Fox News just played a clip of Sen. John Kerry out on the stump again today and he had this to say -- likening current times to the Vietnam era: As I look out at these faces, these are the same kinds of times. Mothers and families distressed and torn apart over what's happening, young […]
Yeah, those people you see at peace rallies really are the type that support our troops. A local soldier back from the war in Iraq said he was beaten at an area concert because of what was printed on his T-shirt, NBC 4's Nancy Burton reported. Foster Barton, 19, of Grove City, received a Purple […]
Democrats went ape the other day when presidential adviser Karl Rove echoed attacks by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth on John Kerry's actions as part of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Former Georgia Sen. Max Cleland went so far as to accuse Rove of illegally collaborating with the Swift Boat Vets because Rove and […]
If you have never read John Kerry's testimony to the Senate foreign relations committee, then you should. If you've seen the most recent Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ad, then you've heard some of what John Kerry had to say more than three decades ago about his larger "band of brothers." I would like to […]
FactCheck.org analyzes the swift boat vets latest ad and comes up with this headline: Swift Boat Veterans Anti-Kerry Ad: "He Betrayed Us" With 1971 Anti-War Testimony Group quotes Kerry's descriptions of atrocities by US forces. In fact, atrocities did happen. This analysis/Kerry-apology is lame. Yes, of course there were atrocities by U.S. forces during the […]
After reading William Rood's account of the Feb. 28, 1969, on the Dong Cung River in Vietnam, I'm satisfied that John Kerry's Silver Star citation is deserved. We agreed that if we were not crippled by the initial volley and had a clear fix on the location of the ambush, we would turn directly into […]
I'm not a national political reporter, so I don't have the time or the access to really advance the Sen. John Kerry vs. the Swift Boat Vets story in any meaningful way. What I can do, however, is take a look at how the media is doing its job (or not doing its job in […]
I haven't made much mention of the developments of the last week-plus when it comes to Sen. John Kerry's service half a world away more than three decades ago. I blame John Kerry for making his Vietnam service the centerpiece of his campaign for president, rather than his nearly two decades in the Senate and […]
Bowing to demands by grungy, hirsute, perpetual college students, President Bush today announced that he was bringing U.S. troops home. (Those signs did say "U.S. troops out of Germany," right?) This move has been a long time coming. With the demise of the Soviet Union, there is no real foreign threat to Germany. It is […]
I'm watching Fox's media criticism show -- one that should be an hour long, but is only half that -- when pundit Jim Pinkerton makes mention of the Swift Boat Veterans for truth and refers to them as Sen. John Kerry's "fellow officers." Neal Gabler jumps in and claims: "Not fellow officers." Jim, rightly, disputes: […]