Posted on 08/11/2004 6:58:57 PM PDT by bwteim
Excellence! bump
FYI
Thought so too - guy writes from the gut.
"Here we have a JFK wannabe who is hardly in Vietnam long enough to get a good tan "
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Do you have anxiety about Kerry "reporting for duty"?
Kerry received the Silver Star for beaching his boat and killing the wounded VC who fired the rocket. He got the Bronze Star for fishing the Green Beret out of the water after he fell out of Kerry's boat.
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Kerry reminds me of Gruber on the old McHale's Navy show. Gruber was always out to get a purple heart for the smallest scratch hoping it would get him out of the Navy sooner.
Right. I just went back and looked again at
Evidence Suggests Kerry's Silver Star Was Not Earned (UPDATED and more damning)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1133600/posts
by The Bandit.
Carl Ballantine played Gruber.....
He was an old vaudvillian style act, as a magician.
Not only did he play the purple heart scam, he was always scheming. Very much like our F'in hero.
Another of McHales merry band was Gavin MacLeod who played Joseph 'Happy' Haines
Excellent point. Everyone should start referring to Kerry as "Gruber". Send it to Rush. It may not mean much to the younger folks, but to Baby Boomers, the idea might catch on. (Note, I changed my tagline).
I knew a sailer in the Navy with acne so bad that he could qualify for a purple heart every day if you used the Kerry Heart Hound standard for what constitutes a Purple Heart.
I used the acne image because this Hanoi John Kerry is so sickening I wish we could pop him like so much puss from the body politics.
1) I was not familiar with Gruber background, so I started Googling
2) Then you put in your details to Kirkwood, (thanks) so I went to IMDB where I found following:
"In addition to being an actor, Ballantine is an accomplished magician. - show more"
So I clicked Show More
music louder now.... "Trade mark"
"Supposed tricks of magic, which always flop." http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0050535/
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0050535/bio
So, here finally, is the tie back to the Flip Flop......;)
Thanks, but I may have to pass on eating for the next week due to your image... ;)
Another good article. Poor John F'n. He's being victimized by all these mean people. And it's Bush's fault.
Well, I never really watched that, but I can see a parallel with Corporal Klinger.
Another victim, indeed!
But you could never get p*ssed at Klinger, right? There was humor even in his pathetic attempts to exit early. Not so with our long faced John boy. No humor there.
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