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November 15, 2004
Media Still Pushing Bogus Cleland Combat Story
Again, the media are portraying bitter old Max Cleland as a man who lost limbs in "combat," tho everyone knows this is not the case. In an attempt to bolster Cleland's status as a war hero who left three limbs on the battlefield, this combat wound lie has popped up time and time again.
Cleland lost his limbs in an area outside of combat. He went with a few other soldiers to set up a radio communication center, and when he was about to get back on the helicopter to go back to base, he changed his mind and decided to have a few beers with some other soldiers there...so, he told the pilot this, then ducked to avoid the chopper blades. A moment later, he saw a grenade lying on the ground. Thinking he had dropped it when he stooped down, he picked it up, and it went off. This is how he lost his legs. This is clearly not a combat wound. It was merely an awful accident, and the facts need to be known, because the media keep pushing this hero Cleland nonsense.
Cleland would have never been elected to any office if he had not had this accident, and he himself has said that he's no hero for losing his limbs, and that it wasn't in combat...why, then, does the Boston Globe and almost every other major media outlet keep pushing this lie? Bias, that's why...their desire to pump up Cleland's stature as a hero who was injured in battle. Don't let the MSM pull the wool over your eyes. Cleland is an angry man who was a poor politician, and he has helped the media push this lie. These are not honorable actions, and even tho his accident was unfortunate, he's not a war hero who lost something in combat.
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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/11/14/on_the_trail_of_kerrys_failed_dream?mode=PF
On Thursday, July 29, the last night of the convention, the man whose fame was launched by denunciations of a war stepped onto the podium and gave a military salute. "I'm John Kerry," the candidate told the cheering delegates, "and I'm reporting for duty."
The line was the brainstorm of former US senator Max Cleland of Georgia. A close friend and Vietnam veteran who had lost both legs and his right arm in combat, Cleland had planned to use a version of the line in introducing Kerry. "John saw that in a draft of my speech, he liked it, and he took it for his own," Cleland recalled.
Kerry had drafted his own speech in longhand on a legal pad with input from advisers. Once finished, he practiced delivering it during sessions inside his Nantucket garage.
Posted by Josh at November 15, 2004 02:01 AM