the complaints thrown around that the liberal media whallowed about Haliburton as a way to get Kerry elected really annoy me.
Now, this has nothing to do with whether I preferred Bush or Kerry, this is just something that really frustrated me during the campaigning for this presidency.
The fact is, Kerry was a war hero at Vietnam. That is a fact. He owns medals to prove it.
Some of you will reply to this blog saying things like, “Nuh uh, he didn’t really earn those medals. He shot himself to get them. He did this. He did that. It was all a lie.”
It is the very fact that I would get responses like that that pisses me off. How is it that people started questioning his loyalty and service to our country?
The conservative media is brilliant. The republicans are brilliant. They somehow turned being a war hero into a negative.
If I was in Bush’s campaign, I would have tried my damndest to make sure the war was never, ever, ever mentioned. Why? Because my candidate ducked out of it. “My guy is going to look like a coward compared to Kerry,” is what I would have thought.
And yet the republicans didn’t do that. They embraced the fact that Bush was getting drunk while Kerry was saving lives. They spun it.
“Well, actually, he didn’t really earn that third medal.”
Are you kidding me? We are really debating whether he earned his third medal while his opponent was never even there? And wait a minute, the public is buying into this? They are actually starting to hate Kerry because of it?
What is wrong with the public? Are you that moronic? The other guy never even went to war! Does it really matter if Kerry only earned two medals instead of three?
Again, I am not saying who I voted for. I am not claiming Kerry would have been a good president.
But Kerry is a war hero who ended up having to defend his time in Vietnam, while Bush never had to explain why he wasn’t even there.
That is an example of the conservative media, and no one ever talks about their power. No one mentions their influence. Instead you bitch about how people like John Stewart sway the public toward a liberal bias.
Um, hello, a republican is in office. Obviously the liberal media isn’t doing so well at swaying public opinion.