Thanks for the excellent review and ping.
“In the words of Navy SEAL captain and Vietnam veteran Larry Bailey, “More than any other person, John Kerry is responsible for the false image of Vietnam veterans as dysfunctional misfits and crazed killers, and we intend to change that image.”
“During 1970 and 1971, while the Vietnam was still raging, John Kerry began his first campaign of political self-promotion, as a leader of the hard-left “Vietnam Veterans Against the War” and “The Winter Soldiers.” With the enthusiastic support of that era’s solidly leftist media, Vietnam veterans were smeared as baby killers and maniacal butchers. John Kerry was the public face and the leader of that campaign of slander and libel against American veterans. These campaigns of slander were enthusiastically broadcast into every American home by the three television networks, and they set the image of Vietnam veterans for the next thirty years. With strong old-media support, John Kerry then ran for Congress and the Senate based on the fame he earned as the nation’s worst slanderer of Vietnam Veterans.”
Hopefully, Kerry’s treason and treachery will be recognized by enough good Americans to remove him from office and make him a “leper” in America before he passes on to hell.
Good job! We conservatives must learn to use the new media to our advantage in the next presidential election. Obama had a veritable internet army working for him, and he captured the youth vote with it. We all know that those voters aged 18-25 are vulnerable to the “popular culture” which is decidedly left wing. We must counter this with showing them that their jobs and indeed their very future is with conservative values. A tough sell, but not impossible.
"Under questioning from the Committee, Kerry referred to the democratically elected government of South Vietnam -- our allies -- as a "dictatorial regime, the Thieu-Ky-Khiem regime," while respectfully calling the North Vietnamese communist regime we were fighting by its oxymoronic official name, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and the murderous Viet Cong's political arm by their preferred "Provisional Revolutionary Government.":
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/chavez042804.asp
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
June, 1970 -- Kerry joins Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), a national veterans group that is part of the Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice. The PCPJ is a broad coalition of local and national organizations, including the Communist Party, USA, "committed to conducting demonstrations aimed at ending the war in Indochina, and poverty, racism and injustice at home." The VVAW, CCI and PCPJ all have headquarters at 156 Fifth Avenue in New York City. VVAW Executive Secretary Al Hubbard, a former Black Panther, is also on the coordinating committee of the PCPJ. Hubbard soon appoints Kerry to the VVAW's Executive Committee, bypassing the normal election process.
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline
___________________________________________________________
Fact: The Black Panthers were revolutionary communists...
From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS
"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo.
Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.
The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."
To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."
Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969):
http://web.archive.org/web/20060717050055/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html
___________________________________________________________
November 22, 1970 -- During a fund-raising tour for GI deserters, Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Black Panthers, Jane Fonda is quoted in the Detroit Free Press as telling a University of Michigan audience:
"I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would someday become communist," and "The peace proposal of the Viet Cong is the only honorable, just, possible way to achieve peace in Vietnam."
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline
___________________________________________________________
John Kerry and the VVAW--Hanoi's American Puppets?
"Two recently discovered documents captured from the Vietnamese communists during the Vietnam War strongly support the contention that a close link existed between the Hanoi regime and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) while John Kerry served as the group's leading national spokesman."
http://www.wintersoldier.com/staticpages/index.php?page=puppets
___________________________________________________________
Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) Complete FBI files:
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=VVAWFBI
___________________________________________________________
RE: Ramsey Clark
___________________________________________________________
Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general under democrat LBJ with convicted terrorist enabler/commie lawyer, Lynne Stewart, at an "anti-war" rally in Harlem NY on March 19, 2005, the 2nd anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. The event was organized by the Workers World Party and "Troops Out Now". TON is an "anti-war" (pro-communist) Workers World Party front group.
Yes, that is the current chairman of the House Ways and Means committee, DEMOCRAT Charlie Rangel, speaking at the podium at this Workers World Party event in 2005.
http://www.workers.org/march19/index2.html
___________________________________________________________
Workers World
55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011
Email: ww@workers.org
Subscribe wwnews-subscribe@workersworld.net
Support independent news
http://www.workers.org/orders/donate.php
Troops Out Now Coalition
55 W. 17th St. #5C
NY NY 10011
www.TroopsOutNow.org
________________________________
Also from the website of the Workers World Party:
"Dear Comrade Kim Jong Il...
With his leadership [Kim Il Sung], the Korean people defeated the Japanese colonial occupation and soon after brought about the first defeat of the U.S. imperialist military machine. ...
Workers World Party values our close, comradely relations with the Workers Party of Korea very highly. We are proud to have known Kim Il Sung as a great leader and a comrade in the international communist movement. ..."
With comradely solidarity, Sam Marcy Chairperson, Workers World Party" (1994):
http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/sam94/1994html/s940721.htm
I understand there's still copies available. Why not contact either one by freepmail and see how to get your copy.
Prepare to be fascinated by inside stuff!
Leni
I put up a piece called “Thr Left Has Lost Its Groove” today on the same point. It is truly amazing that neither the old media or the libs are really fighting back. They flail about, etc. but have not accepted that the field of battle has changed and adjusted.
My thought is that, having enjoyed a monopoly for so long (similar to IBM until the 80’s) they became fat and convinced of their wonderfulness. Insofar as they never had to defend a position, they forgot how.
By the time they get rid of the dead weight and the lunes, the battle, and perhaps the war, will be over...
No matter what the media and some of our own said about the Swift Boat Vets, the veterans KNEW. Their families and friends KNEW and they also KNEW the msm was lying about them.
Nice writeup.
I’d like to see a followup book that addresses those of us who have simply abandoned the MSM entirely. The numbers cannot be small, influence growth of alternative news outlets, and are forming a whole ‘nother branch of news culture (if not culture outright).
I say let's dump an extra mag into the brain pan just to be sure.
Trav, thanks for the ping and the excellent review. Thank God for the arrival of the internet in time to give a vehicle for resistance just as the communists have been approaching the peak of their strength in the USA.
Free Republic and similar sources will be in the vanguard for the counter-coup.
The American People rejected Kerry because of the ability of the Swift Boat group to get the truth out independently of the mainstream media - Kerry was quickly recognized to be ultra-liberal and a communist sympathizer. How in the world Obama was not snared I will never understand - he is many degrees worse than Kerry politically, apparently born outside of the country, a collaborator of violent anti-Americans, with a murky astro-turfed past. The forces controlling the Hopey Changey doofus are implimenting the policies of preemptive surrender and disarmament abroad, while communizing our society and economy and destroying our freedoms at home. This will not stand. American will revolt so long as they know the truth.
I used to believe the MSM was the instrument of the democrat party, but now I understand it to be the other way around.
Matt, thanks very much for the perceptive review.
As others on the thread have noted, we have a long way to go before the old media wing of the DNC is completely marginalized. Such paradigm shifts are rarely smooth and continuous...
A self-aggrandizing sort of ping.
The astonishing thing is that although every thing that they said was provable and true, the urinalists of the MSM, who never were able to disprove a single word of it, to this day disdainfully and scornfully use the the label “swiftboating” to stand for lies. Talk about wee weeing on the truth you claim to stand for!
Matt, your review was outstanding and this sentence summarizes not only the book but the reality of the Swiftboat veterans success.
Nice work. Thanks for the effort. (Hey, Where's my copy of 'Traitors'?)
TS
Isn’t Dan Rather the reporter who first got national attention when he falsely reported that Dallas school children cheered when they learned of Kennedy’s assassination?