Thugs Politicize 9/11
by Doug Schmitz
20 March 2004
John Kerry, “The Raw Deal:" The Senator and his Media
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The Kerry campaign is currently sporting their latest placard, “John Kerry: The Real Deal” for the Massachusetts Senator’s newest anti-Bush smear campaign.
Go ahead, you deluded or dishonest folks who claim George W. Bush has no business discussing or showing the 2001 attacks on America in his advertising. Go right ahead with your coordinated, contemptuous complaining – paid for in part by foundations and organizations lubricated by Mrs. John Kerry’s ketchup-drenched dollars.
It doesn’t matter now, not after what happened yesterday in Madrid. Not after the worst terror strike on a Western country since 9/11. You wish to keep the president from centering his presidential campaign on his stewardship of the War on Terror. The mainstream American media are all too happy to follow your lead. Unfortunately, the world’s terrorists just refuse to play along.
— John Podhoretz, New York Post columnist and author of Bush Country: How Dubya Became a Great President While Driving Liberals Insane.
According to a poll conducted last week by the Andreas McKenna Research group, a whopping 60 percent of 800 registered voters surveyed said they thought global terrorists would back John Kerry in this year’s election.
Moreover, Newsmax.com reported last Saturday that officials of terrorist-friendly North Korea are “stalling negotiations on dismantling their nuclear program, hinting that they hope to get a better deal from the U.S. if a Democrat wins in November.”
This is very telling since Kerry has already proven – much like Bill Clinton and Al Gore did – that he’s nothing more than a spineless enemy appeaser, as evidenced by his daily flip-flops on the war on terror, his voting against every major weapons system, his serial gutting of intelligence and defense spending, as well as his anti-American rants upon returning from his brief stint in Vietnam.
Ironically, the Kerry campaign is currently sporting their latest placard, “John Kerry: The Real Deal” for the Massachusetts Senator’s newest anti-Bush smear campaign. However, judging from what is only beginning to be unearthed about his willful lies and distortions about the Bush Administration, Kerry has quickly become the “The Raw Deal.”
Just the fact that Ted Kennedy (who accused Bush of “concocting a war in Texas for political gain”) and Howard Dean (who, like Kerry, still shows inane support for Saddam Hussein and confederate flags) both endorse Kerry is actually a testament against Kerry, who has proven every day to be more unfit than ever for the U.S. presidency.
Consequently, Kerry has now chosen to launch pre-emptive strikes against Bush, choosing instead to take the very low road of Howard Dean, Ted Kennedy and Al Gore in their sullied tradition of vintage Democrat gutter politics.
As Mort Kondracke, editor of Roll Call, observed: “The level of attacks coming from the Democrats so far outweigh anything coming from the Republicans, it’s laughable.”
Because in Kerry’s never-ending crusade to score political points, his media spin-doctors are already willing to aid and abet their most liberal Democrat as he continues his unconscionably politicizing of the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history: 9/11.
KERRY TAKES HOWARD DEAN’S BATON IN INCITING BUSH HATRED
Without question, Kerry’s sinister anti-Bush media cabal is spewing out their usual leftist propaganda for the Democratic Party, all in the hopes of ousting the man they hate the most – President George W. Bush, who has done more for the war on terror and national security than any of the enemy-appeasing Democrats combined.
As usual, however – and as shown in the following article by the New York Times, which recently endorsed Kerry, Democrats once again take center stage and are showcased as the party of supposedly take-their-word-for-it credibility by the media elite – juxtaposed to The Times’ liberal slant of routinely manufactured GOP improprieties.
In effect, Times reporter Jim Rutenberg actually paints Kerry as the consummate victim, who supposedly felt compelled to “immediately” respond to Bush’s alleged “attack ad:”
The move seemed intended as much to push back against Mr. Bush as it did to signal to Democrats — and potential donors — that Mr. Kerry will not hesitate to respond to attacks, as Democratic candidates have done in past presidential campaigns.
In his latest smear-a-thon against Bush, Kerry repeatedly claims that Bush is “misleading America,” while Kerry is actually the very one who consistently hoodwinks the American people about his pathetic voting record and anti-war background.
Entitled “Kerry, Focus of Attack Ad, Reacts With One of His Own,” Rutenberg should have re-named his March 13 headline: “Kerry, Who Has Consistently Attacked Bush, Reacts With One Of His Own, After Whining Like a Big Cry Baby About Bush’s Alleged Attacks.”
What The Times fails to realize is that there’s nothing wrong with the Bush Administration telling the truth about Kerry’s misleading record, despite the fact that Bush has remained silent all this time. Kerry continues to lie about and distort Bush’s record – thanks to questionable funding from his very rich wife, Teresa Heinz, heiress to the Heinz ketchup fortune. Teresa Heinz recently spearheaded Peaceful Tomorrows, a Far Left group of 9/11 families that John and Teresa Heinz Kerry financed – and reportedly coached – to work the media circuit in a feeble attempt to stop Bush’s ads.
Undoubtedly, the Kerrys are getting a lot of free publicity from their Democratic friends in the media, who will likely never expose Kerry’s campaign ties to soft money.
CBS PAINTS KERRY AS VICTIM, BUT BUSH USES KERRY’S OWN QUOTES
Painting Kerry as the poor little victim of Bush’s non-attack ads, NBC Today co-host Ann Curry on March 9 was “taken aback by Bush 'bashing his opponent' about a Senate vote (on intelligence funding) taken nine years ago – as if that is somehow out of bounds,” noted Geoff Dickens of the Media Research Center (MRC).
During a session with Tim Russert, Curry played a clip from Bush about how Kerry pushed for a cut in intelligence funding:
His bill was so deeply irresponsible that he didn’t have a single co-sponsor in the United States Senate. Once again, Senator Kerry is trying to have it both ways. He’s for good intelligence, yet he was willing to gut the intelligence services.
Curry later lamented: “An incumbent President bashing his opponent about a bill from nine years ago that never even came to a vote.”
As if Kerry is above and beyond ever being challenged for his patent dishonesty.
For instance, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on his March 4 Countdown program, practically salivated over a story about a small number of relatives (from Teresa Heinz’s well-financed foundation), who complained about Bush’s use of the 9/11 images.
Quote: ‘It’s as sick as people who stole things out of the place.’ Some firefighters, some families of the victims of 9/11, protesting President Bush’s new campaign ad.
Not surprising, NBC’s liberal host Katie Couric spoke to Bush campaign adviser Karen Hughes on the March 4 Today Show, insinuating that all 9/11 families felt the same way.
But Couric intentionally neglected to mention quotes from a New York Daily News article of 9/11 relatives who support the Bush ads:
One September 11th widow told the [New York] Daily News this morning she was offended by the use of 9/11 images in these ads, saying quote, ‘After three thousand people were murdered on his watch, it seems to me that takes an awful lot of audacity. Honestly, it’s in poor taste.’ What’s your response to that?” Couric said snidely.
What’s more, NBC Nightly News White House correspondent David Gregory weaved his own liberal, anti-Bush opinions into the following segment about the Bush ads:
This is not the first time Mr. Bush has been accused of using the 9/11 attack for political gain. In May of 2002 the White House was criticized for allowing congressional Republicans to use a picture of the President on Air Force One speaking to the Vice President just hours after the attacks on New York and Washington. Political analysts say the President is once again walking a fine line.
As usual in the mainstream media’s collective mindset, Republicans are the unscrupulous ones; it’s never the Democrats, whose unfounded lies and misrepresentations become the bulk of their news coverage – which are typically used against Republicans. As if Democrats are never to be questioned, second-guessed or challenged on anything they say or do.
In effect, Democrats like Kerry can level any unsubstantiated charge they want (i.e., Kerry’s calling Republicans “the most crooked, lying group I have ever seen”) and never have to worry about being challenged by their media allies.
To date, Kerry has never been questioned about his childish rant against the GOP. But if a Republican had said the same thing, the media elite would be demanding an apology (that they still have never demanded from Kerry). Now, Hillary Clinton, one of the most dishonest politicians in Washington, is actually backing Kerry’s asinine statement. So look for Kerry and Hillary’s media buddies to run with this story without challenge).
In yet another example of leftist media bias, when Kerry recently threatened to send his lynch mob of liberal lawyers down to Florida the day after the November election to challenge the results (if they aren’t to his liking), the media elite has already ignored Kerry’s duplicity in his premeditated, Gore-style hijacking of the Florida electorate.
Again, if a Republican had made the same threat, the media elite would be accusing them of trying to “steal the election,” even though the media elite ignored revelations that Gore was accused of voter fraud in preventing over 10,000 military votes from arriving in the U.S. because Gore knew they’d likely be Republican votes for Bush. Now, Kerry wants complete control over the Florida election results – and the media elite could care less.
KERRY’S SECRET CASH COW – THE HEINZ KETCHUP FORTUNE
Accordingly, Teresa Heinz recently told NPR that if need be, she would find a way to circumvent campaign finance laws beyond her allotted $2,000 donation, warning that she wouldn’t be averse to squeezing her multi-billion dollar ketchup bottle to repel what she perceives as Bush’s “personal attacks.” But don’t look for CNN, The Times or Dan Rather to expose the Kerry’s financial treachery.
Heinz’s planned political heist is reminiscent of the recent antics of billionaire George Soros. A staunch Democrat and self-professed Bush-hater, Soros vowed – and even said he’d make it his mission in life – to go completely broke, if it meant defeating Bush this fall. But the media elite has once again looked the other way on this one.
Moreover, the leftist media still covered for Kerry when he tried to politicize Bush’s recent visit to a New York City memorial ceremony. In fact, the MRC said ABC’s Charles Gibson used Bush’s visit to parrot liberal complaints about 9/11 images in the Bush ad: “Gibson claimed the ad had “ignited” controversy and debate but didn’t tell viewers that the complaints were from a small group of liberals and a pro-Kerry union.”
Kerry has also been trying to make political hay out of Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe’s bogus AWOL charge that Bush was absent during some of his service in the National Guard.
According to a March 7 article in the UK Telegraph, in a Bill Clinton-like draft-dodging move, Kerry was actually the one trying to avoid his military responsibilities.
UK Telegraph’s New York reporter Charles Laurence wrote that Kerry tried to defer his military service for a year, according to a newly rediscovered newspaper article in a Harvard University newspaper:
"He wrote to his local recruitment board seeking permission to spend a further 12 months studying in Paris, after completing his degree course at Yale University in the mid-1960s,” Laurence reported.
"The revelation appears to undercut Sen. Kerry’s carefully-cultivated image as a man who willingly served his country in a dangerous war - in supposed contrast to President Bush, who served in the Texas National Guard and thus avoided being sent to Vietnam."
Laurence added that when the Telegraph tried to contact Kerry headquarters to give the Massachusetts Senator a chance to confirm or deny the story, their phone calls were never returned.
Definitely, Kerry has the willing accomplices of The Times, CNN and Dan Rather, as well as other media elite, to do his propagandizing in a calculated effort to try to take out Bush this fall. But then again, that’s all the Left has going for them – blatant lies, distortions and dirty campaign tricks as they try to slant public opinion against Bush.
In other words, Kerry can run on his trumped-up record, but Bush cannot run on his admirable success in winning two separate wars? – that has been the defining moment of his presidency. But to the media elite, Bush is being political and Kerry is not.
KERRY CALLED FOR WMD HUNT IN 2002; CNN CALLS IT “FRUITLESS”
Speaking of media leftists running damage control for the Democrats, although Kerry declared in 2002 that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and needed to be stopped, a CNN promo for an upcoming interview with U.S. enemy Hans Blix, said: “What does he think about our fruitless search for WMDs?” By editorializing even its promos, CNN displays their utter contempt for Bush – and favor for Kerry.
In the long run, it’s Bush who constantly has to defend himself, while the Democrats get the mikes, the sound bites, the air time and the prominent news coverage, as leftist portals like CNN treat their fellow Democrats as royalty, as well as trustworthy news sources.
For example, CNN anchor Fredricka Whitfield started one of her March 13 segments by suggesting that Bush and the Republicans were “attacking” Kerry, while the Democrats only wanted answers about Bush’s supposed “credibility” problem. Apparently, CNN believes that their beloved Democrats’ proven lack of credibility can never be questioned.
But with Bush and the GOP – which CNN obviously loathes, it’s fair game, without any objectivity, fairness or balance. No wonder Fox News is number one in the ratings. People are sick and tired of the Dan Rathers of the news industry that repeatedly distort and tilt the news in the Democrats’ favor, while always finding fault with Republicans.
For instance, on last Thursday’s NBC Nightly News, Tom Brokaw blathered: “The Bush-Cheney campaign is out tonight with its first ad attacking Kerry by name. The new ad, which will begin airing tomorrow in 18 battleground states, calls Kerry quote, ‘wrong on taxes, wrong on defense.’ A radio version of the ad will also run in select markets.”
According to the MRC, Brokaw avoided portraying Kerry as the one who made a baseless allegation about criminal conduct. Instead, Brokaw highlighted how Kerry, standing in front of a group of U.S. Senators, “lit into what he called ‘Republican hit squads’ specializing in ‘trying to destroy people.’
“The previous day, a wireless mike that Kerry was wearing picked up his comment that his opponents are quote, ‘the most crooked, lying group I have ever seen.’ And Kerry won’t take that back.”
(In another classic, Clinton-style pathological flip-flop, Kerry on Monday morning hypocritically accused Bush of not supplying our troops with body armor, when it was Kerry who voted against sending it to Iraq. Bush had already included the request for body armor in the $87 billion earmarked for Iraq, which Kerry also voted against.)
KERRY KNEW ABOUT 9/11 BOSTON HIJACKING PLAN YET DID NOTHING
Speaking of Kerry’s apathy concerning the war on terror, according to Washington investigative reporter Paul Sperry, Kerry often boasts how he “sounded the alarm on terrorism years before 9/ 11,” referring to his 1997 book, The New War.
But Kerry didn’t blast it when it really counted, Sperry wrote – four months before the hijackings, when he was hand-delivered evidence of serious security breaches at Logan International Airport, with specific warnings that terrorists could exploit them:
"Former FAA security officials say the Massachusetts senator had the power to prevent at least the Boston hijackings and save the World Trade Center and thousands of lives, yet he failed to take effective action after they gave him a prophetic warning that his state’s main airport was vulnerable to multiple hijackings,” Sperry wrote in the March 15 edition of the New York Post.
Again, as Kerry continues to accuse Bush of “misleading America” into the war in Iraq, the Kerry media cabal has flatly refused to expose Kerry’s treasonous dereliction of duty in responding to a tip that could have prevented the hijackings at Logan International Airport. Much like Clinton’s fear of racial profiling, Kerry did nothing as well.
KERRY REFUSES TO APOLOGIZE FOR HOWARD DEAN-STYLE GAFFE
While Kerry continues his unsubstantiated charges against the Bush Administration, his media friends will not likely investigate his phony claims.
Still refusing to disavow his hypocritical remark about “the most crooked, lying” Republicans – a comment he made in front of his fellow partisan Democratic Senators, Kerry arrogantly said: “I have no intention whatsoever of apologizing for my remarks. I think the Republicans need to start talking about the real issues before the country.”
But isn’t this exactly what Kerry is avoiding? Kerry’s the one who’s running from the truth. Kerry’s the one on the defensive, with his media attack dogs ready and willing to go for the Republican jugular, without questioning Kerry’s positions on the real issues.
As a result, Kerry’s arrogance continues to show no bounds, especially concerning Kerry’s alleged support from brutal despots. (In his 1997 book, Kerry called terrorist leader Yasser Arafat a “role model” and a “statesman.”)
Last Monday, Kerry told reporters in Florida that he had supposedly met with foreign leaders who privately endorsed him, releasing another lie – and tickling the ears of the salivating, anti-Bush media elite:
“I’ve met with foreign leaders who can’t go out and say this publicly,” Kerry claimed. “But, boy, they look at you and say: ‘You’ve got to win this. You’ve got to beat this guy. We need a new policy.’ Things like that.”
Unlike the consecutive censoring coming from the Kerry-friendly media, the Washington Times reported last Friday that Kerry “refused to provide any information to support his assertion earlier this week that he has met with foreign leaders who beseeched him to prevail over President Bush in November’s election.”
According to Senate records and his own published schedules, Kerry has made no official foreign trips since January 2003. In fact, the Washington Times also reported “an extensive review of Kerry’s travel schedule domestically revealed only one opportunity for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee to meet with foreign leaders here.”
Moreover, aides and supporters of Kerry added that “providing names of the leaders or their countries would injure those nations’ ongoing relations with the current Bush Administration.”
But when has Kerry ever worried about supporting our nation before, especially if it meant getting one up on the Bush Administration – regardless of whether or not it jeopardized our national security?
During a March 14 town hall meeting in Bethlehem, Pa., audience member Cedric Brown accused Kerry of lying about seeking support from these so-called foreign leaders. Kerry immediately flip-flopped, claiming that he was actually talking about our U.S. allies. Kerry flatly refused to name names. Don’t expect his media buddies to ask him. But you can bet that if Kerry were a Republican, they would be demanding that he spill the beans.
Kerry also had the audacity to tell Brown that it wasn’t any of his business to know, when, in fact, as a U.S. senator getting paid by our tax dollars, it certainly is our business to know whom our politicians are meeting – especially if these supposed leaders Kerry claimed to have met with are from terrorist-friendly states. Interestingly, France is already hoping Kerry wins, as well as the president-elect of Spain’s Socialist Party.
General Colin Powell told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace that “if [Kerry] feels it is that important an assertion to make, he ought to list some names. If he can’t list names, then perhaps he should find something else to talk about.”
In a typical Democrat style of avoiding questions when caught in a lie, Kerry went as far as demanding to know if Brown voted for Bush – as if that mattered. Imagine what the media elite would do to Bush if he insulted an audience member the same way Kerry did.
The truth is, Kerry never met with any foreign officials, according to official Senate travel records kept by the travel secretary. But because Kerry was caught in yet another one of his patent lies, he turns the tables in a Clinton-style maneuver and attacks an innocent audience member who had the guts to stand up to Kerry’s daily prevarications.
The media elite will also try to slant Kerry’s Howard Dean-like meltdown in his favor – especially when he outright lied to Brown about meeting with the foreign leaders Kerry claimed were supporting him.
Our country simply cannot take another eight years of a Bill Clinton-style liar like Kerry. And we simply should not tolerate the leftist media’s irresponsibility in not exposing him. A fatal flaw has been exposed in Kerry’s latest lie about supposedly meeting with foreign leaders and his media friends will do whatever it takes to repair the damage. We should expect honesty out of leaders, as well as the mainstream media.
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