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Thursday, November 09, 2006
Larry Elder :: Townhall.com Columnist
Kerry's botched joke
by Larry Elder
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Many of the stories Kerry recounted then and in a book he wrote turned out to have been fabrications. Tim Russert, in 2004, confronted Kerry on "Meet the Press" about his 33-year-old accusations.

Russert: You committed atrocities.

Kerry: . . . I think it's an inappropriate word. . . .

Russert: You used the word "war criminals."

Kerry: . . . It was, I think, a reflection of the kind of times we found ourselves in, and I don't like it when I hear it today.

Russert: . . . A lot of those stories have been discredited . . .

Kerry: Actually, a lot of them have been documented. . . . Have some been discredited? Sure, they have, Tim.

As for Kerry's Pasadena City College remark, he finally apologized -- that is, to anyone "offended" by his words, which he claimed were "misinterpreted."

The "botched joke" didn't hurt the Democrats on election night, but what about the military?
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Reply # 1
Date: Nov 16, 2006 - 7:22 PM EST
Softball for Fletch:

"Bush's comments, while outrageous in and of themselves, but decidedly UNLIKE Kerry's comments, in none of the quotes provided is their an identifiable pattern of statements indicating that the gaffes were not merely factual errors and misstatements, but Freudian in nature consistent with earlier comments that were never characterized as gaffes."

Please, list some of these "earlier comments."

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Reply # 2
Date: Nov 10, 2006 - 10:36 PM EST
fletch wrote:

"He was making extemporaneous remarks..."

Except, of course, that he was not. The only place I found more of the speech is in the clip linked to below, from Kieth Olberman's show. Take a look - you can see him referring to his script, he takes a potshot at the President, then he gets lost. He again looks to his script, but doesn't appear to find his place, and continues as best he can. The context, bashing the President, indicates that he misspoke intending to again bash the President.

Seriously, you guys are really reaching to come up with anything else.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njAwok8Opr0&search=Senator%20John%20Kerry%20stuck%20in%20Iraq


But if you like, I can start taking the President at his word also:

As I mentioned before, Bush apparently thinks there are multiple Internets.

Did you know the President thinks we have enough coal to last 250 million years?

Did you know Bush wants to "find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way"?

Did you know Bush believes Africa to be a single nation?

Apparently, he told Pat Robertson that we weren't going to suffer any casualties in Iraq.

Did you know Bush thinks Sweden has no army?

Bush also has said that we can't win the war on terrorism.

And then there's this classic:

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

So, by your twisted logic, Bush may have meant all of these things. He's obviously then out to hurt America and Americans.

Be serious.

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