Boston Herald Columnist Perpetuates Lies About John Kerry in Column and Blogosphere

[kerrygoddess]

Boston Herald Columnist Perpetuates Lies About John Kerry in Column and Blogosphere
December 17th, 2006 @ 11:38 am

I’ve written here in the past about Jules Crittenden’s propensity to tout the BushCo war is good mantra and twist John Kerry’s record. As a columnist for the Boston Herald, Crittenden’s ethics are in the toilet, putting it mildly. What is disturbing is that Crittenden has taken to the blogosphere in the past couple of months and he pushes his dishonest journalism through the right wing blogosphere through his blog. Case in point, today’s column in the Boston Herald and his coinciding blog post.

First, Crittenden fails to acknowledge in his blog post or column, that Condoleezza Rice never discouraged Kerry’s visit to Syria. As the third ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Crittenden fails to recognize that Kerry’s visit is justified and considering the State Department will send a representative to the meeting with Kerry (standard procedure), the Bush administration will actually garner important information from his visit, as they did with Senator Nelson’s recent visit. Kerry, contrary to Crittenden’s claim, is an “engaged foreign policy whiz.” Crittenden claiming otherwise, makes himself look uninformed and unfamiliar with the duties of a seated Senator. But, Crittenden is not a journalist, actually — he’s hack and shill for the Bush administration.

Second, Crittenden recycles base and unsubstantiated lies and right wing talking points about Kerry (Cambodia). Unsubstantiated lies and right wing talking points that have been proven ad nauseum to be untrue. Yet, the Boston Herald continues to print Crittenden’s tripe and then Crittenden uses his tripe to hype his own column on the right wing blogosphere.

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[Dr Ron]

1. Arguments against Kerry are clearly nonsense

From his column:

"Beyond that shallow goal, however, the depth of Kerry’s interest in dealing with murderous dictators was revealed in Cairo last week. He said talking to them is a necessary step to resolving problems in the region. But the Bush administration’s push for democracy “has been counterproductive . . . It’s created turmoil and uncertainty."

This is the heart of his attack on Kerry and both points are nonsense.

Arguing that we shouldn't negotiate with Middle East leaders has basically become the fringe position since the Iraq Study Group's report. When James Baker says we must negotiate with them people still can disagree with Baker and Kerry, but it is no longer credible to portray this view as absurd and even treasonous as the right wing does.

It takes a real Bush apologist to deny the fact that Bush's policies are responsible for creating turmoil in the region.

[kerrygoddess]

7. We need to get a offense going

against him and the wingnut bloggers.

[mloutre]

2. and here's the URL to the article, not just the blog post

http://news.bostonherald.com/columnists/view.bg?articleid=172440

[fedupinBushcountry]

4. Thanks for posting that

we need to get over there and rate it now.

[whometense]

5. He appears to be quite proud of his work.

He has a blog post up that can take comments (though the ones I read over there earlier made me feel dirty - and stupid).

<http:// julescrittenden.blogspot.com/2006/12/halp-us-all.html> (deadened link - I added a space after http://)

[kerrygoddess]

6. Proud of his work...

He emails me almost everyday with his blog posts and Sunday's I get the two'fers. I've been taking him on regularly because he needs to be debunk'd and slapped down.

[whometense]

8. How did you get

to be so fortunate? :sarcasm:, in case it isn't obvious ;-)

[kerrygoddess]

11. LOL!

I don't know... He emailed me one day when Kerry had an OP/ED on the Herlad to tell me his column was getting more traffic than the OP/ED and I've been stuck with him ever since. Our little blog war has been interesting.

[Dr Ron]

9. He's a total Bush worshipper

For an idea of how off the wall he is, check out:

http://news.bostonherald.com/columnists/view.bg?articleid=171319

He considers Bush a hero for sticking to his current policies.

[kerrygoddess]

10. Actually he's worse than a Bush worshipper

He's a Dem hater and a warmonger first and foremost and probably a few other choice things thrown out. He did call for Rummy to resign a while back and has occassionally criticized Bush.

[MH1]

3. And it's funny, suddenly it seems to be okay to talk to officials in Cuba

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061217/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cuba_us

:shrug:

oh, that's right - IOKIYAR.