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2004-04-23 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-04-23 8:22:55 AM|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The left-leaning media will favor their candidate up to a point, but once they get the feeling he's a lemon, they stop showing any mercy. I have to wonder if they're reaching that point with Kerry.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-04-23 9:11:24 AM|| 2004-04-23 9:11:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Dave, They dont have anyone else.... They placed all their eggs in one basket -- a basket with several holes in it.

I wonder what other 'mistakes' there are in his posted records...

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-04-23 9:20:35 AM|| 2004-04-23 9:20:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 My fellow Americans. The Republican attack machine has once again shown how low they will go to discredit me and my glorious service to our country. I was on the boat before I wasn't on the boat. Have I told you lately that I was in Vietnam.

Posted by Bill Nelson 2004-04-23 9:35:42 AM|| 2004-04-23 9:35:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 You stoopid Republicans are always questioning Kerry's patriotism. Get over it. Can't you see there ARE NO LIES here.

The email is correct. Kerry's BOAT and members of Kerry's CREW were involved in this action. They never said Kerry was involved.

Your so-called "lies: are actually the truth and there is no need for the Kerry campaign to correct the propaganda effect that they have already taken to the bank over this "so-called" "mistake". Only people who read the Boston Globe or fair minded blogs will ever read about this.

Bwahhahaaahahahahaaaa.

Posted by B 2004-04-23 11:11:46 AM|| 2004-04-23 11:11:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 This makes sense. He threw someone else's medals away during a protest. As Stan Marsh would say, he's an @ss spelunker.

Posted by Tibor 2004-04-23 11:58:36 AM|| 2004-04-23 11:58:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh ya did I say Ketchup John's activities after the war were treasonous too? Patriotism=Opportunism for Hanoi John. Those "hearings" in 71 showed what is really made of. The book, Winter Soldier that he co-authored shows an American Flag upside down and an insulting mockery of Iwo Jima. YA man vote for Kerry. What a hero. LMAO....

Posted by Bill Nelson 2004-04-23 12:00:31 PM|| 2004-04-23 12:00:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 B - hard to tell where you stand - either you being funny or your an idiot..

doesn't matter what the e-mail said - it's all in the symantics of the wording. it is written to lead the reader to believe skerry was there. this guy is a true phony. i really do not know why he is pushing the service issue - he has nothing to stand on.

and remember it was democratic badgering of Bush and his record (which was made totally public - not from some hq in some piss water town only!)which will cause the Rebublican machine into action. is it fair for one candidate to have show the money and not the other? the dems dug their own hole on this one.

Posted by Dan 2004-04-23 12:04:37 PM|| 2004-04-23 12:04:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Kozlowski-Instead of looking like his hero on PT-109, Kerry's looking more like the skipper of PT-73.

LtCdr Quintin McHale should not be compared to Kerry. He had a crew of oddballs, but remember, he was an effective warrior. It was his commanding officer, Binghampton, who was the idiot.

Posted by Anonymous4052 2004-04-23 12:20:13 PM|| 2004-04-23 12:20:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Correction : I stated "The book, Winter Soldier that he co-authored shows an American Flag upside down and an insulting mockery of Iwo Jima. YA man vote for Kerry."

Should have been The New Soldier

Posted by Bill Nelson 2004-04-23 12:52:25 PM|| 2004-04-23 12:52:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Dan...I was trying to be funny, but I guess that it doesn't preclude me from being both :-)

Posted by B 2004-04-23 12:58:06 PM|| 2004-04-23 12:58:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Instead of looking like his hero on PT-109, Kerry's looking more like the skipper of PT-73
I keep getting these two mixed up anyway myself...

Question: Is the Kerry campain only posting records which show SKerry in a 'positive' light? or all his records? Seems like they are being 'filtered' if not outright 'forged' to me.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-04-23 1:16:54 PM|| 2004-04-23 1:16:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Crazy Fool - I think the Kerry campain thinks they understand that they can manipulate the information that they put out. Probably in the years before the blogs, they could. The press would have printed the reports about the heroism of Kerry's "boat" and "crew" and would never have mentioned that Kerry wasn't present unless it appeared as a small correction in the last paragraph or an article titled, "Kerry's Patriotism Questioned by GOP".

There is an article on Drudge today about the NYT mis-lableing a photo under the Senate hopeful, Mr. Coors. Under his photo, they ran a caption labeling him a KKK murderer. I don't know, it's probably a mistake....but these days you have to wonder.

In the old days, the propaganda effect of that would have been useful as it would have fooled a certain percentage of the people who would have just been left with a vague, negative impression of the Coors candidate. Most people don't really pay attention to these things.

I say Kerry thinks he can manipulate, because it all seems to be backfiring on him. It's MHO, that they aren't used to the power of the computer and the blogs and haven't yet adjusted their tactics accordingly.

When it comes to the propaganda - these guys are living in the 20th Century, instead of the 21st. IMHO they won't be able to get with the program, as so much of their world is dependent on the old way of doing things. They never really bothered to get in touch with their voters, they just tried to manipulate them with the news media. I just think that's going to be a lot harder to do in the future and I don't think they grasp that yet.

Posted by B 2004-04-23 1:49:00 PM|| 2004-04-23 1:49:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 B i am also both :)

Posted by Dan 2004-04-23 2:18:04 PM|| 2004-04-23 2:18:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 One member of ~~Kerry's~~ Peck's crew -- Forward Gunner David Alston -- suffered shrapnel wounds in his head. His injuries were not considered serious and he was sent to the 29th Evac Hospital at Binh Thuy. So for 'not serious' wounds you get med evaced. That raises two questions: Did Alston get a Purple Heart for his head wound? If Kerry's wound was so serious as to rate a Purple Heart why was he just treated on site by a corpsman?

Posted by GK 2004-04-23 2:39:32 PM|| 2004-04-23 2:39:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 head wounds to non-essential personnel (i.e.: other than JF'nK) are inconsequential, and not worthy of a medal deservedly ~~self-~~awarded by his nibs

Posted by Frank G 2004-04-23 2:55:32 PM|| 2004-04-23 2:55:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 You know, I bet that guy probably did get a purple heart...but if he did not - then this little scrape of Kerry's is finally going to draw enough blood that he will truly have earned that purple heart.

Posted by B 2004-04-23 3:14:16 PM|| 2004-04-23 3:14:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#17

Posted by Anonymous 2004-04-23 5:44:55 PM|| 2004-04-23 5:44:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 The people in the story keep talking about "somebody" in the Kerry campaign made a "mistake."

They're far more charitable than I. I think Kerry's campaign made a mistake, all right - they thought no one who was there would notice or, if they did, wouldn't say anything.

And these clowns think they're capable of running a nation?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-04-23 8:37:00 PM|| 2004-04-23 8:37:00 PM|| Front Page Top

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