The Blowhard's Lieutenant

Roger Simon rings in on the Kerry's Christmas in Cambodia story. Try not to skip the comments. There is some good information there. A sample of them is at the end of the excerpt.
---Larry Everett

"August 18, 2004: The Blowhard's Lieutenant

I'm getting mighty sick of this subject... Kerry in Cambodia (or not)... and the idea that a man could base a Presidential Campaign in 2004 around four months' participation in the Vietnam War in 1968, no matter what he did, is absurd and pathetic... maybe we should call it the Boar War (or rather the Bore War)... but this latest salvo from sometime Kerry supporter Michael Kranish in The Boston Globe deserves some comment.

Now I had never heard of Kranish before this dustup began. So I have no knowledge of the journalist's previous work or reputation, nor any opinion of his introduction (if any) to Kerry's campaign bio, a genre of literature I find slightly less inspiring than supermarket giveaways (it contains no stamps). But if this article is the best Kranish can do in the support of Kerry, the Senator is in deeper trouble on the issue than I thought. Capitalisation alert: KERRY'S DEFENSE CONTAINS ABSOLUTELY NO FACTS, ONLY ASSERTIONS. [I thought you swore off capitalisation on your blog.-ed. I also swore off camembert too.] But it seems, not too far from the surface, that Kranish is actually reputation salvaging here (his), not Kerry excusing, distancing himself from the statements of the Senator's supporters, which he carefully encloses in quotes.

Carrying the water in this article... and in the world... for the Senator on this matter is longtime Kerry associate Michael Meehan found here in the aptly-named Disinfopedia. This is the man whose recent response to attacks on Kerry is "no longer found" -- not a hopeful state of affairs. In Kranish's piece, Mr. Meehan tells us:..."

One of many comments about the article :

"Kerry is reminding me more and more of Hollywood braggarts like Michael Cimino (who claimed he served with the Green Berets when he was only attached to a small troop clinic stateside at Bragg) or John Milius (he of the swaggering militaristic movies and quotes who dodged the draft).

One thing that I find particularly offensive about Kerry, and I'm ashamed as an ex-officer to admit I only realized it last night: in the heroic action he arrogated to himself, the one in which Peck and Alston were wounded, the boat was actually saved by the actions of an enlisted man who took the helm and steered the boat out of the ambush.

Let's be very clear about this. John Forbes Kerry, a commissioned officer in the United States Navy who wants to be commander-in-chief, stole the credit for the heroism of an enlisted man.

That is lower than whale shit. The man should not be in public office, much less the White House.

Posted by: richard mcenroe at August 18, 2004 07:10 AM"

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