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America’s News Media – Not Reporting for Duty!

By Tom Mortensen
29 August 2004


The News Media in this country is in full cry to slander 2.5 million Vietnam Veterans again. Those in the News Media did it 35 years ago to advance the burgeoning career of a slanderer and they’re doing it again to advance the presidential candidacy of the same slanderer. They are leading our republic into the trash bin of history to further the political ambitions of this slanderer and have failed to “Report for Duty”.

I read and hear the whining of the News Media that they’re tired of talking about the assertions of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. If that’s the case, they’re tired of the truth and as morally bankrupt as John F. Kerry.

Not a single assertion made by Swiftvets has been disproved. Several of the assertions have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt and quietly acknowledged by the Kerry Campaign with no News Media reaction to the fraud he perpetrated on his fellow officers, the U.S. Navy, and the American people.

1. Kerry was not in command of PCF-94 in January of 1969 and his attempt to steal the valor Lt. Edward Peck failed with a quiet withdrawal of documents from the Kerry Website. The News Media has failed to “Report for Duty”.

2. The Kerry Campaign has agreed that Kerry lied in testimony before the Senate in 1986 when he claimed he was 5 miles inside Cambodia on Christmas eve 1968 and yet the News Media has failed to “Report for Duty”.

3. The “No Man Left Behind” speech at the Democratic National Convention last month has been debunked. The Kerry Campaign has quietly admitted it was Kerry that fled the scene on 13 Mar 1969 leaving Rassman behind. The News Media has failed to “Report for Duty”.

4. The Kerry Campaign has quietly admitted that Kerry received a Purple Heart for purported combat action on 02 December 1969 as a result of a minor unintentional self-inflicted wound. There was no Combat after Action Report filed. Kerry’s appeal for the award was rejected by his Commanding Officer. There is no Combat Casualty Report for the incident. The News Media has failed to “Report for Duty”.

Starting on 06 May 2004 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has repeatedly called for the complete release of Mr. Kerry’s service records and war diaries. The News Media called upon President Bush to release his Texas National Guard Records in March. He complied. The News Media has failed “Report for Duty” and call on Senator Kerry to release his service records and war diaries.

The News Media, the so-called Fourth Estate, the conscience of our republic, is complicit in a massive cover-up the scale of which the American people has not seen since Watergate and they still fail to “Report for Duty”.

The failure of the News Media to “Report for Duty” has been a plague eating at the heart of our republic for 35 years.

A Pox on America’s News Media until it “Reports for Duty”!


Mr. Mortensen, a retired Chief Financial Officer, served in the U.S. Navy from September 1965 to November 1969. He extended his enlistment and volunteered for Mobile Riverine duty in Vietnam. He served as a Boat Captain and Patrol Officer in US Navy Task Forces CTF 117 and 116 from November of 1968 to November of 1969. In River Division 92, Nov of 68 to March of 69 and was a Plankowner (founding member) in RivDiv 595/153 serving there from March 69 to November 69. He was a awarded a Silver Star, a Navy Commendation Medal w/ Combat “V”, and a Purple Heart as well as several unit citations including 3 Presidential Unit Citations. He also has a piece of self-inflicted “friendly fire” shrapnel in his stomach for which he was too embarrassed, apparently unlike Senator Kerry, to request a Purple Heart.
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[Tom Poole]

[WalterW]

I plan to submit an abbreviated version to our local paper. I doubt that it will be published, but if we all do that, perhaps the message will reinforce our position on other matters.

Remember, griping to the umpire about a strike call in the first inning can affect his calls in the bottom of the ninth.

[ASPB]

[OsanFAC]

A word of caution as we constantly demand Kerry to sign the Form 180. Don't for a second believe that damaging information isn't or hasn't already disappeared from the records as he stalls. These people aren't stupid and they have sources. What better way to make the story go away? Sign the 180, release the reocords, and then nothing is there! Let's not keep looking at the Form 180 as opening "Pandora's Box"!
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -Edmund Burke

[cipher]

Superlative piece, Tom.

Thanks for writing it. And thanks for sharing it with us.
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[Skywatch]

Excellent article Tom! Right on target.
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[Tom Poole]

OOPS! I didn't know ASPB & Tom Mortensen are one. Great post.

p.s. Is there a trick in making this software say "Tom Poole wrote" or did I just miss something?
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[corbe]

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=6955
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According to a Kerry campaign source, senior campaign advisers tasked two Washington-based campaign staffers to vet the recently published Unfit for Command.
"The purpose was to compare what that book had with what we had on file from Senator Kerry," says the campaign source, who said that the research project developed more than 75 instances where Kerry's recollections, previous remarks, or writings conflicted with the book's reporting.

"We took some of the most glaring examples, like the Christmas in Cambodia story, and presented them to senior staff, and we assume that those things were put in front of Senator Kerry," says the source. "We haven't heard a word about it. All we were told is that it was being taken care of."

The campaign source said that the book was not considered a "serious" problem for the campaign, because, "the media wouldn't have the nerve to come at us with this kind of stuff," says the source. "The senior staff believes the media is committed to seeing us win this thing, and that the convention inoculated us from these kinds of stories. The senior guys really think we don't have a problem here."

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I didn't scan all topics, therefore, I don't know whether this has been posted yet or not, but it seems somewhat on-topic, I grabbed it out of the Hillary.org Forum and verified the Link. Don't ask me what I'm doing there other than trying to keep the Level of Koolaid consumption to a minimum. It is a struggle and though I lose some Battles on Nov 3rd I will have won the WAR.

[ASPB]

unabashedly bumped!
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[ASPB]

Plagiarize if you choose! Please distribute to the Press if you agree!
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[drjohn]

Damn, Tom.

Makes me feel small. You're one hell of a guy.

Is it too late to request that other PH?

Kerry said they "automatically" award them.

[ASPB]

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[Theresa Alwood]

Well Tom, like always you leave me speechless (well not really since I am a girl...LOL). Loved the article and will forward on. Keep the great articles coming!


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