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Related: About this forumCNN's Jake Tapper Points Out How Republicans Treated John Kerry in 2004
It is somewhat crazy that Dana Bash seems to have forgotten the treatment that John Kerry received in 2004.
Nite Owl
(11,303 posts)I don't know who Jake Tapper is but the GOP deserves for this to be discussed. Karma can be a wonderful thing sometimes.
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)The Rs are scared of Trump's appeal. The more they attack the more the wing nuts will rally behind him. The wing nuts have the same disdain for JEB! that we do. For different reasons perhaps but calling him the "smart Bush" says it all.
tblue37
(65,502 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)The media gives Republican words more weight. No question.
Yes, it's total hypocrisy and the media acts like this hypocrisy doesn't exist.
Funny that Jake Trapper would point out attacks on John Kerry while ignoring the other, even more egregious Republican attacks on wounded veterans.
It's not only total hypocrisy, it's total bias on the part of the media.
IHateTheGOP
(1,059 posts)The decrepit right wing said Kerry injured himself in Nam because he knew he would run for President 40 or so years hence!!!
mr_liberal
(1,017 posts)Itll be fun to watch.
Kerry would have won if it wasn't for the swiftboat attacks. Republicans won an election and got two supreme court justices doing the same thing they're criticizing Trump for. Hypocrites.
mountain grammy
(26,663 posts)mr_liberal
(1,017 posts)by the SBVT (Swiftboat Veterans for Truth).
In January 2005, Governor Jeb Bush, the President's brother and Florida chairman for his 2004 campaign,[107] sent a letter to SBVT member and former POW Bud Day, thanking him for his "personal support of my brother in his re-election." In addition, Governor Bush said of the SBVT:
As someone who truly understands the risk of standing up for something, I simply cannot express in words how much I value their willingness to stand up against John Kerry.
Connections with the Bush campaign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_Vets_and_POWs_for_Truth#Connections_with_the_Bush_campaign
drynberg
(1,648 posts)maddiemom
(5,106 posts)I didn't realize that his reputation as the "smart brother" was only within his family, AND only in comparison to Dubya.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)Dems doing it to other Dem Candidates. Thankfully we learned from the Swift Boaters, that there needs to be a swift response to lies and distortions and negative, deceptive talking points.
Today, with Social Media and an army of supporters, what happened to Kerry could not happen, we would have destroyed the Swift Boaters.
But at that time, we were unable to go to bat for him.
Not so today, thankfully, the minute the talking points re Sanders, eg, were 'unveiled' they were instantly quashed.
progressoid
(50,008 posts)mackerel
(4,412 posts)montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)Is that they did exactly that to Kerry.
In Vietnam, they had what was sometimes called the "Three Heart Rule": If you got a third Purple Heart, you got to go back to the States. When Kerry got his third Purple Heart, he took advantage of this to get reassigned to a post at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. A Republican complained to me that Kerry acted improperly in taking advantage of the rule -- a true hero would have stayed in Vietnam. (I was not surprised to discover that this man had never served in the military, let alone ever been in combat.)
I asked him if he had ever read the novel Catch-22. He hadn't. I quoted him the entire bit about "Anyone who wants to get out of combat isn't really crazy." (Incidentally, I had read the novel twice, once before I went into the army, and again after I got out of the army. I got a lot more out of it the second time.)
No, Republicans have no shame about sneering at war veterans if it suits their purposes.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)JHB
(37,163 posts)Repeatedly, whenever there was the chance to drag down a Democrat's numbers at the polls.
"You don't" takes a back seat to pandering to a base that eats up ANY attack on the hated Democrats, no matter how dirty or how big a lie. Every time. That lady wasn't the only one wearing mock-purple-heart band-aids, and no one was forcing those people to wear them openly.
Charles de Gaudless
(102 posts)And Bash suffers from Selective Memory Syndrome, conveniently.