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Tuesday, August 03, 2004
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PROBABLY BULLSHIT, BUT NEVERTHELESS INTERESTING
That Matt Drudge is a Republian hack is pretty much beyond dispute. But, from time to time, he comes up with some interesting things.
Like this, for example. This book, "Unfit for Command", is more likely than not a right-wing hit job. This can be discerned by the publisher, Regenery. Regenery is a partisan publisher on the right. Their tone is generally, "Republicans, GOOD! Democrats, RAPIST CRIMINALS!"
Some of the allegations in the book:
-Two of John Kerry's three Purple Heart decorations resulted from self-inflicted wounds, not suffered under enemy fire.
-All three of Kerry's Purple Hearts were for minor injuries, not requiring a single hour of hospitalization.
-A "fanny wound" was the highlight of Kerry's much touted "no man left behind" Bronze Star.
-Kerry turned the tragic death of a father and small child in a Vietnamese fishing boat into an act of "heroism" by filing a false report on the incident.
-Kerry entered an abandoned Vietnamese village and slaughtered the domestic animals owned by the civilians and burned down their homes with his Zippo lighter.
-Kerry's reckless behavior convinced his colleagues that he had to go -- becoming the only Swift Boat veteran to serve only four months.
Would I give my firstborn for any of these accusations to be true? Yes, yes, I would. I'm a shallow man, living an empty existence. And if that makes me wrong, well, I just don't want to be right.
But I've got my doubts. It seems odd that the guy could go through six campaigns without any of this coming to light. Politics generally doesn't work that way. But the Kerry campaign's response is downright fascinating.
"They hired a goddamn private investigator to dig up trash!" charged a top Kerry adviser traveling with the senator late Tuesday. "This is pay for play, and the dirtiest of all dirty tricks ever played on a candidate for the presidency. How low can they go?"
There's something missing here. Something like a specific denial.
I'm pretty sure that there's nothing to this, but it COULD get interesting.
UPDATE: Friday August 6, 2004- So, it turns out that one of Kerry's accusers has backed down from the allegations, there is still no clear cut denial from Kerry/Edwards '04. There are lots of threats of lawsuits to people who run the ad, but that's it.
This lack of a denial, three days in, is getting disturbing.
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