Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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Mark Shields on Kerry's Senate testimony and how the new Swift Boat people's ad (and almost everyone else, for that matter) distorts what he said:
[from the Newshour with Jim Lehrer; http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/political_wrap/july-dec04/sk_8-20.html below is an excerpt from the whole Kristol-Shields debate; I've rarely seen Shields get so hot]

MARK SHIELDS: Bill, let's be very blunt about it, this whole thing. That ad is a fraud.

WILLIAM KRISTOL: This new ad?

MARK SHIELDS: The new ad. John Kerry is... what they did is John Kerry is saying in the testimony, if you go back and read the testimony, John Kerry is saying "this was what was testified at by the winter soldiers in Detroit. This is their testimony. This is what they said." And what they simply dropped out was "this is what they said."

WILLIAM KRISTOL: He utterly associates himself with that.

MARK SHIELDS: No, no, he said "this is what they testified. This is what 150 American soldiers testified to in Detroit." And that's what he's testified; that's what he said.