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Kerry’s website defends Kerry’s “joke”; Update: with video
Bryan Preston

Why does johnkerry.com sport a link to the following Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial?

“Education” Kerry said “– if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

Was Kerry making fun of the president, or warning students against the pitfalls awaiting the undereducated in general?

It doesn’t matter. Kerry was right either way.

That’s posted right now on John Kerry’s website. ...

... Update (Allahpundit): Here’s video of Vets for Freedom co-founder Wade Zirkle slamming Kerry on Fox.

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Video: Michelle talks Kerrygate on the Big Story
Allahpundit

She does not share my opinion as to the innocence of his remarks. Good thing, too, or else she might find herself labelled McCain light.

Assuming that position hadn’t already been filled, of course.

Possible explanation for Kerry’s “education” comment: drunkenness. ...

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Kerry's "Apology" Was All-Too Insincere
Confederate Yankee

John Kerry's arrogance knows no bounds.

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John Kerry has a 35-year history of slandering American soldiers, and when he disparaged the intelligence of the American military earlier this week, he deserved no benefit of the doubt. He'd referred to them as murderers, rapists, and terrorists too many times before.

When he swore he would "apologize to no one" for the comments assaulting their intelligence, he obviously meant it.

Now several days later and a "I'm sorry you aren't smart enough to understand what I meant to say" non-apology, he still has enough arrogance and contempt for the American soldier to feature on his page the headline, "Kerry's Remark: Right either way." ...

...  John Kerry is not the least bit sorry for slandering America's heroes.

He wasn't sorry in 1972, and he's certainly not sorry now.

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Kerry Unapologizes
Dan Riehl

Sorry, this required a post of its own. John kerry has totally freaking lost it. Oh, man.

Bob at Confederate Yankee has a screen cap, as Kerry does have a habit of changing the facts.

I assume he won't be taking it down, but you never know.

Below is what John Krazy Kerry now has on his official blog. My Pet Jawa has a John Klazy Kerry video - how apropo. The Dems are going to hunt him down and shoot him. So what if they have to borrow a gun from a good Republican conservative to do it. ...

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"CRAZY"--Starring John F'n Kerry

Here's some good-old-fashioned Friday morning right-wing propaganda for ya, fresh from the Jawa Report propaganda generator housed deep in the bowels of the sandcrawler:

(And yes, we parsed the clips. We had to listen to the idiot drone on. We went through the pain, so y'all wouldn't have to--just because we love you. ;-)

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Specially autographed "Stuck in Irak:"
I want this on a t-shirt
Michelle Malkin

My old friend D.F. Oliveria at the Spokane Spokesman-Review sends along an exclusive photo that you will not see on the front page of the New York Times or the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times. Do you see who's signing the poster? (Hint below.) ...

... I bet the Minnesota National Guard members who made the now-famous banner in the photo would love their own personally autographed copies from the VIP signer. Me, too. ...

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Kerry's Big Dig
Ed Morrissey

John Kerry has made himself the gift that keeps on giving. After supposedly botching a joke about President Bush and telling a college audience that a lack of education and hard work would get them "stuck in Iraq", he took criticism from Republicans and some Demicrats for two days. He finally apologized for both screwing up the joke and the fact that no one understood his genius, and the controversy finally started to recede. However, Kerry -- who has never learned the First Rule Of Holes -- decided to keep right on digging yesterday by posting a Seattle newspaper's editorial on his campaign web site that says he was right in either interpretation: ...

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Video: Rudy: Kerry comment ‘disgraceful’, notes Hillary said ‘inappropriate’
Ian Schwartz

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Rudy wonders how Bob Casey, Jr., could defend Kerry’s “disgraceful” remark while Hillary condemned it as “inappropriate”. Bam! Killing two birds with one stone; slamming Casey, while getting in a jab with your potential 2008 opponent.

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John Kerry: Uniting the armed services
Michelle Malkin

A reader sent Matt at Blackfive another classic banner message from the troops to John Kerry, on display at the Army-Air Force Game last night:

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Another soon-to-be viral photo you won't see in the MSM! ...

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"We support those not as smart as John Kerry" - At the Army-Air Force Game
Blackfive

A West Point Cadet sends this along with the photo below:

I'm a cadet at West Point, and tonight at our game against the Air Force Academy, a big sign emerged, and it was shown to the Corps of Cadets, who cheered wildly, and then shown to the Air Force cadets, who also cheered.

...  Here's the photo:

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Wow, who'd have thought that - "John Kerry bringing the armed services together..."

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Cheney On Kerry

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Hitchens on Kerrygate
Allahpundit

Hitch thinks Kerry probably meant what he said as a joke on Bush, but acknowledges that servicemen might hear it differently — not because they’re uneducated or because the number of troops from America’s lower class is too many but because the number from America’s upper class is too few.

The senator’s labored defense of himself is so lame that it has to be true. He had intended (pause for thigh-slapping and guffawing) to make a truly original joke about the IQ and educational level of the chief executive. His crack team of gag-writers had toiled on the joke and combed all the bugs out of it. It was there, poised on the pad and ready for launch. And it fizzled. (Funny–that punchline usually activates the easy-laugh track, as Messrs. Leno, Stewart, Maher and Colbert demonstrate with airy ease practically every night of the week.) And out of the syntactic chaos came the impression that Mr. Kerry thought only a dumb jerk could end up in uniform in Iraq.

No wonder Mr. Kerry feels hard done-by: He can’t recount a joke that practically tells itself and has been road-tested to work with almost Pavlovian certainty, especially on campuses. Surely everybody–any fool, in fact–knows that it’s Mr. Bush who is supposed to have the difficulties with timing and articulation? Ah, the unfairness of it all. The senator was all in favor of the joke before he actually had to tell it. Haven’t we been here before?…

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Kerry’s website pulls “Kerry was right” editorial from front page
Allahpundit

Santorumblog has the screencaps.

They got caught with their pants down and now they’re trying to downplay it.

But in that case, why is the reprint of the editorial still available inside the site? ...