The Left’s Lame Excuse for John Kerry
by Patrick Ruffini :: January 6th, 2007 11:01 am
Greg Sargent breathlessly proclaims that he’s mythbusted the “Lonely Kerry” photo. It’s turns out he was having a super-duper-secret off the record discussion with Marc Santora from the New York Times and Mark Danner of the New York Review of Books:
Specifically, it turns out that Kerry was at that table to conduct an off-the-record breakfast discussion with two reporters, so there would have been no reason whatsover for troops to be sitting with them. In fact, Kerry and the reporters even sought out empty seats, I’m told.
The two reporters who met with Kerry that morning are Marc Santora of The New York Times and Mark Danner of The New York Review, The New Yorker and other publications. Both Santora and Danner confimed to me that they met with Kerry — on the morning of Dec. 17, according to Kerry’s office and to Danner. (The person who posted the photo also confirmed that it was taken that morning.)
Surrounded by America’s heroes, John Kerry deliberately chooses to stay away from them so he can be with one of his own — a writer for the New York Review of Books. How John Kerry.
The headline is now: “Kerry Snubs Our Troops.”
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So the mystery has been solved. Just because John Kerry seemed to be acting like he usual acts (with the emphasis on “act”), he was really embedded with a couple of America’s great reporters in a secret conversation. His earnestness makes it seem like he is a modern-day “Deep Throat.” This is typical of Kerry, whether it is wind surfing off Newport or skiing in Idaho. He is absolutely and totally clueless to the political realities of 21st-century America. He is an out-and-out elitist who did not deserve to be elected president in 2004. For once, Terry McAuliffe has hit the nail on the head!
Patrick
What is really lame is they republican bloggers like yourself continue to perpetuate this lame assertion that Kerry was either snubbed by the troops or was snubbing them himself. There are photos online of the Senator meeting with the troops, there were also news stories about that. Kerry was in iraq, and the Middle East on a fact finding mission, he went into the Green Zone in Baghdad and beyond the Green Zone and met with Iraqi officials and the military to assess the situation there. Unlike Bush, Kerry doesn’t USE the troops for photo-ops. If he did, you conservatives would no doubt decry that as well.
The meeting documented by the photo in question was with 2 reporters, Marc Santora of the N.Y. Times is the Iraq correspont, if I am not mistaken, and Mark Danner, if you check his website has long list of credits on articles he has written on Iraq. Asserting he only a “writer for the New York Review of Books” is deceptive at best. His website shows that - http://www.markdanner.com/
Finally to David McGuire, I will note that Senator Kerry is far from an out of touch elitist and far from clueless to the political realities of 21st-century America. As a liberal blogger, single mother and small business owner, I have met with Kerry and spoken with him on numerous occassions over the past three years. I am no elitist, David, I’m a struggling single mother who the Senator always has time to speak with when he is in Los Angeles for political events. Were he truly the elitist you and other republicans make him out to be, I highly doubt he would make the time to speak with one of the “little people” like myself.
Pamela,
Really?
Why don’t you disclose the fact that you were John Kerry’s blogger during the 2004 campaign. http://flapsblog.com/?p=1379
Patrick was correct about Kerry and the “Botched Joke” episode pathetic as it was will hopefully prevent Kerry from making more of an ass out of himself by running for President again.
No one on the left cares about John Kerry anymore. Feel free to beat up on him.. but really, why bother? I don’t think his gaffes matter to the American public, and he isn’t a serious player in ‘08.
I can understand beating up on him because it’s fun, but that’s about it.
I remember talking to a British co-worker in ‘04, all excited that Kerry would ‘inevitably!’ beat Bush. I told her: no chance. We’re just stuck with this guy because Iowa has a thing for guys with deep voices and grey, president-hair. He’s a loser.
Flap
I do disclose that actually -
http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?page_id=3255
I’m new at this game. However, that doesn’t mean I’m new at writer my thoughts in a way that they are easily read and digested. I really don’t care a whit about John Kerry. In my opinion, he has had his time on the American stage. As is the case with almost all bad actors, he doesn’t know when to get off. His actions and words tell us more than we want to know about this traitor. My question is for those who supported him in the first place: what has this guy done during his life that intrigues you so much that you jump at every opportunity to support his malicious contributions to American historical lore? Why can’t you see what most intelligent Americans see — a windbag surrounding an ego that is disproportianately outsized to any positive contributions he has made to our patriotic American society? Is it possible that most Kerry supporters hate America and Americans as much as does he? If that is not the case, then there must be something that they see in him that the rest of our society is missing completely.
Kerry lives in Boston and works in Washington, D.C. So why would he want to travel halfway around the world to Iraq, go to a room filled with troops, and spend his time talking with two reporters from New York-based publications? It doesn’t show good political instincts to do that.
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