Posted on 05/31/2004 8:09:15 PM PDT by Kaslin
Democratic Senator - and certain presidential nominee - John F. Kerry gave the middle finger to a Vietnam veteran at the Vietnam Memorial Wall on Memorial Day morning, NewsMax.com has learned.
Ted Sampley, a former Green Beret who served two full tours in Vietnam, spotted Kerry and his Secret Service detail at about 9:00 AM Monday morning at the Wall. Sampley walked up to Kerry, extended his hand and said, "Senator, I am Ted Sampley, the head of Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, and I am here to escort you away from the Wall because you do not belong here."
At that point a Secret Service officer told Sampley to back away from Kerry. Sampley moved about six feet away and opened his jacket to reveal a HANOI JOHN tee-shirt.
Kerry then began talking to a group of school children. Sampley then showed the tee-shirt to the children and said, "Kerry does not belong at the Wall because he betrayed the brave soldiers who fought in Vietnam."
Just then Kerry - in front of the school children, other visitors and Secret Service agents - brazenly 'flashed the bird' at Sampley and then yelled out to everyone, "Sampley is a felon!"
Kerry was referring to an incident 12 years ago when Sampley confronted Senator John McCain's cheif aide, Mark Salter, in a Senate stairwell after McCain repeatedly offended POW families at a Senate POW hearing. Sampley, whose father-in-law at that time was MIA in Laos, followed Salter into the stairwell and, when they emerged, Salter had a bloody lip and a broken nose.
Sampley's group, Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, has garnered huge national attention and been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post and on MSNBC's Scarborough Country. Tens of thousands of Vietnam vets have registered their opposition to Kerry through Sampley's group.
Clearly Sampley has gotten under Kerry's skin once again.
If this is legit, there has to be a pic somewhere.
He is just probably feeding stories if there isn't a pic.
By gosh, I think you're right!
If Sampley is a felon what is Kerry?
Kerry's a guy who betrayed his country and lied under oath to a Congressional committee about "mass atrocities" in Viet Nam perpetrated by American GI's and he belonged to an antiwar group that planned the assassination of United States senators!!
And we won't even get into the "Frank Burns" Purple Heart that Kerry "requested"...ROFLMAO
send this into Drudge. He may look into it and maybe confirm or find out if it's false. I already sent in the link... if enough people send it in maybe he'll take the time to look into it. A mention on Drudge would be huge.
Here is a picture of him addressing the crowd using the bullhorn. The man holding the sign is our own Kristinn.
MKM
I was thinking the same thing.
Liberals are emotional cripples. This story wouldn't surprise if it were true.
Liberals, like poking a caged monkey. They screech
It sounds as if that really gets to Kerry. Let's use it MORE OFTEN! Maybe we can all be privileged enough to be given the "FINGER" by "HANOI JOHN".
Hey NC FReepers, Ping for Y'all....those of you at the FReep in Fayetteville will remember Mr. Sampley.
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JOHN KERRY = Enemy of Vietnam Vets
http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1320
...4-SURE.
...Especially in Time of War...
...with our own Freedom...
...now at stake.
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Tapping fingers on desk, waiting for a photoshop masterpiece to appear on this thread....
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Stay Safe !
Wasnt there also a lafy there who heckled him yelling "are you here to spit on more vietnam vets?
I just want to know if there is any substance to this story. If it's true, it should be prominently splashed wherever we can splash it. If it isn't, we need to skewer the myth and it's sender before it does us any harm.
Some pictures or other proof would help. My initial reaction as always is skepticism....
bump
Here's an eyewitness account.
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