Rush explains how swifties rip kerry a new a-hole. LOL...
RUSH: Here's the new swift boat ad that starts next week. It was embargoed till ten o'clock this morning. I had the transcript sent to me last night, again, because I am a powerful, influential member of the media. And this is just a devastating ad and I'll tell you how I first heard about this. I got in my e-mail box last night, an e-mail from just a regular guy, it was nobody I knew, just in the rush@eibnet.com e-mail box from a vet who had said he had seen it and it was devastating. So I said, "Is there a new swift boat ad?" I got on the phone with some people, "Is there a new swift boat ad?"
"Yeah, but keep it quiet, we're trying to keep it embargoed." Well, the word obviously leaked, it's out, so here it is.
KERRY: They had personally raped, cut off the ears, cut off heads--
JOE PONDER (wounded 1968): The accusations that John Kerry made against the veterans who served in Vietnam was just devastating.
KERRY: randomly shot at civilians--
PONDER: And it hurt me more than any physical wounds I had.
KERRY: cut off limbs, blown up bodies--
KEN CORDIER (former POW): That was part of the torture, was to sign a statement that you had committed war crimes.
KERRY: razed villages in the fashion reminiscent of Ghengis Khan--
PAUL GALANTI (former POW): John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I, and many of my comrades in North Vietnam, in the prison camps, took torture to avoid saying. It demoralized us.
KERRY: crimes committed on a day-to-day basis--
CORDIER: He betrayed us in the past. How could we be loyal to him now?
KERRY: Ravaged country sides in South Vietnam--
GALANTI: He dishonored his country and, more importantly, the people he served with. He just sold them out.
ANNOUNCER: S.B. Vets for Truth is responsible for the content of this ad.
RUSH: Now, let me hit you with a question. Does this sound like the swift boat vets are going to pull their ad or have their book pulled down by their publisher, or does it sound to me like the swift boat vets are in this for the long haul? I'll tell you why they're in this for the long hall, folks, because they've had to undergo 30 years of BS about what they did in Vietnam because of testimony such as what you heard excerpts of from John Kerry in this ad. And the thing I've always wondered about Kerry, he goes over to Vietnam and he engages in heroic, valorous behavior, and he gets all these medals for what he does, and he comes back, and then all of a sudden decides, you know what, I've read the mood of the country, I need to be an anti-war vet. So he co-founds an anti-war vet group and then starts in to all this. You heard what he has to say about these charges that he makes about Vietnam vets that he don't even know. And that it ended up giving aid and comfort to the enemy in North Vietnam. And these guys have not had an outlet for this for all these years. Here comes Kerry making this the central issue of his campaign for president. Is it any wonder they're popping up? They've had to carry all this around their whole lives since coming back and they've had the whole country thinking this is what they did because this is the attention that Kerry and his other anti-war vets got when they got back because it was the fashionable thing to say.
But Kerry didn't do a thing to stop it when he saw it, if he saw it. You heard what he says in this ad. If he saw these things, he didn't do anything to stop it when he was there. He apparently didn't report these atrocities when he was there. And he apparently participated in them himself, but he didn't do one thing to stop them when he was there. He saves it up for when he gets back home, and then starts accusing everybody else of doing what he also says he did? And he doesn't expect the people who are falsely accused are going to have something to say about it at some point if he brings it up again? He has brought it up again, he has made his valorous behavior in Vietnam the number one reason why we should elect him president, and there are people who do not think his behavior was valorous, and who do not think that his post war behavior was valorous in any way. And they're getting their chance to say so now and it's very interesting that a media which was totally in agreement with John Kerry in his post war days, now doesn't want to hear from people who might be able to shed some light on how Kerry's stories are not true. And you just keep a sharp eye now as the Kerry campaign finds a way to flail around and deal with this.
They've got to get these guys shut up. They'll sue the TV stations that are going to run their ad. They try to get the publisher intimidated into pulling the book. They tell the swift boat vets to pull their ads. They don't deal with the charges. The Kerry campaign has to go bring on slime artists from the Clinton campaign and administration who were not in Vietnam, who have no idea what Kerry did in Vietnam, to tell us what Kerry did in Vietnam. And that story keeps changing, ladies and gentlemen, the Kerry version keeps changing. And as I keep pointing out, when you change the first version of your story, it means the first version of your story isn't true, and it also means the first version of your story isn't selling. And so we've got four different, now five different explanations here, for what he did, when, where, and why in Cambodia.
There is a huge disagreement over what went on at the time Jim Rassmann was plucked out of the river in the Mekong Delta. And we've gotten to the point now where this is starting to hurt. The swift boat vets ad has taken two points off of Kerry nationally. And in the veterans segment of the population, according to a new poll by CBS News, buried in the middle of an LA Times story, by the way, says this.
"According to a new poll by CBS News, Kerry has lost ground among veterans since the DNC when he ran neck and neck with Bush among those voters. Now Bush has an 18-point lead among that group, according to the poll which surveyed 1,009 adults nationwide." Also little noticed since the ad debuted Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has raised $450,000 from more than 10,000 contributors, largely through the group's website. This $450,000 has come from average Americans, 10,000 of them contributing enough to equal $450,000. These are not rich Republican donors that are funding the swift boat vets on their website. It's average Americans and probably some vets who are hearing the version of the story that the Kerry campaign doesn't want anybody to hear. This is not going to go away, and the Kerry campaign can't make it go away. They can try to suppress the news, they can try to pretend that this is Red China, where books are banned, they can try to pretend that this is Red China where Internet articles get blocked. They can try to do all that, and they can try to intimidate or encourage their friends who own bookstores to not carry the book or to bury it in the fiction section or whatever, but this is a demand-driven economy.
People want to read this book and they want to know what the Swift Boat Vets for Truth are saying and they're going to try to find out one way or another, because the days of media monopolistic control by John Kerry and his crowd are over. They may get Dan Rather and Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw (story) and everybody else to ignore this, but they can't get me to ignore it. And they can't get my brothers to ignore it, and they can't get Fox News to ignore it, and they can't get the Internet to ignore it. It will not be ignored. It will be amplified, without the help of the old-fashioned mainstream media whose job we continue to do today here on the EIB Network.
Let's continue with audio. John O'Neill last night, Hannity & Colmes, and Colmes said, as we said before, and I've said to you before, "Thanks for serving. I think everybody who serves in my view is an American hero. But look, here we have a situation, Larry Thurlow, story in the Washington Post who swore in an affidavit that he was not under fire, that Kerry was not under fire, now documents revealed today say exactly the opposite. How do you respond to this, Mr. O'Neill?"
O'NEILL: Yeah, I'd like to respond to that, Alan. Larry Thurlow is probably the most decorated officer in our entire unit. The Bronze Star he received was by no means the highest medal he received. What the Washington Post article claimed, is that a citation that Larry Thurlow received that day made reference to fire in the citation. It's a citation that Larry Thurlow had never prepared. It's a citation that was prepared based on a report that John Kerry prepared that day on March 13th, an after-action report. It's interesting, because that same Washington Post reporter that prepared that, we contacted him on Monday and Tuesday of this week when we had 50 swift boat people here and invited him to talk to the seven or eight people who were involved in the March 13th incident, who knew that there was no fire, he declined that invitation.
RUSH: Are we surprised, ladies and gentlemen, the Washington Post reporter wouldn't want to talk to the other side of the story? Not when they are driven by an agenda here to save the floundering rear end of John Kerry and his campaign?
Oh, by the way, speaking of getting books withdrawn by publishers, anybody remember who it was in the Democratic primaries that suggested George W. Bush was going to burn books? It was Howard Dean! That's exactly right. (story) "Apparently former Vermont governor and failed presidential candidate Howard Dean didn't get the memo about toning down the hate speech during the Democratic National Convention, or perhaps that only applies to speakers on the podium. Mr. Dean, during a 'Take Back America' event Tuesday, accused the Bush administration of being 'book burners,' in an apparent effort to compare Republicans to Nazis."
So the Republicans are out there, according to Howard Dean, burning books. It's the Kerry campaign demanding the publisher of Unfit for Command withdraw the book. As I've said, just listen to these people's accusations and you'll find out what they themselves are doing. One more John O'Neill bite, continued with the same subject last night on Hannity and homes.
O'NEILL: The other important thing in this article is he admits for the first time that the no man left behind story told by Kerry at the Democratic convention is false. He admits that of the five boats, that Kerry story being all five boats ran away and then Kerry came back, he admits what really happened is one boat was blown up, three boats stayed with it, Kerry took off, and Kerry simply came back to where the other boats were.
RUSH: And we'll take a brief time out. They're not backing up, their story doesn't change. Only the Kerry story changes, folks, and you know what that means. We'll be back after this.
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RUSH: This is Jeff in San Francisco. Hello, sir.
CALLER: Hello, Rush, how are you doing?
RUSH: Couldn't be better, sir, never better. Thank you.
CALLER: Glad to hear that. Listen I've been watching the TV, and, you know, the Democrat talking points have already started. I've seen two Kerry Kool-Aid drinkers defending their boy with the exact same phrase regarding the swift boat ads.
RUSH: What's that?
CALLER: They say, "Well, it's interesting that they've stopped attacking his heroism and are now going to the postwar." And then they infer from that, that the swift boat veterans have lost their battle with Kerry --
RUSH: You know what? You've seen two people say that?
CALLER: Yeah, I've seen David Corn and I saw Congressman Jack Spratt of Pennsylvania.
RUSH: Well, I'm glad --
CALLER: First words out of their mouth.
RUSH: I'm glad the talking points have finally gone out from the Kerry campaign on how to deal with this. Let me explain to you my interpretation of this. Again you have to understand the perspective of the Kerry campaign and the left on this. If the Kerry campaign doing the opposite, if they decided to move on to subject B, they would think they have lost on subject A, because they have changed their mind. The fact that they stuck on the AWOL story for four separate times over two years indicates to me they never thought they won it. Had they thought they won it they would have been off to something else. So that's what they think the swift boat vets are doing.
What they don't understand here is that both are going to be active at the same time. The swift boat vets are not going to stop talking about the lack of heroism or the questioning of Kerry's honesty. They're adding to the whole picture of John Kerry as unfit to be president of the United States. A coordinated campaign. First, he's not telling the truth about his service, and then he comes back and lies about what happened, everybody else committed these atrocities and he did, too. It's all part of a plan to paint a picture and to keep the Kerry people off stride. If the Kerry people think that the swift boat vets are going to give up on the Cambodia stuff and the medals and all that, then so much the better. Because the swift boat vets are not giving up any of this. And it's not because they're tied to Bush, it's not because they're tied to Republicans, it's because it's who they are, it's because of what they want to do on their own.
This is another thing the left cannot get through its head. They were not minding their business out back at the barbecue in Texas and somehow Karl Rove got hold of them and said 'Hey, we need your help, guys.' These guys have been harboring an animosity and a rage and a desire to set the record straight ever since John Kerry started talking about all of his heroism and valor as making it such that he is fit to be president of the United States. They don't need any impetus to come forth with this, they don't need any assistance, they don't need any modeling, they don't need any coaching. They are being driven by, to use a phrase uttered by a popular governor recently, they are being guided by their truth, if I may say. And their truth is that they have been maligned and their truth is they've been maligned by somebody who is lying about them and lying about himself, and lying to the whole country about both in order to become president of the United States. And they are simply saying we don't agree. And that's all that's happening.
So this is phase two. I don't know if there's a phase three or not. We haven't even gotten to Cambodia. I mean, Cambodia wasn't even in the first ad. There's going to be a Cambodia -- I don't know what's coming next, folks, but I'll guarantee you it's going to be the sum total of all. The swift boat vets haven't abandoned anything here and if the Democrats think that's happened, so much the better.
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