PrintAugust 28, 2004
Flip flops and other lies
"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth," Franklin D. Roosevelt once said. He might have been talking about John Kerry's tale of his 1968 Christmas supposedly spent in Cambodia, which he's been repeating for twenty five years to anyone who would listen. The story was so unsupported by evidence that even the Kerry—for—president organ, the New York Times, conceded that its truth was "unlikely." Indeed, Kerry spokesman Michael Meehan confirmed that it never happened. He tried to mitigate the damage, though, by suggesting that Mr. Kerry may have been in Cambodia some other time —— distant memory, don't you know, being understandably imperfect. The problem is that Mr. Kerry first spun his Christmas yarn, in a piece for the Boston Herald, not a quarter of a century but a mere decade after his four—month tour —— and filled it with vivid details of holiday revelry. "I remember spending Christmas Day of 1968," he wrote, "five...(Read Full Article)
