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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:27 pm Post subject: Beldar sighting... |
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I was beginning to wonder if Beldar might have commenced yet another hiatus from things political and was missing out on the Kerry/Pickens brouhaha.
Not so! I just spotted him giving the Kerryites agida in the comments to a recent Mary Ann Akers "Sleuth" column in the WaPo...
| Quote: | In an attempt to intimidate them from accepting the SwiftVets' advertisements, the Kerry campaign's lawyers threatened in writing to sue TV stations who'd agreed to accept the SwiftVets' paid political advertisements. Kerry supporters, including former Gore speechwriter and Democratic consultant Kenneth Baer (writing in The New Republic), urged him to sue -- arguing that even if he failed to recover money damages due to the difficult "actual malice" standard for public figure defamation lawsuits, he'd nonetheless prove the falsity of the SwiftVets' allegations in court.
But most states have a short statute of limitations on defamation cases, typically only one year; Kerry's home state of Massachusetts has a comparatively generous one, permitting three years before such claims are deemed time-barred. Kerry has permitted more than three years to pass since the SwiftVets made their allegations public, most prominently through the publication of O'Neil & Corsi's book "Unfit for Command." If he thought he could prove the falsity of the SwiftVets' allegations -- after full pretrial discovery, including compulsory production of witnesses and documentary evidence he's successfully stonewalled producing (e.g., his war diaries) -- Kerry has forfeited that chance.
The only logical inferences available, then, are that Kerry either doesn't care about his reputation, or else that he is deathly afraid to have it tested IN COURT. If he were prevented by the rules of procedure and evidence from filibustering and evading, the myth of his "heroic record" would evaporate, and matters that he's successfully kept off the public radar screen despite the SwiftVets' advertisements -- e.g., his trip(s) to Paris to meet with the Viet Cong while Americans were still fighting in Viet Nam and Kerry was still a reserve officer in the Navy -- would finally become broadly known.
Posted by: Beldar | November 19, 2007 11:52 PM
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streetsweeper95B
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Leave it to Beldar, lol.
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| streetsweeper95B wrote: | | Leave it to Beldar,... |
Unfortunately your quip strikes a little bit too close to an uncomfortable trend. Kerry's continuing dissembling can barely raise a blip anymore except, perhaps, on a slow news day. Perhaps it's an indication of his irrelevancy...which is good...but...
Thank God for Beldar, Taranto, McQ, Tom Maguire, Lucianne and several other web entities who tenaciously refuse to let Kerry off the hook. |
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