"Education -- if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well," Kerry said. "If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
That’s what former Democratic Party presidential candidate John Kerry said Monday during a campaign stop in California.
Kerry’s cheap shot at America’s military men and women has drawn rebukes and engendered outrage from Americans across the political spectrum.
And how is the liberal/leftist Raleigh News & Observer reporting the story?
The N&O says nothing about the many millions of Democrats and independents who are disgusted by Kerry’s remark.
Instead, the N&O runs a story from The Boston Globe (It endorsed Kerry in ’04) that tries to spin what Kerry said as just politics. The N&O’s Globe story begins:
President Bush joined a chorus of prominent Republicans Tuesday in blasting Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., for comments they said demeaned the intelligence of U.S. troops.”an unwelcome distraction for Democrats.” So that’s what it is. I had myself convinced it was the kind of demeaning of our military that liberals and leftists often engage in. You know: "We can't let them on our campuses." Things like that and much worse.
Kerry gave a speech at a political rally where he said that students who don't perform well "get stuck in Iraq."
But Kerry, insisting the comment was a "botched joke," struck back with a furious, nationally televised press conference during which he attacked the entire GOP for divisive campaign tactics. […]
Republicans pounced on Kerry's comments as emblematic of the Democrats' disrespect for the military. A week before the midterm elections, the comments were an unwelcome distraction for Democrats who appear close to taking control of Congress. […]
Here's news for the liberal/leftist reporters and editors at the NY Times' owned Globe and McClatchy's N&O: Senator John McCain has had plenty to say about Kerry's cheap shot.
McCain, a military hero who endured repeated torture during more than five years as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese, thinks Kerry’s remark is much more than a distraction. McCain said yesterday:
[Kerry's] statement, basically, was so demeaning to the men and women who are serving in the military that you will be even more grateful than you are at this moment that George Bush is president of the United States…Neither The Globe nor The N&O included McCain’s remarks in their stories.
You can't make this up. His statement was that if you get an education and you do well, then you don't have to go to Iraq, and if you don't have an education, then you have to go to Iraq. Do you know how demeaning that is to the men and women who are serving so magnificently in the cause of freedom and are fighting and dying in Iraq today?
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Well of course they didn't include McCain's remarks nor did they present Kerry's remarks in the disgusting manner Kerry did.
They are not patriotic Americans. Simple. I know we are supposed to grant as an automatic courtesy the designation of patriot on our political opponents and recognize their right to a different opinion. I do that and most other Americans do that also.
However, there is no virtue in pretending we do not see when our political opponents expose their disloyalty to the country. Kerry is an ass. He is not intelligent or principled. He is Narcissus reincarnate. So be it.
The gist of the matter is that any so-called news organization that sanitizes events to further their political philosophy or spins the events negatively to thwart those of other political persuasions are not patriotic. Facts are facts, news is the presentation of those facts. Commentary is interpretation of those facts and should be accompanied by a disclaimer that it is opinion. News organizations that do otherwise are saboteurs of our democratic republic. Saboteurs are by definition not patriotic to the target of their sabotage.
In the case of the N&O look at the malfeasance they have practiced and the harm they have caused locally because of their disregard for the truth. People who cannot be faithful to their families and neighbors certainly cannot aspire to fidelity of a higher and more abstract and distant nature.
Thinking people will not be surprised by one more sin of these pathetic creatures, we have become accustomed to the idea of their perfidy. We don't approve, but we aren't surprised.
It really is a matter of loyalty. That is not overstating the case.
Oh please. It is so clear that what Kerry said was supposed to impugn Bush and his idiot cronies. He meant no disrespect to the people fighting in Iraq, and it is pure, disgusting politics to pretend that he did. He simply has the tendency to stick his foot squarely in his mouth. Republicans should be pretty familiar with this characteristic by now, given their fearless leader.
Well, at least no one has called John Kerry a "walker" yet.
"Oh please. It is so clear that what Kerry said was supposed to impugn Bush and his idiot cronies."
But, Anonymous, this isn’t the first time that Kerry has slandered the military. If it were, a simple apology would have been credible, particularly if he had done it right out of the box.
And even if you believe him when he claims it was a “botched joke” about Bush, exactly what was his point? That college graduates opposed the war while high school dropouts supported it (Kerry supported the war by the way), or that those who serve in Iraq are all high school dropouts?
anonymous 4:56 PM;
It is very clear that Jon Carry meant what he said exactly how he said it. Plain and simply the black-hearted, liberal, commie, pinko, democrat said exactly what his party stands for. He is just dumb enough to say it less than a week before the elections. Yeah, yeah, the other of his ilk are asking him to apologize so they can save their hides. If a Republican had said this, they would be screaming from the rooftops for him to resign.
This won't die before the election and will drive people to the polls by the millions to vote against the democrat party. The donkey is going to get its tail chopped off over this.
anonymous 4:56 PM;
It is very clear that Jon Carry meant what he said exactly how he said it. Plain and simply the black-hearted, liberal, commie, pinko, democrat said exactly what his party stands for. He is just dumb enough to say it less than a week before the elections. Yeah, yeah, the other of his ilk are asking him to apologize so they can save their hides. If a Republican had said this, they would be screaming from the rooftops for him to resign.
This won't die before the election and will drive people to the polls by the millions to vote against the democrat party. The donkey is going to get its tail chopped off over this.
John Kerry, April 22, 1971:
"In addition to the normal ravages of war, soldiers in Vietnam had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Kahn, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam."
"The country doesn't know it yet, but it has created a monster, a monster in the form of millions of men who have been taught to deal and to trade in violence" --that's you infantrymen out there -- "and who are given the chance to die" -- think about this next phrase every time you see him when he talks as he did just last night about how "I served this country as a young man" -- "who have been given a chance to die for the biggest nothing in history."
"The torture of prisoners, the killing of prisoners, all was accepted policy" -- not just by a few -- "but by many units in South Vietnam. . . . It is part and parcel of everything."
"These were not isolated incidents, but were crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command." "Full awareness of all officers at all levels of command. All officers."
John Kerry, October 30, 2006:
"You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and do your homework, and make an effort to be smart, uh, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
Not a dime's worth of difference in his opinion of the military, or his willingness to sell them down the river for his own advantage.
Tell us how you really feel, Mr. 3-scratch-and-you're-out-Purple-Heart Kerry.
For those of you who don't get the "Jon Carry" reference go here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1730016/posts?page=1,50
The Military's response with that picture is an extremely intelligent slap-down for Jon Carry, and has taken the blogosphere and emails by storm. I've seen that picture 30 to 40 times so far.
Kerry said exactly what he thinks and regardless of how the leftests try to spin it, we know.
Straightarrow, your reply is clear, concise and exactly right.
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