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"The Era of Osama lasted about an hour, from the time the first plane hit the tower to the moment the General Militia of Flight 93 reported for duty." 
Toward FREEDOM
Posted on 07/13/2004 11:24:49 PM PDT by Jenya
All the senator's men, coming to a theater near you: Film `exposes' Kerry's '72 loss
A rich booster of President Bush will unveil a documentary about Democrat John F. Kerry days before his convention coronation - sparking cries of ``political shenanigans'' over its focus on Kerry's sole campaign defeat 32 years ago.
Three days before the Democratic National Convention's kickoff, more than 200 political and media glitterati are expected at the premiere of ``Eclipsed by the Sun: The Political Education of John Kerry [related, bio],'' which details Kerry's 1972 congressional loss and the role of news coverage by The Sun of Lowell in his demise.
Democrats are alarmed the film by Christopher Egan - who has raised more than $200,000 for Bush - aims to create a Watergate-style frenzy over a 32-year-old scandal in which Kerry's brother, Cameron, and an aide were arrested for breaking into a rival's campaign headquarters.
``That's typical political shenanigans,'' charged Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino. ``I mean, my question to him is, Chris, have you ever done anything wrong in your life?''
Egan, son of top Republican fund-raiser and former ambassador to Ireland Richard Egan, said the 28-minute film is no hatchet job, but rather a timely tale of Kerry's struggle with a skeptical blue-collar community and an onslaught by an arch-conservative newspaper.
``Fairness is in the eyes of the beholder,'' Egan said. ``I did it as a documentarian, which is an honest representation of the facts of something historical.''
The Kerry campaign declined requests for documentary interviews, Egan aides said. Kerry aides did not return calls yesterday.
Besides Egan, the film doesn't include any Republicans, but rather features interviews with journalists, politicians and activists who were involved - who paint a harsh picture of a race Kerry admits he bungled by not responding to The Sun's charges.
In the opening shot, Kerry stands on an Iowa stage six months ago and says the 1972 race taught him the most valuable political lesson he ever learned. ``I made the great mistake of thinking you didn't have to defend yourself,'' Kerry says.
The film repeats buzzwords that irk Democrats who worry about Kerry's Brahmin background - ``opportunist,'' ``son of privilege,'' ``darling of the liberal elite'' and ``sense of entitlement.''
Egan said he paid for the film out of his own pocket, but would not say how much it cost - noting he's negotiating with local and national networks to air the film during the next three weeks.
McCain is in idiot. It is no wonder the laws he writes are idiotic.
First I ever heard of this ...wasnt Kerry in Vietnam?
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ping.
Payback's a female canine, boys. Suck it down.
Page Six......NY Post
February 05, 2004
KERRY CLAN'S OWN WATERGATE
DEMOCRATIC presidential front-runner John Kerry and Richard M. Nixon have something in common - Sen. Kerry's political history is scarred by its own version of Watergate.
During Kerry's 1972 bid for Congress, his younger brother, Cameron Kerry, was arrested for "breaking into . . . the headquarters of a Kerry opponent," the New York Times reported on Sept. 19 of that year. Kerry's headquarters were in the same building in Lowell, Mass. Cameron Kerry and another campaign worker pleaded not guilty to charges of "breaking and entering with the intent to commit grand larceny."
John Kerry characterized the break-in as a preemptive strike and told the Times the two men "entered the building after receiving an anonymous telephone threat . . . that the telephone lines at his [own] headquarters were to be sabotaged." Cameron, now a partner in a Boston-based law firm, has been a key supporter of all of his brother's campaigns.
According to the Center for Public Integrity, Kerry-the-younger's law firm "has been the biggest financial backer of the Massachusetts Democrat's two decades-long political career in elected office, with its employees contributing nearly $187,000 to various Kerry races, including his current presidential campaign."
http://entertainment.myway.com/celebgossip/pgsix/id/02_05_2004_1.html
Well, the Democrats opened this can of worms with the Michael Moore Crapola. I hope I don't hear them whine about this.
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