{"id":613,"date":"2004-09-24T17:29:23","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T21:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=613"},"modified":"2004-09-24T17:29:23","modified_gmt":"2004-09-24T21:29:23","slug":"more-lies-more-echoes-in-the-chamber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"More Lies, More Echoes in the Chamber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news for Kerry! DRUDGE has the scoop! Right on the top of his page, you can still click on this headline: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/national\/inbeltway.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Kerry Argued Case For <i>Unilateral Preemptive Action<\/i> In Iraq On CNN&#8217;s CROSSFIRE In 1997&#8230;<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The link is to a new <i>Washington Times<\/i> piece by John McCaslin quoting Kerry on CNN&#8217;s <i>Crossfire<\/i> in 1997, when we are told Kerry said: &#8220;We know we can&#8217;t count on the French. We know we can&#8217;t count on the Russians. &#8230; We know that Iraq is a danger to the United States, and we reserve the right to take pre-emptive action whenever we feel it&#8217;s in our national interest.&#8221; McCaslin also said that &#8220;no &#8216;Crossfire&#8217; transcripts from 1997 are available&#8221; but that he recieved a tape of the show.<\/p>\n<p>Only problem? Kerry never said it.<\/p>\n<p><i>Media Matters<\/i> has the <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200409240008\" target=\"_blank\">full story<\/a> of what Kerry <i>actually<\/i> said&#8230;<i>along with the transcript<\/i>!<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of &#8220;Rather-Gate&#8221; has anyone yet heard the cries for McCaslin and Drudge to resign? McCaslin had the actual tape of the show, so why would he put quotes around what <i>he knows full well<\/i> that John Kerry <i>didn&#8217;t<\/i> say? I think you know the answer.<\/p>\n<p>John McCaslin &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:jmccaslin@washingtontimes.com\">jmccaslin@washingtontimes.com<\/a><br \/>\nMng. Editor, Francis B. Coombs Jr. &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:fcoombs@washingtontimes.com\">fcoombs@washingtontimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news for Kerry! DRUDGE has the scoop! Right on the top of his page, you can still click on this headline: &#8220;Kerry Argued Case For Unilateral Preemptive Action In Iraq On CNN&#8217;s CROSSFIRE In 1997&#8230;&#8220; The link is to a new Washington Times piece by John McCaslin quoting Kerry on CNN&#8217;s Crossfire in 1997, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}