SwiftVets.com

[fortdixlover]

This is downright disgusting but very reminiscent of what the Vietnam Vets went through at the hands of the former slave-supporting, apartheid-supporting socialists a.k.a. democrats:

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/013200.php

The Compleat Democrats' Disgrace

In Minnesota we are in the middle of a story that has dropped from view in the media, but it is a story that should attain national prominence. The Democratic Party has undertaken a campaign to suppress two advertisements giving voice to the sentiments of Iraq war veterans and Gold Star Families who support the war.

Brian Melendez is the chairman of the Minnesota Democratic Party. This past Thursday Melendez called a press conference and condemned the first of the two advertisements -- the one featuring the veterans -- as "un-American, untruthful and a lie."

The two advertisements can be viewed here. The first of the two ads is devoted to the Iraq war veterans; the second to the Gold Star Families, featuring Merrilee Carlson of St. Paul. Mrs. Carlson's son Michael was killed in Iraq last year; the Wall Street Journal published Michael's "credo" this past Memorial Day.

In Minnesota the mask has fallen from the Democratic Party. It has condemned the message of Lt. Col. Bob Stephenson and the other veterans supporting the mission in Iraq as "un-American." Yet it has gone beyond its outrageous condemnation of the ads. It has actually sought to suppress the message of the featured war veterans and Gold Star Families, emailing Party members and urging them to contact television stations demanding "the removal of the ads."

What do Democrats elsewhere think of their Party's campaign condemning the servicemen and Gold Star Families in the ads as "un-American"? Does Brian Melendez speak for them?

Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist Nick Coleman has now devoted two hysterical columns to condemnations of the advertisements. Coleman's first column made a basic error of fact as a result of its reliance on a far-left Web site and cited the testimony of a Kerry delegate to the 2004 Democratic convention as a "nonpartisan" source. (John fisked the column here.)

Coleman's second column fastened on "the Delores Kesterson issue" -- attacking the Gold Star Families ad for presenting the stepmother of Erik Kesterson in lieu of his mother. For this bizarre point Coleman relied without attribution on his friend "Hesiod"at Daily Kos. Coleman overlooked fellow St. Paulite Merilee Carlson -- the genuine biological mother of Michael Carlson -- in this rant.

Lt. Col. Stephenson is the co-chair of Minnesota Families United for Our Troops and Their Mission. Col. Stephenson is featured in the first of the two advertisements in issue. On Saturday John interviewed Col. Stephenson on the Northern Alliance Radio Network. You can listen to the interview here.

The Democratic Party has officially pronounced that Col. Stephenson and his ads are "un-American." That such a thing could happen is almost beyond belief -- a Marine officer with more than ten years of active duty labeled "un-American" for supporting America's foreign policy -- but it is nevertheless true. And attention must be paid.

JOHN adds: To my knowledge, not a single Democratic office-holder, in Minnesota or elsewhere, has disassociated himself from the Minnesota Democratic Party's position that it is "un-American" to support our government's policies in Iraq, and that expressions of such support should be banned from the airways.

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Also see http://powerlineblog.com/archives/013163.php#013163

-- FDL
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"Millions For Defense, Not One Cent For Tribute" - Thomas Jefferson on paying ransom to Muslim corsairs (pirates).

[PhantomSgt]

This is a case of "Cross Border Philosophy Creep" with Minnesotans being bombarded by nonsense from the liberal media of Canada. It is difficult for most Americans to relate to people who are from states that border with the Canadian Eastern Provinces. They have a Eastern Canadian mindset.

Over the years this mindset has cropped up in several other states bordering the states that have been influenced by Canada. There are many fine patriots from these states, but their voices get drowned out by the Liberal din.

The only way to explain why someone in their right mind would vote for a John Dean, John Conyers or a John Kerry is the success of a concerted brainwashing effort by the "Voice of Canada" broadcasts.



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Retired AF E-8

Independent that leans right of center.

[Nutso]

Sorry Sarge but I disagree with you that Minnesota's problems in any way come from Canada. As a lifelong resident here I can assure you we have enough Howling moonbats in this state to export TO Canada. The Minneapolis Star and Trib is far left, basically reprinting most of their ads off the NYT. Last election they had Kerry winning by around 10% nationally and they start this propaganda early and the local TV stations all take it as gospel, so it is all that 95% of the people here see. I know a lot of older folks (damn, I'm getting to be one) such as my folks who do not even listen to anything or watch debates. My dad just states the dems have always taken care of us and will always vote for them. He don't even need a name, just a big D on the ballot. This used to be strong union country and still is, although the unions are getting weaker, so many of the people still think its 1950.
If it wasn't for the seasons, the fishing and outdoors I love here, I would get out in a hurry.
Bye the way - did ya here they sold North Dakota to Canada?? Canadians are thrilled, South Dakotans don't care, and nobody else noticed!!!!
Just a little local humor.

[Schadow]

Lt Col Stephenson replies in a column in tomorrow's Minneapolis Star Tribune: