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Not So Swift Boater
The Weekly Standard ^
| 30 Jul 2011 (online)
| Weekly Standard staff
Posted on 07/30/2011 11:29:16 AM PDT by Phil Harmonic
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To: Mr. Peabody
That was my impression too.
I am still confused as to who that poster was referring to!
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posted on
07/30/2011 2:25:09 PM PDT
by
Reily
To: mountainlion
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.
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posted on
07/30/2011 2:54:58 PM PDT
by
TStro
To: mountainlion
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.
To: Phil Harmonic
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 Many articles about his conviction and incarceration and now a lot about having his SS award rescinded.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.
To: Mr. Peabody
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.
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posted on
07/30/2011 4:18:30 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(AMERICA LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT.)
To: conservatism_IS_compassion
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.
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posted on
07/30/2011 4:24:36 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(AMERICA LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT.)
To: mountainlion
Hey, Dan Rather, what are you doing here at FR?
To: mountainlion
Isn’t it amazing what the media let’s the left get away with?!
To: editor-surveyor
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?
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posted on
07/30/2011 4:43:35 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(AMERICA LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT.)
To: Steely Tom
Basically, this type of hippy was pretty much completely amoral, didnt 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.
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posted on
07/30/2011 4:52:29 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(Oh, well, any excuse to buy a new gun is good enough for me.)
To: 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
To: Travis McGee; Interesting Times
Thanks for the Ping Travis. Let's bring in the real expert.
Semper Fi,
TS
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posted on
07/30/2011 6:03:15 PM PDT
by
The Shrew
(www.wintersoldier.com; www.tstrs.com; The Truth Shall Set You Free!)
To: mountainlion
Your post appeared to be channeling Rather WRT W.
To: Mr. Peabody
Isnt it amazing what the media lets 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.
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