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sdpatriot
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 Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 4:12 pm Post subject: cbs picture - Capt. Ron Hubbard?? |
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guys, there is a photo essay of Kerry at CBS website and
one of the pictures is of Kerry and Hubbard on "Meet the
Press". they call Hubbard, "Capt. Ron Hubbard". no
mention that he was proved to be NO Captain later.
http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2004/02/09/politics/photoessay598957.shtml
click on page 5 if it doesn't show up.
i'm correct about this right? that Hubbard was proved to be a phony?
sdpatriot
ps... i see Kerry had a puppy in Nam and named it V.C. .... good grief,
did that stand for what i think it did??  (picture #2)
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Navy_Navy_Navy
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| Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, picture #5 misidentifies Fraudmeister Al Hubbard as "CPT Ron Hubbard."
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Me#1You#10
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What a pathetic joke...SeeBS can't even get his name right, no less his rank.
Nor are they, apparently, even aware that he lied about his rank.
I'm sure there's more current information, but here's an early piece on "CAPTAIN" Al Hubbard from the National Review. He has as much credibility as Kerry...
| Quote: | Who Is Al Hubbard?
A look at John Kerry’s old crowd
By William Overend
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article appeared in the June 1, 1971, issue of National Review.
Al Hubbard is the executive director of the Vietnam Veterans against the War. I first met him the morning of April 21 at the VVAW "camp-in" on the Capitol Mall in Washington. He was sitting on a flatbed truck, explaining to a circle of six hundred or so members of his group that the Supreme Court had upheld the earlier ruling that the Veterans would not be allowed to sleep on the Mall that night. He was very calm and soft-spoken about it all, at one point interrupting himself to ask that volunteers take down a Vietcong flag someone had stuck in a tree. When he was finished talking, I went up to Hubbard and introduced myself and asked him about his service record, among other things. He said he had been an Air Force captain.
Actually, if I had watched Meet the Press the previous Sunday, I wouldn't have needed to ask that question at all. Hubbard had been introduced on that show by Lawrence E. Spivak as a former captain who had spent two years in Vietnam, and who had been decorated and injured in the process. The way it was later explained to me at the Washington "camp-in" was that Hubbard had been flying a transport plane into Danang one day in 1966 when he "caught some shrapnel in the spine."
That was April 21. On April 22, the story began to change. According to Frank Jordan, the Washington Bureau Chief of NBC News, NBC got a tip that Al Hubbard hadn't been an Air Force captain, but instead an Air Force sergeant. NBC reached Hubbard at a Washington hotel that night, asked Hubbard about the tip, and got a confession that, indeed, he had been lying about his rank. NBC broadcast that on its 11 P.M. news that night and also interviewed Hubbard on the Today Show the next morning. As NBC's Jordan remembers it, Hubbard explained he made up the business about having been an officer: "He was convinced no one would listen to a black man who was also an enlisted man."
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sdpatriot
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| Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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i had wrote a note of thanks to reporter Diana West who wrote
the great article "The Media Stampede", which was posted here
by Me#1You#10 under the thread "On Swiftvets and Whitehats".
She actually wrote back! and she promised to keep an eye out for
the Vet's anti-Kerry rally in Washington DC in September.
I just wrote to her again about CBS's blatant BS with the Hubbard
picture. Hopefully she will look into it. Here is her email address
if anyone else wants to help convince her, or has some information
on Al Hubbard that could help her. dianawest@verizon.net
sdpatriot
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