman Sets Limbaugh Straight on Swiftboat Smears

WASHINGTON D.C. – Kerry spokesman David Wade issued the following statement today in response to Rush Limbaugh, who said on his radio show that Kerry’s Swift Boat attackers in 2004, “were right on the money and nobody has disproven anything they claimed in any of their ads, statements, written commentaries, or anything of the sort.”

“At first I thought, that’s not Rush, that’s just the OxyContin talking. Nonetheless, this is a despicable but unsurprising new lie from a man whose closest brush with combat came when customs officials tried to take away his Viagra. This portly peddler of hate is once again wrong on the facts. John Kerry served his country with honor in Vietnam, and has fought for his fellow veterans ever since. The lies and smears of the Swift Boat Veterans for Bush were disproved conclusively in 2004 by the men who fought by John Kerry’s side in Vietnam, by the military’s own records, by investigative journalists, and by the incredible contradictions that exposed these right wing smear artists. It is long past time that we end the politics of fear and smear that we have seen used against decorated veterans from John McCain to Max Cleland and John Kerry. Rush Limbaugh’s ignorance and determination to divide Americans is just another reminder that you can’t spell ‘Rush Limbaugh’ without the letters L-I-A-R.”

The watchdog group Media Matters has provided an excellent fact check of the Limbaugh smear, proving once again that when it comes to slandering veterans, the right wing is wrong. The fact check can be found at: (http://mediamatters.org/items/200711090008?f=h_latest)


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To: neodad

You can’t spell John Kerry without “J-O”.


321 posted on 11/13/2007 6:19:04 AM PST by steve8714 (When full-out jihad hits Europe they'll all want dollars.)
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To: abercrombie_guy_38

Why has Kerry not released his medical records like he said he would? Let Max Cleland produce his records as to how he was wounded. People like Kerry and Cleland have done more harm to deserving veterans than the press.


322 posted on 11/13/2007 6:21:22 AM PST by gunnedah
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To: DustyMoment

I’m sorry if my response was confusing. The things that Kerry said about those serving in Viet Nam were horrible. He deserves to rot in hell for what he did to those still serving. He saw a way to get publicity, and he took it, his comrades in arms be damned.

But, I’m talking about the reasons for his original discharge, which he won’t release. I’ve always understood that it was less than honorable because he was meeting with the enemy, which I’ve also understood to be treason. But, until he releases those records, the nature of his original discharge and the reasons for it are speculation.


323 posted on 11/13/2007 6:35:13 AM PST by lady lawyer
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To: Sub-Driver

The Sperm needs to sign his SF-180
324 posted on 11/13/2007 6:56:08 AM PST by xtinct (I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
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To: lady lawyer
I’ve always understood that it was less than honorable because he was meeting with the enemy, which I’ve also understood to be treason. But, until he releases those records, the nature of his original discharge and the reasons for it are speculation.

Point well made and accepted. Can you tell that this is a hot button issue for me?? :-)

325 posted on 11/13/2007 7:52:13 AM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: colorado tanker

Well said,

Thanks for your service,
and welcome back from ‘silence’!


326 posted on 11/13/2007 7:53:44 AM PST by CRBDeuce (an armed society is a polite society)
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To: bray

“The bigger fraud the Swifties have exposed once again, is that we have lost an objective press that is searching for the Truth. In actuality polls have shown that 95% of the press is going to vote/campaign for Kerry. These are very active participants in the electoral process and are working to get their nominee elected. The Swifties have shown that they will censor anything critical of Kerry no matter how well researched or number of eyewitnesses to these charges.”

Great observation, that is the bigger picture and debt we all owe the Swifties. That will survive long after Kerry is dead, buried, and grave pi$$ed. But ‘the media still censors anything crical of Kerry’/Klinton/kommies everywhere! Hopefully that will end eventually as the dinosaur media submerges into their tarpits!


327 posted on 11/13/2007 8:02:03 AM PST by CRBDeuce (an armed society is a polite society)
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To: kcvl

Thanks for both posts.


328 posted on 11/13/2007 8:10:18 AM PST by DBrow
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To: neodad

Just like you cannot spell John Kerry with out spelling J-O-K-E-R


329 posted on 11/13/2007 8:53:02 AM PST by JoanneSD (illegals represented without taxation.. Americans taxed without representation)
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To: DustyMoment

“Can you tell that this is a hot button issue for me?? :-)”

Yes. And rightly so.


330 posted on 11/13/2007 9:02:15 AM PST by lady lawyer
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To: Sub-Driver

I am so tired of these leftist liars, John Kerry is a liar and lives on the money of a dead Republican, Senator Heinz. Why is all this crap coming back now, is he peeing his pants to try another run at the Whitehouse? Who is this little stooge, David Wade? What is Wade’s educational background, where and when did he slide out of the DemocRAT slime to make these pathetic accusations? Enough of these weak and poisonous little people, just remember the picture of JFK running down the steps after the attacks of 9/11? He was the first person down those steps, he brought no one with him he was in a panic and that sight is burned into America’s history. I never saw that film again, it was buried the same way his records have been and his cowardly actions have been hidden or covered up by the communist media. Heaven help the truth when it comes from the mouths of America haters and grifters. Thoroughly despicable people!


331 posted on 11/13/2007 4:00:14 PM PST by Rockiette (Democrats are not intelligent)
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To: Rockiette

Wade is to Kerry as Joseph Goebbels was to Hitler. Clear enough.

Wade is a little S**T, all mouth and no brain. He was the one who said that Kerry was in Cambodia in Christmas, 1969 after everyone else backed off of that claim.

Kerry claimed he was fired on by the So. Vietnamese, VC, Cambodians, and Santa. It gets very dark on the rivers of Vietnam and Cambodia at night. If you were to get shot at, you wouldn’t know who was doing it, and I doubt if you would stand up and ask your killers to identify themselves.

“Oh, American sailor. This is Monica shooting at you. Is that your gun or are you just happy to see me?

I once stood on the ramparts of a So. Vietnamese fort in the Mekong Delta, and despite the stars, I couldn’t see three feet beyond where I was.

Damn, Kerry must have good eyes! And he must have seen the US picket boats strung along the Mekong River to keep idiots like him from straying across into Cambodia, n’est pas?

Hopefully there will be some new information coming out within the next few months about Kerry’s supporters that will blow the crap out of some of his/their stories. Let’s say that honesty was not the hallmark of the Kerry For President Campaign.

If we put some of them under a lie-detector, they would break the machine.

Max Friedman, researcher, “Unfit for Command”, 2004, and Vietnam journalist, Fall 1970.


332 posted on 11/13/2007 5:27:25 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Madmax, the Grinning Reaper)
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To: Sub-Driver

Kerry served in Vietnam?

Wow. Who knew..?


333 posted on 11/13/2007 7:12:23 PM PST by pigsmith (Viewing life as a gift from God, I tend to regard self-defense more as an obligation.)
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To: Da Coyote

“Perhaps one should ask a marine which person he/she respects...Kerry the clown, or Limbaugh the magnificent. (As for the drugs, seems he did far better on drugs than Kerry could do when sober”

Was Kerry sober?


334 posted on 11/14/2007 10:37:58 AM PST by John Galt's cousin ("Innocent until proven guilty" is more correctly phrased: "Innocent UNLESS proven guilty.")
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To: RDTF

they look like they each got caught with a laptop full of child porn.


335 posted on 11/14/2007 10:56:10 AM PST by Armedanddangerous (Chuin, Master of Sinanju (emeritus))
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To: Sub-Driver

A nice little anagram for John Kerry is “Jerky Horn”


336 posted on 11/14/2007 3:09:16 PM PST by KStorm (I suffer from occasional memory lapses. I suffer from occasional memory lapses, too.)
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To: Sub-Driver

The “media matters fact check” has absolutely no useful information. Doesn’t even address Kerry’s claim about Cambodia.

There is a reason Kerry has never authorized the release of all of his military records. I can’t believe no one has ever asked him why his discharge is dated 20 years after he got out of the Navy.


337 posted on 11/14/2007 5:30:40 PM PST by NavVet (O)
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To: abercrombie_guy_38
"Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does."
-Whittaker Chambers
338 posted on 11/15/2007 4:25:25 PM PST by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: Sub-Driver

I read the Media Matters link, and none of thier talking points disprove a single allegation of the Swift Boaters.


339 posted on 11/16/2007 4:47:55 AM PST by Homer1
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To: CT
Kerry was cashiered from the Naval Reserve for his antiwar activities and for consorting with the North Viets. That is a fact. The despicable Jimmy Carter upgraded his discharge. Kerry is nothing but a lying, slandering bum, and that goes for all of his defenders. Why the Bay Staters keep re-electing this clown and the Senior Blimp is testament to the sorry state of America's political maturity.
340 posted on 11/17/2007 2:50:54 PM PST by attiladhun2 (Islam is a despotism so vile that it would warm the heart of Orwell's Big Brother)
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