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November 4, 2006Speaking of John Kerry and Doom, Doom, Doom……and we were, weren’t we? :::UPDATE::: SCROLL DOWN FOR ORIGINAL POST::: I nodded. “I was in Vietnam in 1971,” my buddy continued. “I didn’t commit any war crimes and I didn’t see any. Kerry said we were committing war crimes everywhere all the time.” Remember, readers, this is 1999. We’re in a creaky barrack, wearing t-shirts, BDU trousers, and boots. Earthquake aftershocks occasionally boom –and the booms sound and feel like heavy artillery. And he mentions John Kerry. “I despise the man,” my friend said. “He lied and benefited politically from his lies….He lied about me.” I simply listened — that’s what you do in a moment like this. I remember noticing I still had scotch in my cup. He had barely touched his drink. He took a long sip, put his cup down. Plop. Period. End of moment. The man had served honorably in Vietnam. He had served nobly (another word those of the noblisse oblige set have trouble with). Twenty-eight years later this admirable American soldier was still pulling duty, this time on a humanitarian mission in another jungle. For some hard cases it may seem odd that in a midnight moment of reflection John Kerry’s ugly Winter Soldier spiel would intrude. But Kerry’s trash talk had tarnished the man’s honor — and that sense of deep insult and betrayal had lit a long, slow fuze of righteous anger. In 2004 Big Media missed that story. In 2006 the troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan didn’t. I just found this archived piece which discusses how the press has protected this man for sooooo long, now. The writing is about the 2004 election, but it can all be applied to this election to, both as regards the press making excuses for Kerry’s latest gaffe, and to the so-called “anti-incumbent” feeling the press tells us will destroy the GOP this year. An excerpt: Is this election about keeping or firing an incumbent? I have managed people. I know that if I had an employee who, early into his stint, found himself managing crisis situations not of his own making and who had performed imperfectly but effectively, had still managed to bring in a spreadsheet showing growth instead of stagnation or loss, had shown a propensity for stability and a doggedness to get the job done, and who had remained steadfast in the face of enormous personal disregard, name-calling, distortion and outright hate from those in surrounding offices, I’d have to take a DAMN CLOSE LOOK at anyone who might replace him, and the fact is, the new applicant would have to be pret-ty impressive for me to let the first employee go. John Kerry does not allow, will not allow me to take that close look. And he has the press standing in front of him, making sure I don’t get too near. My difficult or awkward questions are not brought forth and so they cannot be answered. He has refused to allow me to look at the record of his work - his resume - if you will. He has refused to supply me with references from superiors. He has had people from those “other offices” come in to tell me he would be great for the job, but they cannot tell me WHY he would be great for the job, only that he is “not the other guy.” The problem is, I have come to distrust the people in those “other offices” because they have been behaving so very strangely toward my employee, George W. Bush. I have caught them lying, several times, about him and about his close friends and associates, and because I can no longer trust them to tell me the truth, I have become suspicious of John Kerry, whom they advocate. Also, since Newsweek is singing its traditional “Doom-Doom-Doom for the Right” song (they always sing it the weekend before an election) a look back at how, in 2004, the press had the right hyperventilating in fear. Sensible Mom pretty much deconstructs the Newsweek Poll and hangs it out to dry. Ace notes the media silence as the terrorists ENDORSE THE DEMS. http://theanchoressonline.com/2006/11/04/speaking-of-john-kerry-and-the-press/trackback/ 5 Responses to “Speaking of John Kerry and Doom, Doom, Doom…” |
November 4th, 2006 at 7:36 pm
Newsweek Poll
Now it could be that independents have become that opposed to republicans in the past week, but a 20 percentage point swing in one week seems extreme Also, I would expected to have seen significantly fewer undecided independents than in prior Newsweek…
November 5th, 2006 at 9:21 am
Unintended consequences: at stake on Tuesday
Did the Democrats truly consider the consequences of dismantling the Patriot Act… or preventing the NSA from wiretapping international telephone calls… or obstructing data-mining on phone-call records?
November 5th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
[...] UPDATE: The Anchoress has linked the last word from Austin Bay. [...]
November 6th, 2006 at 2:21 pm
[...] The Anchoress has a few more than interesting post, each worthy of a read and reread. See Speaking Of John Kerry And Doom, Doom, Doom. [...]
November 6th, 2006 at 7:17 pm
[...] As two Conservative women, Smart and I felt we should add our opinion into the Internet mix regarding tomorrow’s congressional elections. The first point I would like to make is that the Main Stream Media has been working diligently to depress the votes of Conservatives/Republicans. Via the Anchoress is this wonderful analysis of the Newsweek poll piffle from Sensible Mom: [...]