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Skriven 2004-07-30 07:10:16 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
    Kommentar till text 225 av Ed Connell (1:379/1.6)
Ärende: Re: Film
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29 Jul 04 20:53, Ed Connell wrote to John Hull:

 EC> 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 
 JB>>>> REENACTED

 JB>>>> **World Exclusive**

 JB>>>> A bombshell new book written by the man who took over John 
 JB>>>> Kerry's Swift Boat charges:   Kerry reenacted combat scenes for 
 JB>>>> film while 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 
 JB>>>> UNFIT FOR COMMAND.

 JB>>>> "Kerry would revisit ambush locations for reenacting combat 
 JB>>>> scenes where he would portray the hero, catching it all on film.  
 JB>>>> Kerry would take movies of himself walking around in combat 
 JB>>>> gear, sometimes dressed as an infantryman walking resolutely 
 JB>>>> through the terrain.  He even filmed mock interviews of himself 
 JB>>>> narrating his exploits.  A joke circulated among Swiftees was 
 JB>>>> that Kerry left Vietnam early not because he received three 
 JB>>>> Purple Hearts, but because he had recorded enough film of himself 
 JB>>>> to take home for his 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 
 JB>>>> #1,318 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 
 JB>>>> tall, thin, handsome Naval officer seen striding through the 
 JB>>>> reeds in flak jacket and helmet, holding aloft the captured B-40 
 JB>>>> rocket. The young man so unconscious of risk in the heat of 
 JB>>>> battle, yet so focused on his future ambitions that he would 
 JB>>>> reenact the moment for film. It is as if he had cast himself in 
 JB>>>> the sequel to the experience of his hero, John F. Kennedy, on the 
 JB>>>> 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" 
 JB>>>> Patterson in his new book RECKLESS DISREGARD, details one of the 
 JB>>>> claimed 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 
 JB>>>> directed the boat to charge the enemy position. Beaching his 
 JB>>>> boat, Kerry jumped off, chased the wounded insurgent behind a 
 JB>>>> thatched hutch, and killed him. Kerry and his crew returned 
 JB>>>> within days, armed with a Super 8 video camera he had purchased 
 JB>>>> at the post exchange at Cam Ranh Bay, and reenacted the skirmish 
 JB>>>> 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!

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

What really pisses me off is that grandstanding jackoffs like Kerry got a
couple of friends of mine killed over there, but nobody ever hears about that
kind of thing.  Then, too, I volunteered for river patrol boats - SIX TIMES -
and they wouldn't let me go because of my MOS.  I was in a critical rate with
no replacement. 

John 

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