Extra, extra. Read all about it!
America’s bitter journalists’ corps probably couldn’t sleep last night because they’re so excited about the “dirt” they’ve uncovered on the president. (For more bitterness, see this.) Splashed on the front page of the Boston Globe is this headline: “Bush Fell Short On Duty At Guard: Records Show Pledges Unmet”:
But Bush fell well short of meeting his military obligation, a Globe reexamination of the records shows: Twice during his Guard service — first when he joined in May 1968, and again before he transferred out of his unit in mid-1973 to attend Harvard Business School — Bush signed documents pledging to meet training commitments or face a punitive call-up to active duty.He didn’t meet the commitments, or face the punishment, the records show. The 1973 document has been overlooked in news media accounts. The 1968 document has received scant notice….
The reexamination of Bush’s records by the Globe, along with interviews with military specialists who have reviewed regulations from that era, show that Bush’s attendance at required training drills was so irregular that his superiors could have disciplined him or ordered him to active duty in 1972, 1973, or 1974. But they did neither. In fact, Bush’s unit certified in late 1973 that his service had been “satisfactory” — just four months after Bush’s commanding officer wrote that Bush had not been seen at his unit for the previous 12 months.
This story reads like a sixth-grader’s tattle-tale.
So Bush’s training drill attendance was irregular. Let’s say it’s true. So what? I don’t remember Bush making an issue out of his Vietnam service in the first place. If he actively shirked his obligations and avoided combat, as the media imply, shouldn’t the anti-war crowd be voting for him in November instead of Kerry, who volunteered to kill people? Bored brats.
Do you see the irony? Anti-war liberals are upset that Bush “fell short” of his military obligations.
Read the rest and note the detail with which they report this information, as if it really matters in the real world, where most of us live instead of self-centered, self-important news rooms filled with a bunch of hacks who actually want to be led by an elitist snob like John Kerry.
Memo to the Goobers…I mean, Globers: People don’t care whether Bush skipped guard duty early or not because they’re interested in the job he’s doing today as Commander in Chief of the military during the current war. But that’s just one woman’s opinion.
Kerry, on the other hand, has no record as Commander in Chief of any war. That would’ve been OK with us had Kerry not used his service in Vietnam as evidence he’d be a good Commander in Chief.
Kerry is a pompous politician who ran for the U.S. Senate on an anti-Vietnam record but decided to cash in on his once-reviled Purple Hearts after he realized the American people were behind Bush and the Iraq war. That is obvious, but instead of laughing at Kerry’s revisionist history, which is the real story, Big Media is fixated on bringing down Bush.
I think it’s pitiful that Kerry refuses to run on his 20-plus-year Senate career and instead is running on four measly months of Vietnam service, and I don’t care how brave he may have been to go.
I hope this turns out to bite the media on their collective behind. Rather than covering the atrocities in Russia or the rag tag misfits killing our men on roadsides or doing some real reporting to aid in the war on terror, just to throw out a few ideas, these dolts are digging into Bush’s 30 year-old military service. American “journalism” schools are churning out a bunch of pampered, narcissistic nincompoops whose heads are buried in the sands of liberal propaganda and fantasy, where the only world that exists is the one inside their collective empty head.
I encourage you to read the rest of this useless, amateurish, transparently biased piece of tripe they call reporting these days, just for laughs. This is such a non-issue, people! This story and others like it you’ll see today prove nothing. The media are simply confirming how nonsensically disingenuous and terminally bitter they are. Along with Kerry, they’re just a bunch of screaming squirrels trying desperately and failing to bring down George Bush.
In other “news,” homosexual “conservatives” won’t endorse Bush. Big loss, right? We’re supposed to care that a tiny sliver of a group that makes up about 2 percent of the population is not supporting Bush? OK. Idiot reporters.
Update Gordon Boyer at American Daily has done a bit of research on Bush and his Guard service.
(Hat tip: Instapundit)
