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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted on Sun, Aug. 15, 2004 On Kerry, news services play catch-up YVETTE WALKER READERS' REPRESENTATIVE Some of you think the paper isn't doing its job of covering Sen. John Kerry and the controversy surrounding his military record. Last week, readers called and wrote in, saying The Star hasn't covered critics' assertions that: 1) Kerry's claim of being in Cambodia on Christmas of 1968 was a lie; and that 2) One of the swift boat veterans says he was misquoted by the Boston Globe, and is still fully behind the anti-Kerry movement. True, The Star hadn't published either of...

Veteran attacks Kerry Chesterfield man is a force behind contentious TV ads questioning Vietnam claims BY TYLER WHITLEY TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Aug 15, 2004 Retired Rear Adm. Roy Francis Hoffmann picked up the phone in his Chesterfield County home this year and launched a movement to brand John F. Kerry a liar.... (below is an excerpt form article at the link....) Kerry called Hoffman in May and offered to expunge the negative comments about him when "Tour of Duty" came out in paperback form, Hoffmann said. He refused. Hoffmann joined the Navy in 1943 as an enlisted man, then went...

<p>This book is insanely great! PLEASE...Buy it, read it, and then post your review at Amazon and elsewhere on the net. All you have to do to realize that the enemies of truth are hadr at work is look at majority of the reviews already posted at Amazon on the page for Unfit for Command.</p>

NO listing of Unfit for Command on Amazon

I'm being told by a reliable source that Unfit for Command may debut as number one one the NYT bestseller list. However, I do have a few questions... 1) In what week will it debut? 2) Will the NYT now have to review the book? 3) Will this affect the ability of the media to ignore it? 4) If it has been #1 on amazon, BN, etc. for quite some time, why hasn't it already hit the list? You'll have to excuse my ignorance here, but I'm not really familiar with book list procedures at the NYT. P.S. Please don't...

"Unfit for Command": A Review Posted by McQ I’ve read “Unfit for Command”. That’s the easy part. Since then I’ve been struggling to find a way to explain why this is so important to many of us out here to those who don’t find it to be important.

I just went to the Amazon website and tried to find the list of best sellers. I couldn't find Unfit for Command on the list, although it has been no. 1 for several days. Is this more "hacking", or did I miss something?

PHILADELPHIA - (KRT) - A group of Vietnam veterans that is challenging Sen. John Kerry's claims of heroic war service says it received a flood of donations in recent days after advertising its contentions on television in three states. The group, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, said it hoped to use the money to monitor Kerry's campaign travels and run ads in cities where he appears. "That's our goal," said John E. O'Neill, a Houston attorney who's one of the group's leaders and co-author of "Unfit to Command," a 251-page book being distributed this week by the conservative Regnery Publishing...

An independent analysis of the reaction of independent voters from the Swiftvet television ads has been completed by Muhlenberg College and HCD Research and the results posted here. The study group consisted of 371 independent voters who self-described their political leanings thusly: Conservative: 4.31 % Somewhat conservative: 12.67% Moderate: 42.32% Somewhat liberal: 16.98% Liberal: 4.31% Unsure: 19.41% As people can see, the moderates in the middle plus the "unsure" dominate the mix, but the outliers seem tilted a bit towards liberals. More on that later. I won't get into the entire methodology -- after all, the report is on line...

A little more than three decades ago, a young man named John O'Neill served his nation aboard a swift boat in Vietnam. Today, the mild-mannered and eloquent attorney from Texas is serving his nation again. O'Neill and the book UNFIT FOR COMMAND have become the biggest nightmare in the Kerry campaign as the campaign tries to fool Americans into actually making a totally unqualified man the commander in chief. From James Carvile to Lanny Davis to the rest of the hacks in the liberal media, O'Neill is being pummeled as a stooge of President Bush. Let the word go forth...

Cal's a decent guy. It will be nice to see John O'Neill get treated with respect for a change.

FOUR major charges have been levelled against John Kerry by a group of Vietnam war veterans opposed to the Democratic presidential challenger. Charge One: Kerry is lying when he said he was sent, illegally, into Cambodia, on missions that made a mockery of official US claims that American forces were not in Cambodia, a neutral country. According to a forthcoming anti-Kerry book, Unfit for Command : "All the living commanders in Kerry's chain of command... indicate that Kerry would have been seriously disciplined or court-martialled had he gone" to Cambodia. Steven Gardner, the gunner's mate on Kerry's boat, has denied...

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When presidential candidate John Kerry virtually ignores 20 years in the U.S. Senate to make four months in Vietnam the centerpiece of his campaign, the men who served with him have a right to a fair hearing. The Kerry campaign and much of the mainstream media have been dismissive of the swift-boat veterans who oppose his candidacy. Even before exploring the substance of their charges, the group is dismissed as right-wing financed Bush puppets. The truth is, however, that while swift-boat veterans opposing Kerry undoubtedly have a political agenda -- they think him "Unfit for Command" of the armed forces,...

Unfit for Command still at #1 on both amazon and barnes and noble!

Unfit for Command is not listed on any of their best-selling book lists!

BARF ALERT: It's not even Labor Day, but we already know what will be the "seminal issue" of this election. No, it's not health care, education, jobs or the economy. It's not even the war in Iraq. snip It's John Kerry's combat record in Vietnam. That is now the No. 1 issue on cable television and rightwing talk radio, the subject of a new book, "Unfit for Command," and the target of an anti-Kerry commercial sponsored by a group calling itself Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. snip -- The Truth: Not one of the 13 men who claim they "served...

A Vietnam veteran with ties to San Antonio has entered a minefield of controversy with a new book that questions John Kerry's war record, his three Purple Hearts and his ability to lead the country. John O'Neill, a 1963 graduate of Central Catholic High School and a Houston lawyer, co-wrote "Unfit for Command," a scathing critique of Kerry's military service, which O'Neill says has been highly exaggerated and in some cases fabricated. "I think it's important the country have the facts about John Kerry so that they can reach a reasonable decision," O'Neill said recently. Among O'Neill's charges: that two...

During the better part of the last three years we have endured an endless series of offerings from the Bush-Haters-Book-of-the-Month Club. These volumes have overexerted titles and overly verbose subtitles like Big Lies: The Rightwing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth or Worse than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush. They contain very little unique information from one to the next. Most are petty; some are demonstrably fraudulent, such as Joe Wilson's The Politics of Truth. They are mostly written by people who are professionally distasteful of President Bush. All of them have been written by...

I can appreciate why people are turned off by dirty politics, by which I mean the unsubstantiated mudslinging against candidates designed to mislead and smear rather than inform. But I lament the level of cynicism to which we've descended that makes us turn a deaf ear to negativity that may well be true and relevant. I'm referring primarily to the public uproar surrounding the new book Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John F. Kerry, in which a group of swift boat officers who served alongside John Kerry in Vietnam tell a devastating story that, if true,...