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To: LindyBill who wrote (60434)	8/14/2004 5:10:59 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

My Bold Prediction - No Brinkley/New Yorker Article By The MinuteMan My Bold Prediction is that, contra Drudge, there will not be a New Yorker article by Douglas Brinkley describing John Kerry's "January in or near Cambodia", which was previewed to the Telegraph. Why not? (1) It will simply call attention to a story that mainstream media is ignoring; (2) It will make Brinkley look less like an objective historian and more like a Kerry flack; (3) Serious reporters will squirm at this weird selective disclosure - the January after-action reports are not at Kerry's website, but Brinkley can miraculously rely on after-action reports and Kerry's own War Notes to present Kerry's story? Someone in the press may rebel and ask for both the already-promised after-action reports and access to Kerry's notes (ask for December and March 18/19 after-action reports, while you are at it. And the paperwork for the controversial first Purple Heart). (4) Brinkley will not have a good explanation for his decison to leave it out of the book in the first place. Possible explanations, none appealing - (a) Running covert operatives to Cambodia makes John Kerry look like a macho man of mystery and danger, and that was not the picture Brinkley wanted to paint; (b) Brinkley didn't want to suggest that Kerry was involved in Nixon's secret war, or that Kerry broke international law by violating Cambodia's border (except when he did); (c) it doesn't square well with Kerry's own account of his March 18 mission near Cambodia, as excerpted in Brinkley's book, where Kerry made it clear that violating the Cambodian border was a Big Deal. The campaign will conclude that it is safer to let this drift away. Well, that's my guess. I hope I'm wrong. Just One Minute blog