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Skriven 2004-07-29 00:30:04 av Ed Connell (1:379/1.6)
    Kommentar till text 117 av Jeff Binkley (1:226/600)
Ärende: Re: Film
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Hey, Jeff.

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 JB> http://www.drudgereport.com/dnc8.htm

 JB> XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WED JULY 28, 2004 12:56:02 ET XXXXX

 JB> CONTROVERSY SURROUNDS KERRY CONVENTION FILM: WAR SCENES REENACTED

 JB> **World Exclusive**

 JB> A bombshell new book written by the man who took over John Kerry's
 JB> Swift Boat charges:   Kerry reenacted combat scenes for film while in
 JB> Vietnam!

 JB> The footage is at the center of a growing controversy in Boston.

 JB> The official convention video introducing Kerry is directed by Steven
 JB> Spielberg prot?g? James Moll.

 JB> MORE

 JB> Moll was given hours of Kerry's homemade 8 millimeter film to
 JB> incorporate into the convention short, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

 JB> "Kerry carried a home movie camera to record his exploits for later
 JB> viewing," charges a naval officer in the upcoming book UNFIT FOR
 JB> COMMAND.

 JB> "Kerry would revisit ambush locations for reenacting combat scenes
 JB> where he would portray the hero, catching it all on film.  Kerry would
 JB> take movies of himself walking around in combat gear, sometimes dressed
 JB> as an infantryman walking resolutely through the terrain.  He even
 JB> filmed mock interviews of himself narrating his exploits.  A joke
 JB> circulated among Swiftees was that Kerry left Vietnam early not because
 JB> he received three Purple Hearts, but because he had recorded enough
 JB> film of himself to take home for his planned political campaigns."

 JB> UNFIT FOR COMMAND, Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry,
 JB> will be unleashed next month by REGNERY. [It ranked #1,318 on the
 JB> AMAZON hitparade Wednesday morning.]

 JB> The films shot by Kerry's own Super 8 millimeter hand-held movie camera
 JB> have the grainy quality of home movies.

 JB> MORE

 JB> The BOSTON GLOBE reported in 1996 that the Kerry home movies "reveal
 JB> something indelible about the man who shot them - the tall, thin,
 JB> handsome Naval officer seen striding through the reeds in flak jacket
 JB> and helmet, holding aloft the captured B-40 rocket. The young man so
 JB> unconscious of risk in the heat of battle, yet so focused on his future
 JB> ambitions that he would reenact the moment for film. It is as if he had
 JB> cast himself in the sequel to the experience of his hero, John F.
 JB> Kennedy, on the PT-109."

 JB> "John was thinking Camelot when he shot that film, absolutely," says
 JB> Thomas Vallely, a fellow veteran and one of Kerry's closest political
 JB> advisers and friends.

 JB> NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson in
 JB> his new book RECKLESS DISREGARD, details one of the claimed Kerry
 JB> reenactments for film:

 JB> "On February 28, 1969, now in charge of PCF 94, Kerry came under fire
 JB> from an enemy location on the shore. The crew's gunner returned fire,
 JB> hitting and wounding the lone gunman. Kerry directed the boat to charge
 JB> the enemy position. Beaching his boat, Kerry jumped off, chased the
 JB> wounded insurgent behind a thatched hutch, and killed him. Kerry and
 JB> his crew returned within days, armed with a Super 8 video camera he had
 JB> purchased at the post exchange at Cam Ranh Bay, and reenacted the
 JB> skirmish on film."

 JB> Developing...

Jeff, I don't know about you - well, actually I do, but - I don't find this
sort of behavior endearing. :-(

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