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Skriven 2004-07-29 20:53:39 av Ed Connell (1:379/1.6)
    Kommentar till text 151 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
Ärende: Re: Film
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Hey, John.

 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. :-(

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

Seriously.  I would not want him to be the leader of my platoon or captain
of my swift-boat, but to think of him as leader of the free world boggles
the mind.


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