Dear Today Show:
You all sit around and cannot figure out why Kerry lost, and you miss the real story of this race.
It was the military vote folks. It was the Vietnam veterans and the over 20 million people who were touched by Vietnam and who have family members serving today who did not want Kerry, who threw his medals and slandered a whole generation of our American fighting men. It was US, despite the president's lackluster campaign, who made the difference.
If you want to see the real story, get one of your twenty-something (history-less) producers to check out www.kerrylied.com and click the link for Operation Street Corner. You'll see just a few samples of the incredible grassroots effort to expose Kerry and campaign against him. This is just one of the many veterans groups working hard against Kerry this year. You guys are the losers for not reporting their story. You guys are the losers in journalism period. (and I say that as a journalist).
You people wanted to say this was funded by republicans. You wanted to say it was Carl Rove. You wanted to say it was political. Well guess what? It was funded straight from our own middle-class pockets, driven by our LOVE for our dead and injured family members, who were dishonored by Kerry and his radical, lying cohorts of the 70s. It was driven by our love for our current troops, in many cases the sons and daughters of the ones Kerry smeared with his post-Vietnam lies.
You say members of Congress should have loved ones serving in the military. I say members of the press should have loved ones serving in the military. Then you might just comprehend what is so foreign to you...you cannot understand what you do not know.
Sincerely,
Campfollower