By the time you read this, they will be gone, but on March 8, Matt Drudge reported that "Sen. John Kerry's official election website is riddled with obscenities." 

The exclusive at the Drudge Report went on to point out the hypocrisy of Kerry supporting the removal of Howard Stern from the air while "an investigation reveals Kerry's own website is filled expletives, setting the standard for a new wave of 21st Century campaigning!" 

Those who got there soon after Drudge ran the headline were treated with the following: "Bush f**ked up Afghanistan... Did I expect George Bush to f**k it up as badly as he did... cutting all your f**king legs off at the knees... Where the f**k is he?... scare the living s**t out of me... He has a pig-in-s**t grin on his face, he wanted to get into the s**t... doesn’t play s**t in my book..." 

Drudge wrote: "A campaign source tells the DRUDGE REPORT that 'John Kerry For President' online simply contains published material, and the senator was simply unaware on Sunday that the expletives were being carried on his own Internet server. [A search on the official Bush/Cheney re-election revealed no such curse words.]" 

Drudge said that his top Kerry campaign source went on to say, "I think you'll see the offensive words removed."

Some will say that Kerry wouldn't be that stupid, but we disagree. 

Even if he was unaware that those terms were posted, if he wishes to be the president of the United States, as a Democrat he is bound to the words of another Democrat president by the name of Harry Truman, who said, "The buck stops, here."

He had a sign that said those words sitting on his desk.  What he meant by them was that while a president cannot forsee criminal acts by members of his administration who heretorfore had spotless records, it was the president's responsibility to judge the character of those who he or his associates brought into government, and if there was evidence that said character was not of a prime nature, the guy responsible for the screwup sat behind the desk in the Oval Office of the White House.

(It was quite a statement for a president whose political roots were in the old Kansas City machine, handing out government contracts to suppliers who had paid under the table for the job.  Give 'em Hell Harry was an example of the largest personal ethical turnaround in political history.  Imagine Bill Clinton deciding one day to never tell a lie, again, and meaning it, and you have the picture.)

Our best evidence so far where Kerry is concerned is that he blows with the prevailing political winds, taking whatever side is handy at the moment, and is far from being above stretching truth to the distant reaches of credibility.  His record of "heroism" during the Vietnam war is one of the best examples of the latter.  John McCain's record in Vietnam can be found and verified, but much of Kerry's remains in deep shadow.  Challenges to Bush's National Air Guard record have been found to be untrue, which has been pointed out in this publication, but challenges to Kerry's war activities have not been investigated by the mainstream press.

It is one of the oddities of our times that Matt Drudge is called a "rightwing" website owner when he releases material such as that quoted above, but the icons of the mainstream American media are never called "leftwing" journalists when they provide cover for liberals like Kerry, or participate in lynchings like the current investigation concerning terrorism.  For those of you who don't know why this is a sham, here it is.  In August of 2000, Richard Clarke was interviewed by FOX.  The subject was the government and terrorism.  The answers he gave then were exactly the opposite of what he wrote in his now famous book, and what he said in his recent appearance before the investigators.  It's on tape, and in a transcript, folks.  And, there is a record of a response he gave to a Senate committee, calling the idea of a plan to fight terrorism as a "silly" idea.  That's a quote. 

Finally there are witnesses who confirm that before 911, Bush pulled Clarke aside and said it was time to stop going easy on terrorists.  The president told Clarke he wanted to depart from the Clinton policy, of which Clarke was a principle architect -- the method is called 'roll back' -- and go after them, hard.  Dig 'em out of their holes and take them out.

It will be a cold day in Hell before the New York times and their ilk, and the big networks and their ilk, run what you just read.  But for talk radio, the internet and the cable, plus a few papers like the Washington Times, you would never know.  You may recall that Drudge was the place the nation learned about the proof that Clinton was lying to the nation on television when he said, "I didn't have sex with that women."  You may also recall that Matt got the story from somebody who worked for a major mainstream news outlet that had been sitting on it for weeks. (Trying to keep a lid on the truth to protect Clinton.)

When 60 Minutes recently did a double segment about Clarke's new book, none of what I have described above was there.  In fact, they didn't even tell you that the company that brought out the book is part of the conglomerate that owns CBS !!!

After a while as you watch these things work their way out, you get to wondering about the designations "rightwing" and "lefwing."  They continually turn out to be euphemisms for, in that exact order, "truth" and "lies."

Getting back to Mr. Kerry, watch for the big media to break a story about his Kansas City meeting with Vietnam Veterans Against the War.  Don't hold your breath, though.  You can read about it in Oregon Magazine, but the big media will sit on this one until they are forced to let it loose.  It has to do with the assassination of sitting U.S. Senators.

Mr. Kerry's colorful linguistics do not compare with some of what I have described here, but it is a kind of warning flag. Such language lacks what the Left likes to call "gravitas," and causes people to become curious about the character of the man who displays it. 
 

(LL)

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