August 27, 2004
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Subject: NPR on Rumsfeld
Hey Buzz:
I admit I wasn't fully listening, but I swear I heard someone on NPR's "Morning Edition" say that the "moment" for Rumsfeld to resign had passed. Huh? Is there some kind of shelf life for accepting responsibility for incompetence? Then the report continued with some general's saying that Rumsfeld had been one of the most effective Secretaries of Defense ever, pointing out how quickly the troops had taken Baghdad, and who concluded his remarks by saying "We are moral, honest, and open." Huh? What? Huh? Did I miss something? Is it opposites day?
A Confused BuzzFlash Reader
P.S. Also, earlier when I hit the snooze, I thought I heard Don Gonyea say that O'Neill's having been caught on tape telling Nixon he'd been on a swift boat in Cambodia was significant because O'Neill had denied this fact. That's not why it's significant. It's significant because O'Neill has ridiculed and dismissed Kerry's claim that HE was in Cambodia on a secret swift boat mission. Also, I think I heard in that same report Gonyea call for Kerry to release his personal war diaries. What? That's personal stuff. That's nobody's business. That should not be in the public forum. I really don't understand how the media has moved from "innocent until proven guilty" to "guilty until proven innocent." It's like the media presumes Kerry is lying when, as far as I can tell, he has a reputation for honesty, whereas Bush is always given a free pass for being forthright, even though again and again what he's said has later proved to be a pack of lies. What a crazy, crazy place our country has become. Koyaanisqatsi.
Subject: Re: Today's Top 5 Headlines on BuzzFlash.com
Buzz:
With all due respect, it's not "AWOL coward Bush" (4th item) but: "DESERTER and coward Bush!" Bush is a deserter in fact, a de facto deserter, which he cannot deny and which is a capital offense and still current.
Gracias for running my piece "Is Our Commander-in-Chief a Deserter? You Decide!"
Keep up the good work.
Phil Vargas
Korean War veteran
Subject: Psalm 2004
Bush is my shepherd, I shall be in want. He leadeth me beside the still factories, He maketh me to lie down on park benches, He restoreth my doubts about the Republican party, He guideth me onto the paths of unemployment for the party's sake. I do fear the evildoers, for thou talkst about them constantly. Thy tax cuts for the rich and thy deficit spending They do discomfort me. Thou anointeth me with never-ending debt, And my savings and assets shall soon be gone. Surely poverty and hard living shall follow me, And my jobless children shall dwell in my basement forever.
Forwarded by a BuzzFlash Reader
Subject: Please post if possible
Sending this link in case fellow Cincinnatians have not done so.
Mike Allen, Hamilton Co. Prosecutor, publicly admits to a 3 yr. affair. Notice commentary from some of his fellow republicans. Allen and his commentors were in their glory when Clinton was on the carpet. They never missed a chance to slime the president. "Let him who is without sin, cast the first stone," one of them said. These clowns nearly buried Clinton with boulders! What double-dealing hypocrites!!! Maybe there is something to "what goes around, comes around."
Allen admits to affair with employee (enquirer.com)
A BuzzFlash Reader
Subject: RE: Religious Bigotry
I am absolutely
astounded to see that Gen. Boykin is still ANYWHERE in command of ANYTHING......
RUMSFAILED AND BOYKIN MUST GO .......retaining either no longer proves loyalty
and resolution on the President's part.....It only shows arrogance and contempt
for our enemies and fair-minded American citizens.
Holding the Pentagon Accountable: For Religious Bigotry (The New York Times)
Three-star bigotry (The Houston Chronicle)
Donna Breckenridge
Milwaukee, WI
Subject: George Wabbit Bush
Dear BuzzFlash,
Bush's fear of meeting Cleland--even taking a letter from him--has earned him a new name. People in official positions like Senator Kerry, of course, have to call Bush "President Bush" or "George Bush." Nobody else has to. Given that we know BushCo plans to ridicule Kerry as part of their slime strategy, we should all of us--radio-talkers, bloggers, letter writers, etc-- pre-empt them by rechristening Bush with names that suit him. I propose: Bunny Bush. As in "Bunny Bush today said..." "Bunny Bush announced..." Always, and in every public comment, he should be Bunny Bush. An alternate should recognize the "W" in G.W. Bush stands for "Wabbit." "President Georgie Wabbit Bush today said..." Really, he's earned it.
Jim P.
Subject: George Orwell would feel so vindicated
"We did not find General Sanchez culpable but we found him responsible for the things that did or did not happen," Gen. Paul J. Kern, the senior officer responsible for issuing the report [on Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq] , told reporters. (Washington Post, 8/26)
I've got to say that this one drove me to a couple of dictionaries to make sure I was still sane. How can you be not "blameworthy," but "responsible for the things that did or did not happen"?? This is the kind of groundwork I want if I ever face criminal charges!
Living here on Saipan, I can't vote in the presidential 'race,' but this is starting to chafe at me. On the other hand, I must say I am impressed by the courage of some high ranking military types who have probably just bet their careers on following orders to (wink-wink) investigate this situation and proceeded to actually do so. As some of you will recall from Vietnam days, culpability for the My Lai massacre stopped at the company level -- as in 2nd Lieutenant --and did not go as far up as a Captain hovering overhead in a chopper. It registered on me as a lowly enlisted draftee back in those days. I don't suppose Rummy is a happy camper.
Bruce Lloyd
Subject: Re Thank You BF
Hi BF,
That was a wonderful article on TERESA LaPORE. You are the only ones who tell it like it is and this ass h....MUST GO....she is fighting Wexler on EVERYTHING, thanks again for exposing her for what she really is ......I live in Palm Beach County....
Colette Miller
Wellington, Fl
Subject: Swift Boats
It is time to let go of Swift Boats and get with the real issues. It is the economy -- overtime is a big issue in my family, keep putting articles on this topic. It is the economy, healthcare, the tortures inflicted on the prisoners and the disaster in Iraq. The more info. on Swift Boats the more Kerry's ratings are dropping, or are they? Most of the people don't care.. this is a veteran thing -- they do not make up the majority of voters. But, this overtime thing has my feathers ruffled.
Nan
Subject: Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (?)
Dear Buzz:
The disclosures indicating that SWIFT BOAT VETERANS FOR TRUTH are in fact frauds and liars is not really a relief. It plays nicely into the hands of the Republican slime machine by obliquely demonstrating that all of us Vietnam vets are frauds and liars. It is a win-win situation for the odious Karl Rove and his puppet Bush.
Dwight Menard
Shoreham, VT
Subject: SBVT major players SO in bed with the GOP, contributions show
John O'Neill (1990-2004, 12 donations, $14,650, 100% GOP)
Ben Ginsberg (1992-2004, 53 donations, $37,000, 100% GOP)
Merrie Spaeth (1990-2004, 27 donations, $15,100, 96% GOP)
Bob Perry (1979-2004, hundreds of donations, $$$$)
(data from www.newsmeat.com)
Charlie S.
Subject: GOP Fooled (Our hero Palast, too)
The RNC web site links to a story (look under: protesters supporting John Kerry) from the New Hampshire Union Leader about the perils facing delegates when they come to New York for the Republican National Convention. Included in the linked-to story:
NEXT WEEK, people who hate Republicans plan to release swarms of mice in New York City to terrorize delegates to the National Republican Convention. Republican-haters plan on dressing up as RNC volunteers, and giving false directions to little blue hair ladies from Kansas, sending them into the sectors of New York City that are unfit for human habitation. They plan on throwing pies and Lord knows what else at Republican visitors to the city. Prostitutes with AIDS plan to seduce Republican visitors, and discourage the use of condoms, according to liberal journalist Ted Rall...
Apparently there are some liberal blogs and web sites that are promoting the above information as proof that the GOP are idiots. Of course they are, but for a different reason. The "liberal journalist" mentioned above can be none other than the Ted Rall. Of course the name Ted Rall (emphasis above, mine) is synonymous with biting political cartoons that I'm sure you've seen.
The Union Leader printed this story in apparent seriousness and the GOP linked to it thinking it was something to be up in arms about. For Rall to get quoted as a journalist in this fashion is just as funny as one of his cartoons. Links for all here:
Regards.
E. Bradlee
http://unclehornhead.blogspot.com..
Subject: mailbag
Hi Buzz and Buzzers,
I am just writing to report that just now when I went out to lunch, on the next block there was an elephant (a real one) and a man standing in front of it that looks EXACTLY LIKE GEORGE BUSH. It stopped me in my tracks. The next time I passed by there was a donkey standing in front of the elephant (equal time, I guess). This city has become surreal in the past few weeks and it's getting worse every day. I am becoming completely traumatized just from the anticipation of the upcoming invasion of NYC and the damn thing hasn't even started yet. There are bomb sniffing dogs in the lobby, it's just unbelievable. They are ruining our city. My friend at work said we'll all have to be in therapy after this for post-traumatic stress syndrome. I think he's right.
Anyway, hope everyone is well and holding up under the pressure. I'm going to march Sunday and I pray it's peaceful. I hope many of you can show up and let these assholes know what we think of them.
Thanks for being there, Buzz.
And by the way...HELLLLLLLPPPPPPP! I'm losing it!
Barbara in NYC
Subject: I CAN'T STAND IT!!!!!!!
I can't stand it! I just can't stand it! I just heard, I think on CNN, that the Republican platform will be calling for a constitutional ban on abortion! The Democrats better make sure all young women hear that and understand what it means! The media is not going to!
Sharon (Registered Nurse) Swift
Memphis, TN
Subject: jesus god!
jesus god!!! why aren't the dems using that piece of tape judy woodruff showed with a leading log cabin republican saying the republicans can't have it both ways, they want to sit in this room and come up with nasty mean spirited things for their platform and then use giuliani and arnold to put lipstick on that pig's lips! why aren't the dems using that in ads? over a million more people living in poverty in the past year! most are children! why aren't the dems using that in ads!!!!!!!!! when you point things out to these morons around here they get it! other wise they buy what the repugs tell them!
karen massey
south carolina
Subject: The Olympics
Despite requests from the International Olympic Committee and the U.S. Olympic Committee, and protests from the Iraqi team, the Bush campaign refuses to stop its ads which claim credit for the participation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the games. I guess New York can forget about its bid to host the 2012 Olympics. You don't piss off the IOC and expect no consequences. Seems eerily consistent with US foreign policy, doesn't it?
A BuzzFlash Reader
Subject: Sling All Smears Back At Them
Buzz,
From talkingpointsmemo.com: Just out from the febrile GOPUSA.com: "If Kerry Can't Handle the 'Swiftees,' How's He Going to Handle the Terrorists?"
Hmmm ... let's paraphrase this - "If Duhhbya can't handle American grade-school teachers and librarians wearing 'Kerry' stickers on t-shirts at Duhhbya/Cheney public appearances, How's He Going to Handle the Terrorists?"
T Quigly
Subject: incubator babies
Hi there,
I'm reading the bill of impeachment against Tony Blair and it got me thinking.
Number One: Why can't we do this? I mean Bush is guilty(er) of every single one of those charges.
Number Two: Couldn't someone put together a timeline of all these lies and when each of them was debunked?
Number Three: What happened to the pages of Iraq's report to the U.N. that the Bush cartel censored? Isn't it about time someone dug these up and blew the lid off this whole bloody mess?
Number Four: Where are all of Saddam's lookalikes and how can we be sure we got the right one? What happened to all those American uniforms that Saddam ordered for his troops?
Blair impeachment campaign starts (BBC)
K Gustafson
South Dakota
Subject: note: Josh is totally right on this. don't be baited into losing MoveOn
A simple strategy note to the Kerry campaign:
If President Bush is going to try to pose as an advocate of campaign finance reform to dodge the Swift Boat issue, there's a really, really, really easy rejoinder to this one: mockery.
Don't get bogged down on the details. Just mockery. Full stop.
George W. Bush, Mr. Campaign Finance Reform? Please ... A laugh and a smile. Simple as that.
His credibility on the issue is zero. Voters know it.
Let's try being smart on this one, okay? Just once?
Josh Marshall
DMC
Subject: 700 Club has guest for friday show
Thought it
was interesting that Michelle Malkin is scheduled to appear as the guest
on Friday August 27th's airing of the 700 Club. Hope you guys find it
just as noteworthy.
Thanks for your incredible site.
Kris
Subject: Kerry on the Daily Show
Well, I think John Stewart hit on an idea the other night when John Kerry was on the Daily Show, but it was just in passing and I wish he had gone further with it. The Democratic statement should be "Open to the public." I think it's a great way of saying there are no exclusions and no oaths required to see John Kerry speak. A LOT needs to be made of that crap the thugs are pulling over on the tax-paying public in SO MANY WAYS. So many folks I talk to are not informed and get all of their news from TV. They have no idea this is going on. When I tell them, they look at me like I have three heads. Democrats, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! Go buzz.
Danielle in the panhandle
Subject: Rove, Rove, Rove The Boat...
Buzz,
You have to give to Karl -- the guy knows what he is doing. The Abu Ghraib report has just come out, but we do not hear much about it -- not enough to register in the voters' minds. Or to question its findings and ask for the full release of all documents regarding prisoners' abuse and torture.
Instead, courtesy of the RoveBoat & Co., we are deluged by the heated (and pointless) discussions on Kerry's war medals. This is such a huge red herring. The economy tanks, health care is dismal -- and so are educational and work prospects for our kids; we are facing poverty in our retirement; our soldiers, when not dying, are slaughtering innocent people for Halliburton's profits; the world hates us -- to just name a few accomplishments of Bush. But, hey, two months before elections we spend endless hours debating the merits of Kerry's medals...
I suspect next a group such as, oh, say, Concerned Mothers for America will come out with ads denouncing Kerry as a baby-eater and Bush will get another opportunity to ask that "all ads by all independent organizations" cease at once, since they are "bad for the system." The system, in which the small donations from little guys, who still believe in the idea of democracy, have no chance to get the ball rolling. A perfect Rovian solution to those pesky 527s that sprung up to defeat Bush.
I bet Karl's sitting back and enjoying the fray (merrily, merrily, life is but a dream -- of unlimited power and world domination). But he might have underestimated the American public and the depth of resentment toward his golden boy. Seems the tide is turning for the Rove boaters and an increasing number of people wish they would go back to hell. If only our media decided to grow a backbone now, the RoveBoat slimey tune could become Bush's swan song.
A Buzzer
Subject: NY demonstration garb
It may be too late, but here is a suggestion that I've also passed on to MOVEON.ORG and Common Dreams. I ran this by a professor at the college where I work and she thought it was a great idea. Everyone demonstrating at the Republican Convention dress as republicans. Guys, haul out a suit and tie, and tie/slick back that long hair if necessary, and ladies, wear those power business woman suits, take some extra time with your doo, and throw on some make-up, but still hold those protest signs proudly. Wouldn't that be a sight and it would take away the image that the Bush cartel is going to exploit of hippie type radicals being put in their place by riot police. The media coverage could become quite interesting. For what it's worth!
LAH
Subject: So Dole Was Just Playing Hardball Was He?
So Dole was only playing HARDBALL about Senator Kerry's wounds, was he? Well, Bob, What Goes Around Comes Around, as noted in The Village Voice.
Scratching
the Surface
Dole's own first Purple Heart doesn't exactly made you bleed for him
I lost all respect for you Bob due to your comments, just as I have for John McCain due to his Bush endorsement, after Bush slimed McCain's FAMILY in South Carolina in 2000. Too bad Hardball, Wolf Blitzer or the other so-called talking heads and news media corpSE will not report this article.
Tom Wieliczka
Subject: absentee ballots
Buzz;
I think we should all vote by absentee ballot and when mailing our votes we should use "certified mail with return receipt requested." ...that sure will be a good paper trail. We sure can all spend a few bucks for our future.
Jocelyn
Miami, Florida
Subject: can tv people be that dumb?
dear BuzzFlash:
it appears the print media has done a very good job of investigative reporting. newspaper after news paper have said the swift boat vets are not telling the truth based on all the evidence they can find including the navy records and the men who were actually on the boat with kerry. but the cable news shows act like they don't know about all the print media's investigation and just keep pretending they just don't know if it is true or not. can these people on tv be like bush and never read papers or are they doing it to get people riled up and get ratings? another thing, when bush signed mccain feingold he actually stated he wanted the 527 to stay because he was concerned about peoples constitutional right to freedom of speech. oops...flip flop
a BuzzFlash reader
Subject: Nixon didn't tar Kerry's war record in 1971
People who actually believe these swift boat liars should ask themselves one serious question: Why didn't Nixon tar John Kerry's war record with the same allegations in 1971?
Nixon despised and hated Kerry for speaking up against the war. Don't you think the master of dirty tricks, Nixon, would have jumped at the chance to tarnish Kerry's war record? Nixon met O'Neill in the White House at least one time (there are pictures and tapes of this meeting.) Don't you think O'Neill -- fresh out of Vietnam with Kerry's heroism only a year or two old -- don't you think he would have jumped at the chance to tell Nixon these entire allegations? The reason he didn't bring them up in the meeting with Nixon is they are total fabrications.
These accusers have a thirty year rage against Kerry for speaking out against the war. Any psychologist will tell you that rage and hatred festering for 30 long years causes a kind of insanity. This rage would be easy to tap into by unscrupulous people like O'Neill. He engaged in a kind of recovered memory process where he planted false memories in minds already predisposed to believe them. It was brainwashing and collective group-think about something that was ancient history by human memory standards.
If he would have heard these current allegations, Nixon would not have let these nuggets pass without tarring Kerry's war record. The reason he didn't is because none of these allegations are true.
Mike Reinholz
Seattle, WA
Subject: Heart of Bush country rises on poverty list
A staunchly conservative region visited by Bush in early August rises to the top of the poverty list in the State of Florida and ranks as the 17th poorest county overall in the nation. When will these people wake up?
Escambia County, Florida poorest in state; County 17th among larger cities in nation
A BuzzFlash Reader
My three surviving brain cells shook me awake with a thought I want to share with you. Karl Rove is not done. We just saw the poll results from the first round, but the second one may prove to be far more problematic. That is...
The SBVFT evildoers' second ad emphasizes sound bites from Kerry's 1971 testimony before the Fulbright panel to claim that he accused all vets of war crimes in Viet Nam. (The text of the speech and the entire sound clip is available at C-Span's website, by the way.) The public is "said" to be less sympathetic to his antiwar activities. Now for the past six weeks a steady stream of reporting appeared in major newspapers and on network news (thanks to carefully planted stories), all with a decidedly negative tone about various groups of demonstrators at the conventions. The big news was always keyed to abortion rights, gay marriage, all of the hot button issues. (Of course, the demonstrations at the DNC resulted in only one arrest and were quite mild in nature.) However, the stories about the prospect of upwards of 250,000 demonstrators fighting over access to the great lawn in Central Park during the upcoming event have been the highlight, plus lots of coverage about the violence in Seattle and anything and everything to do with the anarchists, and this week there was the obviously planted story in the New York Post about the evil things Dems plan for NYC like turning rats loose, sending direction-searchers to the seedy parts of town, hookers with AIDS, etc. (Those holier-than-thou Repugs would not avail themselves of hookers, would they? LMSAO) I digress.
I think you can see where my sleepy brain is going. That is, the news stories are configured to tie in with the latest SBVFT ad about Kerry's antiwar activities. Karl Rove will utilize (and encourage) any negative news coming from the RNC demonstrations to encourage conflation between Kerry's antiwar demonstrations and any illegal or violent activity in NYC in much the same way Bush and friends conflated Saddam and Al Qaeda in the run up to the Iraq invasion. And think how strong that association remains: 35 percent of the population, according to a recent poll, still believe Saddam had a hand in the 9/11 attack.
The White House fax will be churning out talking points hour by hour, and I can just hear O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Scarborough, Coulter, Novak, et al., railing: Demonstrations are bad, unAmerican, and unpatriotic. John Kerry was a demonstrator. Therefore, John Kerry is bad, unAmerican, and unpatriotic. Therefore, John Kerry is not fit to be President. Do I have a point?
SherAn
Subject: Bush's Latest Threat
Hey BuzzFlash:
Did you catch the Idiot's speech in New Mexico yesterday?
At a GOP rally he ticked off his lying claims that Kerry will raise everyone's taxes...then he said the following:
"But we're not gonna let him get elected!"
And the crowd cheered. So what he's saying is... even if JK gets the most votes (like Al Gore did), we're not going to let him win. Echoes of the Diebold executive in Ohio ("We're committed to getting Ohio's electoral votes for George W. Bush").
These guys are unbelievable...but you have to believe they're serious.
H. Modell, NY
Subject: MISCALCULATION?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Mr. Bush also acknowledged for the first time that he made a ‘miscalculation of what the conditions would be'’in postwar Iraq.”–The New York Times, August 27, 2004
[Almost 1,000 American soldiers and God only knows how many Iraqi civilians have died because of Bush’s ‘miscalculation,’but see the headline and lead paragraphs below, showing what The “liberal”New York Times considers the most important item in its interview with Bush.—Caro]
Bush Dismisses Idea That Kerry Lied on Vietnam
By DAVID E. SANGER and ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published: August 27, 2004
ARMINGTON, N.M., Aug. 26 - President Bush said on Thursday that he did not believe Senator John Kerry lied about his war record, but he declined to condemn the television commercial paid for by a veterans group alleging that Mr. Kerry came by his war medals dishonestly.
Mr. Bush's comments, in a half-hour interview with The New York Times, undercut a central accusation leveled by the veterans group, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, whose unproven attacks on Mr. Kerry have dominated the political debate for more than two weeks…
Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com
"I fixed the election in Florida for George Bush." –James Baker III, reported by Greg Palast, December 8, 2003
Subject: Bush Flip Flops on North Korea
Can you believe this Son of Bush's Comment regarding North Korea:
Quote:
It quoted him as saying about the leaders of North Korea and Iran: "I don't think you give timelines to dictators."
Don't give Deadlines to Dictators? What the F**k....?
What the hell did he do with Saddam? Didn't he give Saddam a Deadline before dropping 100,000 bombs on Iraq?????
Can you please explain this....
Bush Admits Iraq 'Miscalculations' - NY Times
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) acknowledged for the first time on Thursday that he had miscalculated post-war conditions in Iraq (news - web sites), the New York Times reported.
The paper quoted Bush as saying during a 30-minute interview that he made "a miscalculation of what the conditions would be" in post-war Iraq.
A BuzzFlash Reader
[BuzzFlash Note: Nothing Bush does is truly explainable, in the sense that if one held true Christian values they could not look their children in the face and tell them of the things they had done.]
Subject: Bush people attack Iraq soccer story
Here's one I did not see on your page. Don Eberly (unfortunately, from where I live) chose to suggest CNN/SI writer "engineered" the story about Iraqi soccer players being upset about being used in an ad for Bush. This link shows how accurate the story was.
"Setting the record straight; There was no misinterpreting Iraqi players' anger at Bush's campaign," Sports Illustrated
Larry
Subject: Cheney and Gays
I have become cynical enough to believe there is an ulterior motive in EVERYTHING these SOB's do. How come Cheney is only now coming out for "gay rights"? Right before the convention. Right before about a million gay Republicans start getting serious about deciding who they are going to vote for. Well, Dubya sure turned 'em off. So now its the ole' bait 'n' switch with Uncka Dick. So, hmmm, maybe there's still some room in the party for gays. Until the day after election day. Watch out. Never trust a snake. These guys give snakes a bad name.
A BuzzFlash Reader
Subject: Roy Hoffman Changes his Story!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,130348,00.html
" I was somewhat flattered when he called me, but his mission was to get me to write down and submit what I thought was wrong in the [book] "Tour of Duty," his biography, where I thought there were mistakes," [Roy] Hoffman said.
[...]
Hoffman said Kerry asked him if he was willing to end his swift boat activism if Kerry allowed him to help correct the record in "Tour of Duty."
"I told him that I wasn't going to cooperate that I felt very bitter about his qualifications and particularly with how he betrayed us in 1971," Hoffman told FOX News.
[...]
"Hoffman said Kerry was so concerned about the admiral's opposition that he offered Hoffman an open line to his personal staff and "Tour of Duty" author Douglas Brinkley.
"He gave me the phone number of his private secretary and said I could contact her at any time and said I could call Brinkley, who had already called," Hoffman said. "I declined, and said there was no need to discuss it any further. It was about a 45-minute conversation."
***************
So, the cover story that Hoffman and others were "upset" with how they were portrayed in"Tour of Duty," and decided to go after Kerry because of it turns out to be another bald-faced lie!
When given an opportunity to correct the record, and have the supposed problems in the book changed, Hoffman told Kerry to go to hell, and whined about how Kerry "betrayed" them in 1971.
Fox news accidentally helps John Kerry! You gotta love the irony.
A BuzzFlash Reader
Subject: Two wonderful stories breaking in Portland, Oregon
Didn’t see these yet on BuzzFlash. You guys are awesome!!!
See www.oregonlive.com –Al French, swift boat lying prosecutor, has been given 30 days w/pay while they investigate him for lying about an office affair. Never mind the Oregon Bar Assn investigation into ethics violations for signing a false affidavit. It’s the sex, man!
See www.katu.com –famed attorney Gerry Spence is representing Brandon Mayfield against the FBI for falsely arresting him for the Madrid train bombing. And the FBI agent in charge here, Robert Jordan, was sent out from DC last year after Republican Sen Grassley ripped him a new one for harassing FBI whistleblowers.
A BuzzFlash Reader
Subject: Master of Duplicity
BuzzFlash,
It doesn't matter if the Master of Duplicity condemns the Swift boat ads or not. Bush admitted there was no connection between 9-11 and Iraq months ago. Yet every member of the administration, including Colin Powell, continues to connect the two. They know that many people believe whatever fits there philosophy and flatters their ego. An admission will be ignored.
Larry,
Maryland