[Cincinatus' Wife]

***Although the ad makes it appear as if Kerry is recounting atrocities he witnessed, he in fact was reciting claims made by soldiers that year during an anti-war gathering in Detroit. "They had personally raped, cut off heads, cut off ears," he told senators.

Reflecting on those comments this year, Kerry said they were too harsh. "I think some of the language that I used was a language that reflected an anger. ... The words were honest, but on the other hand, they were a little bit over the top," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press" in April. *** Source

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Unfit for Command [Excerpt] Kerry's testimony to the Fulbright Committee was a carefully orchestrated piece of political theater. Fulbright wanted a presentable, young Kennedy-esque face to put on the antiwar effort, and Kerry wanted a national forum from which to launch his climb to political celebrity. Ted Kennedy helped arrange Kerry's testimony with Senator Fulbright at a private fundraising event held at the home of Democratic senator Philip A. Hart of Michigan.

………Once Kerry learned that he would have the chance to give testimony before the committee, he recruited the assistance of Adam Walinsky, a speechwriter noted for his work with Robert Kennedy. Walinsky drafted the speech and coached Kerry on its delivery. The only image Kerry wanted us to see was a myth: a young man with a burning passion for the truth, the leader forced to sleep on the ground, the man answering his country's call to be where he was urgently needed, before a committee of the United States Senate where the senators and America were urgently waiting for his firsthand criticism of the war. He porceeded to level his charges: [End Excerpt]

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I'm beginning to wonder how long this political theater was in the making.

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Kerry's World: Father Knows Best****……….As early as prep school, John Kerry showed signs that he shared his father's suspicions about America's cold war foreign policy. In a debate at St. Paul's in the late '50s, he argued that the United States should establish relations with Red China. During his junior year at Yale, he won a speech prize for an oration warning, "It is the specter of Western Imperialism that causes more fear among Africans and Asians than communism, and thus it is self-defeating." And, when he was tapped to deliver a graduation speech in 1966, he used the occasion to condemn U.S. involvement in Vietnam, intoning, "What was an excess of isolationism has become an excess of interventionism."……….***

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John Kerry testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by William Fulbright, in April 1971. Photo UPI

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New Swift Boat Ad

A frame grab shows Vietnam war-era Swift boat veteran Ken Cordier speaking during a television commercial over Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry 's war record. Kerry asked the Federal Election Commission August 20, 2004 to force Republican critics to withdraw the ads challenging his military service, and accused the Bush campaign of illegally helping coordinate the attacks. Photo by Swiftvets.Com/Reuters

[Taxman]

Methinks the man doth protest too much, too profanely!

Round the bend, indeed!

[SkyPilot]

Ahhh Democrats! You can always count on them to blow a gasket just when you need them.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This labeling of a healthy fight-back response, or healthy emotional expression is what they did and encouraged their surrogate media whores in the networks to do when they played, hundreds of times, the footage of Howard Dean, which we now know was bogus, with a false sound track.

Rob Kall is MMmeeLLllLltttTTiiinnnnnnggGGGGgggGGGggg!!!

[SkyPilot]

But it’s not just fear. Recently, an Irish reporter didn’t let up on him when he tried to evade her serious questions with weak banter. He was outraged and complained about her.

Oh, but the way--I saw that interview. The childish writer is just invoking wishful thinking. Bush was a gentleman, and invoked the wonderful bible verse of Luke 6:42--

"How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."

It was perfect, and the reporter was speechless.

[Caipirabob]

To borrow a line from the movie "Kung Pow":

I understand your concern, Mr. Kall. However your big disadvantage is that this is planet Earth.

[The_Victor]

(Anne Coulter is one of many iconic vapid, lying, whorish blonde republican spokeswomen,)

Sticking jabs like this into a completely unrelated piece is the kind of rubbish I expect out if 8 yearolds on the playground. Kall needs professional help.

[Chieftain]

Freeper N. Theknow says:
"It’s faster than a checkbook, more powerful than a Democratic demagogue, able to lay waste to a liar Kerry with the single click of a mouse. It's a little bird of truth, it's plain to see Kerry's unfit... it's... it's...SuperFReep!

Want to join in the fun? Click the logo to donate to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth!

[OldFriend]

And how ironic that Kerry's daughter just received a Fulbright scholarship to study abroad........

[basil]

This writer is a raving, illiterate maniac! He can't even string a complete sentence together properly--and people pay attention to him? Good grief!

[AmericanChef]

-"...democrats as crazy, angry, upset, unstable, "wild-eyed" or manic.

You see it again and again. "-

Those are the only meaningful words in the entire piece. Why is it that lefties always "sound" about 22 years old when they write? They just can't exhibit maturity at any age.

[andy58-in-nh]

First of all, a "gag alert" would have been in order. On second thought, after examining this veritable cuspidor of juvenile droolings, the thing does tend to speak - or in this instance - babble - for itself.

It is easy to casually dismiss, as I myself have done countless times this political season, such dog-droppings as the one Mr. Kall has left on our doorstep. However, there is so much hatred, so much rage against conservatives contained in pieces like this that I honestly wonder what these people would do if they ever gained political power. They may not be able to spell "Gulag", but something tells me they'd gladly create one for all of us. (Makes me want to go to the range for a little target practice this rainy morning).

I'd love to hear from the poster as well as my fellow Freepers on this issue. It's really getting Helen Thomas out there.

[Mamzelle]

Looks like the "lost his cool" really struck a nerve, and we should definitely run with it...

Along with shadowy groups...

[InvisibleChurch]

The attacks on Kerry’s military record and his emotional health are good ol’ fashioned attack ad politics.

a political ad during a political campaign... gee, imagine that

[CaptRon]

They’re at it again, the right wing creeps who are happy to smear democrats, and even their own, like John McCain, are now one of their slimeballs,

Interesting choice of words for someone complaining about "smears". The left is congenitally incapable in engaging in debate without using personal attack.

[Libertina]

But let’s look at how these sphincter police control their presidential pep rallies
LOLOL You know, this guy exhibits a LOT of repressed anger towards conservatives! He needs to get his adjectives under control. he he he

[CyberAnt]

I loved the comment "an honest fight back".

However, he never mentions that there wouldn't be any need for a "fight back" if Kerry would just release all his records.