What idealistic dreamers we are when we’re young! John Kerry once claimed he threw away the medals he earned in the Vietnam War in “protest.” Now he says he didn’t and blames the vast right wing conspiracy for spreading “fiction.”
But now he’s been caught on tape telling the truth…or a lie?
“I gave back, I can’t remember, 6, 7, 8, 9 medals,” Kerry said in an interview on a Washington, D.C. news program on WRC-TV’s called Viewpoints on November 6, 1971, according to a tape obtained by ABCNEWS.
Unfortunately for him, he’s left a verifiable trail of lies.
Throughout his presidential campaign, Kerry has denied that he threw away any of his 11 medals during an anti-war protest in April, 1971.
His campaign Web site calls it a “right wing fiction” and a smear. And in an interview with ABCNEWS’ Peter Jennings last December, he said it was a “myth.”
But Kerry’s own words convict him. In 1971 he said he threw away the medals. In 1984 he said the medals he threw away were actually someone else’s. In 1988, Kerry said he threw away his ribbons but not his medals. In 1996, he said he didn’t throw away his ribbons, either.
But George Bush is the liar, right?
Update: Kerry “explains” on Good Morning America (Drudge Report).
Update II: It seems that in 1996, Kerry did say he threw out his ribbons. I misread the article. I’m confused by the different versions of the story. What can I say?
