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1. Rick Ballard:

No, no, he met with all of them. Really. CIA operatives arranged a clandestine meeting on a Swiftboat in the East River. He has the hats given to him by all the the ambassadors in his briefcase. Really. If you don’t believe me, wait and watch de Villepin swear to it tomorrow.

Oct 24, 2004 - 9:23 pm 2. Rich:

Yup

Oct 24, 2004 - 9:24 pm 3. chriss:

I have absolutely zero faith that the MSM will do anything with this story. They will do everyting possible to bury and ignore it, like always. True media bias is not what they choose to print, but what they choose not to print/report.

However, this would make a devastating Bush ad in swing states, with Kerry clips from the debate juxtaposed with quotes from the WaTimes piece.

Oct 24, 2004 - 9:29 pm 4. Yehudit:

Kerry was also not at a World Series game he claims to have been at.

Kerry is the Zelig of the 2004 presidential campaign, only in reverse.

Oct 24, 2004 - 9:31 pm 5. Yehudit:

This was pretty anti-climactic. Someone needs to start a site which compiles all the Kerry lies big and small throughout the years. That would have impact.

Oct 24, 2004 - 9:33 pm 6. Kevin P:

Roger:

What he meant to say was he talked to people who lived in the countries represented in the Security Council,er, or maybe it was he was in the same building as the Security Council Members.Either way it is unfair for you to attack Sen. Kerry’s Patriotism since he fought in Vietnam and you stayed at home and wrote books. And Sen. Kerry is smarter then you so whether what he said was true or not does not matter because he is a Vietnam Veteran.

Oct 24, 2004 - 9:34 pm 7. Rick Ballard:

Roger,

On a serious note, the MSM that you identified have shown no interest in facts or the truth since Kerry purchased the nomination. They will remain true to form and continue to serve as mouthpieces and propagandists to the DNC and Kerry campaign until Nov. 3. That’s what they are and that’s what they do. They have reduced journalist ethics to an oxymoron and destroyed their reputations wholesale in service to an ideology that has been dead for years.

W has no use for them, the party has no use for them and the vast majority of the American people have no use for them. They hold no sway and they have no power.

Let them rot in peace.

Oct 24, 2004 - 9:35 pm 8. Rick Ballard:

Yehudit,

Nobody has enough bandwidth.

Oct 24, 2004 - 9:36 pm 9. alcibiades:

ÔøΩMr. Kerry closed the final debate by recounting what his mother told him from her hospital bed, “Remember: integrity, integrity, integrity.”

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In an interview published in the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine, Mr. Kerry was asked what he would want people to remember about his presidency. He responded, “That it always told the truth to the American people.”

Looks like your interpretation as to what Kerry’s mother meant by “integrity, integrity, integrity” does indeed trump Kerry’s, Roger. She was reminding him he needed it, not that it was a strength of character for him.

I’ve also been struck, these last few days, by the fact that even the Democrat members of the MSM have been pointing out that Kerry suffers from an over-reliance on councilors. He bends his ear to all and attunes his opinions anew to each one, the ultimate ambivalent man. He has no internal barometer. Everything is open to debate because he doesn’t know his own principles; and since they don’t exist, he can’t utilize them in governance.

Oct 24, 2004 - 9:42 pm 10. Yehudit:

I think Kerry also lied about running the Boston marathon, but I can’t find the link. Oh well.

The only reason the Kerrys are giving Bush any kind of competition is that Bush hasn’t pushed his message consistently enough. I know the MSM are in the tank for them, but if Bush did fireside chats every week or the equivalent, esp. about Iraq, the MSM wouldn’t be able to fill the vaccuum with all the shit they pump out.

I know there are tons of moonbats running around, but there are a lot of sincere grownups voting for Kerry because they get their impressions from the NYTimes et al. I know a lot of them.

Bush will win, but Kerry is such a dishonest weak jerk that Bush should win easily.

Oct 24, 2004 - 9:44 pm 11. Joe Schmoe:

I hate to say it, but this is a non-story.

Kerry didn’t talk to Mexico? Who cares? Who even knoew that Mexico was a rotating member of the Security Council back then? I didn’t.

Kerry obviously did meet with the four other permenent members of the Security Council. If he hadn’t, the Wash Times (a right wing newspaper) would have called him on it. But they didn’t call him on it.

During the runup to the war, it sure seemed as if the rotating members of the Security Council would basically go along with whatever the permanent memebrs decided. Whether or not the UN would authorize the war hinged on the decisions of France, Germany, and China — not Gabon, and not Mexico. If the fate of Sadaam’s regime was in the hands of the Seylechelles ambassador, I sure didn’t know that.

I a00m terrified at the thought of a Kerry presidency and want him to lose, badly. I was hoping that a major scandal would break on Monday. But this isn’t really a scandal at all. Kerry didn’t meet with some minor third world Security Council delegations, even though he said he met with “all” of them? Who cares.

Oct 24, 2004 - 9:52 pm 12. richard mcenroe:

I don’t know that he’s a sociopath, but I’ve worked with people like this.

Kerry has to be the center of the room, the focus of attention. Since he hasn’t done anything that merits that focus, he simply lies. But once he’s lied, he’s sure that if he tells a bigger lie than that one, he’ll be even more the center of attention. And he will lie to his audience about exactly the things they are most expert in themselves, because that’s the only way he can be the focus. Once he tells the lie, he embraces the lie himself; they can’t possibly call him out on it because they can’t be as expert as he’s told them he is, whether at deer hunting, marathon running or storming down the Mekong in a hail of gunfire.

There are consequences from this; for one. because his own accomplishments and qualities are minimal to start with, he will seldom put himself in situations where they can be tested. This could be why Kerry was such an absentee senator. If he’s not on the Senate floor, or at his committee meetings, no one can call him on his lack of aptitude. This is also reflected in his own meagre legislative record, which consists of a handful of “novelty” bills establishing meaningless commemorative days and the like.

It also means that when he is tested, his performance will be lacking. It can be petty and embarrassing, like watching him try to throw a baseball or snwbaord past a Secret Service agent, or it can be more serious: Would a man who won a Bronze and Silver Star for courage under fire have abandoned the Filipina election workers who asked him for sanctuary? Would a man who sat “frozen” and “unable to think” for 40 minutes on 9/11 respond effectively in a crisis?

And once such a man is recognized for the chronic liar he is, who will ever deal with him in good faith, when they know it will not be reciprocated.

Oct 24, 2004 - 9:56 pm 13. richard mcenroe:

Yehudit ó He’s not Zelig; he’s the Real Nowhere Man.

Nowhere in Cambodia

Nowhere in the Senate

Nowhere in the Intelligence Committee meetings

Nowhere in the Boston Marathon

Sitting in his nowhere land

Making all his nowhere plans

for nobody.

Oct 24, 2004 - 10:01 pm 14. John Pearley Huffman:

I’m not ready to label John Kerry a sociopath… yet.

But I’m a registered Democrat and I’ve voted for Democrats ever since I was old enough to vote. And I’m left now with a Democrat I can’t vote for in good conscience. Or bad conscience. Or any conscience.

I keep having to explain to friends that I’m no big fan of George W. Bush and disagree with him on a vast number of subjects ranging from steel tariffs to senior drug benefits, tax policy, portions of the Patriot Act, and the need for a constitutional amendment against gay marriage, but I’m voting for him anyway.

Because we’re in a war and the war matters and it matters that we win. And even if John Kerry were (or is) a sociopath, I’d vote for him if I thought he was serious about winning the war.

Oct 24, 2004 - 10:05 pm 15. htom:

I’m becoming convinced that Kerry suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder ( http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis1/p21-pe07.html )

Oct 24, 2004 - 10:25 pm 16. richard mcenroe:

And just for a blast from the past ó Kerry concealed second Paris NVA meeting

Oct 24, 2004 - 10:42 pm 17. PeterUK:

Richard

I too have met two cases of this and some of my observations fit in with yours.A few characteristics,

The thought is the deed,merely to say something is to make it so.

All statements a designed to boost their statements.

They will claim as their own, statements by others.

They are very quick at catching the drift of a conversation so as to be on the right side or claim they were the instigator.

They are extremely manipulative,for example asking you for something in front of your boss.

By the same token they are good at deflecting blame onto others.

As you say everything is done to make themselves the centre of attraction.

They lie as a matter of course and are very plausible,simply because they believe what they are saying when they say it.

Nothing is a contract,the next sentence is a new deal.

Everything is promised,no promises are kept.

They have the ability to twist words and turn the meaning of things around.

As you say they never put themselves in a position

where they have to make good on their claims.

Like Mr Toad they have the shining passion of the moment which is then discarded like a childs toy.

They are usually pleasant and affable,often agreeing to everything you say.Usually they are all things to all men.

On a personal basis they can be very hypochondriac,obsessively clean and somewhat cowardly.

They are consistent in that they will always let you down.

Some characteristics are indicative of a narcissistic personality,OK to shoot the breeze with over a beer,but to put your life in their hands disaster.

Oct 24, 2004 - 10:48 pm 18. Yehudit:

More Kerry lies, in quoting Ronald Reagan during the debate when he opposed everything Reagan stood for at the time: A 527 group TV ad.

Another characteristic of this type of person is constantly reinventing his past to suit the needs of the moment. There is no actual “reality” to this type of personality. Fits with the average moonbat conspiracy nut, in their minds there are no such thing as facts.

Oct 24, 2004 - 10:58 pm 19. Pat Curley:

Oddly enough, we covered this story back in August just as we got recognition for covering Christmas in Cambodia before anybody else: Our post is here.

Oct 24, 2004 - 11:08 pm 20. John Moore ( Useful Fools ):

PeterUK – what you describe is a factitious personality disorder – essentially some who has to lie to become the center of attention.

Many have heard of one form of this – Munschausen or Munshausen by proxy. This is the condition where somebody makes themselves sick, or makes someone else sick (most notoriously, their baby) in order to get attention and also to manipulate people.

kerry certainly has characteristics of some form ot this disorder. Telling lies when unnecessary and that can be caught, manipulating people with lies.

One thing is clear. Kerry has some kind of personality disorder, and that’s scary. The guy is scrambled.

Oct 24, 2004 - 11:22 pm 21. John Moore ( Useful Fools ):

One wonders if Kerry is lying because he knows the MSM wont report it even if it is noticed.

What a sad state our country is in when the MSM is so monolithic and so strongly biased. As was said, we may elect a self-confessed war criminal without our population being told. The loathing I have for the MSM is immense and has been since at least 1992. Lying, laziness and suppression of dissent seems to be their primary characteristics.

Oct 24, 2004 - 11:44 pm 22. Darleen:

I decided to take a slightly different approach to this story and, in honor of all the “foreign leaders” that only Kerry seems to see, I fired up the old Photoshop and now present John Kerry in “Harvey”

Oct 24, 2004 - 11:59 pm 23. Ariana:

Facts havenít mattered to Kerryís followers and this debacle wonít move their opinion. In contrast, John Kerryís lifetime pattern of deceit became apparent this year to objective observers considering each disturbing revelation on his military and political careers.

Long ago we ceased our surprise at the mounting evidence of Kerryís bad character, and most significantly, at Kerryís pompous belief that his reputation could remain invincible despite his actual conduct. Irregardless, of Kerryís misplaced political haughtiness, the Left has not blushed over Kerryís lavish display of unlimited narcissism, but instead encouraged his behavior and echoed his conceit.

For the political sleepwalkers who managed to remain truly undecided during this controversial election, news of another Kerry fabrication might sway some votes. Yet, the intensity of this campaign makes one look askance at any ìundecidedî voters who needed more proof of Kerryís fatally flawed ethics at this late hour.

Oct 25, 2004 - 12:25 am 24. Connecticut Yankee:

Roger, Jamie, and other Yalies– I just saw that the Hartford Courant and the New Haven Register have both endorsed Bush; meanwhile I have seen reports on two different blogs that Bush is up 1 point in CT over Kerry in a new poll.

Link to info about CT poll: http://polipundit.com/index.php?p=4773

Link to Hartford Courant: http://www.ctnow.com/news/opinion/

If the CT poll turns out to be more than just a rumor, well …. the Red Sox just might win the World Series.

Oct 25, 2004 - 12:35 am 25. HA:

Roger,

But I will ask those same editors and publishers if they are going to do the same thing now. Do they think it’s fine to let a man with this odd relationship with the truth serve in the White House during a time of terrorism, no matter what their “ideologies”? Time for some serious thinking and investigation.

Such a sad, desperate cry for help. It will go unanswered. The MSM has already decided for us what is news and what isn’t when it comes to Kerry. And this latest and comparatively minor manifestation of Kerry’s lifetime of mendacity and betrayal just isn’t news.

Look, the MSM doesn’t think it is news that Kerry met with Vietnamese Communist leaders in Paris while still uniform and then returned home and advocated unconditional acceptance of their terms while smearing Vietnam vets as systematic war criminals. They don’t think it is news that Kerry attendend a VVAW meeting where assasinations of congressional leaders were discussed, and then Kerry lied about his attendance for 30 years until the FBI files proving his attendance were uncovered.

So now Kerry looks America in the eyes during a Presidential debate and lies to us about meeting with the UNSC members. Big deal. The MSM knows Kerry is a pathological liar and decided for us that this is not news. They support him in spite of this.

This story is going nowhere.

Oct 25, 2004 - 3:52 am 26. David C:

Through the power of his magic hat, John Kerry can be in many, many places – all at the same time!

But the MSM and their allies will just ignore this, I’m sure. After all, there’s more important stuff to discuss – like investigating the mysterious bulge under Bush’s jacker, and figuring out whether it was just a radio receiver, or a Karl Rove mind control/puppeteer device! Garry Trudeau’s on the case!

http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20041025

Oct 25, 2004 - 4:07 am 27. Swede:

There is a pathological pattern in Kerry’s life, of blatant self-aggrandizement and out-and-out falsehood, which feed, and is in turn fed by, his overwhelming ambition for power. Power for its own sake and nothing more. No vision, no purpose, no dreams other than of the power to be held. The positions he takes are merely means to an end, to be acquired and discarded, used and abandoned, as circumstances warrant. An active enabler in Kerry’s machinations these last months, has been the MSM, who for their own selfish reasons, participate in the sanitation of Kerry’s persona. They have had their work cut out for them in this task, and have struggled mightily to keep up with Kerry’s ever increasing baggage. If they succeed in concealing enough of Kerry’s record of obfuscation and opportunism to see him elected, it will have been perhaps the greatest flim-flam perpetrated upon the American people in their history. And it will be a national tragedy in the making.

Oct 25, 2004 - 4:31 am 28. David C:

Another amusing example of the MSM’s double standard from Howard Kurtz (and he’s actually one of the *good* ones in the MSM, relatively speaking!) in WaPo today:

“Part of the White House/Fourth Estate divide may be cultural. Although Bush bestowed nicknames on reporters during the 2000 campaign, he’s made clear while in office that he doesn’t need them. He’s given few interviews other than to sympathetic hosts such as Bill O’Reilly or soft touches like Dr. Phil (though he appears with ABC’s Charlie Gibson today, while Kerry chats up NBC’s Katie Couric).”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59786-2004Oct24.html

Noted without irony, as if Kerry had been submitting to tough questioning from guys like Tim Russert for months, or as if Katie Couric’s going to be asking hard-hitting, penetrating questions.

The MSM’s performance has been abysmal, even compared to my low expectations. Frankly, I could see a case for not making a big deal about this Security Council story, especially were it not tied to a pattern of repeated behavior by Kerry. I’d disagree, but I can see the opposing case. But if the MSM won’t even ask a question like “Senator Kerry, can you explain the apparent discrepancies in your Iraq policy over the past several years?”, there’s no way they’re gonna dig into something like this.

Oct 25, 2004 - 4:42 am 29. pajama_jihad:

Kerry’s rebuttal:

I was there, just ask Cheney’s lesbian daughter!

Oct 25, 2004 - 5:04 am 30. Dave D.:

My term for people like Kerry is “compulsive bullshitter”. We all know that type: constantly exaggerating and puffing themselves up. If Kerry wins next week, it’s going to be a LONG four years.

Oct 25, 2004 - 5:21 am 31. Adrianne Truett:

It won’t matter. The Cambodia story, which in a rational world would have buried him, didn’t have legs. Why are we to think this one will? Nobody who would be swayed is going to see this without “have you seen the latest right-wing smear?” spin; everyone else knows Kerry’s a ridiculous liar, but they’ve already decided against him or chosen him despite the rampant dishonesty. Why will this change anything?

Oct 25, 2004 - 5:50 am 32. Matt Evans:

Rick Ballard cuts right to the heart of the matter- the MSM is failing miserably in its job- the job, obviously, is to keep the people informed. But how can you keep the people informed when you continue to schill for one candidate? Its no longer news, its propoaganda.

The MSM should be vetting BOTH candidates, pointing out inconsistencies in their messages. When a candidate lies (either candidate), the press should bring this to light and the people should hold that candidate accountable. But Kerry has gotten a pass through this entire election process- not only a pass, he’s gotten a boost from the MSM spinning everything G.W. says into some kind of lie and/or disaster.

Kerry realizes in the last few weeks of the election, it doesn’t make a damn bit of difference how much he lies – the MSM won’t touch him and Fox news and bloggers don’t reach a wide enough audience. Its ironic with all the legal challenges already being mounted about the election process, that John Kerry has already done his best to steal this election via fraud.

Oct 25, 2004 - 6:17 am 33. BillTrippe:

Oh my God, this is a shocking story. Almost as shocking as the incredible story Fox News broke this morning. See:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,136459,00.html

I’m going to go back to reality now.

Bill

Oct 25, 2004 - 6:29 am 34. Mark Poling:

From an earlier thread:

Actually, I’ve thought for quite a while that Kerry does have a diagnostic mental problem of the type knows as a “character disorder” (I’m a therapist, so I’m being quite serious here). To be even more specific, Kerry appears to have “narcissistic personality disorder.” See here: Link…. I really don’t know why more people haven’t suggested this diagnosis, because it fits him to a T.

Posted by: blogaddict

I started that micro-conversation by pointing out that some of Kerry’s more wildly convoluted constructions resembled “word salad” to me, but I meant it more as a joke than anything else. But at some point these behaviors do transition from indiosyncracies to actual illnesses, and Kerry’s history of really odd — bordering on bizarre — tall-tale-telling may cross that line.

Of course, when your net worth is most easily expressed using exponential notation, the line between quirky and sick gets pushed back a bit.

Oct 25, 2004 - 6:32 am 35. Mark Poling:

BillTrippe, perpetual cluelesssnes re: current pop-cultural events isn’t much of a sin.

Recurrent, apparently compulsive prevarication is.

Oct 25, 2004 - 6:40 am 36. DennisThePeasant:

This compulsive urge Bullwinkle J. Clouseau has to embroider the truth to always come out on top reminds me of a college roommate I once had. Jim was a thoroughly decent (unlike BJC) albeit strange (bingo on that one, though) fellow who simply had to be able to top you in a conversation. In our cirlce of friends Jim was noted for this quirk, and it manifested itself most spectacularly in his famous trump card, the “really big Chinese test”.

So if you would state “Boy, I’ve got a nasty accounting test coming up next week.”, Jim would reply “Well, you think you have it tough, I’ve got a really big Chinese test coming up!”. It got to the point where amongst our friends one no longer got a really bad headache, one got a ‘really big Chinese headache’. Or, one didn’t order a large pizza, one ordered a ‘really big Chinese’ pizza…

That’s who Bullwinkle reminds me of…the guy who always had it tougher because of that really big Chinese test, always played it better because he was really big Chinese smart, and always got the girl because he was really big Chinese handsome.

In Bullwinkle’s case, it seems he always has a Really Big Chinese Plan; be it for Iraq, terrorism or the economy whatever Bush has in the works, Bullwinkle’s got something just a little really big Chinese better to offer the American people. Sometimes, though, he can’t resist a little white really big Chinese lie to get it across.

Oct 25, 2004 - 7:09 am 37. -S-:

YES, Kerry is a sociopath.

I didn’t arrive at that conclusion in a cavalier fashion, but spent a good amount of time, over time, considering both his ongoing lies and what the definition of a sociopath is.

Kerry suits the definition, based upon what behaviors of is have been made known to the public. I suspect, as with most of this type of disturbance, that what the public does not know is far more profane and offensive and alarming than what we do know.

Oct 25, 2004 - 7:39 am 38. Dulce:

I wish I could believe that any of these disclosures about Kerry’s madness makes any difference. I am sick with worry that he’ll be elected–or will somehow steal the election. If I thought that the next four years would simply be nerve-grating, I could accept that. But I think a Kerry presidency will be ruinous, to us and to Israel. He’s the worst kind of mutant–an unholy mix of p*ssy and a*shole.

Can you tell I’m depressed??

Oct 25, 2004 - 7:40 am 39. -S-:

Yehudit: Michelle Malkin wrote a great article on her blog about the Kerry-I-Ran-The-Boston-Marathon-Before-I-Didn’t-Run-the-Marathon story.

Just go to her blog and look up the piece — I found it by reading through her entries from the past few months.

Oct 25, 2004 - 7:42 am 40. -S-:

yehudit asked about the “Kerry/Runner” ruse and here’s Michelle Malkin’s article about that…pretty entertaining.

Oct 25, 2004 - 7:45 am 41. Hovig:

This is like the time Kerry Told Bill O’Reilly he attended the Safwan ceasefire signing in Iraq in 1991 [Credit Captain's Quarters Blog].

Some bloggers and commenters thought the Sawfan story was going to be the subject of the Washington Times’s report this morning. I’m sorry the Times story didn’t even mention it at all. I think it merits just as much attention as the Security Council story.

Perhaps each of these little inaccuracies are not so problematic in isolation, but they’re really starting to add up.

Oct 25, 2004 - 7:57 am 42. Solomon:

I agree with Yehudit that the story’s a bit of a let-down. Would have been more effective if there were a couple of permanent members on the list.

Not saying it’s not an important or real story – it is. Another day in the life of Senator Mitty, the man who will say anything for a quick score.

I think there’s another angle of interest here, though. That is the fact that members of the blogosphere were tipped to it to start generating buzz even without seeing the content. The media is using the blogs to flog their stuff, thus truly cementing the bloggers’ place in the landscape. That’s good for blogs, but caution is in order – beware of being gamed by the spinners. Otherwise, wave all that hard-earned credibility good-bye.

It also starts to chip away at something I’ve always enjoyed the blogosphere for. To me the blogosphere operates as somewhat the way the stock market is supposed to operate, with everyone trading and functioning on equal information and some people simply doing better at that game. For instance, Charles Johnson thought to do something that it was possible for anyone to do – type the phony memo into Word. No one gave him anything under the table, he just thought to do it himself and thus he reaped the rewards of all that attention.

Now, more than ever, some bloggers are going to become more equal than others (no, I’m not jealous) by getting the inside scoop. Is that a bad thing? No, I guess not, BUT, like I said, proceed with caution, lest we lose what makes the blogs different and special – and among those is the ability to take publicly available resources to kill or counter spin.

Oct 25, 2004 - 8:00 am 43. The Old Coot:

On a scale of 1-10 of Kerry’s evil deeds, this one barely rates a 2. What little attention is given by the MSM, Kerry’s lackeys swat it away with practiced ease. By this time tomorrow, it will have disappeared into the black hole with all of his other lies.

Sad to see a few bloggers (are you listening Bill?) flogging this over the weekend, seemingly just to get some traffic. Sad, because it diverts our energy from what needs to be done: persuade undecideds and help friends and neighbors get to the polls next Tuesday.

Oct 25, 2004 - 8:19 am 44. kynna:

Once I met a man who told me the most fantastical stories when we were out for drinks. As he was a part of a larger group I hung out with, I knew he was storytelling.

I told him he didn’t need to make things up because we were having a nice conversation and that was a enough. He insisted he was telling the truth. Swore to it. I knew for a fact otherwise.

There are just people out there who are not happy with who they are (maybe those who grew up in an old money family with little actual money) and they feel they have to create elaborate stories around themselves to make up for what they perceive to be their shortcomings.

By the time they’re John Kerry’s age, it’s a habit so deeply rooted, you’ll never get them to stop. They’ll lie even when it doesn’t serve them.

Not presidential material at all.

Oct 25, 2004 - 8:21 am 45. sueb:

PeterUK

I believe you are correct. I have felt for a long time something is mentally off about Kerry. I have known two others through my life who I thought about the same way…and I was proved to be right. They, and Kerry, do not have a real sense for anyone but themselves, an empty shell inside the body.

Oct 25, 2004 - 9:02 am 46. David C:

I think the problem is that any one of these incidents looks fairly trivial or excusable (”Oh, all politicians exaggerate,” which is a fair point.)

But when you look at the persistent and repeated *pattern*, of Kerry repeatedly retelling tales of being at such-and-such an event, when there’s an easily-checkable record of his having been elsewhere at that time… it’s just plain bizarre.

It’s almost too bizarre to credit, really; I think a lot of people just think “Oh, it’s probably right-wing exaggeration.” And not because of ideology so much as the sheer *strangeness* of the truth; that Kerry’s a guy who repeatedly makes up self-aggrandizing stories about himself, and often for little or no practical benefit.

It seems to me that words like “sociopath” and “narcissistic personality disorder” are a little strong (those belong in Clintonland, though), but there’s definitely some Walter Mitty syndrome here.

Oct 25, 2004 - 9:19 am 47. Matt Evans:

I’m not sure how this fits in but I find it worrisome that the Bush supporters seem to be spending alot of time worrying about the democrats stealing the election and the democrats spend most of their time trying to figure out how to steal it.

I’ve always been a proponent of fair play in politics but I can safely say if this election is stolen by democratic shenanigans, the last of my belief that Americans are essentially decent people will be unceremoniously flushed down the toilet.

Oct 25, 2004 - 9:26 am 48. jerry:

Kerry may or may not be a sociopath but I think the root cause of his misrepresentations originate in a common phenomenon in PSYOP/Propaganda campaigns. That is, be careful of the lies you tell because in the end you will be the only ones who believe them.

Oct 25, 2004 - 9:52 am 49. Rick Ballard:

When Bob Kerrey characterized the ‘Dope from Hope’ by saying that “Clinton is an unusaually good liar” he was confirming an unassailable truth. The MSM expended forests in an effort to lead us to believe otherwise but he still gave up his right to practice law because of perjury (leaving aside his impeachment). The MSM still fails to note that during his use of his “great political skills” the Dems gave up control of the House, the Senate and multiple statehouses and state legislatures. Nor do they note that Jill Ireland’s drop to her knees in his service effectively destroyed NOW and a good portion of the feminist movement. His appointment of Terry “Rolodex” McAuliffe to chair the DNC has resulted in additional gains for the Republican party that may exceed those that he contributed to in the ’90’s. It is altogether fitting that he join the Kerry campaign this week in order to administer the coup de grace.

I mention this because this is the week in which Kerry’s al Queda supporters are most likely to cast their votes. The public’s reaction to Kerry’s terrorist supporters vote is the last of the “unknown unknowns” and if the attacks receive the reaction from the pro-Kerry MSM that I anticipate, there is a small possibility that Kerry could win. There is no real need to diagnose Kerry’s possible mental pathology. In sum, he’s not “an unusually good liar”, he’s just a run of the mill liar. Should Kerry win through terrorist support, I imagine that we will be able to endure four years of maladministration and run of the mill lies.

Oct 25, 2004 - 9:59 am 50. Barrett:

The list of lies Kerry has told would fill a book of considerable length. The problem is two-fold: (1) Kerry believes that if he says something, that somehow it makes it true; and (2) the unholy alliance between the MSM and the Democratic Party (in this case, Kerry) has never been more clear.

Why anyone would want a congenital liar in the White House is something I can’t comprehend. Kerry is an amoral, unpricipled person. People may not like George Bush and would like to vote against him. I don’t believe that people like this stop to consider what they are voting FOR and the attendant risks that would come with a Kerry administration.

Until the MSM media is economically punished for the positions they take or do not take as the case may be, there will be no incentive to change. You can be sure that CBS is evaluating what happened with Rathergate. You can also be sure that economics will be the deciding factor in whether to put Rather into “early retirement.”

This is no easy issue. To be informed, one has to take the time to understand the positions of “the other side.” Do you cancel your subscription to The New York Times? What would make advertisers decide to spend budgets eleswhere? Look what happened to Sinclair after announcing that an uninterrupted anti-Kerry film would be shown without commercial break (although I’m sure there would have been little outrage if Farenheit 9/11 was shown). A 15% haircut in the stock caused them to show a watered down 4 minute clip.

What are the strategies and tactics one can use to persuade the MSM to responsibly report the facts and leave the conclusions to the consumers?

Oct 25, 2004 - 10:08 am 51. Occam's Beard:

The most troubling thing about Kerry’s prevarication is that he doesn’t seem to anticipate others’ reaction to it, and that (to me, as a layman) raised questions months ago about his emotional balance.

It’s not that he just makes things up out of whole cloth for his personal aggrandizement; that would be repellent, but hardly unique (vide Clinton). As long as he knows it’s rubbish, it’s unappealing but tolerable (vide Clinton again).

On the other hand, Kerry gives no indication that he knows his stories are just that. No twinkle in the eye, no apology or “clarification” later, no claims of being misquoted. And as mentioned above, he doesn’t seem to anticipate others’ scepticism about the more risible fabrications, such as that of VC the Wonder Dog. Did he seriously think anyone would believe that story? The story itself is immaterial and trivial, but when asked about pets (probably an attempt to get him off the Vietnam topic) he earnestly replied with this story (to get right back to the Vietnam topic) that probably resulted in stifled snorts, embarrassed coughing, and shuffled feet.

This is not the work of a raconteur, who knowingly tells fables for the attention deriving from providing entertainment, but rather of someone with so little empathy with others that he doesn’t anticipate their disbelief of these Bunyonesque tales, or that someone will check the facts (e.g., Christmas in Cambodia).

Oct 25, 2004 - 10:29 am 52. Mike G in San Diego:

Roger, add my voice to the chorus: “Yes, he is a sociopath!”

I’ve known three compulsive liars who remind me of Kerry. One was a fellow in college who was seriously disturbed — he thought he was a CIA agent, a la “Alias,” and every couple of weeks “they” would try to kill him; he was always regaling us with tales of his exploits. One was a total schmuck who had so much contempt for other people that he acted as though the peasants had to believe his stories, because he was the one who told them. And one was a fellow who was the son of a very successful business executive, who apparently used his stories to brace his own self-esteem. But the common thread was that they didn’t ever seem to consider the consequences of their lies — it never occurred to them that they would be found out.

The scariest thing in all this is that the mainstream media are enabling Kerry, by never challenging him. The UN Security Council, Christmas in Cambodia, the Boston Marathon, the magic hat, throwing away the medals and/or ribbons, the Purple Hearts, the Safwan ceasefire signing in Iraq in 1991 … the list goes on. Did anyone ever question him about any of these in an on-camera interview?

As I am fond of repeating, “Sure, the government lies. And the press lies. But in a democracy they aren’t the same lies!”

Heaven help us if Kerry is elected.

Oct 25, 2004 - 11:06 am 53. Fausta:

The partisanship of the MSM in this election is more disturbing than either of the candidates on their worst days

You’re absolutely right, Roger.

Underwhelmed as I am from fatige, in my case, that Kerry’s been caught in a lie — yet again — it’s still amazing how specific he is when he makes up these tales.

I went up to the United Nations at the request of some friends. And I met with the entire Security Council in a room just like this at a table like this. I spent two hours with them. (inaudible), just me and the Security Council, asking them questions. The French ambassador, “Is there a time when President Chirac would be ready to come on board? What do we need to do to move the French people to a place where they understand the stakes? Are you prepared to spend money? Do you believe we might have to use force in order to disarm Saddam Hussein? At what point would you be ready to do that?” I went through that with all of them.

Whether that makes for a good sociopath, I leave to the experts to decide. It sure won’t do for a good President.

Oct 25, 2004 - 11:34 am 54. Ted Gamst:

What does one tell their children when they seek to vote for the best candidate for the office of President? When I contemplate the thought Kerry might be elected I am reminded of the electorate I imagine he is addressing; those with the ‘See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Speak No Evil’ mentality. Well, I am neither BLIND, DEAF nor DUMB and I can only hope the obvious question of credibility sinks into the thoughts of those considering voting for the Kerry/Edwards ticket.

This appears to be another example of how Kerry continues in his efforts to try to perpetrate a fraud on the American public. In my opinion he is neither qualified to shine the shoes of Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Reagan or Bush, much less qualified to follow in the footsteps of any of these men.

I pray for a record turnout this election of an informed electorate to send the message, ‘Integrity, Integrity, Integrity’ as John Kerry has credited to his mom saying just prior to her death.

It just dawned on me; did she know whom she was talking to when she uttered those now infamous words? Did she in fact even say those words? Afterall, we only have the account of Kerry to rely upon and from his previous track record I wonder if she ever made such a comment to him.

How in the world did the Democratic Party ever nominate this man in the first place is a question for the ages?

I applaud those allowing me the opportunity to share my thoughts and frustration with Kerry.

Oct 25, 2004 - 11:40 am 55. Kyda Sylvester:

Most members of the MSM, it seems, are adherents of the Al Gore School of Journalistic Theory. During his stint as a Columbia journalism “professor”, Gore instructed his students that journalists have no obligation to present conflicting sides of a story if it’s about something really, really important (his example, not surprisingly, was global warming). In such cases, he lectured, the journalist is obligated to do just the opposite: Persuade the reader to the correct point of view by reporting only those facts that support it. At the time, it reminded me of Fidel Castro who, when asked why Cuba didn’t have a free press, explained that he had a revolution to win and a free press would not be helpful to that end. Kinda makes your head want to explode, doesn’t it.

Oct 25, 2004 - 11:43 am 56. greenleer@earthlink.net:

I’ll tell you what’s socio-pathetic: worrying about whether Kerry met with the permanent Security Council or the whole Security Council. (”But what about Bulgaria!”)

Yeah, that’s important, Roger. Please pay no attention to the missing 380 tons of high explosives this administation forgot to guard.

Pitiful.

Oct 25, 2004 - 11:49 am 57. Fausta:

the stockpile disappeared after early April 2003, but at least the The I.A.E.A. acknoledged that they existed — a change from the “what WMDs?” stance.

That’s progress.

Oct 25, 2004 - 11:59 am 58. DennisThePeasant:

We must not overlook the obvious here.

While it is certainly true that John Kerry could be a sociopathic personality, there is at least as good a chance that he is not. I know it isn’t polite to pose the following question about a Yalie, because the assumption is always that anyone attending an Ivy League school must be, at the very least, just slightly South of a genius, but it seems to me that there is a far greater chance that Kerry is simply stupid as opposed to being mentally ill.

And not just stupid, but really big Chinese stupid.

It would explain much of his behavior throughout his life. Winter Soldier? He was obviously prepped by someone to give the testimony, so Kerry was stupid enough to give it without demur or second (or first) thought. And being dumber than a ballpeen hammer would explain why Kerry would continually draw attention to his Viet Nam experiences (which includes Winter Soldier) without being able to think through the consequences of voters coming to know his activities in the VVAW.

Being stupid could also explain nearly two decades in the U.S. Senate with little more than the sponsoring of bill celebrating the contribution of the gerbil in America’s galaxy of housepets to show for his time and effort. That’s OK if you’re simply putting in time for the perks and retirement benefits, but if you’re ambition is to be President, it’s just plain fencepost dumb. Even Teddy-poo has managed to put forth bills that, given that they are coming from the Left/Liberal side of the equation, can at least pass for serious.

Then we have a campaign of breathtaking incompetence, catfights with morning show hosts, Christmas in Cambodia, befuddled telephone calls to SBVFT members, hunting small creatures with guns he voted to ban, owning illegal firearms, the fascinating, ever-shifting web biography, guitar playing, pitch bouncing, girly-man spandex wearing and Laura Cheney referencing. These are not the actions of a sociopath. Nor are they the actions of a diabolical genius. More likely they are the actions of a none-to-bright goof who has happened, through the accident of circumstance, to land on his feet in a place way above his intellectual station.

Yeah, he could be a sociopath, deranged or damaged. But for my money, the answer is that John Kerry’s about as sharp as a sack of wet mice. A really big Chinese sack of wet mice.

Oct 25, 2004 - 12:04 pm 59. Matt Evans:

*I’ll tell you what’s socio-pathetic: worrying about whether Kerry met with the permanent Security Council or the whole Security Council.*

Ah yes, worrying about whether Kerry told a bold faced lie(and in light of his alleged platform of cooperation with foreign powers, a fairly significant bold faced lie) is sociopathetic.

I realize that the left didn’t much care if Clinton told the truth while in office so I suppose I shouldn’t expect you fever swamp inhabitants to raise the bar.

Also, Mr. Greenlean, I got the very same talking points sent to me via email by Joe Lockhart this morning- they were about as relevant and factually accurate at 6:30 AM as they are when you regurgitate them onto this blog at 11:49 AM.

Oct 25, 2004 - 12:06 pm 60. DennisThePeasant:

greenlear-

But Saddam didn’t pose any threat to us, now did he?

He didn’t have WMD, and WMD is the only thing that ever mattered, isn’t it?

Just who amongst the Anti-Liberationistas has expressed concern over Saddam controlling large stockpiles of conventional weapons until now?

So just what is your bitch?

Oct 25, 2004 - 12:11 pm 61. DennisThePeasant:

greenleer-

Sorry. I read your post and the first thing that came to mind was King Lear in the storm.

Oct 25, 2004 - 12:17 pm 62. MajorDamo:

KERRY SET TO STEAL ELECTION

We are within days of the outcome of the November 2nd, 2004 Presidential election. Kerry is losing and he knows he is losing. But, Kerry will not lose. He has not come this far to gracefully accept defeat and bow out. Backed by unlimited financial sources (Mamma T, Soros, etc) and the MSM(who will pull a few last minutes surprises of their own to put Kerry over the top) Kerry knows and believes he is destined to become President, never mind what the “little people” in fly over country think, never mind the actual vote, Kerry knows better and he will not be denied.

What is going on is truly remarkable and such a great disgrace to our once great nation. Almost every State, certainly the ones that “count” are inundated with lawyers paid and sent by Kerry to challenge anything and everything. Voter registration fraud has burst out in the open, all under the noses of the watchful MSM who will ignore it to get “their” guy in and unseat Bush. The real JFK(Kennedy) won ONLY because his daddy bought the election in collusion with Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago who delivered Illinois to Kennedy with the votes of the dead, the ficticious and lockstep blocks of voters who voted mutiple times. That fraud happened in a time of innocence in the U.S. and the average citizen, so enamored with the way JFK looked on T.V. and believing all the worship heaped upon him by the MSM, couldn’t be bothered with the possibility that this pre-ordained klutz actually had stolen the election. Ah—and the MSM, the liberal left have yearned for the return of Camelot ever since.

Kerry is their man and Kerry, the “new” JFK, will restore Camelot and the dreamworld that was the first JFK.

The only way this coupe (and that is exactly what it is as surely as a military takeover) can be defeated is for such a landslide win for Bush that even armchair America will be outraged when the lawyers try to undo the election. The polls say otherwise, that the election will be close. But then just who are these people behind the polls? The Zogbys etc are really not that much different than the MSM who hire them to project the results Kerry and the MSM want to see and use. Remember, Money can buy anything and Kerry has the money. We can not believe/trust these pollsters, they have an agenda the same as the MSM and this is to discredit, defeat Bush and annoint Kerry. The whole polling process is a sham and spreads misinformation calculated to make people believe that Kerry will win, so there really is no need to bother voting for Bush—no different than the networks calling the election for Gore in Florida in 2000 before a large segment of Floridians had even voted to “tip” Florida into the Gore win column. 2004 will be NO different, in fact it will be even more overt, outrageous. Kerry and the MSM have learned that armchair America will be properly instructed how to think and accept a Kerry win because, again, if it is on TV, if Dan Blather, Perky Katie, Chrissie Mathews, Peter Jennings and their ilk say it is so, then it must be so.

We have had to endure the shameful spectacle of forged CBS documents, the New York Times and others trying to discredit the SwiftBoat Vets—culminating in legal suits by Kerry’s legal minions at every attempt to further access to anything anti-Kerry, the Sinclair issue being the latest in a long string of attempts to surpress America’s right to know. Pilferage, thuggery, intimidation by paid union clowns all across the nation to co-ordinate an impression that America hates Bush. All the while, Kerry, a traitor wrapped in his Viet Nam subterfuge treats Iraq as he did Viet Nam—basely insults the intellengence of people with his staged goose hunts, one of the boys drinking a beer watching the hapless Red Sox, and other carefully staged (as his Viet Nam film escapades were) to make him into a real guy. How much longer will Americans buy into this charade?

It is a great mistake and a fraudulent one at that to buy into/accept/reason that somehow because Kerry went to Viet Nam, (in spite of whatever happened during his four month “visit”)—that—that in itself somehow makes him honorable, noble, —-ad nauseum—an effort calculated by himself and his supporting media to give him some kind of recognition of his “service” thus transposing him into “war hero status”. Never mind that he lied about it before/during/after!—and the “hero” is purely fictional, a perverted calculation, suspiciously based on and influenced by the equally dubious film, Apocalypse Now. Much to Hollywood’s delight, the Kerry/Sheen character is the central casting hero being foisted upon the masses with no basis in fact, just slick Hollywood pretense all under the welcoming guise of the media, —both entities— driven by a hatred of and desire to depose, President Bush.

In an effort to want to put VN behind us, there is too great of rush to sweep under the rug the facts and to gloss over Kerry’s motives, simply give him the benefit of the doubt and agree that his “service” was noble, something to be proud of. In fact, it is starting to come out in drips and drabs that Kerry’s discharge from service was something less than honorable—”restored” by Jimmy Carter, well known sympathizer to the hate America crowd. Think about this! How can this happen in American that a traitor can have his record sanitized by the President of the U.S.? This whole scenario reads like a poorly written, amatuerish made for TV movie, but it IS what has happend. Wake up America.

If Kerry had genuinely volunteered to go to VN, put his life in some sort of danger via that action and then became disillusioned with the war—that would be one thing.

BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT HAPPENED

Kerry is a premeditated, scheming opportunist—has been all his life and continues the ploy with his carefully engineered, central casting of “Kerry, the war hero, Kerry the man’s man” and all that type of Hollywood fluff.

We have all seen Kerry in our every day lives. Remember back to your school days. Kerry was/is the “brown-noser”, “apple polisher”, “suck-ass”, the loser always trying to take credit for someone else’s achievements, the rodent who would stab anyone in the back to get notice, attention, credit. Back before “girlie-man” became popular, Kerry was what was then known as a sissy, a pansy, he was and is effeminate and his big mouth has always gotten him in trouble and he would run to others for protection, “to make it all right”. Any time a man goes to so much trouble to demonstrate/prove he is a man, it is always because, deep down, he has doubts himself of his manhood—look at Kerry’s limp wrist, the way he held the Philly hoagie, his one bounce pitch, most women are more manly than this clown. His “manhood” is as feigned as his Viet Nam heroics!

Kerry is Sgt Bilko. Kerry is the athlete who “enhances” his lacking ability with performance drugs to win. The Kerry twisted persona can justify anything to win—to him it matters not how he wins, only that he wins, —”bring it on”—he will crush anything that gets in his way, not from his own strength and courage, but using money from his sugar mamma to buy what he can’t achieve on his own. The fool brags, “Bring it on” and when it comes, he whines, “please stop it, make it go away, mamma make it right”, where’s my magic hat?”

Kerry is the personification of “Catch 22″. Kerry is a “user”, —wives, people, fantasies, ever upward climbing. How to get ahead in business without even trying, or, more personalized in Kerry’s case, how to steal an election through fraud and deceit. And watch, if and when he loses, he will not go down as easy as Algore. Kerry will fight to contest the outcome, even if it is a 50 State sweep for the President,— already Kerry has the mechanism in place to undo the election results, teams of lawyers throughout the U.S. ready to pounce, U.N. observers to make sure a “fair” election takes place(translation, one that delivers the Presidency to Kerry).

What Kerry actually did in Viet Nam was realize he could improve his credentials for eventually gaining the White House as his hero JFK before him did, by creating “another” PT109 episode. Kerry tried to avoid actual service, asking for deferments etc, but when it become inevitable that he should go, he then looked around for the “safest” way to create “Kerry the war hero”. Initially, by volunteering for Naval duty, his thinking was he could stay out of harm’s way by remaining off shore in a big naval vessel, which he did for a while. But being another face in the crowd on a large Navy vessel cramped his style, made it almost impossible to dream up ways to put in for phony medals, kept him under too much scrutiny to where he couldn’t creat his destined “hero” image. Then, it occurred to him that piloting a swift boat could be used to create even more of an appearance of “combat” while not exposing himself to any real danger, at the time he applied, the swift boats were not involved or even close to any of the real fighting and he was driven by his delusion of grandeur as the rightful heir to JFK, PT 109, and ascendancy to the Presidency—and besides, he would have lots of time and opportunities to make his “home movies”.

Now this is the real motive why Kerry was there in the first place. And the fact that he took along his “brownie” and had himself filmed in staged combat settings should be painfully awakening to any casual observer— other than those who wish not to see,—ie the mainstream media who wishes Bush out, Kerry in AT ANY PRICE! (There are none so blind as those who will not see). Think about it if you find this somewhat extreme—what other military service personnel brought along (which shows premeditation) filming capability and then went to the trouble to “stage” combat sequences???—For what reason???? And this cold, calculated effort has significant basis to be workable as these purveyors of history “re-write” are counting on the average arm chair American to accept this fiction as fact because—”there it is on T.V., in film, if it is on T.V. and the talking heads say it is real, then by gosh, it must be real, it must be what really happened”.

So, in essence, we have a phony cartoon character, much like Bubba, who goes to VN simply to create credentials for himself, not out of patriotic belief in his country or the war itself,— instead we have the pitiful, disgusting charade that is now being spun by the mouthpiece of the “donks” and Kerry himself, ranting: “never mind the fine details of what actually happened, at least he volunteered, at least he was there”—what does it really matter if he was in or near Cambodia, at least he was in VN.

It matters because a lie is a lie.

Kerry’s “service” in VN and to our country was no different than if Michael Moore went today to Iraq to film a twisted phony version of U.S. aggression in Iraq and in doing so, returned as a “veteran” who had put his life at risk in “service” to his country. There is no difference between these two, the ketchup/pickle king and the fat slob Moore. They both would— and have— sold their country out in a flat minute for any self-seeking, self-promoting, self-aggrandizement goal they felt they could gain by their fraudulent “service” to gain their perverted ends— no matter what the cost, what the lie, who has to be hurt. In their twisted philosophy, the end result justifies the means used to achieve it.

To not really examine the true motive of Kerry’s “service” and to give him a pass on all this by saying that at least he volunteered, he was there, he did sustain “some kind of injury”, (even if it was self inflicted) is to sugar coat the fraud and play into his game plan of reaching the White House, where, in his twisted, fantasy mind, he believes he rightfully belongs and he is counting on “coach potato America” to apathetically accept his fraud due to the credential of Hollywood and the Media. If Streisand, perky Katie, Dan and all the rest of them say it is so, then it must be so!

Kerry’s war “hero” status cannot stand up to any serious scrutiny, witness the cracks since the book, Unfit for Command, Kerry’s refusal to release pertinent military records (until he gets them laundered) and the recent statement by Secretary of the Navy, Lehman, that the document supposedly carrying his signature for Kerry’s Silver Star is FALSE. Kerry has wrapped himself as worthy due to his 4 months in Viet Nam, he cannot stand on his 20 undistinguished, practically useless years in the Senate. The man has no accomplishment in life other than living off of other men’s money inherited by their widows who Kerry has sucked up to.

There is so much in the Kerry convoluted smoking gun that a fair and unbiased press would be all over his dillusions/falsehoods with a microscope, but no, the mainstream media refuses and has accepted the fictional Kerry farce because they want Bush defeated more than they want the truth. Rather than investigate Kerry, the mainstream media, ie the New York Times chooses to attack those who expose Kerry for the fraud that he is. Kerry is their candidate and they will ignore, look the other way, even fabricate for Kerry, whatever it takes to get “their” man in.

We, the American people cannot let this happen. No one elected perky Katie, Dan, Peter, Tom, George Soros, the NYT—the list goes on, but these people have more power than anyone else simply because of their celebrity status and Soros’s money. If the next Presidential election is stolen/bought by the likes of these self appointed cronies of the fourth estate, America will lose her greatness, the word must go out to expose what is happening and people, regular people must take back our country before it is too late and get everyone possible involved in exposing this sham, the phony Kerry, the disgrace that has become the media, the threat to our country to be defeated from within.

Oct 25, 2004 - 12:26 pm 63. DennisThePeasant:

If you were John Kerry I’d explain that it was a specific reference to a William Shakespeare play.

Called King Lear.

It’s about a king named Lear who does some really stupid stuff and then goes crazy. Basically he’s fencepost dumb, too, and well above his intellectual station.

But, you’re not John Kerry…so I’ll pass on it. If you’re repeating Joe Lockhart, I have to assume you’ve read the Cliff’s Notes.

Oct 25, 2004 - 12:26 pm 64. Korla Pundit:

I think I have the actual diagnosis you are looking for. This is from Dual Diagnosis and the Narcissistic Personality:

http://www.toad.net/~arcturus/dd/narc.htm#1

The essential feature of the narcissistic personality disorder is a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy (DSM-IV?, 1994, p. 658).

Gunderson, et.al, (Livesly, ed., 1995, p. 208) notes that the grandiosity may not be overt or may involve arrogant and haughty behavior.

Kantor (1992, pp. 203-204) describes the clinical characteristics of NPD as:

inordinate self-pride;

self-concern;

an exaggeration of the importance of one’s experiences and feelings;

ideas of perfection;

a reluctance to accept blame or criticism;

absence of altruism although gestures may be made for the sake of appearance;

empathy deficit; and,

grandiosity.

Frances, et.al. (1995, p. 374) add:

entitlement;

shallowness;

preoccupation with fame, wealth, and achievement;

craving admiration, attention and praise;

placing excessive emphasis on displaying beauty and power.

Beck (1990, p. 49) describes the key elements of NPD as presumed superiority and self-aggrandizing behavior. These individuals also give evidence of intense motivation to seek perfection and a feeling state of emptiness, rage and envy (Masterson, 1981, p. 7). They are vulnerable to the most negligible slights and are prone to withdraw and become inaccessible when feeling offended (Benjamin, 1993, p. 141).

There’s more, and the whole thing reads like a Kerry biography.

Oct 25, 2004 - 12:28 pm 65. DennisThePeasant:

The 12:26 post was for Greenleer/Joe Lockhart.

Oct 25, 2004 - 12:29 pm 66. holdfast:

“Yeah, that’s important, Roger. Please pay no attention to the missing 380 tons of high explosives this administation forgot to guard. ”

Oh yeah, that musta happened because when Colin Powell went off picquet he forgot to wake Condi Rice to take the next shift. Or maybe it was Rumsfeld forgetting to turn on the alarm that night. Yup, the “Administration” sure forgot to guard the explosives.

It’s just like when Bill Clinton, Janet Reno and Wesley Clark burned all those kids at Waco, Reno shot the woman at Ruby Ridge and used a tactical team to abduct a small Cuban boy – what’s the only difference – Clark actually did supply the tanks at Waco and Reno personally ordered the Gonzalex raid! Please show me where Bush or Rummy “ordered” someone not to guard an explosives dump *unless it’s an MS Word doc from 1973!)

Let’s not forget when Clinton and Cohen bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. Or when the “Administration” missiled a pharma factory because the CIA doesn’t know how to tell different organophosgenes apart.

Don’t you and your ilk ever have an original thought – is there a radio in your brain that only receives messages from McAuliffe and Sulzberger?

Oct 25, 2004 - 12:41 pm 67. Roberts:

Every single line of attack against the President by the Kerry campaign is turning out to be cases of projection.

Oct 25, 2004 - 12:46 pm 68. Matt Evans:

Does anybody else remember Kerry being quite as big a fan of the Red Sox earlier in this campaign ?

As a fan of baseball in general, I would like to watch the BoSox win their first series in decades but I’m almost afraid to cheer them on, given Kerry’s perchance to make political hay out of things he normally would have no interest in (like baseball).

Not to mention, everytime I see Box Office Sensation and Liberal schill, Ben Afflek, shown cheering on the Sox, I sorta start hoping Pujols “accidently” plants a hard hit foul ball right in the center of Ben’s massive forehead.

Oct 25, 2004 - 12:54 pm 69. Dishman:

What was the line from his acceptance speech? “I was born in the West Wing”?

Roberts, I’ve had the same though regarding projection. It seems to me that he may well be predicting what a Kerry administration would look like. That’s.. really not a pretty sight.

Oct 25, 2004 - 12:58 pm 70. GunnyBob:

I had this on my blog before reading yours, Roger, so mea culpa. (GMTA?)

No matter how one tries to spin this, John Kerry comes off as nothing less than a liar, and a severely disfunctional opportunist who has the sociopath’s uncanny ability to lie right in your face and seem sincere. A man of many demeanors, talents, and personalities, all suited for self-aggrandizement without the slightest obeisance made to common decency. Adding this to the long rapsheet of mistruths, half truths and outright untruths, it is easy to see that no slander is beneath him, no higher force above him. Fraud is too gentle a word.

Oct 25, 2004 - 1:10 pm 71. Occam's Beard:

Not to mention, everytime I see Box Office Sensation and Liberal schill, Ben Afflek, shown cheering on the Sox, I sorta start hoping Pujols “accidently” plants a hard hit foul ball right in the center of Ben’s massive forehead.

Matt, I’d much rather this happened while Ben was sitting above the Green Monster or Busch Stadium’s left field seats.

Oct 25, 2004 - 1:38 pm 72. PeterUK:

Dennis,

Whilst I agree that Kerry is a grade A unmitigated numpty,does the world need a man who could freestyle stupid in the Olympics as Commander in Chief of the worlds most powerful military. Further, who actually thinks he is smart? Just a thought.

My fear is that the Democrats and their handmaidens in the MSM are fully aware of their candidates obvious shortcomings and wish merely to use him as a figurehead to be manipulated by them.If so they are badly underestimating Teresa.

Oct 25, 2004 - 1:57 pm 73. chuck:

In an interview published in the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine, Mr. Kerry was asked what he would want people to remember about his presidency. He responded, “That it always told the truth to the American people.”

As an old fart, my experience has been that anyone who went out of their way to assure me of their honesty ended up being a stone cold liar. I call it the law of opposites.

Oct 25, 2004 - 1:59 pm 74. DennisThePeasant:

PeterUK-

My fear is that the Democrats and their handmaidens in the MSM are fully aware of their candidates obvious shortcomings and wish merely to use him as a figurehead to be manipulated by them.

I very much doubt it is anything as sophisticated as that. I see it more as headlong flight from the reality of September 11, 2001. The Democratic Party that now surrounds John Kerry has nothing to manipulate towards. Its’ vision encompasses only that which it must manipulate itself away from.

Oct 25, 2004 - 2:24 pm 75. PeterUK:

Dennis,

Yes,I know he has an amzing,almost lifelike quality about him but nobody’s limbs move like that without there being strings attached.Look at that salute again,he can’t be doing that voluntarily,surely?

Oct 25, 2004 - 4:12 pm 76. DennisThePeasant:

PeterUK-

Look at that salute again,he can’t be doing that voluntarily,surely?

I’d say it has to be voluntary. That salute makes even the most rabid Democrats cringe.

Besides, who has the brains to manipulate Bullwinkle? You get beyond Lieberman and Koch and the collective Democrative Braintrust can’t seem to find its’ ass with two hands and a mirror.

Oct 25, 2004 - 4:46 pm 77. richard mcenroe:

Occam’s Beard — no worries. The boxoffice and the critics did that to him this weekend.

Oct 25, 2004 - 5:08 pm 78. HA:

Well, we have made through the better part of a news cycle with this earth-shattering scoop. Has anyone heard of Kerry’s searing “Hallowen at the UN” story outside of the blogosphere?

I didn’t think so.

Oct 25, 2004 - 5:47 pm 79. jukeboxgrad:

“Please show me where Bush or Rummy ‘ordered’ someone not to guard an explosives dump”

Bush says he’s trying to create a “responsibility society,” a society where “each of us understands we are responsible for the decisions we make in life.”

Bush and Rummy were repeatedly warned, before and after the invasion, that more troops were needed. They ignored this advice. The results of this bad judgment are devastating. Nice to see that you and Bush believe that “responsibility” is something that only applies to the other guy.

These explosives are highly dangerous. That’s why they were tracked by the IAEA. That’s why the IAEA repeatedly warned us about this stuff, both before and after the invasion. We knew exactly where it was. We just didn’t pay attention, even though securing arms was one of the main reasons for the invasion. Pure criminal negligence. Why did it get lost? Because we sent 50 tanks to surround the oil ministry.

These missing explosives are potentially the equivalent of 600 Hiroshimas (given that one pound killed 170 at Lockerbie). Nice to know that what really upsets you today is the idea that Kerry overlooked Mexico, Bulgaria and Columbia.

Oct 26, 2004 - 12:09 am 80. RBC:

I don’t see this hullaballoo swinging any votes in Bush’s favor, as some Bush-supporters have already noted. The missing ammunitions story, on the other hand, has the potential to make Bush look incompetent in his prosecution of the War on Terror. Keep in mind that the ammunitions in question had been safeguarded in Iraq by the IAEA with Saddam in power. US troops subsequently, with Saddam and his regime out of power, managed to lose them. Not enough troops.

I know some Bush apologists will complain that this couldn’t really be Bush’s fault. That he’s not accountable or something like that. The buck stops elsewhere, somewhere down the line.

Oct 26, 2004 - 12:17 am 81. RBC:

chuck,

“As an old fart, my experience has been that anyone who went out of their way to assure me of their honesty ended up being a stone cold liar. I call it the law of opposites.”

Keep that in mind next time you listen to one of Bush’s speeches, huh?

Oct 26, 2004 - 12:20 am 82. PeterUK:

jukeboxgrad

“These explosives are highly dangerous”.

All military explosives are dangerous,thats the idea.

“That’s why they were tracked by the IAEA. That’s why the IAEA repeatedly warned us about this stuff, both before and after the invasion.”

The IAEA hadn’t the faintest idea how much of this stuff there was,or its location.Al Baredei made a statement in 2003 saying this.

“We knew exactly where it was. We just didn’t pay attention, even though securing arms was one of the main reasons for the invasion. Pure criminal negligence. Why did it get lost? Because we sent 50 tanks to surround the oil ministry.”

This was only a fraction of Iraq’s arsenal,spread over some major 150 sites in Iraq,there were hundreds of smaller caches and dumps all over the country.

“These missing explosives are potentially the equivalent of 600 Hiroshimas (given that one pound killed 170 at Lockerbie)”.

What killed the poor souls at Lockerbie was altitude and decompression,airliners are vulnerable to any kind of explosive devices,that is why the filthy scum targeted them.

The explosive used was Semtex,a freely available explosive.

600 Hiroshimas,so Saddam Hussein did have WMD after all?

Oct 26, 2004 - 3:30 pm 83. RBC:

It wasn’t the fall that killed ‘em, it was hitting the ground that did it.

Oct 27, 2004 - 10:43 am

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