Posted on 05/31/2004 8:09:15 PM PDT by Kaslin
Democratic Senator - and certain presidential nominee - John F. Kerry gave the middle finger to a Vietnam veteran at the Vietnam Memorial Wall on Memorial Day morning, NewsMax.com has learned.
Ted Sampley, a former Green Beret who served two full tours in Vietnam, spotted Kerry and his Secret Service detail at about 9:00 AM Monday morning at the Wall. Sampley walked up to Kerry, extended his hand and said, "Senator, I am Ted Sampley, the head of Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, and I am here to escort you away from the Wall because you do not belong here."
At that point a Secret Service officer told Sampley to back away from Kerry. Sampley moved about six feet away and opened his jacket to reveal a HANOI JOHN tee-shirt.
Kerry then began talking to a group of school children. Sampley then showed the tee-shirt to the children and said, "Kerry does not belong at the Wall because he betrayed the brave soldiers who fought in Vietnam."
Just then Kerry - in front of the school children, other visitors and Secret Service agents - brazenly 'flashed the bird' at Sampley and then yelled out to everyone, "Sampley is a felon!"
Kerry was referring to an incident 12 years ago when Sampley confronted Senator John McCain's cheif aide, Mark Salter, in a Senate stairwell after McCain repeatedly offended POW families at a Senate POW hearing. Sampley, whose father-in-law at that time was MIA in Laos, followed Salter into the stairwell and, when they emerged, Salter had a bloody lip and a broken nose.
Sampley's group, Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, has garnered huge national attention and been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post and on MSNBC's Scarborough Country. Tens of thousands of Vietnam vets have registered their opposition to Kerry through Sampley's group.
Clearly Sampley has gotten under Kerry's skin once again.
What...no pics?
I was away from my computer for a while and I listened to Rush Limbaugh's show.He brought up BOTH of the incidents regarding Kerry:
- Kerry 'Flips Off' Vietnam Vet
- The lady heckler that asked him if he was honoring the Vets he spat on
He mentioned something about it being pretty convenient that the cameras weren't rolling at the time, alluding to the media suppressing the story. Just fyi .....
True.
True story. I just heard Sampley give his account of the story on The Jerry Agar Show on WPTF 680 in Raleigh, NC. Sampley, lives in Kinston NC. The only difference in what he said and what Newsmax reported was that Kerry flipped him off as he was getting into the limo. Also, Kerry decided to leave when other Vets saw what was happening and began to heckle Kerry.
See my post 224
See my post 224
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Thanks for the details.
Very important tactical point. I hope it gets picked up on.
Kerry 'Flips Off' Vietnam Vet(He has no shame)
(Pinging all, in case you all haven't seen this gem.)
Anyone reporting this other than Newsmax?
Gotta love that part.
No one else did.
RUSH did today around 12:30 E.D.T., so millions know.
Is there photographic evidence?
No the biased media was absent or didn't have convienintly no film in the camera
Gotta see #31.
Funny, I have had that picture but haven't posted it!
Why don't you go play in traffic or something similarly useful?
My past support of John McCain doesn't change the fact that Ted Sampley, like Thomas Burch and others of his ilk, are very flawed messengers themselves.
We would be wise to also consider the source when considering what it is they have to say about their opponents.
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