The media doesn't need to say anything about this garbage. Kerry is doing fine in the polls, even gaining ground. Let the republican dirty tricks burn themselves out in the backwaters. Nobody really cares if it isn't on the nightly news.

Stop stealing my Oliver Willis stuff, Ace.

Watch for Chris Matthews to start blustering at Kerry to shut up and stop making ridiculous claims that he wounded himself to get out of a war zone ASAP.

re: Akefa

"Let the republican dirty tricks burn themselves out in the backwaters. "

Typical, anytime the FACTS don't support the leftist worldview - the lefties disparage the messenger.

Hey Akefa, jus keepa smokin ya reefa. Leave it to us. We'll make sure it gets on the nightly news. Dirt for dirt. Now exactly which poll do you refer to?

Akefa sounds like a big media person, pretending that if something isn't in the "real media" then it can't possibly matter. Maybe Akefa is Pauline Kael risen from the dead, she of the "I can't imagine how Nixon got elected; no one I know voted for him" fame.

Ace, I was on the phone with Johnny Coldcuts this afternoon and he had the following to say:

"That Ace is a dipshit. He should know better.

Nothing is as "huge" as Oliver Willis. Not Andrew Sullivan's ego. Not George Soros' bank account. Not Washingtonienne's much abused anus, or Wonkette's fondness for butt-sex.

Maybe the planet Jupiter.

Oliver Walrus is so fat he actually has other, smaller, bloggers orbiting around him. Light has a better chance of escaping the clutches of a black hole than a fish-filet does of escaping from O-Dub."

I don't agree with Johnny about the "dipshit" part, but I get the sense he was using it as a term of endearment.

Hmm, if this doesn't "go away" do ya think the Dems will pull a Toricelli and switch Kerry for a more "electable" candidate in October?It worked once.
...I gotta get away from these conspiracy theory moonbats

I like the degrees of huge angle. You got your O-Dub huge, your Michael Moore huge, your Linda Ronstadt huge, your Hillary's ankles huge, your Kerry's love of rich widows huge, your John Edwards lawsuit award huge...

He admitted nothing. You post a partial sentence and call that an admission? In what context was it said? We havent been shot at yet... today? Or by the sniper we keep seeing perched in a tree? or maybe... but we're expecting more gunfire any minute now? I'm no Kerry fan but lets not jump to conclusions and create a negative spin just for shits and giggles. The media does enough of that. Instead of being sidetracked by speculation, rhetoric, and bullshit grandstanding isn't it better to focus on the facts?

Kerry is doing fine in the polls, even gaining ground.

The infidel Republicans are NOT threatening to win reelection to the White House! They are not even on the ballot! We are slaughtering the infidels in massive numbers. They are committing suicide as we speak, rather than facing the horror of Democrat domination.

Since I don't think we can reasonably expect the DU sitzpinklers to do any research for themsleves, here's the FACTS, straight from Kerry's court biographer Douglas Brinkley:

Brinkley recounts the outset of that mid-December journey, which included a crew of radarman James Wasser, engineman William Zaladonis, gunner's mate Stephen Gardner and boatswain's mates Drew Whitlow and Stephen Hatch:

"They pulled away from the pier at Cat Lo with spirits high, feeling satisfied with the way things were going for them. They had no lust for battle, but they also were were not afraid. Kerry wrote in his notebook, 'A cocky feeling of invincibility accompanied us up the Long Tau shipping channel because we hadn't been shot at yet, and Americans at war who haven't been shot at are allowed to be cocky.'"

The diary entry apparently confirms assertions made by Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth, a group of more than 250 vets opposing his presidential candidacy who served in the Naval operation that patrolled the rivers and canals of the Mekong Delta area controlled by North Vietnam.

No bullshit grandstanding, just Kerry's own diary biting him in the ass.

JeffG.,

Sorry if I stole Oliver Willis stuff from you. I can only offer my word that I didn't see the stuff in question on your site.

Rocketeer,

Thanks for dealing with that. Now I won't have to.

mookie88: "He admitted nothing."

Okay, parse the book quote that way if you want. Then please explain why he has now stated through his campaign that the shrapnel "wound" in question "may have been unintentionally self inflected." as the swiftvets have claimed. (They are two for two by the way.) Even leftists only believe John Kerry is telling the truth when he is lying about his Viet Nam record. When he finally tells the truth you aparently don't believe it. Meanwhile, the now completely discredited fairy tale that Bush lied about WMD is still alive and well at the DU (as they were at the DNC). Wake up and smell the napalm guys. Your boy is cooked.

...your Hillary's ankles huge...

LOL. But, don't you mean cankles?

There have been so many different stories with the medals, and so much disinformation coming from the MSM, that I think the public is thoroughly confused, and this one might not stick on Kerry.

I think we need to stress Cambodia and the post-war activities.

Akefa. Dumbshit.
Head in anal cavity.
Kool-Aid tastes yummy!

I was just joking, Ace. The O-Dub stuff is yours, and I've been doing too much of it lately.

I should have put one of these ;) after my comment, but I hate ;) so I didn't.

;)

There. That'll do it.

As much as I would like to see Kerry's claims fall one by one, I believe that the Purple Heart could still be valid without enemy gunfire.

If this is the "rice in the ass" purple heart then I could very well be wrong but I believe that if you are injured in the process of an act of war (i.e. destroying enemy munitions dumps, or rice storage containers), then it is still grounds for a purple heart. Granted we are only talking about rice in the ass, which may or may not qualify for a Purple Heart, but since it was the enemies' rice, then it could still stand.

I believe the "rice in the ass" PH was the third one.

Both involved a grenade too close.

And while self-inflicted can count, I believe it has to be in the context of a battle. There are conflciting reports about a battle in the rice incident.

There must be combat involved and you must be wounded by enemy weapons.

Kerry's campaign representative who spoke about this is only being rational about his Dec 2, 1968 wound. Kerry was turned down by his commander for this purple heart, because it wasn't valid.

Kerry's own diary says on Dec 11, he hadn't been shot at yet.

But about 2 months later Kerry had a new commander who wasn't aware of the Dec 2, attempt by Kerry to get a purple heart and since Kerry's so good at lying, and the military trusted their soldiers to be honest, they believe whatever bs he told them without investigating it first.

When "Tour of Duty" came out, the Swift Boat Vets found out for the first time how many medal and what kind John Kerry had collected.

But what's worse than that, John Kerry again repeats all the charges and reafirms all the acusations he made about his fellow veterans in 1971.

Even though most of the "Winter Soldiers" testimony was proven to be baseless in claims.

So John Kerry wants to be a proud Vietnam war hero of a war in which all the other veterans were war criminals?

What's worse is half the country wants him to win. So to the people who support John Kerry, don't ever claim that you support the troops again, we know better.

I'm sure if the MSM succeeds in installing Kerry to the White House, Kerry will defend our current military's honor against unsubstantiated and biased charges of war crimes by those in his party or the press.

I doubt it. He'll be the one saying it.

Does "Freedom Of Speech" equal "Republican Dirty Tricks"?

Here, 30 years later, they admit that the first purple heart was undeserved.

Then, 30 years ago, he used it to get out after 4 months, and betray his "Band of Brothers"

I was never a fan of the Vietnam War.

Kerry chose to base his campaign on his 4 months there (rather than his record of the last 30 years)

OK then. Lets look at it.

What a sleezeball!

Elect him based upon this?

What a bunch of crap.

Dirty Tricks?

Sounds like people who were there speaking

their minds, and THE TRUTH.

Can't find it on drudgereport. Gimme a link, pls.