I was about to post on this topic under the title “Pants on fire…” as in “Liar, liar… “. But I got a newsfeed notice from The ral Ugly American and checked it out. Whaddaya know! Rick had already posted darned near the post I was mulling over. So I asked him to drop on by and crosspost it here. Here ya go, Rick of The Real Ugly American on Jean Fraud sKerry’s latest lies. —twc
First I read this post at Patterico where his off the record meeting with LA lefty blogs is all over the net. HT/ Hugh Hewitt. Do they not understand what off the record means or was this supposed to be a “wink wink” type of off the record meeting? You know the kind of “off the record” where the hard core left blogs can tell the minions “Kerry is one of us” but Kerry can deny having ever said it when a MSM talking head asks him about it.
Anyway here is the winning line from the “off the record” meeting:
At some other point he referred to Supreme Court Justices Alito, Scalia, and Roberts as “Idiotsâ€
Now that may play well with the moonbats but its going to cost him votes with everyone else.
Then I read this post at Decision08 that has links to several posts further debunking, or reiterating the absurdity of many of John Kerry’s war stories including this post by Thomas Lipscomb at Real Clear Politics.
 Zernike appears to have made no effort to look at any record besides listing Kerry’s latest assertions with obligatory quotes from the usual Swiftie suspects to provide “balance.” She doesn’t appear to be aware of the hilarious inconsistency of the Kerry hat story she recites dutifully as if this was the very first time the hat had appeared in print. As the clips should have shown her, Kerry first pulled the famous hat out of a “secret compartment” for Washington Post reporter Laura Blumenfeld’s feature story in 2003. “My good luck hat,” Kerry told Blumenfeld, “given to me by a CIA guy.” Now he tells Zernike a “special operations team” member gave it to him on a secret “mission that records say was to insert Navy Seals” in February.
Orders for sensitive incursion operations like this don’t appear by magic. And an individual boat commander, whether it is Kerry or anyone else, doesn’t simply head across a border with a boatful of Seals on his own. Kerry’s direct commander at An Thoi, George Elliott, has denied ever being asked to run such a mission out of his base and three of Kerry’s PCF 44 crewmen have denied ever being in Cambodia with Kerry.
Tedd Peck, accompanied Kerry’s PCF 44 on his PCF 57 from Cam Ranh down to their new assignment at An Thoi where they arrived on December 8, 1968. Peck served there with Kerry until he was wounded and med-evaced out on January 29, 1969. Douglas Brinkley states that “Kerry liked Peck.” So what does Peck have to say about secret missions out of An Thoi to Cambodia? “There never was one. And I never saw a Navy Seal at An Thoi the whole time I served there with Kerry”
Some advice for John Kerry, stop embarassing yourself. You are never going to be president (thank God). Just shut your yap and you can be the Senior Senator from MA as soon as Ted Kennedy is entombed for as long as you want the title. Keep it up and someone might just uncover a lie of yours thats big enough to cost you your Senate seat as well as your presidential dreams. Â
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**Update**
Captain’s Quarters has some good questions for NYT reporter Kate Zernike who filed the glowing Kerry report:
One would think that after eighteen months, if anyone wanted to dredge this up again, a reporter would want to do so in order to achieve more clarity on the allegations. Instead, Zernike used these as a platform for Kerry to make even more unsubstantiated statements, such as the notion that he and his supporters had gathered evidence that would show all of the charges made by the SBVFT as baseless lies. Wouldn’t a reporter ask to see that evidence? Wouldn’t that kind of scoop put her on the top echelon of the media? Instead, Zernike did little more than take dictation from Kerry and his cohorts, as Lipscomb repeatedly demonstrates.
There are two obvious answers to the Captian’s questions. 1. She is incompetent. Or 2. She is biased.
Rick, you missed a third option: she could (and seems to be) incompetent AND biased. *LOL*
Oh, and
This post is X-posted from The Real Ugly American. Be sure to drop by Rick’s place and check out the rest of his blog, ‘K?
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