Not So Swift Boater

The Weekly Standard ^ | 30 Jul 2011 (online) | Weekly Standard staff

[Phil Harmonic]

Those of us masochistic enough to have watched the 2004 Democratic convention might faintly recall the name Captain Wade Sanders.

[snip]

While Sanders’s record as a Democratic hack suggested he might have political reasons for supporting Kerry, Sanders also had a stellar military record, having been awarded a Silver Star in 1992, and his credibility wasn’t much in question.

That’s why The Scrapbook feels compelled to point out the ignominious denouement of the Wade -Sanders career. Yes, it’s true that Sanders is currently doing time in a federal penitentiary after admitting to being in possession of child pornography. As bad as that is, it’s not nearly as remarkable as what just happened to Sanders.

[Reily]

That was my impression too.
I am still confused as to who that poster was referring to!

[TStro]

Bush ordered the release of all of his records. We even have his college transcripts, which he didn’t try to hide (unlike John F’in Kerry). He was never busted. Those who served with him said he requested transfer to a squadron serving in VN, because the planes he flew were never used in Nam. That was the reason he never saw combat.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

W was hounded for his military records but it took a court order to release his edited records. He was, I am told, busted to lowest enlisted seaman.

"W" usually refers to GW Bush; there is however no information I'm aware of that Mr. Bush (junior, not Pere) was ever in the Navy.

Am I to infer that you refer to Wade (Sanders)?

Murtha refused to release his records. Boama refuses to release his records. I see a pattern here. The truth seems to be a casualty during elections.

[robowombat]

Sanders has become a sort of ghost on the web since his conviction. Many articles about his conviction and incarceration and now a lot about having his SS award rescinded. There is virtually nothing about all the years from Nam to prison. One article in the USNI proceedings in 1999 and a very short acknowledgment of his alumni status from UCSD. This guy was some sort of connected rat player in San Diego for years and I can't even find out what law school he attended. Obviously a lot of somebodies have been at work doing a slate wiper operation. The amount of child porn found on his computer would lead one to suspect he has been involved in sex with young girls for a long time. Perhaps even starting during his tour in VN. Certainly those temptations were present there. One can only wonder if he is tied into some underage sex ring with some other insider types in San Diego and in DC. In the latter cocaine and underage sex partners are a popular subset of the numerous perversions enjoyed by a lot of insiders. San Diego is not that far from Tijuana and before the drug cartel wars was a popular place for well off types to enjoy their perversion of choice. There is some reason Sanders has been slate wiped on the net. There are a number of people who don't want any connection with him known. Another footnote on the underside of the political class.

[mountainlion]

Are you saying that W willfully resisted releasing his military records?

Sorry about that. A short term memory here. W was hounded by the media and went out of his way for the release of every page. John Hanoi Kerry went out of his way to lie about his record and it took a freedom of information law suit to get his sanitized records released.

[mountainlion]

W” usually refers to GW Bush; there is however no information I'm aware of that Mr. Bush (junior, not Pere) was ever in the Navy.

I was thinking too far ahead and did not get the first right. A Buddy of mine had his father and twin brother that were both on Swift Boats. My Buddie lost his twin brother MIA in Viet Nam.

[editor-surveyor]

Hey, Dan Rather, what are you doing here at FR?

[Mr. Peabody]

Isn’t it amazing what the media let’s the left get away with?!

[mountainlion]

Hey, Dan Rather, what are you doing here at FR?

Did Ran Dather report of John The traitor Kerrie's fake but accurate Courts Martial papers?

[Cyber Liberty]

Basically, this type of hippy was pretty much completely amoral, didn’t believe in anything. Thought society was a fraud, thought America was a lie, thought the concepts of honesty and integrity were jokes. Oh yeah, hippies of this type also believed absolutely that they were immeasurably smarter than anyone else.

Sounds like "Yippies." They took themselves far too seriously.

[Phil Harmonic]

In considering all things Kerry, the WSJ's James Taranto can usually be counted upon for the money observations. From his 23 Dec 2008 "Best of the Web Today" on the occasion of Sanders' conviction...

The following month, in a letter to the editor of the Boston Herald, Sanders harrumphed:

Yes, I am a member of Kerry's ready reserve of Swift Boat vets and unlike those who served with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and their ilk, I serve with honor, integrity and exercise sound judgment. Fox would do well to reacquaint himself with those qualities.

Best of the Web Today

[The Shrew]

Thanks for the Ping Travis. Let's bring in the real expert.

Semper Fi,

TS

[editor-surveyor]

Your post appeared to be channeling Rather WRT W.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Isn’t it amazing what the media let’s the left get away with?!

It might be, if there were any reason to suppose that journalism actually was objective, as it claims.

But then, the very claim of objectivity is proof that journalists aren't even trying to be objective. If they were trying to be objective, they would be declaring their interests, not claiming not to have any.

If they were trying to be objective, they would admit that their interest is not in informing the public but in flattering it in its ignorance, and pandering to its vices. And, rather than promoting the Democratic Party, they would condemn it for acting on precisely the same impulses which rule journalism.