{"id":21912,"date":"2004-03-23T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:10:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T07:10:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:10:24","slug":"why_lie_about_this_senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/03\/23\/why_lie_about_this_senator\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Lie About This, Senator?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/>[Reading from KC Star] ?Confronted with 32-year-old FBI records, Sen. John Kerry\u2019s campaign all but conceded he did attend a 1971 Kansas City meeting where a fellow anti-war veteran called for the assassinations of U.S. Senators. Those active in Vietnam Veterans Against the War at the time stress that the suggestion for such a violent approach was angrily rejected. They say their memories do not include Kerry taking part in the radical discussion. A statement Thursday by Kerry\u2019s camp said that Kerry didn\u2019t recall the meeting, although FBI surveillance material and the group\u2019s archives clearly show that Kerry resigned from his national coordinator post at this very meeting. In interviews last week, the senator\u2019s campaign insisted that he clearly remembered bolting from the group months earlier.&#8221; He couldn\u2019t have been in Kansas City, he couldn\u2019t have been at this meeting because he quit months earlier, wasn\u2019t even there. <\/line><BR\/>&#8220;Responding to a request by The Kansas City Star that staffers question the candidate about the meeting, Kerry passed word March 12 that he ?never, ever? attended a meeting of Vietnam Veterans Against the War after a heated and public argument with the group\u2019s executive secretary in St. Louis in June 1971.&#8221; Now this was a November meeting in Kansas City and he was there.<\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/>?In a prepared statement late Thursday night, however, campaign spokesman David Wade [who originally identified me and Sean Hannity as the lying crooks of the Republican attack machine] traveling with Kerry in Idaho, said: ?John Kerry had no personal recollection of this meeting 33 years ago. John Kerry does recall the disagreements with elements of VVAW leadership? that led to his resignation. If there are valid FBI surveillance reports from credible sources that place some of those disagreements in Kansas City, we accept that historical footnote?? <\/line><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/why_lie_about_this_senator.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"218\" height=\"339\" class=\"alignright\"\/> What is this gibberish? So he said we weren\u2019t there, Kerry resigned in St. Louis earlier in the year, he wasn\u2019t there but if you\u2019ve got FBI tapes to show he was there, okay, then we\u2019ll concede he was there. But he wasn\u2019t there. Now, if you\u2019ve got these surveillance tapes, fine, then we\u2019ll concede that his memory is such that he was there, wasn\u2019t there, but he doesn\u2019t remember it, you have to go to surveillance tapes to prove it. If he doesn\u2019t think he was there, he wasn\u2019t there, and he does remember leaving, doesn\u2019t matter if he was there, because he left. And that\u2019s all that matters. John Kerry left Kansas City in November of 1971, and that\u2019s what everybody needs to focus on. He may have been there, that\u2019s true, but he left. He wasn\u2019t there after he was there. That\u2019s John Kerry\u2019s statement and he\u2019s sticking to it, he wasn\u2019t there after he was there, doesn\u2019t remember being there but if the FBI\u2019s got tapes, okay, proves he left.<\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>Why lie about this? I\u2019ll tell you why lie about it, because this was a meeting at which &#8212; and this little statement here makes it sound like the guy that suggested this was a lone wolf. It was not just one guy. And I wouldn\u2019t say there\u2019s a large consensus opinion, but this got some support at this meeting, there were seven U.S. senators, I don\u2019t remember the names, that the Vietnam Veterans Against the War wanted to assassinate, and Kerry, &#8220;I wasn\u2019t there,&#8221; and they found he was there, so he had to backtrack.<\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/>So why the lie? Because Kerry himself did not call for the assassinations, right? He didn\u2019t call for the assassinations, and the group apparently didn\u2019t support it, I mean it was, you know, somebody suggested it but they didn\u2019t vote for it, Kerry didn\u2019t support so why lie about it? Folks, there\u2019s something not right about this. I\u2019m not talking about the details in the story. Why lie about something that you know is going to be proved a lie?<\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/>I\u2019ll just tell you what I think based on, you know, I\u2019ve had some introduction into psychobabble, and I think I understand how the psychobabblers look at this kind of stuff. And Kerry thinks that he\u2019s a big enough guy that if he says he wasn\u2019t there, that\u2019s it, and who are you to challenge my integrity? That\u2019s the only thing I can figure. There\u2019s got to be some sort of arrogance associated with this that makes you think that even if you are discovered to be a liar, that it isn\u2019t any big deal, it\u2019s none of your business anyway, I didn\u2019t do anything wrong, so I may as well not have been there in the first place.<\/line><BR\/>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>&amp;lt;*ICON*> <strong>Your Resource for Combating the Partisan Media, Liberals and Bush-Haters&#8230; <\/strong><\/line><BR\/>&amp;lt;a target=new href=&#8221;\/\/home\/menu\/fstack.guest.html&#8221;>(&#8230;Rush\u2019s John F. 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