Hugh Hewitt MEGA PING!!
Posted on 02/12/2004 6:57:01 AM PST by Redcoat LI
SIGH... I just wish we have something... anything... negative on that perfect-gentleman-statesman Mr. Jihad Kerry
Posted at 4:00 PM, Pacific
The New Republic's Peter Beinart and I mixed it up today, when after dancing around the fact that he and the staff at TNR had been discussing the Kerry allegations he chastised me for bringing up the DrudgeReport's allegations on air without any evidence for their veracity. Trap sprung. I asked Peter for the evidence supporting the allegations that Bush was a "deserter" or "AWOL", allegations that he and the TNR staff have been rolling about in for days. The only "evidence" he could cite was General Turnipseed's alleged charge.
Understand that Turnipseed has never alleged that Bush was AWOL or a deserter. Never. Four years ago he said he doesn't recall seeing him. On Tuesday he stated that Bush could well have been on the base, but that he just didn't see him.
In other words, there is no evidence whatsoever to support Terry McAuliffe's slanderous charge that was repeated in Congress yesterday by a Democratic congressman and by countless pundits including the increasingly repugnant Begala, and widely read websites of the left like Joshua Marshall's.
But while Beinart and his colleagues of the left have no problem covering the Bush story and shifting coverage from the lack of evidence for the charges leveled at Bush to their dissatisfaction with the completeness of the Bush denials, they are feigning shock that a report from Matt Drudge on alleged Kerry infidelity should be mentioned outside their newsrooms.
The timing of the new allegations is wonderful especially because it throws such a defining light on the bias of the Washington media --ever ready to carry the water of the Democrats and dismayed that they might be obliged to cover some nasty business about the front-runner from the left.
UPDATE: Here's a fact sheet from the RNC on the "AWOL" slander. Keep it handy for use with folks like Peter.
How're you tonight? Interesting times, no? :-)
I don't think so.
hehe! So true.
Remember Dole's 'stop lying about my record'?
Kerry says 'Stop NOT LYING about my record!'
As the Democratic presidential campaigns continue,
you won't want to miss Hugh's insight
as he returns this weekend to join
Fox News' Heartland with John Kasich
on Saturday, February 14 at 8 PM ET.
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