Still no major US me…

Still no major US media coverage on the Kerry-in-Cambodia story. Instapundit’s been looking for it but nothing yet, although, he notes that, “The Post did find the time to condemn the Swift Boat vets, though, without admitting that one of their charges has already been borne out.” At this stage of the game, you can’t possibly believe that they don’t know about this.

The London Telegraph is finally reporting it, but they had even less of an excuse not to. If they read their own paper, they’d have seen Mark Steyn’s editorial about it, so they can’t even feign ignorance. Glad to see that they’re noticing. Still waiting for the US media to come clean, especially since the election in question is their backyard, not the Telegraph’s.

One thing noted in the Telegraph that I’d not considered before is that Kerry’s story takes place in a ficticious location. The Telegraph has an accompanying map.

The Kerry campaign responded, initially, that Mr Kerry had always said he was “near” Cambodia. Then a campaign aide said Mr Kerry had been in the Mekong Delta “between” Vietnam and next-door Cambodia – a geographical zone not found on maps, which show the Mekong river running from Cambodia to Vietnam.

But really, why is this important? Character counts (as we learned with President Clinton), but also it’s an example of how far Kerry will go for political gain. This story wasn’t just a quaint war story, it was the backing for a political philosophy.

In newspaper articles, interviews and at least one Senate speech, Mr Kerry has claimed that he spent Christmas 1968 inside Cambodia, at a time when even the US president was publicly denying that American forces were inside that country.

He has cited the missions as a psychological turning point, when he realised that American leaders were not telling the truth to the world about the war in south-east Asia.

Given this strange case of what in all likelihood is a made-up story, take any further Kerry anecdotes with a grain pillar of salt.

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