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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (11960)	9/23/2004 4:17:32 PM
From: Gersh Avery	Respond to of 27181

What BS?? You just agreed that Sorus wants Bush out! In the post that I responded to, you tried to imply that Sorus was some sort of friend of Bushs. See .. an implied lie from you!!

To: American Spirit who wrote (11960)	9/23/2004 5:12:31 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 27181

Dan Rather: Fairly unbalanced September 22, 2004 I believe we now have conclusive proof that: (1) Dan Rather is not an honest newsman who was simply duped by extremely clever forgeries; and (2) We could have won the Vietnam War. A basic canon of journalism is not to place all your faith in a lunatic stuck on something that happened years ago who hates the target of your story and has been babbling nonsense about him for years. And that's true even if you yourself are a lunatic stuck on something that happened years ago (an on-air paddling from Bush 41) who hates the target of your own story and has been babbling nonsense about him for years, Dan. CBS' sole source authenticating the forged National Guard documents is Bill Burkett, who's about as sane as Margot Kidder was when they dragged her filthy, toothless butt out of somebody's shrubs a few years back. Burkett has compared Bush to Hitler and Napoleon, and rambles on about Bush's "demonic personality shortcomings." (This would put Burkett on roughly the same page as Al Gore.) According to USA Today, an interview with Burkett ended when he "suffered a violent seizure and collapsed in his chair" – an exit strategy Dan Rather has been eyeing hungrily all week, I'm sure. Burkett admits to having nervous breakdowns and having been hospitalized for depression. At a minimum, the viewing public should have been informed that CBS' sole "unimpeachable" source of the forged anti-Bush records was textbook crank Bill Burkett in order to evaluate the information. ("Oh no, not that guy again!") The public would know to use the same skeptical eye it uses to watch the "CBS Evening News With Dan Rather" itself. Whoever forged these documents should not only be criminally prosecuted, but should also have his driver's license taken away for the stupidity of using Microsoft Word to forge 1971 documents. And yet this was the evidence CBS relied on to accuse a sitting president of a court martial-level offense 50 days before a presidential election. As of Sept. 20, Dan Rather says he still believes the documents are genuine and says he wants to be the one to break the story if the documents are fake. (Dan might want to attend to that story after his exclusive report on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.) Rather is also eagerly awaiting some other documents Burkett says he has that prove Bush is a brainwashed North Korean spy. By now, the only possibilities are: (1) Dan Rather knew he was foisting forgeries on the nation to try to change a presidential election or (2) "Kenneth" inflicted some real brain damage when he hit Rather in the head back in 1986. Liberals keep telling us to "move on" from the CBS scandal – which means we're really onto something. They act surprised and insist this incident was a freak occurrence – an unfortunate mistake in the twilight of a great newsman's career. To the contrary, such an outrageous fraud was inevitable given the mendacity and outright partisanship of the press. Burkett didn't come to CBS; CBS found Burkett. Rather's producer, Mary Mapes, called Joe Lockhart at the Kerry campaign and told him he needed to talk to Burkett. Lockhart himself is the apotheosis of the media-DNC complex, moving in and out of Democratic campaigns and jobs with the mainstream media, including at ABC, NBC and CNN. CBS was attempting to manipulate a presidential election in wartime. What if CBS had used better forgeries? What if – like Bush's 30-year-old DUI charge – the media had waited 72 hours before the election to air this character assassination? There is one reason CBS couldn't wait until just before the election to put these forgeries on the air: It would be too late. Kerry was crashing and burning – because of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. (Funny that the Swift Boat veterans haven't been able to get on Kerry PR agency CBS News.) Despite a total blackout on the Swift Boat Veterans in the mainstream media, the Swifties had driven Kerry's poll numbers into the dirt long before the Republican National Convention – proving once again that it's almost impossible for liberals to brainwash people who can read. Even the New York Times had to stop ignoring the No. 1 book on its own best-seller list, "Unfit for Command," in order to run front-page articles attacking the Swift Boat Veterans. The "Today" show has given Kitty Kelley a chair next to Katie Couric until Election Day. (It's now Day Seven of Kelley's refusal to produce records concerning charges that she is in the final stages of syphilitic dementia.) At least they're more likely to get the truth in Kitty Kelley's book than in Doug Brinkley's "Tour of Duty." But Katie hasn't had time to interview the Swift Boat veterans. CBS showcased laughable forgeries obtained from a man literally foaming at the mouth in order to accuse the president of malfeasance. But CBS would never put a single one of the 264 Vietnam veterans on the air to say what they knew about Kerry. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth show the role of the individual in history. It wasn't Republican strategists who finished Kerry off two months before the election; it was the American people. The Swift Boat veterans came along and kicked Kerry in the shins and no matter how much heat they took, they were brave and wouldn't give up. The veterans who served with Kerry told the truth and the American people listened (as soon as they managed to locate a copy of "Unfit for Command" hidden on one of the back shelves at their local bookstores). CBS was forced to run a fake story so early in the campaign that it was exposed as a fraud – only because of the Swift Boat vets. These brave men, many of them decorated war heroes, have now not only won the election for Bush, they have ended Dan Rather's career. It's often said that we never lost a battle in Vietnam, but that the war was lost at home by a seditious media demoralizing the American people. Ironically, the leader of that effort was Rather's predecessor at CBS News, Walter Cronkite, president of the Ho Chi Minh Admiration Society. It was Cronkite who went on air and lied about the Tet offensive, claiming it was a defeat for the Americans. He told the American people the war was over and we had lost. Ronald Reagan said CBS News officials should have been tried for treason for those broadcasts. CBS has already lost one war for America. The Swift Boat Vets weren't going to let CBS lose another one. worldnetdaily.com

To: American Spirit who wrote (11960)	9/23/2004 5:15:20 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 27181

Kerry demoralizes U.S. troops, Bush says By Joseph Curl THE WASHINGTON TIMES washingtontimes.com KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. — President Bush yesterday said Sen. John Kerry's repeated flip-flops on Iraq are sending "mixed signals," demoralizing U.S. troops trying to secure the war-torn nation and discouraging Iraqis working toward free elections. Stepping up his rhetoric a day after he and his opponent traded sharp words over Iraq, the president targeted Mr. Kerry by declaring that the Democratic presidential candidate lacks the resolve required to stay the course. "You cannot lead the war against terror if you wilt or waver when times get tough," Mr. Bush said at a campaign rally. "My opponent is sending mixed signals," he said. "You cannot expect the Iraqi people to stand up and do the hard work of democracy if you're pessimistic about their ability to govern themselves. You cannot expect our troops to continue to do the hard work if they hear mixed messages from Washington, D.C." Mr. Kerry fired back, saying the president is "living in a make-believe world, unwilling to tell the truth or understand the situation in Iraq." "Even today, he blundered again, saying there are only a handful of terrorists in Iraq," he said. "I have laid out specific steps to win the war, not to change, not to retreat, steps to win. George Bush is trying to fight a phantom here, because he won't tell the American people the truth, so he sets up something that's not a real issue and attacks it," Mr. Kerry said. But Mr. Bush mocked Mr. Kerry for his speech this week in New York, in which the Massachusetts senator said, "We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure." "He has had many different positions on Iraq," Mr. Bush said. "Incredibly, this week he said he would prefer the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein to the situation in Iraq today." The audience booed loudly. "I'll continue to speak clearly. I'll continue to lead. And I'm confident we'll achieve our objectives, and the world will be better off and more secure," the president said. Later in the day, Mr. Bush traveled to Latrobe, Pa., hometown of golfer Arnold Palmer. Yesterday's was Mr. Bush's 37th visit to the state he lost by four percentage points in 2000. On his way to Latrobe by helicopter, he surveyed flood damage in Allegheny County, where the remnants of Hurricane Ivan left heavy flooding. Both of his stops took him to spots he lost in 2000, one county by 10 points, the other by about five. Mr. Bush recently has pulled firmly ahead in the polls, but four new Pennsylvania polls show the race as a statistical tie. He spoke in Latrobe in front of a sign that said: "Pennsylvania — Keystone to Victory." Meanwhile, the Bush campaign released a new ad that shows Mr. Kerry windsurfing left and right, with a voice-over by a narrator who notes the Massachusetts senator's positions shift "whichever way the wind blows." Senior Bush adviser Karen Hughes said "his choice of leisure activities is a lighthearted way of making a very serious point." "He may have a case of selective amnesia when it comes to some of the things he's said," Mrs. Hughes said, adding that the commercial, airing in battleground states, "reinforces his shifting positions on the very important issue of war and peace."