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| Brinkley inches away from Kerry |
| 2004-09-05 |
| Hat tip to Hindrocket @ Power Line Interview with Steve Malzberg of NewsMax.com Sen. John Kerry's campaign biographer Douglas Brinkley said Sunday that if an ongoing Navy investigation into Kerry's military decorations turns up evidence of "purposeful" deception, it could spell doom for the top Democrat's White House bid. Praising reporter Thomas Lipscomb, who broke news of the Navy investigation on Friday, Brinkley told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg, "Journalists are going to have to see whether there's a discrepancy on [the citations posted to Kerry's] Web site - whether there's something wrong that's said there or not. If so,....Kerry would have to fix it immediately - and it does raise some questions as to why that would happen. Is it sloppiness, is it purposeful intent, is there an easy explanation for it?" Brinkley, "Tour of Duty" author,wondered. Doug don't hold your breath waiting for the partisan media to look for something wrong with their candidate. He said that while questions raised by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth about Kerry's war record have been very damaging, "so far they haven't been lethal." But Brinkley predicted that a discrepancy with Kerry's medals could seriously escalate his political problems. Asked if inconsistencies uncovered by the Navy probe could be the "death knell" for Kerry's campaign, Brinkley told Malzberg, "It could." In the next breath he hastened to add, however: "Right now it's unclear. So we have to just wait to see what all this adds up to." (Sidles off to stage right.) The presidential historian called on Kerry to authorize the release of his full military file, saying, "Clearly some of these military records should be made available to the press." Problem is that only some of the records have been made available. Carefully selected to put Kerry in the best possible light. |
| Posted by:GK |
| #5 CL - Lol! Sorry, let me clarify myself: If Skeery falls, Brinkley falls - in the eyes of honest people. Damn! Such imprecision! Thx for the head-up! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-09-05 11:47:28 PM |
| #4 It's a bit dated, but here's a little background on our esteemed historian. http://slate.msn.com/id/32362/ He sounds like a beautiful people groupie who thought his ship (or swift boat) came in when he latched onto Kerry. Looks like your ship is taking on water, bub. And lots of it. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-09-05 11:46:16 PM |
| #3 If Skeery falls, Brinkley falls. Nonsense. That will just tee him up to do the Lumpy Riefenstahl hagiography. |
| Posted by: Classical_Liberal 2004-09-05 11:43:29 PM |
| #2 Brinkley has been "in" on the game from the beginning. I'm sure that he's as unhappy as he can be that anyone who has access to the data, full access like HE has had for along long time now, is going to look into Skeery's records - especially if a neutral party which can't be coerced. Brinkley's reputation is shit if this turns out badly for Skeery - he's had the whole show, all of Skeery's records, in his lap for over 2 years (???) in order to do the jerk-off faux love-in biography of Sentor Traitor. I'd bet he'd love to strangle the SBVT men, Lipscomb, half a dozen Pub strategists, and the entire Pentagon records dept right about now - or disappear into a cave. If Skeery falls, Brinkley falls. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-09-05 11:40:39 PM |
| #1 The fact that his "official biographer" is open to the idea that something is amiss means something must have reach a pretty high level. He knows more than he is saying. I think this might be a smoking gun that'll put a vice on the Dems. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-05 11:32:05 PM |