Well, John Kerry — who normally can’t be pried away from TV cameras without crowbars, blasting caps, and wild horses — issued his apology earlier tonight through his web site.
Statement of Senator John Kerry
As a combat veteran, I want to make it clear to anyone in uniform and to their loved ones: my poorly stated joke at a rally was not about, and never intended to refer to any troop.
I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, and I personally apologize to any service member, family member, or American who was offended.
It is clear the Republican Party would rather talk about anything but their failed security policy. I don’t want my verbal slip to be a diversion from the real issues. I will continue to fight for a change of course to provide real security for our country, and a winning strategy for our troops.
So, Kerry says he’s sorry. Sorry about what?
“I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform…”
Typically, it isn’t Kerry’s fault. It’s our fault for being so dumb and clueless to misunderstand his words. He made a “verbal slip,” but that takes second billing to those words were “misinterpreted.” And he wraps up by insisting that it’s time for everyone to drop the matter.
That’s not an apology, that’s weaseling.
Earlier today, I stuck up (sort of) for Kerry, saying that I believed it was a “verbal slip,” a dropped word or two that changed the target of his derision from Bush to the troops themselves. I still think it’s that way. Kerry has slammed the troops for 35 years.
But if you look at those quotes, the third one really stands out. In the first two, Kerry is denigrating and denouncing the troops’ conduct. In the third, it’s aimed at them personally — and as loathesome and inept as Kerry is, that’s a little over the line, even for him.
Kerry is an ass. He is a pompous, narcissistic, fraudulent gigolo who’s done exactly one worthwhile thing in the last 35 years. On the other hand, he’s managed to marry not one, but two extremely wealthy women and parlay their wealth into a hightly successful political career.
I have very little respect for John Kerry. I will put my ability to take cheap shots at him against most anyone (with the exception of Howie Carr).
But there’s an old saying: “When you strike against a king, be sure to kill him.”
What Kerry said on Monday wasn’t a huge insight into his character. It was, if anything, a glimpse into his human side — the side that gets tired, that makes mistakes.
The real John Kerrey was revealed in the way he handled the consequences of that mistake. It reaffirmed his vanity, his narcissism, and his utter unsuitability for holding high office.
Once again, I am horrified that this man came that close to being elected president of the United States.
“testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia … men who were reliving their
experiences in Vietnam.” “they had personally raped, cut
off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human
genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies,
randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of
Ghengis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks…”
So can someone please tell me, WHY DID KERRY et.al. DO ALL THESE THINGS AND THEN COME BACK AND COMPLAIN ABOUT THEIR OWN BEHAVIOR???
Mommy, mommy, a cookie was stolen and I took it. This is a BAD famiwy.
Steak,
Here again you guys can only live through distortion and lies.
When Kerry testified before congress and said those things they were things other soldiers told him of.
Kerry didn’t do ALL those things. Steak when you need to blatantly lie to support your point you’ve lost right out of the gate.
The fact is Kerry DID NOT disparage the troops (he wasn’t even referring to them) and the other fact is the right wing blogosphere spread the lie that he did. It’s that simple.
Tom Murphy:
You are the one who is creating fact. I can’t recall anyone here ever denying that any atrocites occured in VietNam. If you would pay attention, instead of looking for “come backs”, you would realize that the bulk of comments here are against what Kerry did and how he did it. He represented the VietNam war effort as one of atrocites and cruelty that were common place, not occational acts of criminals. The problem was that the draft, which is now called for by members of your party, was responsible for the enlistment of persons of questionable character. In addition, the recent reports about the education and income level of new recruites would indicate that a draft is not needed to make the rich boys fight. The upper 2/5 of income level recruiting is rising, while the lower 1/5 is falling. Must be that rich kids, with high IQ’s are dumber than poor kids, who can’t seem to stay in school. Kerry should have said “If you stay in school and get an education, you’ll end up dumb and join the Army.
If the Republicans realy are using the troops, as you put it, then they must be dumb, since it appears from the recent picture about Kerry, from the troops, indicates that they are displeased by Kerry, not the President.
“they were things other soldiers told him of”
I’m gonna tell mommy, naaa na na naaa naaaaaaaa
“The fact is Kerry DID NOT disparage the troops (he wasn’t even referring to them)”
Then WHO did these atrocities? Whose fault was it?? Nixon’s??? the US’s????
AGAIN I ASK, “WHY DO LIBERALS CONTINUE TO BASH AMERICA”??????????????????????????????
Dang…forgot to add about the DOW going thru the roof..
Using Robert ‘s lingo, I wonder why Muiergo continues to defend the dishonest and corrupt Dem party.
Muerigo is not intellectually honest enough to admit what Kerry meant. Kerry is either ignorant, stupid (for believing the blatant lies of the liberal left), or utterly honest when he said he meant to disparage Bush as “stupid” or “uneducated”. Bush had higher GPA than Kerry at Yale. ANd he went to Harvard Business school. What did Kerry do to get his wealth? By divorcing and marrying the richest widow he can find? Muirego, the liberals are really stupid or dishonest to support such a guy as their pres candidate.
Again, the liberals cannot be honest about who they are again. They hate the military and take every opportunity to smear them (we have plenty of examples to show). Yet when Kerry spoke their mind, they couldn’t be honest enough to admit that is really their thinking.
From Drudge
Kerry’s ’72 Comments Mirror Latest: ‘A volunteer army would be an army of the poor and the black and the brown’…
Hey Jay, while I would give kudos to Kerry for his efforts in the BCCI scandal, I think that he did one other thing that was even more beneficial to the nation. He LOST the 2004 election. Thank God!
muirgeo, please don’t run away from a couple simple questions.
Why did KKKerry speak out against the US and why do he and other liberals like hiLIARy HATE the US so much?
If the Democrats had any balls they’d be playing Bush’s funny joke;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh4U-Tbqbx4&mode=related&search=
Worthless piece of craps!!!
refusing to answer me muirgeo?
Saddam HAD WMD’s AND USED them. Deny it all you want – but can’t you stay on one subject for at least 3 posts and answer my questions about WHY KKKerry did what he did and WHY you liberals HATE the US???
….or are you just another shallow-thinking liberal that allows yourself to be swallowed up by the liberal talking points only??
Worthless piece of craps
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The Dems are truly worthless pieces of craps. As Robert said, noone with an ounce of brain would support such pieces of craps.
The liberals simply cannot be honest about who they are. Muirego claimed to have big evil corporations yet he refused to move to the utopia in North Korea or Cuba where it is free of these big evil corporations.
The liberal left is such a dishonest and despicable movement: the liberals can be proud that they stood with Kerry in supporting the evil communists and now they stood with him again as well as the like of Durbin, Murtha in slandering our troops in the service of the terrorists.
A little clarification for Lee: Kerry apologized, way later than he should have. So did Rush Limpbaugh only Rush’s apology is admittedly satirical.
Rush apologized while on the air, about two minutes after the comment “I’ve never seen him (M.J. Fox) that way” Couple of minutes later, he said, on the air, “Oh, YOU have seen him this way? I apologize, I didn’t know he was that way much of the time. All I was saying was I had never seen him that way personally”
Stick to facts, Lee.
Fact: John Kerry testified against his countrymen
Fact: John Kerry threw his service medals as a form of protest
Fact: John Kerry, in uniform, appears on the cover of a book with the United States flag flying upside down.
Fact: John Kerry, the King of Sound Bytes, “botched” a joke about the service men and women serving in Iraq and sandwiched a half-hearted apology between political diatribes on a WEBSITE.
Actions speak louder than words and the evidence is piling up that the man does not like the United States military–at all.
Thank God Kerry did not become our president and why does it take Hillary Clinton three days to say his words are inappropriate? This country needs better leaders and if we are going to have one then we are going to have to stop this train wreck of a political system, find some common ground and get to work, HARD work!
People like Lee and muirgeo don’t live on facts or truth. They live by a hero/actor/god that can “feel their pain” but can do NOTHING about it because they have NO answers, NO commitment, NO ethics, NO morals, NO aptitude, NO intellegence, NO results – except to complain and lie and complain and lie and complain and lie….
If people were half as interested in primaries as they are general elections, we would have better leaders. The time to hold politicians feet to the fire is in the primaries, not the general election where everyone just wants their side to win, and doesn’t mind throwing the baby out with the bath water.
USMC, you are exactly correct. The problem is that too many BUY their way in as the Senator from WI (Herb Kohl – heir of Kohl foods and owner of the Milwaukee Bucks) the biggest dolt ever born….
Well, it’s obvious that Lee and Muirgeo cannot back up their pathetic thoughts so therefore any future blabbering slobber from them is as worthless as used, flushed toilet paper….
muirgeo, please don’t run away from a couple simple questions.
Why did KKKerry speak out against the US and why do he and other liberals like hiLIARy HATE the US so much?
Posted by: steak11111
He spoke against a war that was killing soldiers and civilians for no good reason. If he got us out of that mess 1 day early he saved 10 soldiers lives.
Apparently you are the one who hates the US of A because you support this administration that has our country on a path to self destruction.
Steak why do you hate your country and support a mismanaged war, soldiers dying and getting maimed for a lie, fear mongering, chickenhawks, corporatists, war profiteering, smear campaigns, a president who no longer thinks about OBL, a president who makes jokes about finding WMD while soldiers are blown to bits, why do you support record debt, lobbyist running amuck, privatization of the web, record corruption, a weakening dollar, huge trade imbalances, a divided America, loss of liberties, torture, violations of the Geneva conventions, an end to Habeus corpus, a terrible reputation around the world, war crimes, illegal wiretaps, increased wealth concentration, rising poverty, soaring gas prices, soaring medical cost, , 60,000,000 uninsured, neglect of the environment, denial of global warming, shipping jobs overseas, union busting, media conglomeration, off-shore accounts, privatized voting machines, privatized military…Why Steak Why do you support scumbag politicians and their policies…why can’t you be a patriot and stand up for truth rather then LIES.
Steak you are the POS here a worthless lying piece of crap hardly not worthy of being called an American. Why don’t you go find yourself a king to serve in some other country cause were taking this one back!!!!
While we are all demanding apologies, how about one from W. for accusing the electorate of plotting treason?
He stated loudly and forcefully that if the Democrats win, the terrorists win. That means that if you cast vote for a Democratic candidate, you are helping the terrorists win. That amounts to treason.
So it follows that people working to elect Democrats, or people who plan to vote for Democrats are planning acts of treason.
KBR better get those detention center built in a hurry because come election day, they are going to have to house over half the population of the country.
A little clarification for Lee: Kerry apologized, way later than he should have. So did Rush Limpbaugh only Rush’s apology is admittedly satirical.
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This is another example of either stupidity or dishonesty of liberals. They cannot face the truth and must spin no matter what. Rush challenged the truth of Fox ‘s comments. He apologized that he thought Fox was under-medicated as Fox wrote in his book. When Fox said he was over-medicated, then Rush apologized for that.
The liberals and the MSM were so dishonest (we all know that already) that they had to distort and spin to hide the ugly truth about Fox’s ad. It was a despicable and unconcionable lie about stem cell research in the same order as John Edward promised that “superman” would walk again if embryonic stem cell research is federally funded.
Lee is either ignorant or stupid in simply spouting these despicable lies from the left. Or he knows it but lie in any case, then he is dishonest as usual.
People like Lee and muirgeo don’t live on facts or truth. They live by a hero/actor/god that can “feel their pain” but can do NOTHING about it because they have NO answers, NO commitment, NO ethics, NO morals, NO aptitude, NO intellegence, NO results – except to complain and lie and complain and lie and complain and lie….
Posted by: steak11111
Steak its clear who’s been lying about the intent of Kerry’s failed joke. IT HAD NOTHING TO DO ITH THE TROOPS but you don’t care cus you don’t care about facts and the truth. I wonder how many here have even seen the whole thing in context. I can’t even find it on the web.
Steak fella your life is run by sound bites because you’re too puny brained and stupid to pay attention to the details. And the country is suffering because of the hoards of similar such simpletons as you.
He spoke against a war that was killing soldiers and civilians for no good reason. If he got us out of that mess 1 day early he saved 10 soldiers lives.
Apparently you are the one who hates the US of A because you support this administration that has our country on a path to self destruction.
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Kerry helped the commmunists take over IndoChina and allowed the Cambodian genocide to happen ( 2million people or 1/3 or the population were killed, 500K boat people died on the sea).
Kerry was despicable for slandering the US troops and giving prop to the evil communists.
Muirego is either too ignorant to know the truth. Or he is simply spouting these lies from the sewage left. I am still waiting for him to move to his communist utopia to be free of big evil corporations.
Kerry was lying as usual and the liberals continue to lie to cover up Kerry ‘s lie. What a swamp!
From Drudge
Kerry’s ’72 Comments Mirror Latest: ‘A volunteer army would be an army of the poor and the black and the brown’…
“He spoke against a war that was killing soldiers and civilians for no good reason.”
Hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians including women and children and that was for “no good reason” and communisim spreading across the earth like cancer – or did you conveniently forget that too??? OMG You are sick. WHO were killing the civilians, KKKerry??? Liberty and Freedom are not free. KKKerry was the jerk that supported our enemies (not our troops) that cost us MORE years of war – not [as you say] a day less….
MOre for Drudge
SEYMOUR HERSH ‘There has never been an American army as violent and murderous as the one in Iraq’…
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The liberal left takes every opportunity to slander our military. They couldn’t say 1/10th as bad about the terrorists. The liberal left is really despicable.
Liberals continue to make the US look like yellow-bellies, afraid of our own shadow and have probably caused most – if not all the wars since Viet Nam as dictators (such as Saddam) come to believe it….
We will continue to fight though – losing more of our troops to terrorists snipers so that CNN can up their ratings – thanks to people like KKKerry, Lee and Muirgeo….
I’m just waiting for the day that the Queen of Ketchup gets tired of him and puts a boot in his hindquarters.
muirgeo posted: IT HAD NOTHING TO DO ITH THE TROOPS but you don’t care cus you don’t care about facts and the truth.
Like spelling?
muirgeo posted: I wonder how many here have even seen the whole thing in context. I can’t even find it on the web.
Because he meant what he said. It was about the troops. That is the context, that’s why you can’t find it.
“Are you referring to …”
No Mike, I am referring to the fact that Bush and other Republicans know damn well what they did with Kerry’s speech. As Dick Armey said: “misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it and then feign moral outrage”
Two days ago the ugly game was exposed in detail by Chris Matthews and Dick Armey:
MATTHEWS: Kerry was trashing Bush himself and Bush says, “Don’t say those terrible things about my troops!”
ARMEY: Right.
MATTHEWS: So, this is a bit of theater orchestrated well by the White House. They have got the American Legion commander out there making a statement. They got him to do it. I’m sure — I assume that most of these people did not read the whole statement of Kerry yesterday, but they are happy to jump on the quote they got.
ARMEY: A fundamental premise of politics is: We can make this work if people just never figure it out.
The Republican interpretation is dishonest, it doesn’t make sense because “getting stuck in Iraq” only makes sense as policy. Are we to believe that a well educated soldier doesn’t get stuck but a poorly educated one does? That doesn’t make sense, clearly “getting stuck in Iraq” is about a policy. If Kerry meant what the Republicans want to pretend he meant, he would say “if you don’t get education you could end up in the army or end up being sent to Iraq.” Even Jay realizes that Kerry was talking about Bush and not the troops.
Kerry’s sentence right before it was another dig at Bush so they know damn well the context was about Bush. It takes balls for Bush to pretend that a joke against him was against the troops. Bush is willing to upset the troops by pretending that Kerry was insulting them, THAT IS REALLY LOW!
LOOK at what the Republicans are doing to the troops. The Republicans have no respect for the troops, the Republicans are using them as a prop in a desperate attempt to score political points right before an election.
Like I said, “the Republicans are playing an ugly game, they don’t care if they hurt the troops by making them think a politician is mocking them when he was not.”
One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.
–George W. Bush
Now, do we endlessly repeat, report, distort, misrepresent, over-analyze, demand apologies for, and go totally ape shit over what he actually said? Or do we use some intelligence to understand what he intended to say, just mutter “dumbass” a few times, and move on to more important issues?