Kerrying On--Let's Go There!

kausfiles ^ | Feb. 14, 2004 | Mickey Kaus

[optimistically_conservative]

The always provocative Spy takes the plunge - some might say right into the sewer of sleaze and unnamed sources.

The cover story of its July/August issue discusses George Bush's supposed infidelities and publishes the name of longtime aide Jennifer A. Fitzgerald, around whom rumors have long circulated. The piece by Joe Conason also details other supposed liaisons, including a 1980 relationship with ''Ms. X,'' then a 30-ish news agency employee.

[optimistically_conservative]

Nope, no bias and no hypocrisy in the media. Move on. Nothing to see here people.

[longtermmemmory]

plants. The same "rumors" popped up during Reagan and x41.

This is desperation equivalency.


Somebody in the Democrat party is on the ropes.

[weegee]

Well it is obvious by the media's refusal to admit that the AWOL claims were rubbish (and continuing to draw out the paper trail) that there would be no proof good enough to the media to dispell this rumor.

[optimistically_conservative]

The standard of proof for sleaze in the media is directly proportional to the your membership in the Party of the Democrats.

[weegee]

From deeper in that "article":

11:23 A.M.

Do voters know that Kerry opposed the Vietnam War in 1966 before he went to fight there? Here are two grafs from Samuel Z. Goldhaber's 1970 Harvard Crimson article:

At Yale, Kerry was chairman of the Political Union and later, as Commencement speaker, urged the United States to withdraw from Vietnam and to scale down foreign military operations. And this was way back in 1966.

When he approached his draft board for permission to study for a year in Paris, the draft board refused and Kerry decided to enlist in the Navy.

Ann Coulter might say "No wonder we lost." I can't make up my mind if Kerry's prior view makes his service more noble--he opposed the war but did his duty anyway--or hypocritical and self-preserving--he went and killed people in a cause he didn't think justified the killing. If Kerry opposed the war maybe he should have resisted it. It would also have taken some guts, after all, to go to jail

Kerry made claims in his post-service days to violating the Geneva convention. He's since denied his wartime claims of genocide. What's his excuse on this matter "I was only following orders"?

Either John Kerry lied before Congress (aiding and abetting the enemy) or else he is a self-confessed unindicted war criminal. The Jane Fonda scandal was bringing up all sorts of ugly questions about Vietnam. This sex scandal pushed all those off the page (there is still a "scandal" that Registered created a composite photo, which was quickly pulled from FR and soundly disapproved on; the media has omitted these last details in their reports). The "hoaxed" photo has been used to discredit the one (so far) legit photo of John Kerry with Jane Fonda (blur the distinction in the mind of the public).

[optimistically_conservative]

Kerry's duplicitous stance on Vietnam fits the Democrats strategy on the war:

US out of Iraq. Surrender now. Kerry knows how.

[NYCVirago]

By the way, guess who was behind the "Bush is an adulterer" campaign, and who was quoted in Conanson's Spy article? You guessed it -- Hillary Clinton!