{"id":2787,"date":"2004-07-29T11:26:20","date_gmt":"2004-07-29T18:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/07\/kerrys-home-movies\/"},"modified":"2004-07-29T11:26:20","modified_gmt":"2004-07-29T18:26:20","slug":"kerrys-home-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/29\/kerrys-home-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry’s home movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tSome Democratic Party hacks have claimed that the story about John Kerry’s staged Vietnam movies is staged itself. Here’s the original 1996 story, from that right-wing propaganda organ, The Boston Globe<\/a> (my copy):<\/p>\n

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At 2:45 a.m. yesterday, the men were gathering in the den and watching a series of 8mm films that Kerry had taken of the war experience they shared. He even pulled out a B-40 rocket that he captured in the Feb. 28 battle that earned him the Silver Star for bravery.<\/p>\n

All of the men recalled, second by second, the series of fire fights on the river that day in which Kerry, they agreed, bravely led a mission that earned the entire boat a presidential citation. All were infuriated by a Globe business column published nine days before the election that raised doubts about whether Kerry’s actions were heroic.<\/p>\n

Kerry used a clicker to freeze-frame the footage on the members of his crew. They were young then, and tan and strong. There were jibes about how much hair Del Sandusky, now a salesman in Illinois, had back then. The screen flashed a shot of Michael Medeiros, looking like a high school kid, smiling in sunshine that glinted off the waters of the delta.<\/p>\n

Vallely teased Kerry about the films, which some have felt revealed that even as a young lieutenant, Kerry was so intent on his future political ambitions that he made sure he had his heroics captured on film. Kerry looked at Vallely over his bifocals and smirked.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Some Democratic Party hacks have claimed that the story about John Kerry’s staged Vietnam movies is staged itself. Here’s the original 1996 story, from that right-wing propaganda organ, The Boston Globe (my copy): At 2:45 a.m. yesterday, the men were gathering in the den and watching a series of 8mm films that Kerry had taken … Continue reading “Kerry’s home movies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-IX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}