Posted on 08/15/2004 2:30:57 PM PDT by kristinn
Last Thursday, The Drudge Report touted an exclusive report that John Kerry biographer Douglas Brinkley was rushing to publish in The New Yorker a corrected version of Kerry's seared memory of being in Cambodia on Christmas Day, 1968.
However, The New Yorker's press release issued today for their next issue, dated August 23, 2004, contains no mention at all of the piece by Brinkley.
Hmmm....still in rewrite, perhaps?
What's seared is Brinkley's credibility as a historian.
Hey, you can't sear things in your brain overnight. They need to allow for some searing time.
As the author of a fawning, lickspittle biography of Jimmy Carter, did he ever have any?
I wish we had kept count of how many times Brinkley has had to issue a clarification.
Takes time to sacronize so many lies, you know. The fairy tale will soon emerge, and we'll go on a find the BS mission. Won't be hard to do.
Maybe the article is going to appear in the New Yorker's Cambodian edition.
Maybe the New Yorker editors aren't quite ready to commit professional suicide. Brinkley has to have something verifiable on the Cambodia business. If he's going to back off on that then he has to have something verifiable on at least one of the medal stories. This thing has gotten past the point where he can just blow smoke and make everyone happy.
You can imagine the conversation between him & Kerry, "I already covered for you once, now where's the evidence that you were in Cambodia in January?"
Brinkley ( no relative of David ) is a Dimocrat suck up and is getting his just desserts.
As the King of Siam said (whom Kerry saved in a ferocious firefight on New Year's Eve, 1968), "This is a puzzlement."
The next poster has it right. Douglas Brinkley is a biased historian. On the other hand, it is bad for any historian to put in print any statement that can be proven to be false. Witness the anti-gun historian from Vanderbilt who lost both his reputation and position for such a fault.
And Binkley would have to be deaf, dumb, blind and stupid not to realize that every word he writes about Kerry and Cambodia will be gone over with a fine-toothed comb. Kerry may want Brinkley to write a CYA article in the New Yorker, but Brinkley may not want to throw his career in the dumper for the benefit of Kerry.
It is always wise to backtrack when any politician backtracks. What are the real reasons, not the stated reasons, for such an action?
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Being a 'rat plagarist means never having to say your sorry, or lose any TV time.
Just ask Doris K. Goodwin, Mike Barnicle, Al Sharpton, etc. ad nauseum.
Doug Brinkley has tainted his credibiliy by joining JFKerry's "Band of Brothers".
Won't make much difference what he writes from this point forward, he wrote a supposed "history" book and only used the vast journals, and films already created by JFKerry for his supposed "Presidential Library" in the making.
The wheels are starting to come off. Kerry didn't show up on Georgie's show this morning, either. Sent his kids out instead.
They need to go over every printed thing kerry has said since then to make sure this doesnt happen again. Thats what is taking so long. The fact they are spending so much time on this is very telling. To which I say to Kerry; "Release the records, boob, and all of this will go away! The records will bear you out, right, Mr. Kerry? They will, wont they? You wouldnt lie about your hero status, would you, Mr Kerry......?"
I don't think this swift boat story has fully connected with the country yet, and how Kerry and his spin doctors change the story everytime they repeat it to fit the accusations. When it does, probably next week, I think Mr. Kerry will be for a shock when the polls come out. There is NO SUCH THING as a sensitive war. Kerry will run not walk to the U.N and he has already told the terrorists of the world, "I will bring all the military home in 6 months" I can hear them now, "THats fine with us...we will just wait them out and then take over." Yea, sure...sensitive war stuff!!
Wonder why it's not ready for print...huuuummm.
the spin-attempts at damage control over this are getting to be so pathetic... it is riotously funny.
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