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2004-04-26 Home Front: Politix
Videotape Contradicts Kerry's Own Statements Over 'nam Medals
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Posted by Steve White 2004-04-26 12:11:04 AM|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 ...I have gotta believe that the knives are out for Kerry now. Frictionless William had some fairly solid proof available for his mistakes before the Presidency, but the media flat out ignored them. The problem now is we end up with Madame Mao....


Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-04-26 12:58:33 AM||   2004-04-26 12:58:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Knives, if powder puffs have a honed edge. Senator sKerry will appear on ABC and be fed sympathetic powder puff questions from some ABC talkinghead who would rather be giving him oral pleasure in the green room -- allowing the Senator to bash the right-wingers who did not serve in Vietnam who dare question the war hero's patriotism. Bash the Republicans who are seeking to besmirch the reputations of the leader of the band of brothers who served our nation honorably...blah...blah...blah...
Posted by Garrison 2004-04-26 1:18:07 AM||   2004-04-26 1:18:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "Senator sKerry will appear on ABC and be fed sympathetic powder puff questions"

Just watched GMA and Charles Gibson started kind of easy but sKerry pushed back so hard and so stupidly Gibson took him down pretty hard. What will be missed is during sKerry's tirade of the difference between medals and ribbons and how in 1971 everyone saw them as the same thing, he blatantly accused GW of being AWOL from the Texas National Guard not once but on four seperate times.

The medals and ribbons tirade was pretty bizzare. I was but a young teen in 1971 and living in this area (Wasington DC) when the medal throwing incident occured. I remember distinctly people I went to school with coming in that Monday and showing ribbons and medals that they had picked up from the steps of the Capitol. Even as kids we knew what was a ribbon and a medal and that one was entirely different from the other. I cannot believe he offered such a reply.
Posted by TomAnon 2004-04-26 8:40:31 AM||   2004-04-26 8:40:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 He was filleted and served up by ABC no less!
Check out the transcript of GMA on Drudge - What a dissembling liar. I just hope he doesn't Do a Howard Dean moment implode before tehir convention
Posted by Frank G  2004-04-26 9:30:55 AM||   2004-04-26 9:30:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 excerpt at Captains Quarters:
In a somewhat heated interview with ABC's "Good Morning America" on Monday, Kerry insisted, "I stood up in front of my nation and took the ribbons off my chest" -- in front of TV cameras, he noted -- and then threw those ribbons over a fence.
"I never asserted otherwise," Kerry said on Monday -- moments after ABC played part of the 1971 intervew in which Kerry indicated he threw his medals over a fence. ...

"Good Morning America" anchor Charlie Gibson said he was there 33 years ago when Kerry threw medals over the fence. "I saw you throw medals over the fence, and we didn't find out until later (interrupted) that those were someone else's medals," Gibson said.

Kerry, not listening to the end of Gibson's statement, said, "Charlie, Charlie, you're wrong. That is not what happened. I threw my ribbons across. And all you have to do..." [Gibson tried to clarify that Kerry threw someone else's medals over the fence, but Kerry would not give him an opportunity.]

Kerry eventually clarified that he did throw two medals (not his) over the fence at the request of two veterans.
Posted by Frank G  2004-04-26 9:55:23 AM||   2004-04-26 9:55:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 The press should start asking him if he knows what the meaning of is is.
Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-04-26 10:28:44 AM||   2004-04-26 10:28:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 The Knights-Who-Say-NYT (Fred's term, I believe) ran their version of this story on page A-17 of today's print edition: "1971 Tape Adds to Debate Over Kerry's Medal Protest". It's a debate, see, not a contradiction, and according to the Knights this is an issue raised by Republicans "nervous about questions regarding President Bush's Air National Guard Service."

Nope, no spin there.
Posted by Matt 2004-04-26 10:45:01 AM||   2004-04-26 10:45:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 When you see the"fruit salad"on a uniform those ribbions represent several things(1)areas/countrys where the person was stationed,(2)battles they were in,(3)most relevant they are smaller representations of awards and medals earned.
When Flip Flop says he did not throw away medals,only ribbons he is a damn liar.Throwing away the ribbions is the same as throwing the medals themselves.
Posted by raptor 2004-04-26 11:16:09 AM||   2004-04-26 11:16:09 AM|| Front Page Top

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