The Big Trunk over at Power Line has a power post today. Thomas Lipscombe, who originally broke the story about John Kerry being present at the V.V.A.W. meeting where the assassination of several senators was "debated" has a follow-up piece for the New York Sun that he has also sent to Powerline for posting.
The original VVAW Kansas City meeting story belongs to Thomas H. Lipscomb of the New York Sun, who notes that the story comes straight from Kerry supporters. ...Lipscomb has kindly forwarded us the text of his page-one story from yesterday's New York Sun: KERRY'S CAMPAIGN ASKED A VETERAN TO CHANGE STORY/KANSAS MEETING AT ISSUE:
A Vietnam veteran who said he remembers John Kerry participating in a 1971 Kansas City meeting at which an assassination plot was discussed says an official with the Kerry presidential campaign called him this month and pressured him to change his story.
The veteran, John Musgrave, says he was called twice by the head of Veterans for Kerry, John Hurley, while a reporter for the Kansas City Star worked on a follow-up piece to a New York Sun article about the November 1971 meeting of Vietnam Veterans Against the War at which a plot to kill U.S. senators was voted down. Asked by The New York Sun if he felt pressured, Mr. Musgrave said, "In the second call I did." Mr. Musgrave said Mr. Hurley said Mr. Kerry had told him "he was definitely not in Kansas City."
According to Mr. Musgrave, Mr. Hurley said, "Why don't you refresh your memory and call that reporter back?"
Read the the whole thing, Powerline covers all of the bases and adds this:
Don't hold your breath waiting for Lipscomb's bigfoot journalistic competitors to follow up on this development, but please do feel free to spread the word.
Addendum:
Ed at Captain's Quarters has some further analysis of this story (insightful as usual).
Addendum:
If I'm not mistaken Lipscomb announced the first NY Sun piece on the Hugh Hewitt show. Hugh is the quasi-mentor of the Northern Alliance of blogs (Powerline and Captain's Quarters are both charter members). The Northern Alliance has a new radio show on a local talk station, AM 1280 "The Patriot.” It’s a good show and a major improvement over the lame fare that is on most stations on the weekend. If you live in Minneapolis/St. Paul tune in. You’ll like it.
ANy campaign manager would tel John Kerry to say that the FBI investigations of him in the early 70's are ancient history.
But John Kerry just can't shut up about them, and the more he talks, the more likely it is that the media will come back to this story.
Posted by: John Rogers | March 24, 2004 at 04:15 AM
Kerry is begining the process of imploding, the latest, calling a secret service agent a "son of a bitch" isn't going to help. This man has got to be one of the WORSE presidential candidates in recent history.
Posted by: Jim G. | March 24, 2004 at 11:51 AM
As the mother of a United States soldier, who is in the 173rd/319 airborne unit stationed in Italy, who spent 8 months in Iraq and who will be deploying to afganastan in early 05, I can truly tell you kerry absolutely scares me. Thank you a soldiers mom.....
Posted by: Denise Copeland | July 24, 2004 at 09:39 AM