Uh, she lied I guess. People do it all day every day. Even presidents (e.g., "I did not have sexual relations with that woman").
On Dec 3, 7:52 am, Liberal mike 532 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why Didn't War Mom Deborah Johns Jump Down Neil Cavuto's Throat for > Falsely Claiming Her Son Died in > Iraq?http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/109536/ > FOX forced to issue rare > apology. Deborah Johns, a > "Blue Star" mom and a ferocious Iraq war proponent has been a frequent > guest on Your World w/Neil Cavuto for years. She made her most recent > appearance last Friday as a representative of "Our Country Deserves > Better" (also known as OurCountryPAC.org), the PAC that recently > released an ad thanking Sarah Palin for being Sarah Palin. (Here are > some of their other commercials, and here's the ad -- Johns is the > blond woman in the blue top.) > > During her Friday appearance, Cavuto said, > > I always feel -- this is an unpleasant thing to raise, but you are so > forceful and focused on it -- you lost a son in Iraq. And now we have > a new president coming in who wants to get us out of Iraq sooner > rather than later. Um, he hasn't tipped his hand as to when that might > be but he's got what his aides are calling an aggressive timetable. > How do you feel about that? > Johns went on to talk about "the need to support our troops"; the > "victories" in Fallujah and the "free markets" that are working in > Iraq. She didn't say a thing -- nothing -- about her son, who is alive > and well and back home! > > Take a breath and fast forward to December 1. Cavuto issued a rare > correction: > > Finally, we wanted to make this correction. While interviewing Deborah > Johns last week, we reported that she was a Gold Star mom and that her > son had died in Iraq. We were wrong. She's a Blue Star mom and her son > is alive and well and now back home after serving three tours of duty > in Iraq. That's a correction I'm very happy to make. Again, my > apologies to Ms. Johns. And her son. And her family. More after this. > Her son is "alive and well and now back home?" What the hell? There's > a lot going on here. A "news" organization that got its facts > dramatically wrong (on purpose?). A rare (to say the least) apology? A > woman who is so obsessed about getting her point about Iraq across > that she's willing to sacrifice her son -- virtually -- in order to > make it? (Don't tell me she froze in front of the camera. She's been a > media fixture for years and years -- just Google her.) But to me, > that's the interesting part. > > Why didn't Johns jump up and down when Cavuto said her son was dead, > when that wasn't true? My God. Unbelievable. It goes against the most > fundamental grains in my heart. Who can stand to hear it announced, on > global television, that their son is dead when he isn't? I'd never let > that stand. I wonder why Johns did. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
