Somersby has the Swifties' number, why doesn't the press?

[Scairp]

THEY LOVE THE SMELL OF A HOAX IN THE MORNING! John O’Neill’s gang is conducting a hoax. And the Washington “press” doesn’t care:

FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 2004

TOMORROW—YOU DON’T HAVE A PRESS CORPS: MSNBC’s performance Thursday night was perhaps the worst we’ve ever witnessed. Matthews, Olbermann, Norville, Buchanan—we take you right through the whole litter.

THEY LOVE THE SMELL OF A HOAX IN THE MORNING: Another veteran has now affirmed Kerry’s account of the Bronze Star events—the incident in which he saved Jim Rassmann’s life. The new vet’s name is Robert Lambert—and no, he says he doesn’t plan to vote for Kerry in November. But Lambert was there in the Bay Hap River when Kerry pulled Rassmann out of the drink, and he too says there was enemy fire, just as it says on Kerry’s citation. Tired of reading Swift Boat Veteran bull, Lambert spoke with his local newspaper. Paul Fattig did the profile for the Jackson County (Oregon) Mail Tribune. Note: Lambert served on the boat commanded by Larry Thurlow, one of Kerry’s chief accusers:

FATTIG (8/26/04): Lambert, now 64, was a crew member on swift boat PCF-51 that day. The boat was commanded by Navy Lt. Larry Thurlow, a now-retired officer who questions why Kerry was awarded a Bronze star for bravery and a third Purple Heart for the March 13 incident.
“He and another officer now say we weren’t under fire at that time,” Lambert said Wednesday afternoon. “Well, I sure was under the impression we were.”

Lambert’s Bronze Star medal citation for the incident praises his courage under fire in the aftermath of a mine explosion that rocked another swift boat on that day 35 years ago.

“Anytime you are blown out of the water like that, they always follow that up with small arms fire,” he said.

So let’s go to the scoreboard again, the one we toted on Monday. Every crewman on Kerry’s boat says they were under hostile fire. Rassmann, the man whose life was saved, says there was hostile fire too. And now, three different crewmen from two other boats have also come forward to describe hostile fire. Let’s make sure we recall who they are. You won’t hear about them on cable:

Wayne Langhofer, PCF-43 (skipper: Dan Droz). Reported by the Washington Post, 8/22/04.

Jim Russell, PCF-43 (skipper: Dan Droz). Reported by the Associated Press, 8/23/04.

Robert Lambert, PCF-51 (skipper: Larry Thurlow). Reported by the Mail Tribune, 8/26/04.

Much morehttp://www.dailyhowler.com/dh082704.shtml

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. You know why they are running with that pile 'o merde?

Because people are watching it. No other reason. Just eyeballs.

The media, especially cable news, is broken to hell and back and they just don't care.

[DemBones DemBones]

2. Don Droz's widow has now come out in support of Kerry,

based on what he told her when he she last saw him (on R & R, not long before he was killed.) It was an op ed in yesterday's NY Times and someone posted about it, with link, in Editorials.

[gratuitous]

3. It's a puzzlement

Half the time, all the media chuckleheads are trying to tell me how liberal everyone else on the media is, and the other half of the time they're playing chords from the mighty Republican Wurlitzer.

I posted at Bartcop that Kerry is indeed fighting back. He's just not getting any coverage at all from the liberal media.

Unfortunately for the repressive haters who run the media show, this time around we have the internet geared up and ready to go. We're watching, we're writing, and we're getting the word out.

[Rageneau]

5. If only BartCop were running the Kerry campaign...

Kerry would be ahead 20 points. In fact, IMHO, if the DNC press operation was being run by BartCop, the Democrats would easily retake both the House and Senate.

[blm]

6. I love Bart but who thinks the media would let him be heard?

What could he do that would force them to turn a camera on him everyday or force them to use whole thoughts and not edit his words?

[seabeyond]

4. rood

chicago reporter adn captian? of another boat

[Scairp]

7. Kick

This is so important, I hate to see it die.

[Scairp]

8. Kick (again)

Come on, people, and pass this stuff around too, to those who don't read blogs or other political internet sites on a regular basis.

[Scairp]

9. Oh come on folks

No one has ANYTHING to say about this? Or at the very least, let's keep it kick to the front page so that all have a chance to read it. I don't think everybody here makes going to this website a daily ritual (as I do), so it's important to get people to read this and to pass it on to others. The truth is out there. We just have to show people where it is, cause it ain't on CNN, MSNBC or Faux. Nor can we trust our supposed papers of "record". Half of the time they have their own agenda and spin the facts to suit that agenda. People like Bob Sommersby work very hard to get to the heart of our deeply dysfunctional press, and I think that at the very least he should get way more attention than he currently does.