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openfish24
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 Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:46 pm Post subject: The Rather Memos: On Operative Double Standards in the press |
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found the story in this blog
http://polipundit.com/
Link to article.
ROSS MACKENZIE
TIMES-DISPATCH COLUMNIST
| Quote: | SINCE JOHN Kerry's nomination in Boston, there have been really only two substantive stories about the presidential election - the issues raised about Kerry in connection with the Swift Boat veterans and, later, the bogus Rather memos. Both are related in that they go to the question of double standards, notably in the mainline press.
Let us count the ways.
Kerry, medaled several times over, made his service in Vietnam the centerpiece of his campaign. By contrast, Bush's Guard service has been held up as somehow deficient, the consequence of rich-boy favoritism that kept him out of the Vietnam action. Though Bush was honorably discharged, his Guard service has been a factor in all his political campaigns, yet never more than in this one. Democratic National Chairman Terry McAuliffe - appointed to the post by Bill Clinton - insists Bush has lied about his Guard years and served dishonorably.
With Kerry heading toward the Democratic nomination, the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was launched. Many Swiftees who served at the time Kerry served have taken issue with not only his military record but also his highly visible peacenik activities beginning in the early 1970s. Swift Boat commander John O'Neill has written a bestselling book (Unfit for Command) about Kerry's war and postwar activities. Recently, American POWs have told how Kerry, Jane Fonda, and others extended both the war and the POWs' time in the camps.
HOW ODD, though, that what the Swiftees and POWs have said has been accorded little credence, and correspondingly little serious attention, in the mainline press - especially by network television. For instance, Kitty Kelley's disastrous book about the Bush family received lengthy coverage by, especially, NBC while O'Neill's book, at least until recently, received practically none.
Bush's Guard records have been the subjects of consuming mainline-press attention, while Kerry's largely unseen records have been accepted on faith. And Kerry's refusal to sign military form No. 180, authorizing release of perhaps 100 pages of his military records, encounters little objection. Why? |
Maybe the MSM is beginning to take notice........
semper fi
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