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Originally Posted by cthulu23
The Washington Times has retracted their quotations of this fabrication so you can at least assume that the case is bad enough for a conservative paper to back away from it.
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You mean there are conservative news media? Does that mean perhaps there are liberal ones as well?
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Originally Posted by Superbelt
So, from here we all realize that Kerry is being misquoted, it is being done on purpose to try and falsely denigrate him and his vision. We are here to discuss politics and the way this thing is going around all the news channels and editiorials right now is painting Kerry in a false light that is unfair and untruthful.
Why do you think this McCaslin guy decided he had to do this?
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Hmmmm I see an incomplete transcript. Perhaps I should say the 'gist' of this story is true even if the quotation is not authentic?
I find your indignation false.
This is the Washington times piece after the fact.
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Quoting Kerry
"We know we can't count on the French. We know we can't count on the Russians."
Not the words of Sen. John Kerry, as a press release from the office of Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican, incorrectly stated — and as we passed along in this column last Friday.
The congressman was paraphrasing Mr. Kerry's sentiments on Iraq in a debate on CNN's "Crossfire" in 1997.
Referring to a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding access to Iraqi weapons sites, Mr. Kerry had these harsh words for France and Russia: "I think that's our great concern — where's the backbone of Russia? Where's the backbone of France? Where are they in expressing their condemnation of such clearly illegal activity? But in a sense, they're now climbing into a box, and they will have enormous difficulty not following up on this if there is not compliance by Iraq."
The congressman said the transcript of the CNN program quotes Mr. Kerry as saying in reference to France and Russia: "There's absolutely no statement that they have made or that they will make that will prevent the United States of America and this president [Bill Clinton] or any president from acting in what they believe are the best interests of our country."
In a telephone interview over the weekend, Mr. King says this is not another case of Mr. Kerry simply changing his position.
"The fact is, he was strongly for the war, for searching for chemical and biological weapons, working against terrorists, and, basically, he's now denying he ever said that," Mr. King says. "This is not the basic flip-flop you hear from politicians. This is not John Kerry being careless in his views.
"He's going right to the guts of his position — it's like Dr. Martin Luther King suddenly becoming a segregationist," Mr. King says. "He is not just changing his position, he is rewriting history on that position."
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Of course the Washington Times corrected their error right away.
Of course Superbelt your boy gives me lots of quotes, check the new one.
Edit: Had wrong poster quoted in the wrong place.