the desecration of the American Flag.
I suppose that were he president, he'd threaten to sue any TV station that would report a massive terrorist attack on our land.
bump for later
Since both Kerry and Edwards are lawyers, they know about "Threatening Lawyer letters."
Even if the Swift Boat piece includes errors, how is it any different than "Fahrenheit 911?"
The candidates are public figures, hence they are open game.
I'm trying to remember. Did Bush's lawyers threaten TV stations over the NAACP ads in 2000? And those WERE fabrications.
CALLING ALL FREEPERS! CALLING ALL FREEPERS!
I don't know what we can do about it but -
We just tried to go to swiftboatvets.com to see
that site and we were hijacked both times directly
to SALON. They have hijacked swiftboats and done
their own site calling it smearboats.com. So, try it
and see if when you try for swiftboats.com you get
instead smearboats.com. Help!
They vill be silenced! All zeir books vill be confiscated and burned in ze squares! Silence, I command you! You vill obey!
One wonder did happen about this threatening crap sent out by the filthy lawyers of the kerry kampaign as well as lawyers for the DNC.
A station manager from a HUGELY liberal area called into Sean's show and said he was going to be running THIRTY MINUTES of this heartfelt message regarding kerry's unfitness to lead the United States of America.
Sean was pleased and so are we!!
This guy manages a major television station and said the packet the Swift Boat Veterans sent out as background was so well documented and thorough that he was impressed and willing to show the ads.
The vile letter from the kampaign and DNC said that anyone who runs it would be liable since it was not a federal something or other!
BRING UM ON!!!
GP SWIFT VETS!! And thank you guys for caring enough about your country to help prevent a genuine liar from EVER leading this good and wondrous nation! You were heros in Vietnam and you are continuing that tradition by caring enough to fight for your nation on the INSIDE>...Right where we need it just now!
Notice they are intimidating TV stations for running the ad. They have not dealt with the zallegations,certainly not refuted them.
Let John Kerry release his full military records AND his medical records.
August 05, 2004
John Kerry Fires Back at SwiftVets
http://www.washingtondispatch.com/spectrum/archives/000466.html
In response to an advertising campaign that is being circulated by the new, well-funded group, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, John Kerry's attorneys have submitted letters to stations that may carry the ad.
Within the letter, Kerry's team states that the men within the ad are falsely implying that they served along side John Kerry despite the fact that none of the men served as crew members on either of John Kerry's patrol boats. Additionally, they state that the doctor who accuses Kerry of taking a Purple Heart for a "band-aid" wound had not treated Kerry after the firefight that led to the Purple Heart as the SwiftVets claim. If true, this could be damning to the SwiftVets as it would entirely undermine their credibility.
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is backed by a top Bush supporter from Houston, Texas and is coordinated by a former Reagan administration staffer whose husband ran for lieutenant governor in Texas alongside George W. Bush.
The White House has refused to denounce the ads despite the urging of John McCain.
One of SwiftVets main members, John O'Neill, has a long standing feud against John Kerry. O'Neill was tapped by President Nixon in the 1970's to run a group counter to Vietnam Veterans Against the War of which John Kerry was a member.
If Swift Boat Veterans for Truth turns out to completely lack credibility, this entire chapter would go down in history as one of the dirtiest campaign tricks in modern politics.
Here is a letter that I sent to Gromer Jeffers, Wayne Slater, and Tim Connolly of the Dallas Morning News asking them what plans they have to report on the Swift Boat Veterans' ad the journalistic improprieties of the Boston Globe's Mike Kranish.
I would urge others to write Mr. Jeffers, Mr. Slater, and Mr. Connolly and ask them the same thing in your own words.
Be nice -- if we can get one major newspaper to report this story then others will follow.
I built my letter around one written by another Freeper but I can't seem to find it now. If someone figures it out who I plagiarized it from please ping them and pass along my thanks for a great letter.
-DallasMike
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Boston Globe reporter Mike Kranish reported earlier today that "a key figure in the anti-Kerry campaign, Kerry's former commanding officer [George Elliott], backed off one of the key contentions."
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth issued a statement a little later that has Mr. Elliott claiming that the Kranish article is "extremely inaccurate" and that it “highly misstated his actual views.” Captain Elliott reaffirmed his original affidavit and requested that the ad still be played.
Get this, however – Kranish is the author of the forthcoming official book on the Kerry-Edwards campaign called Kerry and Edwards: Their Plans and Promises! Not only that, the Boston Globe has assigned him to cover the Kerry campaign. Why is the author of a fawning campaign book on John Kerry masquerading as an unbiased reporter and why is the Boston Globe allowing him to do this?
This is an amazing conflict of interest and downright journalistic malpractice. What plans does the Dallas Morning News have to report on Mr. Kranish’s impropriety? Has the Dallas Morning News contacted George Elliott to verify that Mr. Kranish really did misstate his views? Does anyone at the Dallas Morning News even care?
-Michael XXXXXXX
Garland, Texas