Presidential Race ctd 6

1. Hanoi Approved of Role Played By Anti-War Vets: The communist regime in Hanoi monitored closely and looked favorably upon the activities of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War during the period Senator Kerry served most actively as the group's spokesman and a member of its executive committee, two captured Viet Cong documents suggest. (lipscomb, ny sun)
2. Discovered papers:Hanoi directed Kerry: Recovered Vietnam documents'smoking gun' researchers claim: The first documentary evidence that Vietnamese communists were directly steering John Kerry's antiwar group Vietnam Veterans Against the War has been discovered in a U.S. archive, according to a researcher who spoke with WorldNetDaily.One freshly unearthed document, captured by the U.S. from Vietnamese communists in 1971 and later translated, indicates the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese delegations to the Paris peace talks that year were used as the communications link to direct the activities of Kerry and other antiwar activists who attended. (worldnetdaily)
3. Vietcong document (wintersoldier.com)
4. Report: Explosives could not be found when U.S. troops arrived
   NBC News says its crew was embedded with soldiers at time: The mystery surrounding the disappearance of 380 tons of powerful explosives from a storage depot in Iraq has taken a new twist, after a television news crew embedded with the U.S. military during the invasion of Iraq reported that the material could not be found when American troops arrived.
   NBC News reported that on April 10, 2003, its crew was embedded with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division when troops arrived at the Al Qaqaa storage facility south of Baghdad.
   While the troops found large stockpiles of conventional explosives, they did not find HMX or RDX, the types of powerful explosives that reportedly went missing, according to NBC. (cnn.com)
5. Incoming RMX "missing" explosives boomerang (hugh hewitt)
6. NBC BLOWS A HOLE IN THE KERRY ATTACK ABOUT THE EXPLOSIVES: Jim Miklaszewski of NBC News pretty much dismantled the New York Times attack on behalf of Kerry today. (nationalreview)
7. THE TIMES’ BOTCHED STORY ON MUNITIONS, DAY TWO:
   As the LA Times notes in Tuesday's paper, it's just not particularly credible ...
   Given the size of the missing cache, it would have been difficult to relocate undetected before the invasion, when U.S. spy satellites were monitoring activity at sites suspected of concealing nuclear and biological weapons. "You don't just move this stuff in the middle of the night," said a former U.S. intelligence official who worked in Baghdad. (nationalreview)
8. The Media Gulps Down More Crow: "Missing" explosives (jayreding)
9. CBS had Iraq explosives story, just not enough time: CBS News' "60 Minutes" landed a major story last week: the disappearance in Iraq of a large cache of explosives supposed to be under guard by the U.S. military. But the network nevertheless found itself in the journalistically awkward position of playing catch-up when it wasn't able to get the piece on the air as soon as its reporting partner, the New York Times, which made the report its lead story Monday.Breaking the story would have been a welcome coup for CBS News as it seeks to emerge from the cloud cast by its use of unverified documents in reporting on President Bush's 1970s military service.Instead, CBS was relegated to airing a report Monday evening, and "60 Minutes" merely got credit in the newspaper, which ran an unusual box noting that the article "was reported in cooperation with the CBS News program '60 Minutes.' '60 Minutes' first obtained information on the missing explosives." (latimes)
10. Kerry's 'Explosive' Charges Called Baseless and Ironic: "But now, after calling the administration incompetent and blundering, it turns out that John Kerry's charges Monday, as usual, were based on false assumptions," Cornyn said."I hope my colleague will now apologize to the brave men and women in Iraq who are working every day to secure Hussein's vast arsenal. And I hope that I am not the only one who sees the irony in the Kerry campaign complaining about the dangers of weapons that, if John Kerry had his way, would still be under the hair-trigger control of Saddam Hussein."Sadly, John Kerry is all too quick to criticize our men and women in uniform for short-term political gain before he has the facts. This is not a quality America needs in a commander-in-chief during a time of war." (cnsnews)
11. Researcher Alleges Potential Plagiarism in 11 Passages of Kerry's Writings (ny sun)
12. JOHN KERRY -- GOD TOLD ME TO BE A LEFTIST. (hayekcenter)
13. Kerry's Whopper Grows: Not Russia or China (indcjournal)
14. How Jews should vote? (dennis prager, jewishworldreview)
15. Why Jews should vote for Bush (Samuel Blumenfeld, worldnetdaily)
16. How dare the N.Y. Times offer advice on Iran (Ed Koch, WorldTribune)
17. New TV Special Says Kerry Should Have Been Relieved of Duty... Or Court-Martialed (humaneventsonline)
18. Pro-Life Group Says Planned Parenthood Desperate To Help Kerry Win PA (talonnews)

Other

• John Kerry UAt Harvard, a few of us stray from the "herd of independent minds." (wsj)
• The media vote: Regardless of who wins next Tuesday's election (and no matter how long it takes to get the results following expected lawsuits and ballots cast by ineligible voters), this may well be the last election cycle in which the Big Media are taken seriously or regarded as influential.The Big Media (let's abbreviate and call them BM) have gone over the top with this election. They have ripped off their final layer of faux objectivity, revealing their ideological nakedness for all to see in a desperate effort to get John Kerry elected. (Cal Thomas, Townhall)
• How the US media lost the plot: America's voters just don't trust mainstream news coverage of the election, says Rageh Omaar (independent.co.uk)
• Westin Blasts Opinion in Media: ABC News President David Westin warned against the proliferation of opinion commentary in the news media at the Institute of Politics’ John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum yesterday night.
  “The more time we express our opinions, the less time we have to talk about the facts,” Westin said. “Unfortunately, opinion is driving out facts too often in most of what we see on television today.” (harvard crimson)
• Good news from Iraq - Part 13 (chrenkoff.blogspot)