Reply #83: As Tay Tay said the media hid much of the truth As she said:

[karynnj]

"Also, Kerry and the campaign did fight back against the SBV, in April and in August. The media manipulated the reporting and response on this issue so much, that it was difficult to know who was telling the truth."

On a dKos thread, someone wrote a very impassioned denuniziation of Kerry because he, he pointed out only after the election did Kerry release his service records. He then says that the record showed glowing fitness reports where Kerry is given exellent reviews - even by SBVT people. Kerry had about 140 pages of his records on his web site. The media was given explanations on it. The fitness reports were there. The Navy itsef verified there was no problem with his awards after a RW group forced them to review them.

There was only one additional page of one fitness report that Kerry did not have - and it like the rest of the report it was part of it was said Kerry was an exceptionally good officer and recommended accelerated promotion. (The Navy had originally not given this page to Kerry)

The poster ranted that these fitness reports signed by SBVT would have derailed them. That is exactly what SHOULD have happened - the reports were mentioned in the press and the new criticism as well - and given equal weight.

That someone interested enough to be on a liberal blog shows how poorly the MSM used the inforation. (Note how they said dismissed the fact that Bush had major holes in his reports - and ignored the Kerry records that scanned the entire time.