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Skriven 2004-07-29 07:53:35 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
    Kommentar till text 127 av Ed Connell (1:379/1.6)
Ärende: Re: Film
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29 Jul 04 00:30, Ed Connell wrote to Jeff Binkley:

 EC> Hey, Jeff.

 JB>> ==================================

 JB>> http://www.drudgereport.com/dnc8.htm

 JB>> XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WED JULY 28, 2004 12:56:02 ET XXXXX

 JB>> CONTROVERSY SURROUNDS KERRY CONVENTION FILM: WAR SCENES REENACTED

 JB>> **World Exclusive**

 JB>> A bombshell new book written by the man who took over John Kerry's
 JB>> Swift Boat charges:   Kerry reenacted combat scenes for film while 
 JB>> in Vietnam!

 JB>> The footage is at the center of a growing controversy in Boston.

 JB>> The official convention video introducing Kerry is directed by 
 JB>> Steven Spielberg prot?g? James Moll.

 JB>> MORE

 JB>> Moll was given hours of Kerry's homemade 8 millimeter film to
 JB>> incorporate into the convention short, the DRUDGE REPORT has 
 JB>> learned.

 JB>> "Kerry carried a home movie camera to record his exploits for 
 JB>> later viewing," charges a naval officer in the upcoming book UNFIT 
 JB>> FOR COMMAND.

 JB>> "Kerry would revisit ambush locations for reenacting combat scenes
 JB>> where he would portray the hero, catching it all on film.  Kerry 
 JB>> would take movies of himself walking around in combat gear, 
 JB>> sometimes dressed as an infantryman walking resolutely through the 
 JB>> terrain.  He even filmed mock interviews of himself narrating his 
 JB>> exploits.  A joke circulated among Swiftees was that Kerry left 
 JB>> Vietnam early not because he received three Purple Hearts, but 
 JB>> because he had recorded enough film of himself to take home for his 
 JB>> planned political campaigns."

 JB>> UNFIT FOR COMMAND, Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John 
 JB>> Kerry, will be unleashed next month by REGNERY. [It ranked #1,318 
 JB>> on the AMAZON hitparade Wednesday morning.]

 JB>> The films shot by Kerry's own Super 8 millimeter hand-held movie 
 JB>> camera have the grainy quality of home movies.

 JB>> MORE

 JB>> The BOSTON GLOBE reported in 1996 that the Kerry home movies 
 JB>> "reveal something indelible about the man who shot them - the tall, 
 JB>> thin, handsome Naval officer seen striding through the reeds in 
 JB>> flak jacket and helmet, holding aloft the captured B-40 rocket. The 
 JB>> young man so unconscious of risk in the heat of battle, yet so 
 JB>> focused on his future ambitions that he would reenact the moment 
 JB>> for film. It is as if he had cast himself in the sequel to the 
 JB>> experience of his hero, John F. Kennedy, on the PT-109."

 JB>> "John was thinking Camelot when he shot that film, absolutely," 
 JB>> says Thomas Vallely, a fellow veteran and one of Kerry's closest 
 JB>> political advisers and friends.

 JB>> NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson 
 JB>> in his new book RECKLESS DISREGARD, details one of the claimed 
 JB>> Kerry reenactments for film:

 JB>> "On February 28, 1969, now in charge of PCF 94, Kerry came under 
 JB>> fire from an enemy location on the shore. The crew's gunner 
 JB>> returned fire, hitting and wounding the lone gunman. Kerry directed 
 JB>> the boat to charge the enemy position. Beaching his boat, Kerry 
 JB>> jumped off, chased the wounded insurgent behind a thatched hutch, 
 JB>> and killed him. Kerry and his crew returned within days, armed with 
 JB>> a Super 8 video camera he had purchased at the post exchange at Cam 
 JB>> Ranh Bay, and reenacted the skirmish on film."

 JB>> Developing...

 EC> Jeff, I don't know about you - well, actually I do, but - I don't 
 EC> find this sort of behavior endearing. :-(

Like I told John Wilson, I find Kerry's behavior scary as hell!

John 

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