Disloyalty is a wonderful trait of the ordinary. — Lucy Butler
John Kerry, in a response to the RNC, released 143 “Lies, Mischaracterizations, Distortions, And Half-Truths” sold in the convention. At attempt to fisk an entire four-day convention’s speeches doesn’t come easy, and the Kerry campaign fails in style by producing not one line of rebuttal towards the quotes that they lifted.
In trademark, childish fashion reminiscent of his midnight rally, John Kerry shows exactly how his campaign rebuts “lies, mischaracterizations, distortions, and half-truths:”
106. Miller: “…Against the Trident missile, against, against, against. This is the man who wants to be the Commander in Chief of our U.S. Armed Forces? U.S. forces armed with what? Speeutbawlls?â€[Miller Remarks, 9/1/04]
It’s S-P-I-T-B-A-L-L-S, but you knew that. You just wanted to take a shot at a man with a Southern accent, proving once again that the target of a Democrat rebuttal is the person, and not the message.
James Joyner and Powerline note that he’s got an even bigger problem. The Kerry campaign called Sen. McCain—the closest thing he has to an ally among Republicans—a liar.
If this is what generally happens to caged hamsters I’ll personally lobby for the ban of hamsters in the pet trade. They should be released immediately and allowed to run free in the fields and meadows, where they can do the Hamster Dance with reckless abandon. Maybe then they can pick up some common sense and recognize who their friends are.
UPDATE: Here’s a screenshot of the anti-Southern bigotry that I quoted. Just in case.
UPDATE II: I KNEW IT! They disappeared the laundry list! I should have furled everything, but then again, all one needs do is peruse the transcripts. Captain Ed comments (HT: Mudville Gazette).
UPDATE III: Okay, it’s up again. How does the saying go? Give someone enough rope…
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[...] list reads like it could’ve been written by a mole for Karl Rove. On this story, the following quotes from Jay is priceless: “That’s gotta hurt [...]
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[...] out this site fairly regularly. UPDATE: Now it’s cached on Blogs For Bush. UPDATE: One Fine Jay wonders, what are “speeeeutbawls”? Yet anothe [...]
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A laundry list is not a critique
Both James Joyner and Robert Garcia Tagorda take note of John Hinderaker’s post on a recent Kerry press release, which purports to expose “four days of lies” at the Republican National Convention. The only problem with the press relea…
Trackback by Signifying Nothing — Sep 6, 2004 @ 3:37 pm
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The list is still up at the Kerry site
Comment by jaws — Sep 6, 2004 @ 5:41 pm
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143 Lies, Mischaracterizations, Distortions, And Half-Truths From The RNC
Now this is just ridiculous. I’ve tried to stay away from commenting on the candidates and parties, but this just takes the cake! The Kerry campaign has just put out this PR Release [ backup copy here -ed ] entitled…
Trackback by Diggers Realm — Sep 6, 2004 @ 6:43 pm
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It’s down again, but it was up long enough for the Bush-Cheney Campaign to jump on it: [Link]
(Ouch!)
Comment by jaws — Sep 6, 2004 @ 10:41 pm
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That’s gotta hurt. So he put up a laundry list before he took it down, put it up again, and took it down again, all the while flipflopping on not attacking Sen. McCain.
He said he wasn’t gonna attack McCain before he attacked McCain. Remarkable.
Comment by OF Jay — Sep 6, 2004 @ 10:53 pm
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It’s gone again.
Is this prototypical of Kerry? Change the angle of approach every 30 seconds?:???:
Comment by Bithead — Sep 6, 2004 @ 11:03 pm
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Well he has more positions than the Kama Sutra ever recommended. Should we even be surprised?
Comment by OF Jay — Sep 6, 2004 @ 11:06 pm
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“Change the angle of approach every 30 seconds?”
According to http://www.mudvillegazette.com/archives/001317.html apparantly thats almost precisely what happened. (up, down, repeat…)
Now, can you pick lottery numbers?
Comment by Robert — Sep 7, 2004 @ 12:26 am
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The list is back down, but lots of folks created mirrors. Here’s mine. The link is at the bottom of the post.
Comment by Jeff Harrell — Sep 7, 2004 @ 12:35 am
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Kerry Campaign Takes Down Press Release
The other day, I pointed out a Press Release by the Kerry campaign which simply listed off excerpts from various speeches made throughout the convention which either lauded President Bush, or condemned John Kerry. I noted that the Press Release…
Trackback by Blogs for Bush — Sep 7, 2004 @ 7:16 pm
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Has the person who wrote the “speuttbawls” line ever heard John Edwards, their own vice presidential candidate, speak?
Comment by twalsh — Sep 7, 2004 @ 7:59 pm
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Dude, it’s Hampsterdance not Hamster dance.
Comment by Bill — Sep 7, 2004 @ 8:09 pm
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I seem to recall certain heroes of the left being Southerners. Bill Clinton comes to mind, as does Jimmy Carter.
That said, as a Tennessean myself, I agree that this sort of mockery doesn’t go over too well when coming from a privileged Massachusetts toy-boy who accused his fellow soldiers of committing atrocities and now tries to get elected on that same military record.
Comment by Anne Haight — Sep 7, 2004 @ 8:09 pm
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It’s been disappeared again. But there’s alwasy Google Cache.
Comment by Matt Navarre — Sep 7, 2004 @ 8:09 pm
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I agree that this sort of mockery doesn’t go over too well when coming from a privileged Massachusetts toy-boy
Especially one who is on film from 1971, sounding like Thurston Howell III — but who almost sounds Midwestern by comparison nowadays.
Comment by McGehee — Sep 7, 2004 @ 8:12 pm
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Digging deeper or Sinking lower
This is sad. Kerry’s campaign is resorting to attacking southern accents of all things! In their recent press release that listed (but did not refute) a bunch of the things stated at the Republican National Convention, they quote Miller as saying, “….
Trackback by snellspace.com — Sep 7, 2004 @ 8:14 pm
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Great post! At this rate, Democratic insiders will soon be echoing O’Reilly and screaming “SHUT UP!” — while Republicans will beg to hear more of the real Kerry!
Glenn Reynolds is right if anyone’s running this campaign.
Comment by Eric Scheie — Sep 7, 2004 @ 8:33 pm
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I’ve cached the page on my site, in case it expires from the google cache:
http://www.dailynewsbrief.com/jfk/
Comment by Joe Shockley — Sep 7, 2004 @ 9:02 pm
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There is an interesting piece on NRO about Kerry, SwiftVets, and media. It starts out by recalling how during the Soviet era it was often possible to find the truth behind the lies. The items called “lies” were often the real truth and the “truth” was usually the lie.
Given this election cycles has overdosed on the word “lie”, the value it’s currency has now sunk faster than Kerry’s poll numbers. The point which I can’t seem to get to, is that I now take anything presented by the “blue” side as a “lie” to most likely be the truth. I think is was Marx who said accuse your enemies of what you do.
Comment by J_Crater — Sep 7, 2004 @ 9:22 pm
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The wonderful southern accents of the past, Talmadge, Irvin, Heflin were just about ALL Democrats. No president has ever won without carrying at least one southern state. I do not think Kerry will carry even one despite his John Boy Edwards VP. Zell Miller is not just a southerner but a mountaineer, possibly the most fiercely independent and self-sufficient group in the country. Yes, they have been poor but they have mostly rejected government help as well, something that must frost a socialist like Kerry.
Southern accents will soon be a thing of the past with the advent of TV in every home. This saddens me but I wonder what Kerry and his ilk will find to ridicule then. People with this much contempt for a whole region of the country certainly should not be placed in a position to govern it. That would be ludicrous.
`Anna’
Comment by ~Anna — Sep 7, 2004 @ 9:47 pm
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I hate John Kerry and I hate most Democrats. The more I know the more hate I feel. I want to objective but everything about them I feel is so disgusting. Abortion, gay marriage, socialistic taxes and healthcare, the list goes on. We are heading towards socialism. I am honestly afraid to have children because I don’t want them to grow up in a society like the one that we are heading towards. Freudian views are and have been being engrained in America’s children through the public school system. Teaching kids that accountability for your actions is a thing of the past, of biggots. “It’s not your fault you’re hooked on drugs, you were born with that tendency. It’s not your fault you murdered ten people, you were boen with that tendency. It’s not your fault that you’re gay, you were born with that tendency. You aren’t legally murdering your own child, your own flesh and blood, the one precious thing in the world that will love you unconditionally, you are having an abortion. It’s not a human, it’s not an innocent child, it’s a fetus. BULLSHIT! Our society is just too screwed up these days. It’s going to collapse or something. No one thinks it will or even thins it’s possible but it will someday, and then every disgusting liberal pig will get what they wished for. I can’t wait.
Comment by Joel — Sep 8, 2004 @ 12:35 am
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The incredibly indecisive Kerry press releases
The incredible disappearing, flip-flopping Kerry press releases that mock Southern accents, call McCain a liar and seem to disappear and reappear. One Fine Jay is on the case.
Trackback by Conservative Conspiracy — Sep 8, 2004 @ 12:53 am
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I suppose “spitbwalls” is more like the Kerryites would pronounce it.
Comment by Reid — Sep 8, 2004 @ 1:21 am
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It’s all where you put the “w” (prounced “aahr”).
Comment by Reid — Sep 8, 2004 @ 1:23 am
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Jeebus! I thought Kerry’s Campaign was in turrble bad trouble before. What with being heckled in Pennsylvania. Holdin’ that automatic shotgun from them coal miners. The kind he sponsored a Bill to Ban. Now this fiasco? :lol Kerry makes a box of rocks look like Rhodes Scholars!:mrgreen:
Comment by Jack Deth — Sep 8, 2004 @ 2:56 am
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Joel,
“I am honestly afraid to have children because I don’t want them to grow up in a society like the one that we are heading towards.”
It’s the liberals that are afraid to have kids (access this via google). Conservatives have faith both in America’s ability to see through this and ultimately in God’s protection of us. That’s part of why today’s young voters are more conservative than the older generation. The other reason is just plain selfishness.
Comment by ReportingForDoody — Sep 8, 2004 @ 7:02 am
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As kerry is walking toward McCain with doubled fist he says “don’t worry John, I’m not hit you”.
Comment by Gary B. — Sep 8, 2004 @ 8:47 am
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I’m against abortion.
I’m against Nationalizing women’s wombs to stop it.
It is just another form of Republican Socialism.
Comment by M. Simon — Sep 8, 2004 @ 12:13 pm
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Zell Spoke For Me
Lifelong Democrat Michael Novak says, quite eloquently: Zell spoke for me. Meanwhile, Kerry supporters Ken Layne and Andrew Sullivan call Zell …
Trackback by Dean's World — Sep 8, 2004 @ 12:59 pm
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This Air National Guard counterattack by Kerry’s “posse” is going nowhere, as President Bush isn’t running on his “war record” from Vietnam, but his war record from the last several years. The reason that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have been so damaging are many, but one would be that there are so many of them, and that they are so believable.
I’ll bet the Democrats (excepting Hillary) are regretting the day they ever laid eyes on John Fonda Heinz-Kerry. I see either Jeb Bush or Rudy as the standard-bearer in 2008 against Senator Clinton, with Gov. Schwarzennegger as the VP nominee (if Sen. Hatch can work his amendment magic).
Barring something unforeseen, Mr. Bush is a shoo-in for a second term (remember, all he has to do to win is keep the states he won last time, and they’re trending Republican).
I’ve never seen anyone in the public eye so out of touch with the “common man” as Senator Kerry. Why aren’t all his campaign gurus coaching him and saving him from himself? If I were him, I’d forget that I have homes in Idaho, Nantucket, etc. and NEVER let anyone photograph me doing anything that a middle class voter wouldn’t normally do.
Comment by Fred Paxson — Sep 9, 2004 @ 4:11 am
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Kerry’s House of Ketchup #25
Kerry speaks. We’re now in the nasty part of the campaign. Democrats have had enough of the successful attacks…
Trackback by The American Mind — Sep 9, 2004 @ 12:15 pm
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Reply to Jack Deth, comment #27. You are absolutely right. The F. in John F. Kerry stands for fraud. He was in Vietnam , I’ll give him that. But, the silver stars, the bronze stars the purple heartsthe ribbons the medals I believe are fraudulent. He did nothing that was above and beyond the call of duty that I have seen. Of course, Kerry has made none of the records public. We are supposed to believe him. Sergant York was the real McCoy. Audie Murphy was the real Mckoy. John McCain is the real McCoy. John F. Kerry is a JFK wannabe. He complains that Bush won’t sign a ban on assault weapons but he himself accepts one as a gift and jokingly says that he might bring it to the upcoming debates. I don’t know how the people of Massachusetts elected him to public office. Making unfounded claims of atrocities by others including his buddies and including himself. The only reason he was not prosecuted was because the war was so G-ddamned unpopular nobody thought to charge him becuase they all wanted to get the hell out of there as fast as they could. I voted democratic in 2000 but I cannot this time around. Kerry is an insult to the intelligence of every man and women of voting age and even those who are not. Something has happened to the Democratic Party since 2000 and I can no longer identify with its leaders or principles any more. Sincerely, Miles A. Brumberg, DO
Comment by Miles A. Brumberg, DO — Sep 12, 2004 @ 2:32 am
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Zell miller pointed out just what is wrong with the demacratic party they are too much under the influance of special interests and the trial lawyers as well as the envromentalist wackos hollywood left and the one world goverment of the UN why else would the dems want to have UN monitors interfer in out elections dont you think its time to give these liberal demacrats the boot?:whip::wink::idea:
Comment by killdeer — Sep 12, 2004 @ 2:31 pm
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Kerry can talk the talk but he will never be able to walk the walk. Kerry keeps saying I have plan. What the hell is the plan
And to be honest I’m tired of burning up everytime Kerry opens his mouth. He has not yet straight out answered a single question. Talking around an answer and giving one is not the same thing Kerry:!:
JOHN KERRY = DOUBBLE TALK
Comment by SAM — Oct 8, 2004 @ 10:31 pm