Vietnam, continued
Posted by Moonage on 09 Sep 2004 | Tagged as: 2004 Presidential Election, The Media
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Well, as much as I’ve begged, pleaded, and threatened, Vietnam’s just not going to go away. This is the only issue Kerry apparently has. This is the only issue network media is interested in. Nevermind that every single poll taken shows that Vietnam is not a concern with the modern voter, Kerry and his media consultants ( Dan Rather again ), are going to keep harping on this issue that does not affect one single voter in 2004. Now we’ve got Ben Barnes, a Kerry fundraiser, who boasted of getting George Bush into the national guard for 30 years, now suddenly changing his story in a tell-all 60 Minutes interview of how he was pressured into it.
Guess what? This ain’t gonna make any more impact on the already muddled and muddied Vietnam issue for either candidate. Once again, the Vietnam War has no absolulely no bearing on the lives of people living and working in 2004. None. The “constant attacks” of the SBV’s and Bush had absolutely no impact on Kerry’s ratings and Kerry actually climbed ahead in most polls during the worst of it. However, that was 30 days ago, a lifetime in a race. Kerry has worn out that angle to the point where people are sick and tired of hearing about it. Since Kerry peaked about the first week of August, he has hammered Vietnam, he has threatened the Swift Boat Vets with lawsuits, he has whined about Bush coordinating the attacks, and the media has marched one conflicted testimonial after another in front of the nation on their evening “news”. What has happened in those 30 days? Kerry’s ratings have tanked. I guarantee they will tank even more with the people that watch the Ben Barnes expose over the weekend. The guy obviously has contradictions, he’s raised a lot of money for Kerry. He’s got a lot of skeletons in his political closet from his questionable activities as a lobbyist. But Dan Rather’s going to put him on a pedestal and let him tell his new story as if it’s believable. I don’t see that hurting Bush, all of this has been rehashed over and over since 1999. What it’s going to do is make it obvious to the voters that are in the middle that Dan Rather has an agenda, and people don’t like being told what to do.
If I thought for one second Rather would see this and get off his high-horse, it wouldn’t bug me. But he won’t. Dan Rather has been a screaming liberal anti-war activist my entire life. He was nearly run off the air during the Gulf War. He should have taken the cue then. But he didn’t, and he won’t. He’ll keep pushing his agenda. Knowing a declining number of people watch his evening news, he’s going to push this on 60 Minutes. It’s a shame the other 60 Minutes anchors have to watch their show go down the tube as Rather pushes his agenda on their show as well.
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