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Kerry Splits Democrats
With Renewed Presidential Aspirations

John Kerry has split Democrats with his race to the left in order to gain some traction for the 2008 presidential nomination, his hometown newspaper reports. The Boston Globe notes some approbation coming from the antiwar netroots, but the party establishment has little trust in the man they think blew a winnable 2004 election: ...

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Posted by Bill Faith on June 26, 2006 at 10:55 AM in Jean Fraud Kerry | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

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John Kerry's Skimmer Scam
By Thomas Lipscomb

As the Kate Zernike front page Memorial Day weekend New York Times story indicates, a number of Kerry supporters were disappointed that Kerry had not vigorously defended himself against the charges of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth during the 2004 Presidential campaign. According to Zernike some "are compiling a dossier that they say will expose every one of the Swift boat group's charges as a lie and put to rest any question about Mr. Kerry's valor in combat."

That might not only be a difficult task but it could backfire badly. As Vanity Fair's acerbic columnist Michael Wolff said in the 3-minute 2-second trailer to a Kerry-sponsored (and Kerry-censored) documentary campaign film by respected producer Steve Rosenbaum, Inside the Bubble, the real problem with the Swift Boat claims was they were "largely true." And as former Dean of the Stanford Law School Bayless Manning has cautioned enthusiastic advocates, "As an attorney, you needn't worry too much about the lies told by your opponents. Your real danger is the lies told by your client." Ask the ghost of Alger Hiss.

In the Times piece, Kerry makes a great deal of the "skimmer" operation. It is worth looking at closely. ...

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Bruce Kesler: Kerry’s Skimmer Scam Scalped

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Dafydd ab Hugh comments here.

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Roger L Simon has more here. Don't miss the discussion in the comments.

Posted by Bill Faith on June 12, 2006 at 02:40 AM in Jean Fraud Kerry | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

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The Truth, John Kerry, and The New York Times
By Thomas Lipscomb

Kate Zernike's story on the front page of the Memorial Day Sunday New York Times, "Kerry Pressing Swift Boat Case Long After Loss," is an unfortunate reminder of the Times's embarrassingly poor coverage of Kerry in the face of the Swift Boat Veterans' for Truth charges in the 2004 election. Now as then, the Times acts as if the issues involved were between Kerry's latest representations of his record and the "unsubstantiated" charges of the Swift Boat group. The Times used the term "unsubstantiated" more than twenty times during its election coverage and continues to make no discernable effort to examine any of the charges in detail.

But there was plenty of evidence in the work of other news organizations that some of the charges, and the Kerry military records themselves, were worth examining seriously. I found numerous problems with Kerry's records on his website in my own reporting for the Chicago Sun-Times: a Silver Star with a V for valor listed that the Navy stated it had never awarded in the history of the US Navy, three separate medal citations with some heavy revisions in Kerry's favor signed by former Navy Secretary John Lehman who denied ever signing them, to name two.

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See also: The NYT’s Can’t Handle The Truth

Johnny, I honestly don't think you'd have sense enough to wet your pants if your balls were on fire, and I know for a fact there are millions like me who wouldn't piss on your head if your hair was. Go home, Johnny. Tell Mama she wants you.

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Don't miss Tom Maguire's comments here.

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Flopping Aces: Kerry Is Indeed Unfit For Command

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The Kerry Files
Tom Bevan

Like many, I was shocked to see John Kerry proactively reignite the debate over some specific details of his war record, though I was less than surprised reading Kate Zernike's uncritical write up of Kerry's account in the New York Times back on May 28. I was even less surprised when Tom Lipscomb called to say the Zernike article had grabbed his attention with its almost complete disregard for items already in the public record, and that he was interested in doing a multipart series trying to get to the bottom of a number of issues surrounding Kerry's record - once and for all. The first installment, which is a response to Zernike's May 28 piece, is running on RealClearPolitics today. [Excerpted above -- BF]

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...Lipscomb isn't out to "get" Zernike (whom he describes as a "fine reporter on education and social issues"), only to point out that for some reason she failed - as did the editors at the New York Times - to do due dilligence investigating Kerry's claims and instead simply reprinted them. Lipscomb says that "there are likely to be holes in the Swiftie stories as well as Kerry's. But there are never grounds for assuming ONE side needn't be questioned and the other side universally discarded."

Since the Times has once again proven unequal to this fundamental task, Lipscomb decided to undertake an effort to do it on his own, and we've agreed to work with him.

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Former SEAL Froggy has choice words for Johnny here.

Posted by Bill Faith on June 5, 2006 at 08:22 PM in Jean Fraud Kerry | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

I mentioned Kerry Yellow in passing in an earlier post but didn't really direct attention to it like I should have. It's really a must-read. After you've read it, don't miss the first round of reader responses here. (Hat tip: William Page)

Posted by Bill Faith on June 5, 2006 at 04:12 AM in Jean Fraud Kerry | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

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John Kerry is the worst kind of war profiteer: one who enriches his political resume on the misery, suffering and death not only of his enemies but of his brothers in arms. No other kind of man is more despised by veterans. No man is less honorable. No such man will ever be commander in chief as long as I and the millions of my brothers at arms draw breath.

Russ Vaughn
2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment
101st Airborne Division
Vietnam 65-66

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(Part of an email Russ wrote after reading "Kerry Yellow")

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Promoted from the comments:

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You can add my name to Russ Vaughn's statement. For he states well my fervor.

William B. Page
RVN 1971-'72
1st Cav Division (Airmobile)
3rd Bde (Separate)
Co B 2/5th Cav
Co D 1/12th Cav

-- 1st Cav 

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Promoted from the comments 2006.06.05:

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I too will sign on the dotted line, a little slower, but no less ardent.

George Mellinger
RVN 1969-1970
39 Engineer Bn, 18 Engineer Bde.

-- Rurik

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I don't guess I came out and said it before but y'all know I'm with you on this.

Bill Faith
RVN 1971-1972
14th APS PACAF, 8th APS PACAF

Posted by Bill Faith on June 4, 2006 at 10:57 PM in Jean Fraud Kerry, Russ_Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack

Thank you Steve Gardner for giving me permission to quote the email you sent  Russ Vaughn after Russ distributed Kerry’s Catch 22:

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Hi Russ,

I'm the gunner who served 2 ½ months of Kerry's 4 months in country, Steve Gardner GMG3, who also served with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Ask Mr. Kerry why he wouldn't go take the Lie Detector test I took to verify my telling of the truth about his continuing writings of BOGUS Reports. I passed mine with flying colors so obviously he wouldn't have been able to. Of course, we were all a pack of liars, according to JK.

Steve Gardner GMG3
66-67-VN CRB
68-69 VN AnToi, Catlo & Vungtau

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As Russ assured Steve in an email reply, no one who was involved in the '04 "Kerry wars" needs to be reminded who Steve is. Obviously I think Steve has a very good point; if Johnny's telling us the truth there's no reason he shouldn't be willing to take a polygraph test to prove it.  On the other hand, I'm not really sure what that would prove since I agree with Steve's assessment in a later mail that "JK is delusional and believes everything he’s ever said as gospel." I have no trouble at all believing Jean Fraud has been telling the same lies for so long that he's started believing them himself. It's the best explanation I can think of for telling the same stories time after time, year after year, in spite of insurmountable evidence they aren't true.

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Don't miss Mudville's latest Open Post.

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Tom Maguire: Zaladonis Ex Machina

Posted by Bill Faith on June 3, 2006 at 12:38 AM in Jean Fraud Kerry | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

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Not Too Swift
By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

WASHINGTON -- As we watch the left of the Democratic Party pressing its case to return to the top of the heap in American politics, or at least evade the fate of the Dodo, we have ever more evidence validating an insight on which I stake my reputation as a political seer. To wit: partisan politics falls more often under the professional expertise of the psychiatrist than that of the political scientist. A learned shrink can often tell us more about a political issue than any other professional, not excluding a swami or a voodoo priest.

Consider the ongoing controversy over Senator Jean-Francois Kerry's military service in the faraway Vietnam War. You doubt that the controversy is ongoing? Just last Sunday a front-page story in the New York Times reported that some of Senator Kerry's supporters during his ill-fated 2004 presidential campaign are endeavoring to prove him a war hero with an unblemished record of heroism. ...

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Posted by Bill Faith on June 1, 2006 at 05:03 AM in Jean Fraud Kerry | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

In my email:

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Kerry’s Catch 22

Catch 22: A situation in which a desired outcome or solution is impossible to attain because of a set of inherently illogical rules or conditions.

John Kerry may fancy himself a war hero and an old hand at armed combat but somehow, in spite of all his self-filmed heroics, he doesn’t seem to know how to extricate himself from an untenable tactical situation. Campaigning on his Vietnam War record in 2004, Kerry found himself confronted with a harsh reality of war: most of the men he served with in Vietnam were not about to let him get away with his deceptive portrayal of himself as a selfless warrior, heroic in battle and grievously wounded in service to his country.

Think about it, folks, do you suppose the American public ever would have known that Kerry’s multiple Purple Hearts were awarded for mere scratches, in one case probably self-inflicted, if a group of his former comrades in arms, the Swift Boat Veterans, hadn’t come to the fore and warned America that the Democratic candidate might be sporting more warts than wounds?

Now, more than a year and a half after his defeat, aided and abetted by his rear-echelon buddies at the New York Times, Kerry is attempting to refute the charges that many political insiders think cost him the election and constitute the critical issue that must be dealt with prior to any attempt by Kerry to seek the Democratic nomination again. As long as that big question mark hangs over him as to who is telling the truth about his war record, John Kerry doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in Cambodia of attracting any big-money backers. He has to resolve this problem and therein lies John Kerry’s Catch 22.

With the help of the bootlicking, mainstream media, Kerry again is going to try to paint the Swiftees as a bunch of ultra-rightwing, ex-military fascists manipulated by the evil Karl Rove to spread vicious lies about Kerry’s heroic service. Supposedly Kerry backers have uncovered new testimony and documentation to support his claims of heroism. They are trotting out some of the same weak responses from the same weak witnesses that failed them in 2004 and will fail them again. These die-hard Kerristas seem to think that this time they can sell the American public a bill of goods that Americans weren’t buying in ’04 and aren’t any more likely to buy this time around.

They want you to believe that a group of retired Navy men who had no formal affiliation or organization prior to Kerry’s being nominated as the Democratic candidate, all suddenly coalesced into this lynch mob of right wing fanatics willing to sacrifice their lives, fortunes and reputations in fealty to the evil George Bush. They want you to believe that these men, some of them Democrats, most of them officers, many of senior rank, including flag (admiral) rank, who served long and honorable careers, suddenly morphed into pliable tools of that devil Rove and took the national stage to tell vicious lie after vicious lie about this great hero who served four months in Vietnam and then returned to savage and slander his fellow sailors and all other members of America’s armed forces in Senate testimony that has since been proved to be utter crap.

The Kerristas want you to believe that these men who served out their full one-year tours in Vietnam while their heroic candidate invoked an arcane military policy to get himself out of harm’s way as quickly as was politically expedient, are all liars, all men who would sell their honor to elect the evil Bush. Kerry’s camp followers think the American public can be wooed by a compliant, cooperating mainstream media into believing one man’s self-serving testimony over that of dozens of honorable warriors, all of whom share one notable distinction that their heroic opponent does not: they all have unquestioned, unclouded, honorable discharges.

During the campaign, Kerry repeatedly was asked by the opposition (but not the MSM) to complete and submit a Form 180 which would allow the Navy to release his entire service record so that there would be no question as to who was telling the truth, him or the Swift Boat veterans. Kerry tap-danced around the issue, giving vague, evasive responses right up to the election. Many feel it was this refusal to release his military records that cost him the election. Since his defeat, he has been asked repeatedly, most notably by Tim Russert on Meet the Press, to release those records and he always promises to do so, in fact, right up to the present. In today’s Times puff piece, is this:  “Mr. Kerry has signed forms authorizing the Navy to release his record…” Kindly note that Mr. Kerry has signed forms-there is no indication that he has submitted them to the Navy. This is just more of the same Kerry duplicity that runs like the muddy Mekong River through his questionable military and unremarkable political careers. And kindly note also that the suckups at the Times don’t call him on this point at all.

But what the Times and the Kerristas don’t seem to grasp is the afore-mentioned quandary facing their hero, John Kerry’s Catch 22. Their hero is between a rock and a hard place; he can’t refute the testimony of his tormentors without releasing his full military records to the public. But there are many veterans, like myself, who believe that the reason he will not release those records is that contained therein is material far more damaging, probably fatal, to Mr. Kerry’s political aspirations than anything the Swift Boat Vets have said about him. It may be the contents of investigative reports into his treating with the enemy when he met with the Vietnamese in Paris while American forces were actively engaged with both Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regulars. If his records contain documents showing that federal investigators and prosecutors concluded that his actions were treasonous or constituted aiding and abetting the enemy, but prosecution was declined for political reasons, that revelation probably would foreclose Mr. Kerry’s political options. Likewise, the timing and conditions of Mr. Kerry’s discharge is suspect, having been held up years past the time it should have been granted, issued in fact, not until the Carter administration, when a general amnesty was declared by Carter for draft resistors and associated federal violations.

But of course, we'll never know any of this, will we? Unless, of course, Mr. Kerry authorizes the Navy proceed with a full, public disclosure of his military records. Do you think a man who lost the presidency of the greatest nation in the world rather than release those records will do so now?

I’ll betcha 22 bucks it never happens.

Russ Vaughn
Vietnam 65-66

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Posted by Bill Faith on May 31, 2006 at 09:44 PM in Jean Fraud Kerry, Russ_Vaughn | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

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Lying About Lying About Lying
Dafydd ab Hugh

The New York Times has taken upon itself the man-sized task of resurrecting Sen. John F. Kerry (D-MA, 95%) from the political graveyard... and the paper has decided that the best way to do that is to refight the war Kerry lost against the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. (Hat tip to Scott Johnson at Power Line.)

Worse, the Times appears to have decided to refight that war the old-fashioned way: by lying about it.

[Read it all, for it is excellent.]

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Tom Maguire has two excellent related posts here and here.

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See also Bruce Kesler: Kate Zernike Reporting For Duty

Posted by Bill Faith on May 30, 2006 at 06:42 PM in Jean Fraud Kerry | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

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Bring It On

John Kerry wants to re-fight the Swift Boats wars.  My goodness, that is the only thing that could get the Times to cover this - during his campaign they stayed about as far from this story as Kerry was from Cambodia at Christmas time.

Let me seize on just one detail - this relates to Kerry's controversial first Purple Heart:

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Greyhawk: The Cat in the Hat Comes Back

Johnny, you dumb ass, did you really believe all that dirt we dug up on you before got tossed out as soon as the election was over? We still know about the OTH discharge that got "fixed" after Carter took office, and about the phony medals, and a lot of other things you seem to have forgotten we know.  Bring it on, Johnny. Bring it on.

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RedState: But I Have a Hat

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Don't miss NYT Is Full Of Kerry at Democracy Project

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Captain Ed: Why Kerry Is The Democrat's Nightmare

Posted by Bill Faith on May 27, 2006 at 09:16 PM in Jean Fraud Kerry | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack