Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Just to lay it to rest, once and for all
I read Right Thoughts regularly, and while I may disagree with Jim on a few issues (who doesn’t, eh?), he always has stuff worth digging into.
Like this entry…
There is no longer any doubt whatsoever that the Blather-gate documents are nothing more than badly executed fakes. CBS’ own document expert, Emily Will of North Carolina, has said that she raised multiple questions the night before the documents were used in the story bashing Bush.
“I found five significant differences in the questioned handwriting, and I found problems with the printing itself as to whether it could have been produced by a typewriter,” she said.
Will says she sent the CBS producer an e-mail message about her concerns and strongly urged the network the night before the broadcast not to use the documents.
“I told them that all the questions I was asking them on Tuesday night, they were going to be asked by hundreds of other document examiners on Thursday if they ran that story,” Will said.
Funny… that’s exactly what happened.
There is also this story and the (highly technical but utterly damning) site it mentions.
The only question that remains is “What did John Kerry/Terry McAuliffe/James Carville know and when did he know it?”
The Non-Sequitur Defense.
Vice President Dick Cheney turned Sen. John Kerry’s own words against him Tuesday while criticizing the Democrat for calling the war in Iraq “the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.” In an echo of a charge President Bush leveled at Kerry last week, Cheney contended that Kerry’s position was held early in the primary campaign by Democratic presidential rival Howard Dean.
“Sen. Kerry said, and I quote, ‘Those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don’t have the judgment to be president or the credibility to be elected president,’” Cheney said.
“In the spirit of bipartisanship, that’s one position of Sen. Kerry’s that I do agree with,” he said.
Of course pointing Kerry’s numerous flip-flops on Iraq—“wrong war, wrong place, wrong time” anyone?—is valid. However, instead of doing the same thing the Vice-President did, pointing out changes in position by the Bush Admin—I’m not saying there are any changes in position by the Bush Admin on Iraq or anything else for that matter, we get this response from the Kerry Campaign. Which gives one the impression they aren’t even trying anymore:
Mark Kitchens, a spokesman for the Kerry-Edwards campaign, called Cheney’s criticism an insult.
“Cheney’s attacks come from a man who took five deferments from Vietnam and are disingenuous at best. His attacks are an insult to all of us who have ever worn the uniform,” Kitchens said. “George Bush and Dick Cheney like to blame others for their failures but they fail to see that the buck stops at their desks at the White House.”
It really is like watching a slow motion train-wreck isn’t it?
Yet again
You mean that the members of the media are misrepresenting the truth and distorting documents in order to get votes for Kerry?
I’m shocked, I tell you! Just shocked.
Except, not so much…