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<p>I certainly hope that the political elites have the good sense to not give us Kerry again. God, Buddha, and Spongebob, please give the Dems anyone but Kerry next time…</p>
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<p>Rush claims to be “a journalist.” He made this claim quite recently. Another thing he expects his listeners to swallow unchallenged. </p>
<p>I’m not sure why people are still asking for Kerry to release his military records. He did it over a year ago. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/06/07/kerry_allows_navy_release_of_military_medical_records/[/url]”>http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/06/07/kerry_allows_navy_release_of_military_medical_records/</a></p>
<p>It probably would have helped him in the presidential election if he’d released them earlier; the file contained praise by some of the same people who later criticized him. His reason for not releasing them sooner was to avoid dignifying the Swiftboaters. Same reason Webb doesn’t talk about his Navy Cross, I guess.</p>
<p>Good find. Yes, they should have been released earlier.</p>
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No, he didn’t.</p>
<p>Kerry’s records haven’t been completely released—we did this one a while ago, too. Some of them are in the naval archives, which requires a different release form than the one required for records held by the Navy.</p>
<p>Well, it would have helped him, but I don’t think any American, running for office or no, is OBLIGATED to release private medical, employment, educational, or military records. Court records that are routinely sealed (such as records of divorce cases involving minor children), I don’t think anyone should have to release either. I wouldn’t hold it against any candidate, whatever the party, for exercising his or her right as an American to whatever little privacy our society still affords.</p>
<p>OTOH, court records that aren’t routinely sealed, but are sealed by an unusual exercise of judicial discretion, are a different matter. We can’t compel the release, but as a voter, I am not going to give the candidate the same benefit of the doubt.</p>
<p>Rush isnt a journalist and he has said on numerous occasions that he is an entertainer, a commentator, which he is.</p>
<p>So you agree that if Rush refers to himself as “a journalist” that he’s lying?</p>
<p>sure, i dont no how much of a lie that is for example if rush was wearing red pants and he said on the radio he was wearing blue pants, is that a lie? i guess, but either way when did he say this journalist thing and in what context</p>
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It would be inconsistent with the many, many times he has said the opposite. Show your hand, I’m calling.</p>
<p>yh rush always specifies he isnt a journalist</p>
<p>have we seen Bush’s “records” such as they are? don’t think so</p>
<p>He referred to himself as “a reporter” as recently as October 26, 2006. </p>
<p><a href=“http://mediamatters.org/items/200610270019[/url]”>http://mediamatters.org/items/200610270019</a></p>
<p>and if you want to discuss campaign material, the repubs are running some real classy stuff</p>
<p>and we have some cussing and using the n word, others attacking waitresses, other covering for others, yes, what a classy group of folks representing america</p>
<p>makes me proud, since they claim the moral highroad</p>
<p>tell, me what morals do these people represent to you?</p>
<p>not any morals I was taught, even in civics class</p>
<p>and sure the dems have a few bad apples, but no where near the bushels the GOP does</p>
<p>kind of fun to watch…too bad the GOP doesn’t actually have standards for morals anymore</p>
<p>“after all, I am a reporter [ahem] --”</p>
<p>now limbaugh is in a world all his own…nice if he actually did any research for anything</p>
<p>Sounds like two of you need to look up the meaning of [ahem]
Conyat, I thought you had a least a pair of twos. Don’t waste my time with nuthin’, please.</p>
<p>kluge, I’m amazed that you think that the “context” around what Kerry said somehow transforms what he said into a Bush put down rather than the put down of the troops as it came out. Perhaps he didn’t mean to put the troops down, but the context of the speech adds nothing to the debate.</p>
<p>Hence, you being on your high horse complaining about those who are taking Kerry to task on this smacks of nothing more than “the best defense is a good offense”. There is no way that you can take the words that came out of his mouth, context and all, and conclude that what he was really trying to do is put down the president. </p>
<p>I’d say that Kerry’s crisis management team quickly got together after he said what he did and concocted a “I meant to say something else and how dare you try to Swift Boat me” defense.</p>
<p>fundingfather, just watched an interview with Conservative Pat Buchanan. He said that at first blush he was outraged by what Kerry said, but after hearing and seeing the entire video it was clear to him that Kerry was lampooning Bush. I don’t often agree with Buchanan, however, I do think he is more honest than most.</p>
<p>Did you watch the video? Looks to me like he is saying he’s a reporter. Wasn’t that his whole justifications for all the gyrations he did? He wasn’t making fun of people with Parkinson’s, he was reporting.</p>
<p>Here’s another example of Rush’s lies: </p>
<p>May 1994 Rush tells his television audience: “Now I got something for you that’s true. 1972, Tufts University, Boston. This is 24 years ago – or, 22 years ago. Three-year study of 5,000 coeds, and they used a benchmark of a bra size of 34C. They found that the – now wait, it’s true – the larger the brasize, the smaller the I.Q.” </p>
<p>No such study was ever actually issued.</p>
<p>There’s plenty others at: <a href=“http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/entertainers/pundits/rush-limbaugh/[/url]”>http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/entertainers/pundits/rush-limbaugh/</a></p>
<p>He tells his listeners he’s a “great truth detector”, then fills their heads with stuff he like the above that he just makes up. It’s terribly irresponsible, even when he isn’t calling himself a reporter.</p>
<p>Unsoccer-mom, do you remember which network that was on? I have been unsuccessful in trying to locate either a tape or a transcript of the entire first part of the speech - just the one sentence out of context.</p>
<p>John McCain is a personal friend of Kerry and defended him throughout the Swift Boat episode, yet even McCain has interpreted these remarks as a put down of the troops and has demanded that he apologize.</p>
<p>Conyat, you are reeeeally stretching it by trying to take that use of the word “reporter” followed by an “ahem” as a claim by Limbaugh that he is a journalist of any form.</p>