One of the Swifties’ favorite allegations has been that the shrapnel in John Kerry’s ass was rice, not metal. They have been yelling that he did not deserve his third Purple Heart because according to them, he was wounded in the ass before the incident (in which he turned his boat into live fire to save the life of a Green Beret who had fallen overboard. He was awarded the Bronze Star) when he blew up some caches of rice.
Our own Sam Stone has been quite fond of denigrating this particular war wound.
Kerry was also wounded in the arm during his Bronze Star incident, so the “rice” crap didn’t really matter but I’m happy to report that X-Rays prove it bullshit nonetheless.
John F. Kerry has genuine metal shrapnel in his butt-tox. You may post your apology to Lieutenant Kerry her, Sam.
Oh, I’m sure Sam will do his best to spin his way out of this one, Dio. Seems to me if we could harness the energy from his gyrations, the SDMB could upgrade from the hamsters.
Seems like you could make more of Sam spinning if/when he does so rather than predicting it and possibly having lots of folks watch you deal with foot-in-mouth disease, ETF
It’s actually a large piece of rice. Mutant rice, which has been known to exist in Vietnam for decades. The Swifties will all swear to having seen mutant rice in large quantities. It only makes sense that it is mutant rice because the Purple Heart was undeserved. Therefore it has to be mutant rice. Prove me wrong.
It’s in a 22 page GD monstrosity called “John Kerry and Vietnam.” Sam made this rice allegation several times but I have no idea what pages they’re on anymore and I really don’t want to slog through 20= pages looking for them.
Take my word for it, he said it. If Sam himself wants to dispute that he said it then I will suck it up and dig through that landfill of a thread for the relevant quotes. I don’t think Sam will deny it, though.
Looking over that nonsense, again, I find it extraordinary the amount of energy expended to assasinate Kerry’s character via this whacky attempt to poke holes in his war record. Just amazing. And after that we had Scylla going over the same territory like it was virgin. It was like the endless WMD debates all over again. The sheer pigheadedness is mind-boggling.
It’s fascinating, isn’t it? I think it’s because in the past the war record was something the Republicans had the edge on, like with both guys running against Clinton. Now that the dem candidate has such an incredible advantage over their candidate on this issue, it’s deperate measures for desperate times.
I warned them early that even a Butthead said it better: “You can’t polish a turd Beavis”
The image of Sam and Scylla polishing the turd… I mean Turlow’s and the other swifters lies has been sad but funny as hell to see. I just cannot get angry at them anymore, only point and laugh.
It seems that they did not mind getting into the gutter fringes of the American right to make bullshit presentable, even though I am mostly liberal, my opinion of them was much better than what I see now, before all this unpleasant business…
To each their own I guess, but IMO those two have been the gutter of rightwing politics for quite some time now. There’s no Bushit, no matter how transparently outrageous, that they are not ready to defend through pages and pages of ouright bullshit and spin.
Aluminum tubes, Powell’ ‘slam dunk’ presentation, Niger uranium, the student thesis, WMDs, imminen threat, war on terror, you name it, they’ve bought and peddled every single GOP talking point our there – sources and facts be dammed.
Freepers doing what they do best: disrupt and deflect attacks on their Great Misleader by any and all means possible. Nothing else matters. Period.
Thus I can’t say that I am surprised with their undying allegiance to whole Whack-A-Boaters strategy. It’s just more of the same. What I don’t undestand is why anyone would continue to take them seriously.
