On the recordOctober 5, 2004
It is also important that those who report the discussion be correct in what they report. From most of the national media, we have not had that correct reporting on John Kerry's national defense record. From the media we have heard, from their review of national defense records, that the liberal Democrat John Kerry and the conservative Vice President Dick Cheney are, in fact, long lost ideological soul mates, separated only by birth and hair. We hear from Wolf Blitzer and Judy Woodruff on CNN and Chris Matthews on MSNBC, Alan Colmes of Fox, and the fact finders at the Washington Post and the LA Times that if you took Dick Cheney and substituted him for John Kerry or if you took John Kerry and substituted him for Dick Cheney the defense votes that occurred in the House and Senate and the outcomes of defense spending bills and Pentagon operations would be virtually identical. They would have you believe that when it comes to national defense records, votes and positions, they say the very DNA of Dick Cheney and John Kerry are practically indistinguishable, that they are doves from the same nest. Or maybe it is hawks now, with Kerry's latest change. As silly as this assertion is, the Democrats are more than happy to make it because many in the media are only too happy to parrot it.
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