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Questions Remain About Kerry's Military Records But will the press answer them? The Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times published in-depth accounts this week but, according to Lipscomb, the form that produced the documents may have asked for "anything and everything" or "nothing much at all." By Thomas Lipscomb (June 11, 2005) -- The Boston Globe and The Los Angeles Times initially refused to confirm or deny that they had a copy, or had even seen a copy, of the Standard Form 180 (SF-180) by which Sen. John Kerry’s “complete” military records were released over the past several days. This...

My lawyer readers will immediately recognize this as an invitation to Kerry supporters to make a motion for partial summary judgment on the SwiftVets' claims. This short paragraph from a New York Times article perfectly illustrates the liberal media's widespread characterization of the results to date of the SwiftVets' campaign (boldface added): Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which drew national attention with advertisements making unsubstantiated attacks against Mr. Kerry's military service, has less money and uses several strategies to stretch its dollars, said one of its leaders, John O'Neill. To find a similar example from the blogosphere, one need look...

Candidate's stands on gay issues cited WASHINGTON The Republican Party is portraying John Kerry, a Roman Catholic, as "wrong for Catholics" and suggesting that his opponent, George W. Bush, a Methodist, has a stronger record on Catholic values. Earlier this month, the Republican National Committee opened a Web site, KerryWrongForCatholics.com, that takes Kerry to task for voting against the Defense of Marriage Act, favoring civil unions for gays and lesbians, opposing vouchers for private schools, and taking stands on abortion and other issues that are contrary to church teachings. The site points out where Kerry, a Catholic, is at variance...

FROM KRANISH ARTICLE WRITTEN IN MARCH: "Steven Michael Gardner served side by side with John Forbes Kerry in Vietnam, was wounded under Kerry's command, and was manning twin .50-caliber machine guns on a night that has forever haunted Kerry -- the night his crew killed a young boy in a sampan." LINK TO ORIGINAL BOSTON GLOBE ARTICLE FROM MARCH. I briefly reached Kranish on his cell phone, and he asked me to leave a message on the office phone. I left him the message challenging him to do an update of this story. It haunted Kerry? Kerry's report did not...

Kerry won early release and was transferred to the Naval Reserve, which the Kerry presidential campaign says required that Kerry do no more than report his whereabouts in case of an emergency call-up. In the past, Kerry has estimated he shaved between two and five months from his active duty; this week, a campaign spokesman said it saved about six weeks. "He had no obligation," Kerry spokesman Michael Meehan said. "The only obligation was that he inform the Navy where he could be reached." Separately, both Keith and Korb raised questions about the way Kerry, who was a Naval Reserve...

WASHINGTON -- On Nov. 21, 1969, John F. Kerry made a crucial decision: He wanted to leave active duty in the Navy in order to run for Congress. "Because various political figures have advised that I move quickly to establish my organization, I respectfully request that I be released from active duty as soon as possible," Kerry, who was serving as an aide to an admiral in Brooklyn, wrote in a memo. Kerry won early release and was transferred to the Naval Reserve, which the Kerry presidential campaign says required that Kerry do no more than report his whereabouts in...

WASHINGTON -- When George W. Bush accepted the presidential nomination four years ago, he laced his speech with extraordinary clues about his governing style. ''I do not need to take your pulse before I know my own mind," Bush told Americans. Mocking criticism that his platform was filled with ''risky schemes," Bush told the story of a patriot who ignored warnings that he would lose his property if he signed the Declaration of Independence, saying, ''Damn the consequences, give me the pen." In retrospect, the Texan left no doubt: He intended his presidency to be built on a foundation of...

Retired rear admiral contends Kerry wound not from enemy fire By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | August 28, 2004 WASHINGTON -- William L. Schachte Jr., a retired rear admiral, yesterday said he was on the same small boat as Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry during a 1968 river mission in Vietnam but did not witness any enemy fire during the event for which Kerry received his first Purple Heart. In response, Kerry and two other men who said they were on the mission stood by their statements that Schachte was not on the boat with them and thus was...

In an interview with WorldNetDaily, "Band of Brothers" member James Wasser flatly denied he told a former swiftboat crew mate that he had always despised their skipper John Kerry but "came around" after a persuasive, private meeting with the senator at the beginning of the presidential campaign.

<p>April 28, 1971, 4:33 p.m. President Richard M. Nixon takes a call from his counsel, Charles Colson.</p> <p>"This fellow Kerry that they had on last week," Colson tells the president, referring to a television appearance by John F. Kerry, a leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War.</p>

For Immediate Release August 18, 2004 Kerry In Cambodia Debunked By Kerry Crewmate What's Next? Kerry Crew Member and Supporter Does Not "Recall" Senator In Cambodia Washington, DC - Swift Boat Veterans for Truth today, again, called on Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry to set the record straight on whether he was, or was not, in Cambodia. In today's Boston Globe, an article by Michael Kranish further calls into question whether Kerry was ever in Cambodia. "Michael Medeiros, who served aboard the No. 94 with Kerry and appeared with him at the Democratic National Convention, vividly recalled an occasion...

http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=231 Writen: August 6, 2004 Modified: August 15, 2004 Sources: Michael Kranish,“Veteran Retracts Criticism of Kerry ,” The Boston Globe, 6 August 2004 . Jodi Wilgoren, "Vietnam Veterans Buy Ads to Attack Kerry," The New York Times, 5 August 2004. Douglas Brinkley, Tour of Duty, (NY, HarperCollins, 2004). Jim Rassmann, "Shame on the Swift Boat Veterans for Bush," Wall Street Journal, 10 Aug 2004: A10. Ron Fournier, "McCain Condemns Anti-Kerry Ad," Associated Press, 5 August 2004. Michael Kranish, "Kerry Faces Questions Over Purple Heart," The Boston Globe , 14 April 2004: A1. Michael Kranish, "Heroism, and growing concern about war,"...

For those who missed the article on Page A4 of the Aug. 7 Globe -- and judging from last week's e-mails, many did -- here's an attempt to set the record straight on the matter of an upcoming book sponsored by the Kerry campaign, "Our Plan for America: Stronger at Home, Respected in the World," published by PublicAffairs. Globe reporter Michael Kranish was not commissioned to write the introduction to that book, contrary to reports by some conservative commentators and Internet gossip Matt Drudge. Kranish had agreed to write the introduction to a different book -- an independent one, not...

MICHAEL KRANISH, THE GLOBE, AND THE CAMPAIGN BOOK [08/09 01:54 PM] Want to see something that complicated this issue? When Kranish was contracted to write the introduction, the in-progress book was issued an ISBN, or unique machine-readable identification number, of 1586483145. According to the publisher, Public Affairs, when it struck a deal to publish the campaign's platform, it dropped its plans to publish the book with Kranish's introduction. Then they published Kerry's campaign book. As a FreeRepublic reader has noted, the Kerry-Edwards campaign book, has an ISBN of... ...1586483145. The upshot? The publisher, Public Affairs, has just created a big...

Here's something more on the Boston Globe story claiming that its reporter Kranish was not connected to the Kerry/Edwards official campaign bio: BOTH THE OLD KRANISH COVER AND THE NEW KERRY/EDWARDS COVER HAVE THE EXACT SAME ISBN NUMBER ACCORDING TO THE PUBLISHER, AMAZON, AND BARNES AND NOBLE. If these sites are accurate, the books are connected as revisions! ISBN's are unique identification numbers given to every book that comes out for identification purposes. No two different books have the same ISBN. Only books that are identical do. If the numbers are accurate this should mean that, just as the New...

John Kerry, reminiscent of ''Gomer Pyle,'' gleefully took the podium and said, ''Reporting for duty'' and then gave a fairly wimpy salute. Nearly every speech that preceded Kerry’s convention grand finale made mention of his time as a swift boat captain in Viet Nam--Kerry the hero--Kerry the one-man wrecking crew in his tiny swift boat. John Kerry made it very plain that he was running for president based almost entirely on his four short months as a swift boat captain in Viet Nam. Unmentioned were the times that Kerry would beach his small boat with the bow so high in...

Under pressure from Democrats, two television stations are reported to have dropped the ad by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that charges John Kerry has lied about his Vietnam war record. WBAY in Green Bay, Wisc., refused to run it, according to Human Events. And WTVG in Toledo, Ohio, dropped the ad after the Kerry campaign used a story in the Boston Globe yesterday to convince the station's management it was false, the Drudge Report said.

August 07, 2004 Kranish Is Cooked Michael Kranish rocked us on Friday with a story, headlined "Veteran retracts criticism of Kerry", which told us that: "a key figure in the anti-Kerry campaign, Kerry's former commanding officer, backed off one of the key contentions. Lieutenant Commander George Elliott said in an interview that he had made a ''terrible mistake" in signing an affidavit that suggests Kerry did not deserve the Silver Star -- one of the main allegations in the book. Elliott is quoted as saying that Kerry ''lied about what occurred in Vietnam . . . for example, in connection...

Wartime Comrade Questions Kerry's Vietnam Record Fri Aug 6, 2004 06:23 PM ET By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - One of presidential candidate John Kerry's Vietnam war comrades, who had appeared to back off his criticism of Kerry's war record, recanted on Friday and said, yes, in fact he did question whether the U.S. senator deserved his medals. Last week at his nominating convention, Kerry painted himself as a decorated war hero capable of leading the nation in troubled times and a man better qualified to be commander-in-chief than President Bush. That portrayal of his time as commander of a...

FREE REPUBLIC EXCLUSIVE: As Hugh Hewitt has on his site....correctly...Drudge erroneously reported that Michael Kranish is authoring the official book of the Kerry campaign (then he claimed the book was spiked, but the book was an independent publication from the get-go, not something that was a piece of propaganda for the Kerry campaign). No, Drudge did not lie. He simply went to the Amazon.com page for the book that Kranish is authoring. Here it is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1586483145/qid=1091834992/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14/103-9188360-6254201?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 The cover photo is of the official Kerry book at the campaign website. However, the title of that book is NOT the book that...