Deja vue: So the speed-boating of John Kerry is back in full force. It's absolutely clear at this point that the former presidential candidate was indeed trying to tell a joke at Bush's expense. Not a very good one, but a joke none-the-less. But the "fair and balanced" media keep repeating the botch, rather than the truth. And then they crow over people thinking Kerry insulted the troops. One thing about the "fair and balanced" boys is that truth doesn't seem to enter their particular form of journalism.
Yesterday (11/2), the New York Post editorialized:
"John Kerry did a full-frontal weasel yesterday, apologizing "to anyone who was offended" by his latest slurs on America's young fighting forces." Despite the fact that anyone who cared to know the truth had ample opportunity to discover that it was President Bush that Kerry was trying to make the butt of a joke. But for their own dishonest political purposes they chose to ignore this simple exculpatory fact.
In the same issue, right-wing columnist Rich Lowry wrote:
"...Kerry's statement was also plausibly interpreted by people of good faith [sic] as a slam against the military. After all he never mentioned the name Bush."
This despite the fact that Kerry had said shortly before the "offending" remark that "President Bush had lived in Texas but now 'lives in a state of denial.'"
But then if you are a Bush acolyte, it's clear that truth takes a back seat to politics. The wing-nuts learn from the master.
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