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THE NEWSPAPER THAT KILLED ACCURACY
What the hell is the Sydney Morning Herald thinking with these idiotic headlines? Yesterday the SMH ran “A journey into Downer’s dark past” above a column noting that Downer’s grandfather had once defended an accused murderer. Today, the SMH describes W. Mark Felt as:
The man who killed Nixon
Killed? Killed?
Strange, I thought Nixon died of natural causes. Maybe they meant that Felt killed Nixon’s presidency; that much is probably true.
Frankly, I have a hard time getting interested in this. The whole Watergate thing was so drenched in self-congratulatory media froth to begin with, it’s a bit of a bore to learn now that Deep Throat was an FBI official who may well have been motivated by anger at being passed over for promotion.
EvilDave (if that is your real name):
Personally, I want everything to be like Vietman so I can have free love with protest babes.
As for your footnote, the answers would be obvious to you if you weren’t a blind clone moron in the service of Hallironmcchimpyhitbushler.
So there!
Posted by tim maguire on 2005 06 01 at 02:54 PM • permalinkEvil Dave:
1/ Hitler declared war on the U.S. after the Nips attacked.2/ In Germany there’s a post-world war II saying: “The elder son gets the farm. The younger one gets the ReForGer compensation payments”—mean the greenbacks bundled out to farmers for damage to paddocks, fences, etc inflicted by tanks etc chewing up paddocks during the annual Return of Forces to Germany military excercises.
Everyone makes money, so it’s not a quagmire.
3/ Why not just burn coal? There’s plenty of it.
DEEPLY FELT
Yes, those were the days! The MSM had respect then. They will wallow in this for a while.
Speaking of misleading msm - did anybody else hear Fran Kelly quizzing the Minister for Defence yesterday on her leftwing love-in show (RadioNational Breakfast)about the “dead civilians” the Australian SAS disrespected?
These civilians put up one hell of a fight, necessitating backup from other SAS and later some air support as well. A Defence Association spokesman interviewed on AM said these “civilians” were using weapons that included heavy machine guns!
Special thanks to Fran and Radio National for undermining our special forces; stepping very close to the line of becoming an enemy of the people. But Radio National is not “the good doctor” exposing the contamination of the water supply and being persecuted - rather they are part of the misinformation and propaganda which make the left media the allies of those who oppose our forces in the field.Nathan: I couldn’t care less about “clean, efficient, or renewable.” I do care about nuke tech being so easy to master and obtain that some wife-shrouding sand goblin can whip up a city-buster from the by-products of commercial fission.
But it’s probably too late, as that horse is well out of the stable.
What about nukes for white men—coal for everyone else? I could live with that. As for global warming, bring it on. Women look better in summer dresses.
Australia Now On Trial (SMH today)
Riiiight!
Let’s check the scorecard to date.Indonesia: Bali Bombing, Australian Embassy Bombing, Marriott Hotel Bombing, Sulawesi Bombing, Aceh - Christians Killed By Laskar Jihad. Total Number Killed: is it merely hundreds, or are we into the thousands yet?
Australia: Harmless White Powder sent to embassy - by whom? Australians? or fellow travellers of the troublemakers in Indonesia? Total Number Killed: ... well, none, actually.
Re #13
“Harmless” white powder, blogstrop—shouldn’t you wait on the forensic results before making that claim?
Unfortunately Australia has been sullied by the actions of the idiot or idiots who decided to vent their spleen in this way. I agree Indonesia’s record of terrorist activities, and the loss of life from them, is far, far worse than Australia’s. That doesn’t excuse the criminal action taken against the Indonesian embassy.
The media’s endless fascination with the Deep Throat story is yet another example of the vice-like grip the quavering babyboomers have on the media. It happened 30 years ago, so no-one under 45 will even know about what Deep Throat was.
And of course, as pointed out earlier, it allows the media to wallow in self-congratulation: the third estate’s vital role in exposing evil and destroying a wicked president; the journalist as super hero; the triumph of the Popular Will over malevolent tyranny;, never have so many owed so much to so few, blah, blah blah… All to redeem their sleazy reputation and to raise their credibility just slightly above that of used car dealers.
Re #14
PW - take a look at any issue of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, for example. Complete rubbish is not hard to find.
There’s plenty of analysis of the Murdoch media’s inaccuracy (and alleged lack of balance, though such allegations nearly always suffer because of the bias of those making the allegations). It’s probably safer to just look at inaccuracies because evidence is so often completely convincing.
See for example http://mediamatters.org/items/200504200004
This site is certainly NOT a conservative publication, but the challenge to Murdoch posted on the URL referenced has not been accepted, to my knowledge, nor have the inaccuracies listed been rebutted by the Murdoch organisation.
See also a summary of the work of the UK Press Complaints Commission http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/media/pccdet.html in which numerous instances of proven deliberate inaccuracies on the part of Murdoch publications are listed.
kywong73 -
Skipping past the claims of bias (hee hee) to the “False Claims” section:
Hume accused Kerry of lying about Vietnam
Either Kerry lied about Vietnam or he’s a war criminal.
Well, or both.
But since his story keeps changing, it’s pretty clear he’s lying. I don’t see how this is a “false claim”.
In this specific case, Kerry was on a ship somewhere within a few thousand miles of Vietnam and generally supporting operations in Vietnam at the time he said he was in Vietnam himself. I wouldn’t call it a lie, personally. But then, neither did Hume.
The other two cases are somewhat more substantive; there are facts in dispute, or at least interpretations of facts, or in any case the way those interpretations of said facts were presented.
But is that it? Three points of disagreement? I’d say that’s pretty good myself, given the torrent of crap coming from the rest of the media. (ABC (both of them), BBC, CBS, CBC, NBC, CNN, NYT, WaPo, LAT, BosGlob etc etc. Not to mention Newseek. Not that Koran-flusing thing, but the rest of the magazine.)
Tim, you might want to take a look at this mother-lode of hypocrisy on the front page of today’s SMH. It’s what blogstrop referred to in comment 13.
Mr. Magoo: the time settings on the blog can be set to your own specifications: go into your account and click on “localization settings,” then pick your time zone from the drop-down menu. The default setting is the same as the server it’s stored on, which is Eastern Time (UTC -5).
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 06 01 at 08:41 PM • permalinkNotwithstanding that the Murdoch press may be inaccurate occasionally, it’s still the case that the SMH is inaccurate consistently.
As far as I’m concerned, the tabloids in Australia are far more ethical than the rotten Fairfax broadsheets.
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2005 06 01 at 09:31 PM • permalinkRe #20
Pixy Misa - there are many more than “three points of disagreement” listed on the first reference I provided. Follow the hyperlinks on the LHS and you’ll find, amongst other items,
“Fox News general assignment reporter Megyn Kendall falsely stated that the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent reversal of a lower court’s conviction of accounting firm Arthur Andersen for obstruction of justice in the Enron case was a “long-awaited vindication of Andersen’s position it did nothing illegal.” In fact, the Supreme Court’s opinion made no determination of the firm’s guilt or innocence. ” (The article does give an outline of the court’s findings.)
In fact the site lists a large number of alleged inaccuracies by Murdoch media with supporting evidence. (I make no judgement here on how good that evidence is. However, the site does provide information capable of verification to back its arguments.)
As to your comments on Kerry’s Vietnam record:
- where is your evidence that he’s a “war criminal”?
- last time I looked, the Gulf of Tonkin was not “a few thouasand miles” from Vietnam. Lots of it is well within the range of shore-based artillery.
- the site I referenced does demonstrate, in my opinion, that Hume accused Kerry of lying (see http://mediamatters.org/items/200408250005) although the claim was specifically that he lied about serving in Cambodia. The difficulty is that, in making the accusation, Hume cites a Kerry speech in which Kerry talks about “serving in Vietnam”, then accuses him of lying about serving in Cambodia. The accusation itself seems to be based on a misrepresentation.I’m not intending here to go in to bat for Kerry - his performance in the last election was mediocre in my view. I do stand by my opinion of the woeful levels of inaccuracy in the Murdoch media, however.
I would like to think that with their ‘The Man Who Killed Nixon’ headline, SMH were merely taking the battle of maintaining readership to the Daily Telegraph (since David Penberthy will ultimately prove to be the king of attention-grabbing tabloid headlines).
But it’s far more likely that someone at SMH merely borrowed a ‘cleverer’ headline, say, ‘The Man Who Nixed Nixon’, from a US paper. However, prior to publication, someone would have felt that ‘Nixed’ was ‘too American’ and, opting to translate it, foolishly chose ‘killed’ when ‘neutralised’ is what was actually meant.
I would have gone for ‘nixed’.
kywong73 -
where is your evidence that he’s a “war criminal”?
He said so. Refer to his “Winter Soldier” testimony and to his claims of smuggling weapons to Cambodia (the magic hat episode).
It’s not a question of evidence, it’s a question of Kerry’s own claims. Either he’s lying (most likely) or he’s a war criminal.
As to being “in Vietnam” at that time, the ship Kerry served on did not spend all its time in the Gulf of Tonkin; it was at times as far away as New Zealand during that period.
The difficulty is that, in making the accusation, Hume cites a Kerry speech in which Kerry talks about “serving in Vietnam”, then accuses him of lying about serving in Cambodia. The accusation itself seems to be based on a misrepresentation.
Nowhere in the quoted material does Hume accuse Kerry of lying. He does point out that Kerry’s statement of being in Vietnam on a particular date is not literally true. It is unfair, because Kerry was serving in the Vietnam War at the time. “In Vietnam” is a valid contraction of “serving in the Vietnam War”.
It’s not false, but it’s not fair either.
Now, as for your new link, the only evidence presented for Kerry ever being in Cambodia (which was at that time illegal, that being the whole point) is his journal. Navy records show that his boat was nowhere near Cambodia. No-one present at the time, except Kerry, has said the boat crossed into Cambodia. What’s more, he has repeatedly changed the story. I see no reason to believe anything he says on the matter.
without Deep Throat Nixon would have gone through to 1976 as President.
Anyone reading all the President’s men would soon come to the conclusion it was Deep Throat that provided the force that finally nailed Nixon.
The irony is that Nixon should do it when the Democrat’s canditate was of all people George McGovern someone no-one could vote for.
Posted by Homer Paxton on 2005 06 01 at 10:47 PM • permalinkKwong73 — Kerry torched a village and was documented machinegunning another village’s livestock. He ordered his crew to fire on an unarmed fishing sampan and killed a two-year-old child and its father. His own commander said they had a problem with Kerry firing on civilians.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 06 01 at 11:15 PM • permalinkRe #37
Pixy Misa - I was not familiar with either the “Winter Soldier” or “magic hat” references, so you caused me to do some digging.
At http://www.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/JohnKerryTestimony.html Kerry’s testimony to the Foreign Relations Committee re “Winter Soldier” is recorded. I cannot see any testimony therein where Kerry admits that he committed war crimes. He talks about “150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans (who) testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia” and says he is testifying to the committee as a representative of a group of veterans who carried out the research that took the testimony from those soldiers. He does not (as far as I can see) testify that he committed war crimes.
I’m struggling to find the original material for “magic hat”. Does it originate with the article by Laura Blumenfeld, in the Washington Post on June 1, 2003? If that’s the origin of the story, then there’s no mention of gun running there, although Kerry is reported as stating he was going in to “a special mission in Cambodia”. There were many incursions into Cambodian territory during the Vietnam War since it was often extremely difficult along the Ho Chi Minh trail area to know exactly where the border was. (I have discussed this with two members of Australia’s most decorated unit, AATTV, who served amongst the Montagnard people in this area. They were my instructors when I went through officer training.) The NVA and Viet Cong certainly weren’t too bothered by the border and crossed it whenever it suited them to do so.
Since the US does not recognise incursions into Cambodia during the Vietnam War as being war crimes, I’m still struggling to find evidence that Kerry is a war criminal (in US eyes anyway).
I have discovered LOTS of anti-Kerry blogs that repeat and embellish many accusations about his Vietnam service, but they all seem singularly short of real evidence, for or against.
Hmmm.
Brit Hume is correct and “kywong73” is wrong.
It would help if you did some research on this on your own instead of relying on MediaMatters, which frankly is little more than a liberal mouthpiece.
Kerry has claimed many times, on the record in the US Senate, that he spent Christmas in Cambodia. This was false and proven so. The entrence into Cambodia, by water since Kerry was on a Swift boat, was patrolled by smaller patrol boats, similar to the one in “Apocalypse Now”, and were ordered to prevent anyone from crossing the border.
Additionally there has been no corroboration by ANYONE, including ALL of Kerry’s shipmates, that Kerry’s boat, and presumably Kerry, were ever in Cambodia at all. The closest Kerry ever got to Cambodia was about 50 miles.
As for the “war criminal” that comes from one of two possible scenarios. The first is Kerry’s ludicrous, again on record, claims of running guns to the Khmer Rouge 5-6 years before they formed. Running guns into Cambodia, a neutral country officially uninvolved in the Vietnam War, would have qualified.
Then there’s Kerry’s, again on record, claims of having shot a badly wounded VC in the back.
And there’s Kerry’s, again on record, claims of having transported Special Forces soldiers into Cambodia, one of whom supposedly gave him his favorite lucky “magic” boonie hat.
etc etc etc etc
MediaMatters is a website for schlubs. Don’t be one.
As for tomorrow’s headline:
“Hungry man bloodily slaughters several fetal chickens and engages in a ritualistic consuming of dead burned flesh”
i.e. breakfast.
Posted by memomachine on 2005 06 02 at 12:34 AM • permalinkHmmm.
“I have discovered LOTS of anti-Kerry blogs that repeat and embellish many accusations about his Vietnam service, but they all seem singularly short of real evidence, for or against.”
then you have not looked.
Posted by memomachine on 2005 06 02 at 12:35 AM • permalinkkywong73…..a short recap is in order.
John Kerry ran for the President of the United States last year. The largest plank in his platform was “I’m a Vietnam Veteran, vote for me.” This was his usual approach for his campaigns, he having been the junior Senator from Massachusetts for 20 odd years.
I bring this up because once he actually won the Democratic nomination, people dug into his “The Winter Soldier”; his Congressional testimony; his activities with the Vietnam Veterans Against The War; his visits to Paris to meet with North Vietnam officials; his various speeches on the Senate floor; his debate on the Dick Cavett show; reviews of his books, testimony from his fellow naval officers and crew; what few official military records he would release (as Kerry would not sign his SF180); and other records.
This debate ran for months, and included Australia, since his sister went Down Under for some bizarre reason. Besides, Kerry had the support of unnamed foreign leaders. If you don’t believe me, just ask him.
So ed has it right. You have not looked.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 06 02 at 01:35 AM • permalinkkywong73 -
You have to read the Winter Soldier testimony in full. Kerry says that all American soldiers in Vietnam committed war crimes, including himself.
Maybe someone could dig out one of the relevant quotes.
Here’s the point, though: I don’t believe him.
He was cited for some serious offences, which is why he didn’t have a hard time leaving Vietnam before his tour was up; his commanding officers didn’t want him around.
But I don’t believe him when he says he was a war criminal, because the various tellings of the tale are mutually inconsistent.
“Boy the way Uncle Walter brayed,
the reports that made the hit parade,
guys like us we didn’t have a say,
those were the days”“Reporters really got Nixan
Erlickman and Haldermann
Mister we could use some guys like woodward and berstein again”“WE had a full blown welfair state
College kids were all irate
deep throat was a snitch and not a date
those were the days”Posted by papertiger on 2005 06 02 at 03:52 AM • permalinkThere’s a lot of material and links on the Kerry issues in the archives of http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/.
My old hard drive seems to be ruined, otherwise I’d provide a bunch of specific links. I’m an idiot deluxe for not having copied my files to a zip drive disk during the past two years.
John F’n Kerry the man who would be our first French commisar.
Doctored his own after action reports to award himself
A Silver Star
A Bronze Star
Shot himself in the ass to get his third purple heart
was the only man from the swiftboat units to ever leave Vietnam early on the three purple heart clause
Lied while testifying before congress during the Iran Contra affair - not even good lies
Just self serving “see what a hero I was” lies.
Tripped over his own prick by having a reporter from the Boston Globe , who wasn’t in the “know” , be his official biographer.
Most all of the above is coroberated by Kerry’s own account as recorded by said biographer, colated and footnoted from Kerry’s own personal papers.
And Kerry still hasn’t signed a form 180, which would allow the rest of us access to his own personal papers
Inspite of his campaign promise to do so.
Which was made a day before he went into hiding in the middle of an election.Posted by papertiger on 2005 06 02 at 04:29 AM • permalinkAnother left-wing troll neatly demolished.
Sometimes it can be fun not to ban them straight away. Let them squirm a bit!
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2005 06 02 at 06:58 AM • permalinkSMH’s headline reality gap continues on today’s page three with this false scare: “Cancer surges as warnings ignored”. The only warning in the article was that “there was evidence children were still not being protected adequately from the sun.” Other than that, it states that more cancers were being found due to increases in age and size of the population. Oddly, it omits the possibility that improved detection technology could also be possible for this increase.
But you have to understand the (un)Fairfax mindset. You can put yourself there by studiously sucking a crate full of lemons (Kool-Aid being unavailable in Oz). As the sourness permeates your being, apparent contradictions reveal themselves as immutable truths, opinions become facts, and those who disagree are biased, prejudiced, ignorant bigots. Do not deviate from the following lest your eyes become clouded by global dimming, your ears deafened with populist talkback and your mind polluted by corporate consumerism:
The pope causes AIDS in Africa.
Only Christians who support gay marriage and clergy are worthy of the name.
Other Christians are medieval, misogynist fanatics.
Islam is just misunderstood.
So is North Korea.
Iraq is Vietnam.
Israel is a rogue nuclear state.
The US is the Roman Empire.
The US is run by BushchimphitlerzionistrovepuppetMcHallibuton.
The US is the font of all evil.
The UN should be the final arbiter on all affairs.
International justice trumps local laws.
National sovereignty trumps human rights.
Tribal customs trump individual rights.
Michelle Corby is innocent.
People who transport drugs are “mules”, not delivers of death or wreckers of lives.
Censorship is forbidden.
Sport is the one true God.
Celebrities are fascinating.
Mc Mansions are evil, hovels are heritage.
Abortion good, adoption bad.
The Stolen Generation actually happened.
The children overboard affair did not.
Careers are as important as raising children.
Sex education from birth prevents AIDS.
IVF is a single woman’s right.
Single mothers are victims.
Victims are automatically saints.
Divorce is good for children.
Children raised in childcare are better than average.
Anyone below average is disadvantaged.
Being disadvantaged excuses criminality.
“Terrorist” is an emotive and relative term to be avoided.
“Right-wing” and “conservative” are synonyms.
All cultures are equal, regardless of individual rights, material progress and democratic process.
Global warming is caused by Westerners, not the Sun, and the disappearing Martian ice caps will be ignored.
Demanding basic English literacy of prospective immigrants is racist.
People entering Australia illegally are refugees.
Detention centres house only refugees.
Detention centres are concentration camps.
The words “genocide” and “holocaust” must be used frequently and out of context.
The term “social justice” is not to be defined, measured or quantified in any way.
The drought is Howard’s fault.
Everything wrong is Howard’s fault.
That’s because Howard is a white male.
More funding is needed.Because of Watergate, the Republicans got trounced in the 1976 Presidential election. As a result we got Jimmy Carter for four long terrible years.
I don’t forgive Felt for that. No freaking way.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 06 02 at 09:48 AM • permalinkThe man who killed Nixon
Remember the Newsweek rule: It or something like it could be true, so let’s run with it…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 06 02 at 09:54 AM • permalinkRe #59, very good Exit Ramp. here are a few more of the home truths the SMH holds to be self-evident:
.In Australia, only Sydney matters
.In Sydney, only the inner city, eastern suburbs and North Shore matter
.Sydney ends at Leichhardt
.Asians are good; Australians are bad
.Americans are evil
.Bob Brown is a saint
.Paul Keating did great things for Australia and must be respected
.The ABC is a sacred cow
.John Howard is just a cowRe #53
For Now - thank you for that link. That’s a much higher quality blog than most I’ve visited in relation to this topic. (I’ve now examined over a hundred.) The main difference - whilst the blog certainly expresses opinion, it also provides a trail of evidence that can be followed and checked.
Cynicism about Kerry’s war record does seem well placed given that Kerry did not place his whole military record in the public domain. Ultimately though, the truth will not really be known until that happens. Kerry clearly contributed strongly to his fate by not killing this issue at source.
‘Stand by for retaliation’ - geez, I’m shivering in my shoes. Maybe I’m being fanciful/over-imaginative/etc. but I get the feeling that Australian anger is no longer all about the Corby case.
The anger is focused on her, but it seems to be a release of the resentment towards Indonesia that has been building up for a long time. Its clear that many Aussies have very little liking for Indonesia - consider the following, I have heard all these points from various people:
* no apology was ever issued for the five Aussie journalists murdered by Indonesian soldiers, but we are expected to grovel over a bit of harmless white powder
* Australia put a stop to Indonesian brutality in East Timor - if anyone thinks they will ever forgive us for that, they’re dreaming
* The Howard govt. stopped the boat people scam and exposed the fact that the Indonesian military was making money from illegals
* The fact that Indonesia denied the existence of JI and ignored the fact that these groups were growing in membership
* The Bali bombing
* The light sentence handed down to Bashir
* The death sentence of the terrorists commuted to life imprisonment although the death sentence is handed down to drug offenders.
* The contempt directed towards our aid workers, who were told to leave the country because they were ‘arrousing resentment’ and supposedly trying to convert ‘good Muslims’ to Christianity - this after we had donated billions to tsunami aid.
There’s quite a lot to be angry about.
Advantage: ed
One nitpick, though: And there’s Kerry’s, again on record, claims of having transported Special Forces soldiers into Cambodia, one of whom supposedly gave him his favorite lucky “magic” boonie hat.
ISTR it was a CIA guy from whom he got the “magic” “hat”, (which nobody’s ever seen…?)
At any rate, the fact that nobody else on his swiftboat remembers running arms to the Khmer Rouge before they existed is very easy to explain: it was a very secret mission, the kind where the CIA and Special Ops guys only tell one guy, preferably a pompous swiftie guy who has a strong jawline.
In this case, Kerry’s shipmates all got five bucks and were told that “these tourists” wanted to “do some sightseeing” and possibly unload “some import/export stuff”. Just ask his shipmates about the day “those mean-looking guys from Milwaukee” took a cruise and passed that “load of bluejeans” to the “K. Rouge Trading Company” and it should all fall into place.
Posted by zeppenwolf on 2005 06 02 at 10:38 PM • permalinkzeppenwolf — did Kerry ever explain how they got that 50 foot gunboat over the concrete pilings the US sank into the riverbed to prevent that sort of thing?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 06 02 at 11:06 PM • permalinkSpeaking of the SMH, there’s a great line in its Melbourne stablemate today from another leftie with fascist tendencies (courtesy of Professor Bunyip)
If, as the adage goes, education is wasted on the young, it is tempting to wonder whether democracy is not wasted on voters.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2005 06 03 at 12:28 AM • permalinkOf course the Fairfax Press, the ABC, the Greens and all the other fellow travellers believe deomcracy is wasted on the voters, otherwise, Australia would now be republic, we would have said sorry to the Aborigines (probably about a hundred times by now), we wouldn’t have joined the Coalition of the Willing, we would have allowed all the economic refugees to flood into Australia as asylum seekers, and best of all Mark Latham would now be PM. Those voters have got a lot to answer for.
Hmmm.
Then there’s the stuff Kerry put into his biography. You know. Where he decided instead of actually patrolling his assigned route he had his Swift boat go into town on a drinking binge.
On another note.
I just reserved the domain “www.ussrichardmnixon.com”. I think I’m going to create a website, and try to push, the US Navy into naming the next aircraft carrier the USS Richard M. Nixon, aka “Tricky Dick”. Hey it’s not like he actually was **impeached** right? He resigned. There’s a difference.
If Clinton’s ok, because he wasn’t, you know, completely impeached, then Richard M. Nixon is in an even better position because was never impeached.
I love it.
The liberals will go mad.
Posted by memomachine on 2005 06 03 at 10:49 AM • permalinkCynicism about Kerry’s war record does seem well placed given that Kerry did not place his whole military record in the public domain. Ultimately though, the truth will not really be known until that happens. Kerry clearly contributed strongly to his fate by not killing this issue at source.
It contributed considerably, kywong73. But his other activities (or, in the case of his Senate history, non-activities) really formed the core of his failed bid. Kerry is a loser, and the majority of American voters knew it.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 06 03 at 02:10 PM • permalinkkywong73 the non release of Kerry’s records may have something to do with the suggestion that he was in fact dishonourably discharged from the navy a matter then cured by a presidential intervention by Carter.
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Does anyone else feel that this new fascination with Deep Throat is the MSM reliving its glory days in an attempt to feel better about the recent Hutton Inquiry/Rathergate/Jordon “The US Military kills journalists”/NYT Blair(sp?)/Newsweek problems?
It reminds me of the members of the Left that hope every military action is like Vietnam. Falklands, Grenada, Panama, Iraq I, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq II, etc. [FN1] After all back during Vietnam they were young, beautiful, their opinions mattered, and people praised them for taking the “correct” moral stand on civil rights and other issues. Now they are old and fat. And, not even their children give a rat’s ass about their opinion. Or they are GenX’ers who want Vietnam to return so they can be cool like their baby Boomer parents.
Is it any wonder newspaper circulation and network TV ratings are at an all time low?
[FN1]:
BTW, could someone on the Left answer these questions for me:
What did Hitler have to do with Pearl Harbour?
We have a significant military presence in Europe and it has been 60+ years since WW2 ended. Why isn’t Europe a quagmire?
If we had been allowed to build nuclear plants in the 70s, would we still be addicted to oil?