Now it isn’t a question of conflicting reminiscences of sexagenarians… about whether there was or wasn’t 2 ½ miles of riverbank gunfire on March 12, 1969, and how many men were in the boat with Kerry when he claimed to be wounded under enemy fire, that may or may not have been present. It is a question of the official Navy records Kerry has asked us to look at...

...No Kerry spokesperson has returned calls except for David Wade who referred me to Michael Meehan, the expert on Kerry records. No call back after 8 calls over three days to Meehan. Scarborough Country bookers couldn’t get a spokesperson for Kerry to come on the show with me last Friday.

There may be a perfectly reasonable explanation. The American electorate and 25 million veterans certainly deserve to hear one. Kerry should sign the SF-180 and get it over with. He has NOT released his complete records which might well clear this up…no matter what Mark Meehan told Tony Snow on Saturday.

But the lame explanation the Kerry spokespeople have come up with is hilarious. You have to be totally brain dead to accept that explanation without a followup. Supposedly, Kerry “lost” the first two citations, and asked the Secretary of the Navy for a replacement. Outside of the fact that Kerry “forgot” a few little details like voting on an assassination plot against 6 US senators…“forgot” where he was on Christmas 1968 (wasn’t Sa Dec in Cambodia?), “forgot” his first purple heart was a self-inflicted wound, he also seems to “lose” things -- all of which his campaign have now conceded in fact. He “lost” his resignation letter from the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and now he “lost” these citations.

And yet Doug Brinkley has assured me that “Kerry saves everything.” And this raises a troubling question...