The Blue Line

Rattling on about the 2004 election

Wednesday, August 25, 2004

News flash: New Swift Boat Vets ad claims Kerry wasn't even in Vietnam!

Emboldened by the success of their first barrage of ads questioning John Kerry's combat record in Vietnam, the Swift Boat Veterans Against John Kerry today unveiled their newest ad, which claims that John Kerry never served in Vietnam at all.

The ad quotes a "high-ranking" senior Bush administration official (shown concealed in silhouette) who claims that while he was stationed with the Alabama National Guard, he remembers "a tall gangly fella that I recognized from a secret society I belonged to at Yale. He had this humongous jaw and liked to speak French, and I would run into him when we'd come to the base to sign the attendance sheet. We'd give each other a wink, and then we'd get outta there before anybody else saw us."