A Reprehensible Lie From John Kerry!

MSNBC carried about twenty-five minutes of the Kerry-Edwards rally in Springfield, Ohio, which aired just before midnight, and John Kerry nearly gave me a heart attack.

In the course of a bit of "regular guy" sports bonding, Kerry informed the Ohio crowd that it was a special night for him because the Red Sox had narrowed their gap with the Yankees to 2 1/2 games. Holy Cow! The Yankees had led by 3 1/2 games before the games began on Thursday night. The Red Sox were winning in their game against the Angels, darn it. However, when I switched away from my Yankees to watch my President, the Yanks led by an imposing score of 8-0, so the 3 1/2 game lead looked safe.

Was Kerry seriously telling me that while George Bush spoke the Indians had come all the way back to beat the Yanks, thereby allowing the Red Sox to pick up another game? That would be dramatic and traumatic.

That would also be wrong - the Yanks won 9-1. What sort of sorry staff is running that campaign, and prepping that phony Red Sox fan? This wouldn't happen if Bob Shrum were in charge! His people can't even keep up with Sports Center, and Kerry thinks he can reform the CIA?

I'm asking my cardiologist to send the bill to Teresa.

UPDATE: More "regular guy" sports chatter from Tall John: Is Kerry Toast? No, he's Yost!

UPDATE 2: It's an ongoing pattern of sports gaffe and media silence; Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard takes us to Lambert Field in Wisconsin.

MORE: Ahh, my thoughts on Bush's two speeches last night? George Bush, policywonk, was tedious in a very State of the Union-y way, and the energy in the building for the first segment made me think I was in Shea watching the Mets. "W", war leader, was moving, authentic, and a winner - very Yankees.

Comments

[rob in Mass]

Thanks for noting that Kerry is a phony Sox fan. This is at least the third ridiculous mistatement in his mystifying campaign to glom onto Red Sox Nation. Remember his praise for "Manny Ortez" at the All-Star Break? At this point there is no credibility left to lose. Why doesn't he give it up? It smacks of a lame attempt to help him connect with Joe Six Pack - only Joe's world is so completely foreign to him in actuality that he just can't get it right. He might as well be trying to connect with the citizens of Bhutan. Sox fans like me will be relieved when he stops tarnishing our team with his inept and unwanted attention.

BTW, it'll be 2 1/2 soon enough!

[TM]

BTW, it'll be 2 1/2 soon enough!

Joe Torre applauded the Red Sox simplistic strategy the other day, saying, look, if they are going to win the rest of their games, they will be tough to beat.

And some NY writers have started handicapping the Yankees chances for a wild card slot (and their chances are pretty good).

[TM]

Hmm, credible, big-time media are all over this dramatc story:

Kerry wrong about Red Sox
Incorrectly claims Boston team gained on Yankees

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

In the opening statement of his response to President Bush's GOP convention acceptance speech, Sen. John Kerry claimed the Boston Red Sox moved to within 2.5 games of the division-leading New York Yankees.

He was wrong. The Red Sox began the night 3.5 games behind the New York Yankees and ended the evening in the same place as both teams won.

"I'll tell you what happened tonight that will be remembered," said Kerry. "The Boston Red Sox moved to within 2.5 games of the New York Yankees."

The Democratic convention was held in Boston and the Republican convention was held in New York.

[bains]

Another one of those 'sports' moments for Kerry - given in Springfield Ohio, Cincinnati to the south, Cleveland to the north. Aren't politicians supposed to extoll the local teams?

[Crank]

Not as bad as when Clinton said "You Gotta Believe" was the 1969 Mets slogan.

But Kerry has his excuses:

The intelligence missions themselves are based on very, very flimsy information. Several friends of mine were intelligence officers and I think you should have them in sometime to testify. Once in Saigon I was visiting this friend of mine and he gave me a complete rundown on how the entire intelligence system should be re-set up on all of its problems, namely, that you give a young guy a certain amount of money, he goes out, sets up his own contacts under the table, gets intelligence, comes in. It is not reliable; everybody is feeding each other double intelligence, and I think that is what comes back to this country.

[snip]

I think that the intelligence which finally reaches the White House does have serious problems with it in that I think you know full well, I know certainly from my experience, I served as aide to an admiral in my last days in the Navy before I was discharged, and I have seen exactly what the response is up the echelon, the chain of command, and how things get distorted and people say to the man above him what is needed to be said, to keep everybody happy, and so I don't- I think the entire thing is distorted.

What, you wanted an answer that wasn't about Vietnam?

[TM]

Never too early for this. Beat the crowds!

[The Kid]

Don't know if it was Kerry or Bush, baseball or politics, but from the NYT:

NEWS ALERT
Former President Bill Clinton Had a Heart Attack and Is in a New York Hospital (12:20 PM ET)

Wire reports say Clinton may undergo a quadruple bypass.

I am reminded of Julianne Malveaux who said the followingof Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas: "The man is on the Court. You know, I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. Well, that’s how I feel. He is an absolutely reprehensible person."

Hilary, in the kitchen, with the Spam…

I don't care for the man, but I do wish him a speedy, full recovery.

[Patrick R. Sullivan]

Kerry told another lie last night. He said Cheney called him "unfit" for the presidency. I think he's obsessing on that word for some reason.

[Pat Curley]

Kerry's sports gaffes are now getting out of hand. We've got the "I don't fall down!" boner, the horrific throw-it-in-the-dirt baseball pitch at Fenway, this story, the "I love Buckeye football" (delivered to a booing crowd in Michigan), the Yost story...

BTW, in the GQ interview, Ned Yost is gone, replaced by Joe DiMaggio (who retired when Kerry was 7 years old).

[TM]

*Joe* Dimaggio, the Yankee Clipper? Shouldn't that be his brother Dom, the Red Sox star?

I need to check that story.

[Crank]

That's Eddie Yost.

Not Ned Yost.

Funny, I would have thought Kerry's favorite baseball player was Garry Maddox.

[TM]

Ok, from p. 1 of the GQ interview:

GQ: Since we're in a sports bar, let me ask: Who's your sports hero? JK: I've got so many. Bobby Orr. Jaromir Jagr. Wayne Gretzky. DiMaggio.

GQ: How about Phil Esposito? JK: Absolutely. I wore number 7 because of him.

The only one without a first name is Dimaggio, darn it.

And we love this, on our "release the medical records" kick:

GQ: Did you come back from Nam with any psychic damage? JK: I was very lucky, Mike. I think I was able to take that pain and put it out there in my efforts to end the war. And so I very publicly laid out my depth of opposition to what was happening and my feelings about what had happened over there in a way that, you know, a lot of guys didn't have that opportunity, or couldn't or didn't, and they kind of held it in. And I think that's the harder thing; that's the problem for a lot of guys. So I never did have any of those issues. It doesn't slow me down; it motivates me.

GQ: You've never seen a therapist? JK: No. I had some nightmares when I came home, which is not unusual.

Yeah, yeah. Here is Teresa from 2002:

...When Kerry is asked about the nightmares that haunted his sleep for years after he returned from Vietnam, he shrugs. "I don't think I've had a nightmare in a long time," he says. But then Heinz begins to mimic Kerry having a Vietnam nightmare.

"Down! Down, down!" she yells, patting her hands down on her auburn hair.

"I haven't gotten slapped yet," she says. "But there were times when I thought I might get throttled."

Kerry quivers his right foot and steers the discussion to the counseling programs he has supported for Vietnam veterans. Asked if he has been in therapy himself, he non-answers. "It doesn't bother me anymore, I just go back to sleep."

Heinz presses him. "Not therapy for the dreams, therapy for the angst," she says, and looks quizzically at him, awaiting an answer. Kerry shakes his head "No." This is not your father's political couple, though you wonder, at this moment, if Kerry wishes it were.

GQ needs to do their homework. But the question is in play.

[TM]

...I've got to tell you, I'm going to talk about a lot of positions tonight and I'm going to take important positions, and you're going to love them. But one thing I'm not going to do, I am not going to pick between the North Panthers and the South Wildcats.

I just thought I'd let you know that so that you could see that I've got something going on up here.

I want you to know that tonight in America something very important in the fabric of our life took place — very, very important — the Red Sox pulled to two and a half games out of the Yankees. Now, I think that that's important.

Now ladies and gentlemen, now that the conventions are over and now that the president has finally finished his speech, I have five words for America: This is your wake-up call.

From the Dayton something or other.

[Pat Curley]

Dang, Crank, good catch. I knew Ed was wrong, so I went with Ned. Fine ballplayer as I commented over on my blog; one of the few to step directly from high school ball into the major leagues.

[TM]

Kerry's not wrong, he's just ahead of his time - as of Friday evening, it is 2 1/2.

[rosemary]

i think all this negativity on john kerrey is shameful. the viet nam war was my era and i remember all of those feelings that john kerrey spoke of. that war changed the way we thought of the people who ran our country. nam was a politicans war . they senators and congressmen sat on their asses and sent our fine and good young men to that godforsaken land remember those signs "when I doe I am going to heaven cause I spent a year in hell. how come those veterans were blammed for everything that went wrong in the country. they still are being blamed i saw on fox news when someone asked cheney if they thought iraq was winnable or was it like nam and he said it was wiinable because they weren't losers like nam how dear he that jerk was one of many that didn't have to serve those grunts were just as brave as these today and we were and still are every bit as proud of them as we should be.those young men did what was asked of them serve our country and die for our country and many of them did and the unfortunate ones that came home had to sneak back into this country and they still have it tough no parades no jobs john kerey said it best the country turned their back on the vets and they still are turning their backs we should all be proud that one vet deserves to be president in spite of serving there he did what a lot of us didn't he went i don;t care if he was there only five minutes i appauld him he did what i and alot of people didn't do he served and i for one would like to see him be president not that dope who wasted my hard earned tax dollars and who didn't deserve to be president he is a jerk and i hope he loses and takes that foul mouth cheney back where they belong and i hope that the true veterans that were not the officers vote for the one true patriot john kerrey the one who truly loves america and was not afraid tostand up for her

[D. Woolwine]

Kerry's great moments insports include the Green Bay Packers playing at "Lambert Field". That alone could cost him Wisconsin!

[Jim Riley]

I can't stand by any longer and watch my favorite team, the Boston Red Sox, be used as a tool by John Kerry when he is nothing more than a faux fan, a poser of the worst degree. I invite you to join me as a member of "Red Sox Fans for Truth" to expose John Kerry's long pattern of deception regarding his supposed love of the Boston Red Sox. Please join me in this crucial struggle for the heart and soul of our nation's passtime.

Jim Riley
Founder, "Red Sox Fans for Truth"
Devoted Red Sox Fan since 1974