Have You Seen Drudge Right Now

[MaryH]

They are putting out a huge headline about how Kerry re-enacted his movies from Vietnam.

And how the guys on the Swift Boats all can't stand him.

Funny about that. He just got to Boston on a boat with 12 of his
Swift Boat buddies. And another man whose life he saved. They don't seem to hate him!

[joefree1]

1. Hee hee, not many National Guard "buddies" hanging around smirk

Just the usual corportate cronies.

[dennis4868]

2. Well if Sludge...

says it has to be true

:nopity:

[MikeG]

3. Breaking: Drudge is on crack.

[Langis]

4. Breaking: People who were on a swift boat once don't like Kerry

[MaryH]

7. There is one of those Vietnam Vets

who is Republican and kind of makes it his life purpose to talk about how awful Kerry is. I'm wondering if that is him.

[Langis]

10. Yep, that is who I am talking about

He never served with Kerry, but he gets on TV and acts like he servered next to him and watched Kerry kill babies or something.

[joefree1]

5. Actually it's Lt. Col. (Ret.) Patterson coping a hate buzz

Lt. Col. (Ret.) Patterson gets a "Buzz" out of distorting Kerry's record

Retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Buzz" Patterson, author of Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America's National Security (Regnery Publishing, 2003) and the newly released Reckless Disregard: How Liberal Democrats Undermine Our Military, Endanger Our Soldiers, and Jeopardize Our National Security (Regnery Publishing, 2004), appeared as a guest on the July 19 edition of Hannity & Colmes and the July 20 edition of FOX & Friends (both on FOX News Channel), where he issued a series of unfounded attacks against Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and the Democratic Party.
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Patterson also distorted Kerry's Senate voting record on FOX & Friends, saying Kerry spent "Twenty years voting against every single major weapons system that the military is fighting the war on terror with today," and that Kerry "served on the Senate Intelligence Committee for eight years, never voted for an increase of funding, voted for cuts three times, voted for cuts during the 1990s during the war on terror."

As Media Matters for America previously noted when Hannity made similar false claims about Kerry's voting record on military funding, Patterson's and Hannity's claim that Kerry "voted against every weapons system" presently in use by the military echoed Bush-Cheney '04 campaign advertisements and a February Republican National Committee research brief that misrepresented the facts on Kerry's record. As the Annenberg Political Fact Check explained, "Kerry's votes against overall Pentagon money bills in 1990,1995 and 1996 were not votes against specific weapons. And in fact, Kerry voted for Pentagon authorization bills in 16 of the 19 years he's been in the Senate."

On Hannity & Colmes, co-host Alan Colmes countered Patterson's distortion, saying, "I couldn't disagree with you more. John Kerry supported more than $4.4 trillion in defense spending during his Senate career." Later, when Colmes reiterated his point, saying, "I just talked about the trillions of dollars he spent on defense," Patterson replied, "hat is not true, Alan." But Kerry's record speaks for itself. The defense authorization bills Kerry has supported in the Senate amount to $4.46 trillion in defense spending through 2003.
More ...
http://mediamatters.org/items/200407210003

Sounds like Patty got's some sexual issues to work out.

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[PhuLoi]

12. An Air Force Lt.CoL you say? Why he must have been in the

thick of the fight! If ever he was in country he would have been in the rear with the gear. A barracks commando. A command bunker bunny.

[redqueen]

6. I guess he missed Rev. Alston's speech Monday

Drudge is a moran.

[MaryH]

9. He May be a Moron but

millions of people check in there every day. Well, maybe not millions but its a bunch.

[joefree1]

13. Ha, a bunch of Morans?

Or is it a pack of Morans?

[annxburns]

8. Okay, that's at least 6 threads about this stupid story ..

...

if we want the mainstream media to ignore Drudge's slime, why don't we?

I swear EVERY day he is going to be throwing sh** at Kerry. Remember the intern story? My view is: get used to it and ignore it.

[Politicub]

11. The swift boat vets that are anti-Kerry

come across as being filled with sour grapes. What a bitter bunch of folks to go around bashing their crew mate. I think they turn more people off to Bush than they get people to turn away from Kerry.

[Lex]

14. I agree.

Bashing a crewmate that you served with in Vietnam is just plain disgusting, unless that crewmate did some horrible sh*t, which Kerry plainly did not.

They are pathetic.

[jmowreader]

15. Problem: None of the "Swift Boat Vets for Truth" served with him

This is a Swift boat:



As opposed to the PBR they used in Apocalypse Now:



There were over 100 Swift boats plying the inland waterways of Vietnam, so there's no damn way every sailor in every one of those boats knew John Kerry.

OTOH, this sudden notoriety could be fun at the debate...when Bush starts talking about the Swift Boat Vets for Truth, Kerry can quite rightly point out that while lots of guys who were not in Vietnam when he was seem to know him, and of course all the guys who were assigned to Kerry's boat know him, no one who was in the TANG knows Bush. Uhh...what's up with that, George?

Edited to fix PBR photo.

[Politicub]

16. Great info

Thanks for your post. I haven't been following the swift boat story that closely, but your post contains info that makes for a "swift" rebuttal. (bad pun!)

[Walt Starr]

17. sludge gets a Wedgy

He's trying to drive a wedge between Democrats and their candidate.