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hankholmes · Ensign Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 51

Sorry if it's been mentioned here before, but I did a search and couldn't find anything...

This evening I was out placing an order on Amazon and noticed that in addition to a blurb from the publisher and the contents of the book's inside flap, they're listing the following single phrase from Senator John McCain in their "Editorial Review":

"Dishonest and dishonorable... none of these individuals served on the boat (Kerry) commanded."

They've even stuck it on their Top Sellers page, including only the book title, the cover, the authors' names, and McCain's quote!

Unless the Swiftvets can confirm that Sen. McCain received an advance copy of the book, I'll assume that this is just blatant bias from Amazon. The next thing you know they'll be including an "Editorial Review" from the DNC!

Lily · Lieutenant Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 244

That was just added and it's dishonest in that it's McCain's comment about the ad, not about the book.I have not seen a comment about a political ad used that way.That makes me wonder if a Kerry supporter hacked amazon.com in order to ad the comment the way B&N was hacked earlier today. I think someone might want to look into that.

On the bright side "Unfit for command" has returned to #1.

Me#1You#10 · Site Admin Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 6503

Good Lord...this is through the looking glass stuff.

Well, they just lost the free ad in our announcement area.

Lily · Lieutenant Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 244

I emailed Amazon as I think it's possible the McCain comments was added by a hacker, given what happened earlier at B&N.

hankholmes · Ensign Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 51

Looks like this thread got incorporated into this earlier one.

Scott · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 7:27 pm Post subject:

1. It's not a quote. McCain did not say "...none of these individuals served on the boat (Kerry) commanded."

2. It's been removed. Story here.
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Lily · Lieutenant Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 244

So this is the second attempt to try to suppress the sales of "Unfit for Command". If this book is not true, why are Kerry supporters afraid of it?

4moreyears · Former Member Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 591

McCain: Hanoi Hilton Jailers Used Kerry Speech Against Us: "Sen. John McCain attacked a group of Vietnam veterans on Thursday for their appearance in a campaign ad condemning Sen. John Kerry for betraying his fellow soldiers, calling the commercial 'dishonest and dishonorable.' But McCain himself complained about Kerry-led anti-war protests when he was released from the infamous 'Hanoi Hilton' 31 years ago. In piece he wrote for the May 14, 1973, issue of U.S. News & World Report, the POW-turned-senator charged that testimony by Kerry and others before J. William Fulbright's Senate Foreign Relations Committee was 'the most effective propaganda [my North Vietnamese captors] had to use against us.' 'They used Senator Fulbright a great deal,' McCain wrote - a reference to Kerry's 1971 Senate testimony that U.S. soldiers were committing war crimes in Vietnam as a matter of course. He said Kerry political ally Sen. Ted Kennedy was 'quoted again and again' by his jailers at the Hanoi Hilton.
'Clark Clifford was another [North Vietnamese] favorite,' McCain told U.S. News, 'right after he had been Secretary of Defense under President Johnson.' 'When Ramsey Clark came over [my jailers] thought that was a great coup for their cause,' he recalled. Months earlier, Sen. Kerry had appeared with Clark at the April 1971 Washington, D.C., anti-war protest that showcased his testimony before the Fulbright Committee.
'All through this period,' McCain told U.S. News, his captors were 'bombarding us with anti-war quotes from people in high places back in Washington. This was the most effective propaganda they had to use against us.'
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kerry returned to the United States on July 22, 1971, held a press conference publicly calling on President Nixon... for the surrender of the United States to North Vietnam.

stevieboy · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 8:55 pm Post subject:

Lily wrote