JOHN KERRY, "THE RAW DEAL" III
THE POMPOUS SENATOR'S THE REAL DUNCE
By: Doug Schmitz (hat tip to Bill)
"With the exception of seeing Sen. John Kerry’s middling grades at Yale, what was achieved by his signing of the SF-180 document? If it was about releasing his military record, that wasn’t achieved. If it was about clarifying his reserve activities upon his return from his short stint in Vietnam, that wasn’t achieved. If it was to perhaps further obscure the truth about his service and post-Vietnam activities, mission accomplished."
— The American Spectator, June 8, 2005
Now that we finally know why John Kerry refused to sign Form 180 to release his military records, like Kerry, the elite media are still completely incapable of telling the truth about the pompous Massachusetts senator.
The fact that Kerry was on the verge of expulsion from Yale and couldn’t jeopardize what little chance he had of capturing the White House had everything to do with why he never told the truth about his records, which is exactly how he ran his campaign: Hiding behind a less-than-honorable war record and a shoddy college career to conceal who he really was from public view, while being aided and abetted by the leftist media.
After all, if Dan Rather couldn’t help him win the Oval Office through manufactured memos slipped to ‘60 Minutes II’ by a Kerry operative, or if Kerry couldn’t gain the upper-hand through massive Democrat voter fraud in several blue states last fall, what made Kerry think he could hide his educational deficit with his pseudo-intellectuality?
"President Bush, who is routinely derided as a "moron" by embittered Democrats, earned slightly better grades at Yale University than Sen. John Kerry, the supposed Massachusetts intellectual," Newsmax.com reported (June 7, 2005). "According to college transcripts from the top Ivy League school obtained by the Boston Globe, Kerry was well on his way to flunking out during his freshmen year, receiving no fewer than four D’s."
Yet, without knowing these facts beforehand, former New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines raved in an Aug. 27, 2004 op-ed that ran in the Washington Post, as well as the American-hating The Guardian, about Kerry’s intellect, gushing:
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"Does anyone in America doubt that Kerry has a higher IQ than Bush?" fawned Raines, who was fired in 2003 for knowingly coddling serial plagiarist Jayson Blair. "I’m sure the candidates’ SATs and college transcripts would put Kerry far ahead."
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But rather than challenging Kerry by asking him why he lied to the American public about his intellect and the huge gaps in his Vietnam accounts, the pro-Kerry media, part and parcel, pumped up his ego, dressed up his military record, hid his treason in post-Vietnam and went after Bush with dirty campaign tomfoolery Kerry accused the administration of employing.
Moreover, after all the hand-wringing of the elite media and their fellow Democrats over demanding to know the truth behind what proved to be phony National Guard memos, their devious tactics really expose how they truly operate. By favoring Kerry, they covered for Kerry, and unfairly attacked Bush’s far more superior National Guard record.
While President Bush released his entire military records that had shown that he completed six years of distinctive service, the pro-Kerry media operatives ignored them anyway and instead launched unsubstantiated attacks on Bush’s character. In fact, the Associated Press last year even sued to obtain even more evidence of Bush’s National Guard record, despite having had access to his public files for nearly a year.
Conversely, the same elite media who smeared Bush and discredited the Swift Boat Vets, which the Boston Globe on June 7 referred as "the Swift Boats outfit," never once requested Kerry’s military records, much less sued to obtain access to them. They never once questioned the contents of his records but instead chose to believe him because they wanted him to win. Even before the 2004 Democratic National Convention, media leftists painted Kerry as a big war hero who was "reporting for duty," when in fact he was nothing more than a political opportunist who told his own swift boat crew members of his presidential aspirations before going to meet with our enemies in North Vietnam.
Yet that never seemed to have raised any eyebrows in the pro-Kerry press, which wanted desperately to bury Bush, while they propped up Kerry’s less-than-three very questionable months in Vietnam.
Despite the facts revealing a pompous U.S. senator who barely made it through Yale, the elite media are now predictably slanting those facts, and turning Kerry’s deceit into an apples-to-oranges comparison between Bush and Kerry – with Kerry coming out on top.
Recall that it was members of the elite media, as well as their fellow Democrats, who practically lined up to call Bush "stupid," "ignorant," and "incompetent." They tried to portray Bush as "dumb," when all the while Kerry was the real dunce.
But you’d never know that from the scant coverage. After Google-searching "Bush" +Yale AND Kerry" of over 430,000 articles , none of the elite media had any current stories on Kerry’s lower grades, other than the same boilerplate AP story that ended up favoring Kerry.
Surprisingly, the Globe was more honest than the rest of the pro-Kerry media.
According to the Globe (June 7, 2005), which has played favorites with their hometown boy, Kerry carried a cumulative average of 76, with four Ds in his freshman year.
Last year during his presidential campaign, Kerry and his media operatives went out of their way to hype his intellect, with Kerry being quoted nearly daily insulting Bush’s.
It was Kerry who launched insult after insult at Bush and proclaimed last November: "I can’t believe I’m losing to this idiot."
Yet, Kerry’s media allies pressed on to defend him, despite the revelations about his treasonous war record, flip-flops about Iraq and the economy, and, of course, his less-than-perfect Yale transcripts.
While Bush and Kerry had nearly identical grades, Kerry’s media allies last year played up Kerry’s intellect as superior, in spite of the evidence now to the contrary.
Not only did Bush get better grades than Kerry, he received only one D, as opposed to Kerry’s four Ds; Bush had a cumulative 77, Kerry had a 76. Bush also went on to receive an MBA from Harvard Business School.
What’s more, unlike the arrogant Massachusetts senator, Bush openly displayed his Yale transcript on his Web site (http://2004.georgewbush.org/bios/yale-transcript.asp).
Not only did Kerry do poorer than Bush, he waited over six months from the time he told Tim Russert that he would release his records, which Kerry also sent to the wrong naval division, which sent back redacted files.
When Kerry finally did release his partial records, he conveniently excused his poor school record on "extracurricular activities," asininely claiming that the four Ds he received stood for "distinction," according to the Globe’s Michael Kranish.
When CNN led the charge against Bush with "It’s the economy, stupid!" and the Democrats criticized his "fuzzy math," it’s been Kerry who’s had the math problems.
During a speech in Huntington, West Virginia on March 16, 2004, Kerry arrogantly proclaimed his ignorance when he said: "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it."
Yet, Kerry’s media allies never savaged him – not once, despite the pompous senator daily displaying his inferior intellect every time he opens his mouth.
But hidden deep inside Kerry’s Navy records is what didn’t surface last year in the elite media. Rather than admit that he wasn’t the super intellectual he and his media friends made him out to be, Kerry still lied about his war record as well as his poor grades.
Consider the following comments, which James Tartano of Opinionjournal.com (June 8, 2005) cited from blogger Matt Margolis of BlogsforBush.com:
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"We called for Kerry to execute a form which would permit anyone to examine his full and unexpulgated [sic] military records at the Navy Department and the National Personnel Records Center. Instead he executed a form permitting his hometown paper to obtain the records currently at the Navy Department. The Navy Department previously indicated its records did not include various materials. This is hardly what we called for.
"If he did execute a complete release of all records we could then answer questions such as:
(1) Did he ever receive orders to Cambodia or file any report of such a mission (whether at Christmas or otherwise);
(2) What was his discharge status between 1970 and 1978 (when he received a discharge) and was it affected by his meetings in 1970 and 1971 with the North Vietnamese?
"(3) Why did he receive much later citations for medals purportedly signed by Secretary Lehman who said he did not know of them;
(4) Are there Hostile Fire and Personnel Injured by Hostile Fire Reports for Kerry’s Dec. 1968 Purple Heart (when the officer in charge of the boat Admiral Schacte, the treating Surgeon Louis Letson, and Kerry’s Division Commander deny there was hostile fire causing a scratch) awarded three months later under unknown circumstances."
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Despite all the hype surrounding Kerry’s purportedly superior intellect, Kerry’s grades would not have made much difference, said Rush Limbaugh (June 7, 2005), especially since his media allies savaged Bush by questioning his intellect, which we have now discovered is superior to Kerry’s.
But here are some more little tidbits that weren’t widely reported: Kerry stupidly took soft money from groups that support, sponsor and defend terrorist networks, such as al-Qaeda and the faint remnants of the Taliban.
There was Kerry again, sheepishly, treasonously ingratiating himself his America’s enemies. Yet, according to those in the elite media, Kerry’s supposedly the smarter one.
Washington Times reporter Rowan Scarborough (June 2, 2005) reported that Amnesty International, who recently referred to our U.S. troops’ allegedly poor treatment of detainees at Gitmo as a "Soviet gulag," contributed $2,000 to Kerry’s campaign last year.
While Amnesty International was lining Kerry’s pockets, Scarborough wrote that it had "hit the White House for refusing to treat suspected al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists as prisoners of war subject to the Geneva Conventions; for abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq; and for a list of largely unsubstantiated complaints from detainees at Guantanamo."
It comes as no surprise that Kerry would take soft money from an outfit that sympathizes with terrorists – after all, Kerry has done that with North Vietnam (where Kerry held two secret, closed-door meetings in Paris with Communist leader Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Cong to ensure America’s defeat in the Vietnam War); and Nicaragua (where he and Tom Harkin held secret meetings with Marxist thug Daniel Ortega).
What’s more, according to the New York Sun (May 5, 2005), the U.N. is investigating whether one of its senior officials, Justin Leites, violated U.N. rules and the organization’s spirit of international neutrality when he took a paid leave last year to work as a Kerry campaign official from his home state of Maine.
But don’t expect Kerry’s media allies to ever question his now-inferior intellect, much less expose his treason any time soon.
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