Media Shamelessly Shilling for Kerry and Kerry Brazenly Lying

Opinion Editorials ^ | October 27, 2004 | George C. Landrith

[Cincinatus' Wife]

On Monday, The New York Times reported that 380 tons of conventional explosives were missing from an Iraqi weapons facility. The Times blamed President George W. Bush for not securing the dangerous explosives immediately after U.S. forces toppled Saddam Hussein’s regime. It was an explosive story timed for maximum political effect. Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry welcomed the news and made it the centerpiece of his campaign speeches, citing the missing explosives as an example of Bush’s failure of leadership. There is only one problem – the story was false. The truth is the explosives were removed before American troops arrived.

Of course, Kerry still pounded the story as if it were true. Even a day after the truth was published in numerous other media sources, Kerry continued to repeat the discredited story and continued to blame Bush for a failure of leadership that simply did not occur. Kerry has been blaming Bush for every conceivable problem. I half expect him to blame Bush for milk spoiling when its left out on the counter too long and to announce that he has a “better plan.”

Here’s the truth the Times did not bother to report and that Kerry chose to ignore. In the early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom, American troops raced towards Baghdad through the desert. The 101st Airborne Division was the first to arrive at the Al Qaqaa weapons facility located just 30 miles outside Baghdad. This is where the 380 tons of explosives were supposed to be. But, the NBC News camera crew embedded with the 101st Airborne Division reported that there was no HMX and no RDX, the powerful explosives that were reportedly stored at Al Qaqaa.

Simply stated, the 380 tons of high explosives that the Times says went missing after the Americans arrived, were actually missing before the 101st Airborne Division arrived on April 10, 2003.

It is interesting that neither Kerry nor the Times mention that U.S. forces have secured more than 400,000 tons of explosives in Iraq – making the missing 380 tons less than 1/10th of 1% of the explosives U.S. forces have found and are destroying in Iraq.

Perhaps Saddam moved the explosives shortly after the weapons inspectors identified them. Perhaps they were moved days before the war began. But we know with certainty that the explosives were not there when American troops first rolled into the Al Qaqaa weapons facility as Baghdad was liberated.

John Kerry dishonestly jumped on the false explosives story even after it was discredited because he is losing a close election and needs something to change current trends. Kerry has lied throughout the campaign – falsely claiming to have met with members of the UN Security Council and consistently reciting wildly false employment numbers and absurdly exaggerated costs for the war in Iraq, to name only three examples. The truth has never been particularly important to Kerry. In 1971, Kerry gave perjurious testimony to Congress when he falsely accused American soldiers of widespread war crimes. During his undistinguished Senate career, truth has often been a casualty of political ambition.

The New York Times revealed its rather obvious bias by jumping to a false conclusion that served its political purposes and reinforced its biases. The Times was willing to overlook the lack of factual support for the story. It is reminiscent of Dan Rather’s and CBS News’ recent fraudulent document scandal.

It is interesting that before being “scooped” by the Times, CBS had planned to run with the false “missing explosives” story only two days before Election Day. Apparently, CBS was prepared to launch yet another false and politically motivated story – this one on election eve so that no effective response could be made.

The New York Times, CBS News and many others in the “mainstream” media are shameless. They feign impartiality, pretend to be honest, and become angry at the mere suggestion of bias. Yet there can be no doubt. They are shills for John Kerry. They have repeatedly demonstrated their bias. Both the Times and CBS were once respected news organizations. Today, they survive on past accomplishments. They are no longer reputable news sources. They are little more than special interest groups campaigning for Kerry. Little wonder fewer and fewer people watch or subscribe.

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Mr. Landrith is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was Business Editor of the Virginia Journal of Law and Politics. He had a successful law practice in business and litigation. In 1994 and 1996, Mr. Landrith was a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's Fifth Congressional District. He served on the Albemarle County School Board. Mr. Landrith is an adjunct professor at the George Mason School of Law. He is recognized as an authority on constitutional law and jurisprudence, federalism, global warming, and property rights.

george@ff.org

[Cincinatus' Wife]

A New Low for Liberals: The Bogus Missing Explosives Story

[Steely Tom]

Simply stated, the 380 tons of high explosives that the Times says went missing after the Americans arrived, were actually missing before the 101st Airborne Division arrived on April 10, 2003.

Well, hell! That's Bush's fault too!

(steely)

[Lord Nelson]

Heh, I found the NY Post on-line. I haven't found one anti-Bush commentary. Wish I knew about this paper before (I'm a foreigner you see)

[Howlin]

"He rushed into Iraq......now, wait.........he didn't go into Iraq soon enough!"

[Jagdgewehr]

Media Shamelessly Shilling for Kerry and Kerry Brazenly Lying

Well, Kerry can lie his azz off, because the MSM will not call him on it. It makes sense that he would do such a thing. It's easy when you utterly lack integrity.

[GeronL]

Have you not been paying attention to the links where we get the articles we post?

[A CA Guy]

The news sources that are doing bad things like this are becoming "NON-ESSENTIAL" to the American public and they are losing all kinds of revenue.

My personal feelings are that with other cable news shows to pick up the void and the internet to verify the facts or do research, the main stream news is committing suicide by being an instrument for the Democrat party.

They are desperate to to over-turn Bush hoping this will help them bring it back to the old days, but that genie is out of the bottle and if they think they have a lack of influence now, wait until the main stream media sees how much weaker they become in another 4 years.

[cgk]

They definitely are working together. If you go back to the first debate (Sept. 30, 2004), Kerry said this:

That's exactly where we find ourselves today. There's a sense of American occupation. The only building that was guarded when the troops when into Baghdad was the oil ministry. We didn't guard the nuclear facilities.

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Footnote: Al Qaqaa: Iraq Special Weapons Facilities (including nuclear weapons)...Iraq made significant progress in the development of the nuclear weapon implosion package, largely through efforts at the Al Qa Qaa establishment.

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And in the 2nd debate (Oct. 8, 2004) he said this:

KERRY: A president's job is to win the peace. The president did not do what was necessary. Didn't bring in enough nation. Didn't deliver the help. Didn't close off the borders. Didn't even guard the ammo dumps. And now our kids are being killed with ammos right out of that dump.

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Note the dates of those comments and compare them to the date of the NYT/CBS story about missing explosives at Al Qaqaa.

Yes, they're working together. And thanks to WPtG for this.

[Jackson Brown]

101st NOT the first to go in -- 3rd ID on before April 4th, 2003
Here is a CBS article from their archives (how ironic!)

Actual CBS story -- http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/04/iraq/printable547667.shtml

INDICATES searched widely.

U.S. Searches 'Suspicious' Iraqi Site
NEAR BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 4, 2003


U.S. troops found thousands of boxes of white powder, nerve agent antidote and Arabic documents on how to engage in chemical warfare at an industrial site south of Baghdad. But a senior U.S. official familiar with initial testing said the materials were believed to be explosives.

Col. John Peabody, engineer brigade commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, said the materials were found Friday at the Latifiyah industrial complex just south of Baghdad.

"It is clearly a suspicious site," Peabody said.

CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin reports that the hunt for weapons of mass destruction continues at sites where the U.S. thought chemicals weapons might be hidden.

"And although there are no reports of actual weapons being found, there are constant finds of suspicious material," Martin said. "It obviously will take laboratory testing to find out exactly what that powder is."

The senior U.S. official, based in Washington and speaking on condition of anonymity, said the material was under further study. The site is enormous and U.S. troops are still investigating it for potential weapons of mass destruction, the official said.

"Initial reports are that the material is probably just explosives, but we're still going through the place," the official said.

Peabody said troops found thousands of boxes, each of which contained three vials of white powder, together with documents written in Arabic that dealt with how to engage in chemical warfare.

He also said they discovered atropine, used to counter the effects of nerve agents.

The facility had been identified by the International Atomic Energy Agency as a suspected chemical, biological and nuclear weapons site. U.N. inspectors visited the plant at least nine times, including as recently as Feb. 18.

The facility is part of a larger complex known as the Latifiyah Explosives and Ammunition Plant al Qa Qaa.

During the 1991 Gulf War, U.S. jets bombed the plant.

Troops also discovered what they believe is a training center for nuclear, chemical and biological warfare in Iraq's western desert, Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks said Friday.

One bottle found at the site was labeled "tabun" — a nerve agent that the U.S. government says may have been used during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. The soldiers found only a small amount of the chemical, indicating the site was meant for training, not storing or deploying chemical weapons, Brooks said.

"In that particular site, we believe that was the only sample," Brooks said. "That's why we believe it was a training site. Our conclusion is that this was not a (weapons of mass destruction) site ... it proved to be far less than that."

Photos of the site showed shelves of brown bottles with yellow labels. Brooks said troops did not understand some of the labels and were collecting the bottles for examination by experts.

On April 1, Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, in a statement on Iraqi television, repeated Baghdad's position that it had no weapons of mass destruction. Referring to reports that gas masks and other chemical gear had been found elsewhere in the country, he said the coalition might plant weapons of mass destruction to implicate Iraq.

"Let me say one more time that Iraq is free of weapons of mass destruction," he said.

"The aggressors may themselves intend to bring those materials to plant them here and say those are weapons of mass destruction," he said.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Perhaps the blame rests with the U.N. Security Council's blocking for Saddam and stalling the invasion.

[oyez]

Its alright to lie for a cause. The end justifies the means. The media carries it all out and it is not questioned any more. The MSN is just a transcription service with their own particular agenda.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

The chair is against the wall.

The chair is against the wall.

[shibumi]

It seems as if the media/KerryCamp/DNC/527s thought that after Rathergate we would never expect them to try ANOTHER bogus story. In their overconfidence and anxiousness to spring the trap, they shot themselves in the foot. Oh, wait, I forgot...self-inflicted wounds are a specialty of theirs! WELLL! Let's put them all in for a medal!

[Steely Tom]

Perhaps the blame rests with the U.N. Security Council's blocking for Saddam and stalling the invasion.

What's wrong with you? Are you against The Broothherhood of Maan? The Internaaational Commmunity?

Let me tell you something. Your kind of attitude never fed a single hungry chile, or whatever.

(steely)

[cgk]

This made me lose my balance temporarily and while I was thinking about how to regain it a wet towel began to slap at my face and I opened my eyes

[Cincinatus' Wife]

All Kerry/Edwards special interest groups are LIBERALS first - and media, feminists, minority activists, environmentalists, antiwar, animal rights people SECOND. They just use their cause or their position to promote wedge issues and socialism.

The msm is willing to overtly and criminally debunk their nonpartisan claim to get back in power.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thanks for the info and LINKS!

Bump!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The MSM just wants anti-Bush headlines for Kerry.

The majority of those reading and hearing these media sound bites and headlines don't read further or remember 60 minutes or what they tired to do.

It's up to those who are informed with the facts, to spread the word and get to the polls.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thanks.

I needed that.

LOL

[cgk]

Welcome... both debate transcripts are at google :)

[Cutterjohnmhb]

Thanks for the post...Lets get back at them where it hurts the MSM the most,obviously they care nothing about credibility, perhaps we can get their advertisers to understand lying to unseat a President who's at war, with lies and deceit Is nothing more than a Coup against all the people of the U.S.A.

[A CA Guy]

The msm is willing to overtly and criminally debunk their nonpartisan claim to get back in power.

Yes, I agree with you but also think similar other groups you just described to me also have day jobs in the press.

[stockstrader]

The democrats, and their supporters in the MSM are firmly believers that,,,

IF YOU THROW ENOUGH MUD,,,,

SOME of that MUD will stick,,,

and the MUD that DOES stick...

IS VERY, VERY HARD TO REMOVE!!

[kcvl]

bttt

[Finalapproach29er]

They all look so small, petty, and unprofessional. I can't believe the one-sided attacks.

They look like reporter Melvin P.Thorp (Dom DeLuiese) in "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas".

How about DNC errand boy Ed Bradley? He was going to submarine Bush Sunday after the football game. I see these predators for who they are- and its not much.

[kcvl]

Well, MOST of it seems to be sticking to them instead of the President!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

You are correct.

Which reminds me. I inadvertently left off gay rights activists.

[Steely Tom]

I'm in a goofy mood. Hope you took it as a joke.

I'm in a goofy mood because I was listening to Bob and Ray on the radio earlier this evening. Good Lord, those two are funny.

I got farther than I've ever before gotten in my quest to figure them out, to characterize what it is about them that's so funny.

One thing is: they sound, superficially, like two utterly boring, colorless guys. You have to listen to them for a few minutes to 'get it.' When you do, they pile howler on top of howler.

Another thing is, their humor is about nothing. They were doing Seinfeld 30 years before Seinfeld.

(steely)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

More and more this is leaving the impression that Kerry has no plan.

[stockstrader]

I wish I could agree with you, but the most reliable indicator to me,,,,is the realclearpolitics poll--that aggregates several national polls. It seems that the President is slowly losing his lead nationally--so some of the MUD that they are throwing IS sticking.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thanks for the post.

But Kerry would have done it better - the man with the plans, would have won the peace by now with the French and Germans. /sarcasm.

[Private_Sector_Does_It_Better]

"Media Shamelessly Shilling for Kerry and Kerry Brazenly Lying"

And who was expecting anything else?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Yes I did take it that way.

I think we're all getting a bit punchy - and maybe paunchy - from sitting at the keyboard.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

So true.

[PowerPro]

I understand Bush was also seen lurking aroung Pripyat right before the Chernobyl disaster 18 years ago.

[A CA Guy]

"Which reminds me. I inadvertently left off gay rights activists.

Well they most certainly back up Kerry!

[PowerPro]

I understand Bush was also seen lurking aroung Pripyat right before the Chernobyl disaster 18 years ago.

This was a joke, btw, in case people thought I was serious (I sure hope not though for Pete's sake)

[A CA Guy]

No, that was Billy Carter who was out there relieving himself everywhere.

[Bellflower]

Jhn 8:44 Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
This verse fits John Kerry and much of the media elites perfectly. We must all really begin to come to grips with the fact that we are first and foremost fighting a spiritual battle. This battle will only be won with much prayer and we should all also fast. Also we must all seek God between elections too and begin to do his will much more fervently then we have ever done it before. Even before we talk to people about politics we must talk to them about Christ and also pray for them. If they truly come to Christ he will begin to give them true thinking about all other things. In the mean time lets pray, pray, pray, our country depends on it.

[PhilDragoo]

[Bellflower]

John 8:44 Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
This verse fits John Kerry and much of the media elites perfectly. We must all really begin to come to grips with the fact that we are first and foremost fighting a spiritual battle. This battle will only be won with much prayer and we should all also fast. Also we must all seek God between elections too and begin to do his will much more fervently then we have ever done it before. Even before we talk to people about politics we must talk to them about Christ and also pray for them. If they truly come to Christ he will begin to give them true thinking about all other things. In the mean time lets pray, pray, pray, our country depends on it.

[Bellflower]

Sorry about the double post. The posting thing is acting up again.

[Innisfree]

Apparently, CBS was prepared to launch yet another false and politically motivated story – this one on election eve so that no effective response could be made.

SOP for the Dems. In a recent interview with that useful scumbag, Dick Morris, he figured the Dems would spring two or three surprises this week. There are probably interesting things in reserve on both sides. After the NYT debacle, it would amaze me if any facet of the MSM had the gall to run yet another anti-Bush "scoop"...but I've been continually amazed by this election.

[KwasiOwusu]

"IS VERY, VERY HARD TO REMOVE!!"

Yep. The mud on the New York Times and on Dan Rather and CBS and ABC, which they keep throwing at themselves!
Hardly anyone believes anything Dan Rather or the New York Times says anymore, apart from the loony left crazies ad DU and daily Kos..from all the mud they have been throwing at THMSELVES!
President Bush's lead in Florida and Ohio have if anything gone UP, since this story broke..and as Talk Radio , the Wall Street Journal, Investors Business Daily , The New York Post and the blogs expose the lies in the story, watch Hanoi John Kerry LOSE even more ground to President Bush.
Its a win win for Bush.

[oldbrowser]

Paula Zahn is asking everyone why the president has not made a statement regarding this important story.

I suspect that the answer is that he is giving them enough rope to hang themselves. With the help of FReepers of course.

[backhoe]

Here's a fast grab of all the links & relevant commentary I have so far:

 

Media Watchdog: 'October Surprise' Blows Up in Faces of NY Times, CBS News

 

 Kerry Ad Promoting LIES about Missing Explosives Is LIVE  Let me get this straight. The NYT issues a bogus story on missing explosives. Kerry then makes it a key part of his campaign. Then the NYT reports on the new theme of Kerry's campaign. Then Kerry makes an ad touting the NYT story.

 

 Be prepared [call to action on Kerry ad based on explosive lies]

 I've read the Kerry ad. It may be built on deceptions and half truths but it's an effective ad and it will require not rebutting but refutation.

 President Bush needs to make a statement; have a press conference - something straight from the President himself and NOW. . .stop the lies. . .stop the misinformation. . .stop the Kerry camp in it's tracks. . .NOW; by stepping up and out. . .taking advantage of his position as President so speak directly to the people. He should have a 'fireside' everynight. . .or Press conference every day. . .

 NBC Video vs. Kerry Campaign Video... ~4:41pm~ EST
SEEMS INCREDIBLE THAT NEARLY 24 HOURS AFTER NYTIMES STORY IS BLOWN AWAY - JOHN KERRY CONTINUES TO USE IT ON THE TRAIL: The Daily Recycler has done everyone in the blogosphere a tremendous service by editing together Kerry's specific statements and the actual truth from NBC News. WATCH THE VIDEO HERE (1:27), LISTEN HERE TO THE 3 HOUR EXPOSE we did on air today.

 

 **CALLING ALL 101st AIRBORNE MEMBERS, AIRTIME TO TELL YOUR STORY**

 YET ANOTHER SERVICEMAN REFUTES THE TIMES ACCOUNT [10/26 05:23 PM] --

 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1257884/posts

 YET ANOTHER SERVICEMAN REFUTES THE TIMES ACCOUNT

 

 Toronto Star continues to lead with false weapons report

 

 Hanoi Kerry attacks 101st Airborne in "Ammogate" smear ad.

 

 

 60 MINS PLANNED BUSH MISSING EXPLOSIVES STORY FOR ELECTION EVE  "Do they have something else to spring on us on Thursday? That's supposed to be the time to have the maximum impact on the election...that's when the DUI story was released in 2000."

 Question seems to be IS THIS THEIR BEST SHOT?? I'm confident it won't be their last.

 

Missing Explosives Story Missing Facts

NYTrogate--

  http://www.dailyrecycler.com/blog/2004/10/nytrogate.html

 

 

Rush just read a CNN story from 1/2003 "Al Aqaa a WMD site"...anyone have a link (vanity)

  The Iraqi explosives story CBS and the New York Times ran yesterday is a fraud. These weapons were not there when US troops went to this site in 2003. The IAEA and its head, the anti-American Mohammed El Baradei, leaked a false letter on this issue to the media to embarrass the Bush administration.  Here you go:

Link to CNN Story

 http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/01/24/sprj.irq.inspections/index.html

Here is a link to DRUDGE story on it:

Link to DRUDGE story

 Fox also had an article about Qa Qaa Site:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83252,00.html

 

 UN Report in 2003 notes Iraq "lost" HMX & converted remaining HMX stocks into "industrial explosive"  Uh oh, looks like the MSM got caught with it's pants down again.

 

 

 DRUDGE: Kerry/Edwards Campaign Preparing Campaign Ad On Missing Explosives 

As I said yesterday, Joe Lockhart on the Kerry-Edwards conference call yesterday said the missing explosives: "Central issue for the rest of the campaign."

This is their October Surprise and they have nothing else but vote fraud. They have to go with this story no matter if it is a lie or not. They have nothing else. Desperation has set in for the Dems and it is blowing up in their face.

We in the "New Media" need to keep telling everyone we know that this story is a "LIE" and Kerry is a liar as well as MSM

 Edwards rips Bush for lost Iraq explosives (Will Edwards apologize now?)  I have been contacting the media sources that are continuing the missing explosives lie trying to pressure them to issue retractions and to get Kerry Campaign people to comment on the latest information about this story that they have been using as a political attack against President Bush. I urge you all to do the same.

 

 

 NYT's October Surprise Collapses

 Why don't they just call it the Oct 25th Surprise, since they have a new one everday.

 Analysis Of An October Surprise

 This is not the real October surprise- it's too early for the critical hit; there's a whole week for the story to be shot at and sunk - The real attack comes at the end of week and is directed at Bush's character, a follow-up to the Kitty Kelly and Dan Rather types of attack.

 

  THE DITTOCAM IS ON! Live Rush Thread   Rush is ripping CBS, NYT, and Kerry a new one. (LOVING IT)  
I have a feeling that this is going to hurt CBS and Kerry in the long run. I am glad that NBC came forward with their footage showing the explosives were moved before we took Baghdad. You would think that CBS and Dan Rather would have learned their lesson after Memo-gate-- In a lot of workplaces today (and for the next week) people are fixating on the election. It's topic #1 in conversations. So even if the MSM doesn't get on it, those of us of the PJ platoons can burn peoples ears off at work about it.

 

 

NBC BLOWS A HOLE IN NY TIMES' EXPLOSIVES STORY (KERRY SPOT)

 "what's coming out now is just old useless info. Am I wrong?"

I believe you are correct, if they had anything, anything at all they would have used it by now. They are recycling old news- remember the national guard story they tried to resurrect and put some extra pepper on it by sending in FAKE documents. Again the bloggers came to the rescue and were the first to prove the documents as false. Everything they have tried to throw at this president has fallen flat on its face-

 

 October Surprise Foiled

 "Obviously this isn't a case of Bush failing to "guard" the explosives. By the time our troops got there they weren't there to guard."

Another CLASSIC case of guilt by accusation. The truth didn't matter, only the accusation. And once again, the MSM jackals run full tilt with the story, without adequate corroboration, as long as they had any chance of smearing President Bush. The decades long practice of MSM lies, smears, and propaganda against Republicans continues.

 

 Campaigns head to Wisconsin - President fires back on explosives lie

 

 

 Drudge now reporting Iraq depot story was shopped to CBS' 60 minutes before reported by NYT   60 Minutes wanted to report this garbage on election eve...

 Dear God these people at CBS and in the MSM are desperate to bring down a sitting POTUS...at any cost. I suspect anything and everything reported as NEWS for the last half century from the MSM...

 

 Kerry wants answers on missing explosives

 Report: Explosives already gone when U.S. troops arrived (CNN reporting on this now)

 It's on the CNN website http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/26/iraq.explosives/index.html I sent a copy to myself, just in case it disappears.

 "Are you keeping up with this on the thread about Hanoi Documents: Two recently discovered documents captured from the Vietnamese communists during the Vietnam War strongly support the contention that a close link existed between the Hanoi regime and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) while John Kerry served as the group's leading national spokesman"

 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1256997/posts

 See page 25 of THE FBI FILES

 More to investigate for the John F. Kerry Timeline.

 Hanoi John: Kerry and the Antiwar Movement’s Communist Connections

 Credit: Captain's Quarters, complete with WashPo articles and Lexis Nexis'd archives of the timeline and Kerry's schedule.

 Here's the direct link to the WinterSoldier.com article that this WorldNetDaily article is summarizing:

John Kerry and the VVAW: Hanoi's American Puppets?

 What ironies! Bob Woodward and the press fought to bring to light the Watergate facts. Today, the MSM consciously avoids the facts and it is left to ordinary patriots to uncover the rot. Well done.

 Link

 I've known all this (not about Kerry, specifically, but the war protestors) since my days in military intelligence. I never thought I'd see the day that a 'useful idiot' or worse, communist mole, would be nominated for the highest office in the land.

 

 HUGE CACHE OF EXPLOSIVES VANISHED FROM SITE IN IRAQ AT LEAST 18 MONTHS AGO BEFORE TROOPS ARRIVED

[driftless]

If freepers or conservatives think that many would-be Kerry voters are going to slap their foreheads and shout that this chicanery by the liberal media is enough, and they all resolve to vote for Bush in protest, I would disabuse you of that thought. The typical Kerry supporter is either blissfully unaware that this story is false or even of the story itself...because they are to involved in their own personal lives or the football season to pay attention to this scandal or all the other scandals which should have resulted in mass desertions of the Slimes readership and Big Media's viewership.

I'm sorry, but the people who will vote for Kerry are the most ignorant segment of the American voters. Honesty and integrity mean little or nothing to them. They believe every single thing that their liberal masters tell them. For them it's all about what is government going to do for me. This scandal will have the same effect on them as did Rather-gate, Wilson-gate, Berger-gate, revelations of Kerry's ties to Hanoi, his (Kerry) pathetic and constant lies, and all the other garbage that should have ensured a Bush landslide. In short very little or nothing at all.

[driftless]

There is a paucity of pro-Bush or conservative papers in the States. They are not so much pro-Republican as much as they actually print facts rather than the hokum regularly dispensed by the big liberal American rags. The Washington Times is another good paper.

But The Wash Times and NY Post influence pales in comparison to that of the big liberal dailies like the NY Times or The Washington Post. Combined with the dominance of the big three lib tv networks and that of Time and Newsweek in the periodical area, you have a tremendous obstacle of liberal dreck to wade through before you can find an honest or trustworthy newspaper, periodical, or tv news channel. But thank god for the internet, talk radio, and Fox News. Beacons of truth in the black world of liberal media.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Sadly, so true.

But there may be a few hundred thousand here and there who, if presented with some facts, will "feel" the truth in it.