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John Kerry said on national television that if you don’t goto school and get an education, you’ll end up in Iraq. “You know, education…if you make the most of it…if you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effor…

That smacks of fake-but-accurate.

Which, let us note, smacks of fake-but-accurate
is less potent than Is fake-but-accurate.

Also note AP omitted:

I’ll probably talk about this on the Hewitt show tomorrow, and get my arse handed to me.

That smacks of is weak to begin with and then Lileks thinks the position he holds is may be untenable.

That’s a mighty wobbly crutch you’ve leaned on at least twice AP.

1. What was the Freudian slip, exactly? (I doubt his joke began, “Two Germans walked into a bar…”)

2. What was his original “joke”? Amd in what way was it a joke? (In what way was it even a non-joke?)

A Freudian slip has to make some kind of sense; this doesn’t. (Or?)

[januarius]

Notice that all the liberals on this site agree again vehemently with AP. I wonder why.

Most of them anyway :-)

The best evidence we have of what he meant is the context. The context had to do with Bush.

Yes and no.
If context is only
The language that precedes and follows a series of words, such as a particular sentence or clause.
Then YES. That definition is straight out of Answer.com’s Legal Encyclopedia.
There’s more to life than legalism, thank god.

Webster defines context in another way – the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs.

is the context – the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs.

Had Kerry’s words been uttered by any other politician there would be no brouhaha.
Had those words been uttered by any other politician then the legalistic definition – The language that precedes and follows a series of words, such as a particular sentence or clause. would widely have taken primacy. No brouhaha.

But they were uttered by Kerry. People taking who says a thing into account are not nutrooters.
They are contextualizing.

“My personal opinion is that it was a Freudian slip on Kerry’s part.

He attempted to insult President Bush but his lips moved faster then his brain and he said what he really thought not what he was supposed to say.”

F15Mech on November 1, 2006 at 10:31 PM

Bingo.

A) immediately realized the gaff and shoehorned in a pro-military “they’re a fine group of boys dying for an immoral war” or

B) made it a point on first criticism to apologize directly to the troops, even if he were to use it as an oportunity to bash Bush.

John Kerry has an extensively documented history of contempt for the armed forces. That he would say such a thing as either a statement of fact or as a Freudian slip is no surprise.

He claims I called him “crazy,” and then says I’m in “nutroots territory” in my refusal to give any gloss to Kerry’s words besides, you know, the words themselves. Except I didn’t call him “crazy.” I merely quoted him disputing……

The photo of the soldiers holding the banner is hilarious but not one msm has published it. Why?

Because they are sure their intellectually superior audience won’t get it.

that is exactly where people are getting tripped up.

FrankenKerry must be using a portion of the “Heinz Trust Fund”–as allowed under the Trust for “educational purposes”–for comedy classes ‘CAUSE HE IS JUST TEARING UP THE FREAKIN’ ROOM!

numbnut….

Kerry thought it was appropriate to tailor a comment about education and military service to the crowd in front of him.

It may not have been well considered, but it was almost certainly intended, what he said the way he said it.

“During a Vietnam-era run for Congress three decades ago, John Kerry said he opposed a volunteer Army because it would be dominated by the underprivileged, be less accountable and be more prone to “the perpetuation of war crimes.”

Now did he apologize for that one too, or did he say he was sorry if the underprivileged lacked the comprehension skills to understand his pretentious point of view?

WASHINGTON – During a Vietnam-era run for Congress three decades ago, John Kerry said he opposed a volunteer Army because it would be dominated by the underprivileged, be less accountable and be more prone to “the perpetuation of war crimes.”

You have to let go of the idea that this was an intentional slam at the troops. It wasn’t intended as an insult. He didn’t even realize it was an insult. It’s an old admonition like, “eat your vegetables so you’ll grow up to be big and strong.” That admonition is so ingrained into Liberal thought that they have forgotten there is another side to it which is an insult to the people serving.

TheBigOldDog on November 2, 2006 at 8:36 AM

Absolutely. Given Kerry’s past statements, it’s clear that he has a pretty serious disdain for the troops (excluding those that later become part of the anti-war movement), and we know he has a political tin ear. Couple deeply ingrained disdain for the troops and a political tin ear, and it’s easy to see how he could have made an insulting statement without intending to or even believing that it could be taken that way.

It’s no different than some socially clueless dolt going oup to Rosie O’Donnell and saying “you don’t sweat much for a big girl, do you?” There may be no intent to insult, but the statement would be offensive (to Rosie anyway) nonetheless.

As far as this idea:

Once you’ve made that move — they believe X, and if they say they don’t believe it, they’re lying — you’re in nutroots territory.

… I say BS.

While not all democrats disrespect the troops, there are a number of prominent ones (e.g., Durbin, Kerry, Murtha, BigTits Kennedy) that have made extremely disrespectful statements in the past year, accusing them of war crimes, likening them to Nazis, accusing them of running a concentration camp at Abu Graihb, and so on. Your attempt to shame us out of this idea by equating us with nutroots for even having it, despite the writing that is clearly on the wall, is garbage.

Who are we going to believe – AllahPundit or our own, lying eyes?

Right.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061102/D8L4QH580.html