Sunday Chicago Tribune is on the newsstands

[xray s]

The Rood article is front page, as big as day.

Thank you Chicago Tribune.

[Sparkly]

1. Thank you, William Rood!

:loveya:

[terrya]

2. It will be delivered to my apartment tomoirow. Looking forward to reading

Thank you.

[Walt Starr]

3. Is the Obama - Keyes poll on page 1, too?

Should be showing Obama with 65% and Keyes with 24%.

[xray s]

4. Oh yeah

The Keyes candidacy is going to go down as the biggest mistake in Illinois political history.

The previous #1 mistake was the year the LaRouchies snuck in under the radar disguised as Democrats in the primary for some lower state races.

Man, it was sure a beautiful day today, wasn't it? :)

[Walt Starr]

5. Yep, my highlight was discovering a picture of Bush.

wearing awards that do not appear listed on his ARG22 (Guard discharge papers)

[mourningdove92]

6. I can hear the freepers now.

Damn Liberal Media.

woo hoo, Go Chicago Trib.

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. I am very curious who the Tribune will endorse this year....

In my 55 years, they have never yet endorsed anything but a Republican for president.

[Tweed]

8. I get the Tribune early: THIS IS AWESOME!!!!

Plus the poll with Obama & Keyes is there too. Obama is even beating Keyes among voters who consider themselves fairly conservative! Obama 65%- Keyes 25%. Even those who want to tighten the restrictens on abortion favor Obama to Keyes 45%- 42%.

The Kerry article is awesome. The ads are BLOWN out of the water!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Why Do Freepers Say The Tribune Is A Liberal Newspaper?

I thought it was a conservative leaning newspaper...


It owns the Orlando Sentinel which I subscribe to and I would characterize the Sentinel as a paper that leans right...

[alarcojon]

11. To them

EVERY mainstream paper is liberal. It's so much easier to cry "liberal media" whenever any story they don't like comes out in any newspaper.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. I Read The Sentinel and the NYT

IMHO the Times is a liberal newspaper and the Sentinel is in the middle with a lean to the right...


It's good about endorsing Dems at the state and local level but I can't remember it endorsing a Dem for pres in the last thirty years...

I'd suspect the Tribune endorsed *....

[blm]

10. Buy as many copies as you can. It will be a historic artifact someday.

In fact, you could probably auction some off here at DU.

[Cha]

12. Hehe!

:D

[DieboldMustDie]

14. It's on-line right now!

The commander of a Navy swift boat who served alongside Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry during the Vietnam War stepped forward Saturday to dispute attacks challenging Kerry's integrity and war record.

William Rood, an editor on the Chicago Tribune's metropolitan desk, said he broke 35 years of silence about the Feb. 28, 1969, mission that resulted in Kerry's receiving a Silver Star because recent portrayals of Kerry's actions published in the best-selling book "Unfit for Command" are wrong and smear the reputations of veterans who served with Kerry.

Rood, who commanded one of three swift boats during that 1969 mission, said Kerry came under rocket and automatic weapons fire from Viet Cong forces and that Kerry devised an aggressive attack strategy that was praised by their superiors. He called allegations that Kerry's accomplishments were "overblown" untrue.

"The critics have taken pains to say they're not trying to cast doubts on the merit of what others did, but their version of events has splashed doubt on all of us. It's gotten harder and harder for those of us who were there to listen to accounts we know to be untrue, especially when they come from people who were not there," Rood said in a 1,700-word first-person account published in Sunday's Tribune.

You'll have to register to read the rest of it, but here's a link. ;)

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/elections/chi-040821kerry,1,6814873.story?coll=chi-news-hed

[DieboldMustDie]

15. Hmmm... Or is this the article you're referring to?

By William B. Rood
Chicago Tribune
Published August 21, 2004

"There were three swift boats on the river that day in Vietnam more than 35 years ago—three officers and 15 crew members. Only two of those officers remain to talk about what happened on February 28, 1969.

"One is John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate who won a Silver Star for what happened on that date. I am the other.

"For years, no one asked about those events. But now they are the focus of skirmishing in a presidential election with a group of swift boat veterans and others contending that Kerry didn't deserve the Silver Star for what he did on that day, or the Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts he was awarded for other actions.

"Many of us wanted to put it all behind us—the rivers, the ambushes, the killing. Ever since that time, I have refused all requests for interviews about Kerry's service—even those from reporters at the Chicago Tribune, where I work."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/elections/chi-040821rood,1,1611037.story?coll=chi-news-hed

[Bozita]

16. Photo of Rood and Kerry together with captured weapons

John Kerry (left) and William Rood on a barracks barge with a rocket launcher and an automatic rifle seized in a raid on Feb. 28, 1969, in southern Vietnam in which swift boats charged ambush sites.
(Photo courtesy of William B. Rood)