Reply #37: He did fight back -

[karynnj]

The media had everything it needed from Kerry - the oficial Navy records backed him 100%, Senator Warner (R,VA) who had been the Secretary of the Navy vouched for Kerry's medals in 2004. Kerry proved lie after lie after lie, but the media continued to take more charges from the discredited source. Kerry's records were complete and exemplary and the Nixon tapes show they investigated him in 1971 (when all this would have been recent) and he was clean - so they order people to DESTROY him. Given that command, if there were ANYTHING in the records, it would have been used to discredit the only anti-war person Nixon feared.

Compare how the rest of the media jumped on Rather when his story - which had backup and where Bush's records WERE incomplete and indicated some problem, but some documents were not completely authenicated - even though the secretary who said they were not authentic said she typed something with similar content)