I love the media. Really.

Here's the headline and the story:
Dole Rises to Kerry's Defense Over Vietnam

And here's the actual transcript:

WALLACE: In your view, are ribbons and medals interchangeable, and does this matter when we're choosing a president?

DOLE: I don't think it matters. I mean, I don't know whether he threw away his ribbons, his shirt or his medals or--but I'm proud of mine, and I kept them, and I think most veterans are.

I don't know what possessed John to — I know he came back — came out against the Vietnam War, but he made his point, and he's going to have to live with it. I think some of the things he said were probably not very good judgment, but he was a much younger man then without much experience in public life. But that's the record.

WALLACE: And so, that's something people should take into account as they...

DOLE: Oh, I think so. I mean, when you come back and first you brag about all the medals you had and being wounded three times and things of that kind, and then you throw everything away and join the other side, it's going to be fairly hard to explain it, particularly to veterans.

Yeah. Some defense of Kerry there. I haven't trusted the AP for years and years and years (their reports on the abortion issue are particularly biased toward the pro-abortion side), and this is another nail in the coffin of their credibility.

I love the media. Really.

Here's the headline and the story:
Dole Rises to Kerry's Defense Over Vietnam

And here's the actual transcript:

WALLACE: In your view, are ribbons and medals interchangeable, and does this matter when we're choosing a president?

DOLE: I don't think it matters. I mean, I don't know whether he threw away his ribbons, his shirt or his medals or--but I'm proud of mine, and I kept them, and I think most veterans are.

I don't know what possessed John to — I know he came back — came out against the Vietnam War, but he made his point, and he's going to have to live with it. I think some of the things he said were probably not very good judgment, but he was a much younger man then without much experience in public life. But that's the record.

WALLACE: And so, that's something people should take into account as they...

DOLE: Oh, I think so. I mean, when you come back and first you brag about all the medals you had and being wounded three times and things of that kind, and then you throw everything away and join the other side, it's going to be fairly hard to explain it, particularly to veterans.

Yeah. Some defense of Kerry there. I haven't trusted the AP for years and years and years (their reports on the abortion issue are particularly biased toward the pro-abortion side), and this is another nail in the coffin of their credibility.