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At least two political beat reporters in DC are working on a story that may prove very embarrassing to John Kerry. Jim Rassman, the former soldier upon whom Kerry’s supposed status as a “war hero” depends so strongly, has had a very interesting life since he left the Army. Rassman was a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy for a number of years. While there, it seems he was exceptionally vocal in his protests against gays. He was rumored to go on “fag patrol,” looking for gays to harass and arrest just because of their sexuality. He repeatedly said he hated...

Wednesday, September 01, 2004 — Time: 8:03:41 AM EST Vietnam vet saved by Kerry coming to town By JESS MANCINI PARKERSBURG - A Vietnam veteran saved by presidential candidate John Kerry will be joined Thursday in Parkersburg with a Medal of Honor recipient from West Virginia. Jim Rassman, a Green Beret lieutenant in 1969, will be at the War Memorial at 10 a.m. at City Park in Parkersburg, not Veterans Park as stated Tuesday morning by the Kerry-Edwards campaign. Rassman is spending two days in West Virginia on behalf of Kerry, the Democratic Party's nominee for president, as part of...

This is a movie review, a reminder of one of the most reprehensible people in American history, and a well-deserved pranging of James Carville and Lanny Davis. Both of them appeared last week on every TV program in the known universe to decry the criticisms of John Kerry by 254 Swift Boat veterans because “they were not on the same boat.” This is a bald-faced, brass-plated lie in a number of ways. But before we count those up, a review of M. Night Shyamalan’s latest movie, The Village, is in order Yes, this will connect up. And so will a...

To speak out against the Swiftboat Vets. This ought to be a Barf-O-Rama.

A startling new book charges that John Kerry accidentally "wounded himself in the buttocks" in Vietnam with a grenade he exploded, then lied to get a medal by saying he had received the injury rescuing one of his crewmen. The book, "Unfit for Command," was released yesterday by Regnery publishers and presents the biggest challenge yet to Kerry's decorated war-record. Based on the accounts of numerous vets, the explosive book claims Kerry's rescue under fire of Jim Rassman — an action that earned Kerry his third Purple Heart and a Bronze Star — didn't happen the way the Democratic nominee...

Did anyone else see this? This was the first time I have heard him claim this. Is he just saying this because he knows Kerry will never file a SF180 to release his records? I suspect John Kerry actually put himself in for the Silver Star, but we have no way of knowing, do we?

John Kerry's "band of brothers" hasn't had much to say about his 1971 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee where he claimed GIs in Vietnam routinely committed atrocities. Now former CNN executive Ted Kavanau says it's high time for somebody to ask them to verify Kerry's under-oath account. The would-be commander in chief claimed that American soldiers, "personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, [blew] up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle...

Katie Couric is interviewing a man named Jim Rassman on the Today show right now. Jim Rassman is a Vitenam War veteran who credits John Kerry with saving his life in combat. During this interview, he admits that he was contacted by Kerry campaign workers and asked to appear in Iowa to promote John Kerry. I was amazed that Kerry would use this man for his own political agenda. Furthermore, one must wonder...how is this so newsworthy that an appearance on the Today show is warranted?