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2004-08-20 Home Front: Politix

Newsmax: Harkin Lied About Vietnam War Record

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Posted by Super Hose 2004-08-20 02:07|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Evidently, military embellishment has been a time-honored DNC tradition. Here is an excerpt from Ann Colter's latest:
At the time, no one in the press bothered to investigate why Johnson was the only member of the crew to receive any sort of decoration for the 13-minute flight that never came under enemy fire -- and on which Johnson was merely an "observer." For the rest of his life Johnson got away with wearing what historian David Halberstam called "the least deserved and most proudly displayed Silver Star in military history."

Posted by Super Hose 2004-08-20 3:09:54 AM|| 2004-08-20 3:09:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh baby! After that phoney staged explosion of indignation, turns out we have yet another Donk pretender and total fucking cheesedick.

McCain, you dumb asshole tool, you'd better do the stockade shuffle off to the side - you've been used like a wad of Kleenex by these jerkoffs.

Kerry - The most calculating climber and phoney joke ever - who's far less a war hero than he is our very own Manchurian Candidate.

Cleland - who blew himself up farting around with a grenade in his hooch - getting away with the assumption that his wounds were war-related for 40 yrs, when he's just a dumbass - not the war hero he's played for the suckers.

And now Harkin. Harkin, you gutless lying fuckwit. I hope some Iowa farmer - who did serve with honor and would be very surprised to find out you're another appeacer dink - wipes the floor with you.

So who's the next Donk chickenhawk to be outted as a bullshit artist?

Posted by .com 2004-08-20 3:12:37 AM|| 2004-08-20 3:12:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 John Kerry, the Cambodian Candidate.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-08-20 3:20:58 AM|| 2004-08-20 3:20:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 .com, has this excerpt from Unfit for Command about the Sampan Incident been posted?

Posted by Super Hose 2004-08-20 3:36:10 AM|| 2004-08-20 3:36:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 SH - Well, it has now, heh! Very interesting read - and clarifies the story for me as I had heard bits and pieces in various "debates" on talking-head shows.

If Skeery wins, not only will it be proof that most of my fellow citizens are lacking sufficient critical faculties (i.e. Darwin has failed us), it will also prove that the MSM is a fifth column power for world socialism. The two together are more than enough for me to seek a nice quiet niche elsewhere.

Posted by .com 2004-08-20 3:44:10 AM|| 2004-08-20 3:44:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Help me out here. I have been seeing the acronym MSM on Rantburg recently. What does it mean?

And .com: The only thing Kerry will win on Nov. 2nd will be an airplace ride back to Mass. with Tay Ray Suh massaging her hubby for the ass kicking that will be delivered.

Posted by badanov 2004-08-20 7:28:21 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-08-20 7:28:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 MSM = Mainstream Media

I won't even start the "Let's Pretend it was Bush" game, here. We all know the newsmedia would be in a full-bore, 24/7 feeding frenzy about it. But Fellow Traveler Comrade Harkin... gets the usual pass from the networks and the liberal editorial pages.

Posted by eLarson 2004-08-20 7:46:44 AM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2004-08-20 7:46:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 MSM = Mainstream Media, or more correctly, the Partisan Media.

Posted by GK 2004-08-20 7:52:46 AM|| 2004-08-20 7:52:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Harkin makes me ashamed to say I am an Iowan.

Posted by Craig 2004-08-20 9:09:19 AM|| 2004-08-20 9:09:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 When Saving Private Ryan hit the big screen and Band of Brothers hit the small screen, the real heros who fought those battles continued to down play their service just explaining it was a job that had to be done and talk about it was reserved for the corner of the VFW or American Legion among the brotherhood. The real heros never have to run on their record. Lesson in Life: If they harp about it, it probably is untrue in particulars if not in general.

Posted by Don 2004-08-20 9:34:07 AM|| 2004-08-20 9:34:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 What do you expect, he's a @#$% democrat.

Posted by Douglas De Bono 2004-08-20 9:59:04 AM|| [http://www.DouglasDeBono.com] 2004-08-20 9:59:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 I hope when Harkin passes on, he is met at the perly gates by Nile Kinnick, another famous Iowan, who promptly kicks him in the ass...

If you are bored today , google Nile Kinnick, a great story to be had...

Posted by Capsu78 2004-08-20 10:49:51 AM|| 2004-08-20 10:49:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 MSM - Media SmegMa

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-20 10:52:17 AM|| 2004-08-20 10:52:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 Don: When Saving Private Ryan hit the big screen and Band of Brothers hit the small screen, the real heros who fought those battles continued to down play their service just explaining it was a job that had to be done and talk about it was reserved for the corner of the VFW or American Legion among the brotherhood.

A persistent theme among veterans is this - the real heroes are the soldiers who did not come back.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-08-20 11:27:03 AM|| [http://www.polipundit.com] 2004-08-20 11:27:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 MSM - Mostly Stupid Morons (but I repeat myself...).

Posted by Raj 2004-08-20 1:23:25 PM|| 2004-08-20 1:23:25 PM|| Front Page Top

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