FRANKEN SHOOTS DOWN "DRAFT DODGER PICKENS"
PICKENS STILL REFUSES MILLION BUCK PAYMENT TO PARALYZED VETS OF AMERICA
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER
This week, T Boone Pickens, famous for offering a million dollars to anyone who could prove John Kerry earned his combat awards got a dressing down by Senator Al Franken. Picken spent $3 million spreading what were later proven to be total lies.
Pickens, who refused to serve during the Korean War, stuck it to paralyzed veterans when his challenge was met and his Swift Boat politicos were proven liars.
Fellow draft dodger, Sean Hannity, tried exhaustively to "spin" Pickens out of his humiliation at the time. Pickens, who believed his newfound love of wild horses and windfarms would endear him with liberals was more than a bit surprised to find himself on the receiving end of a butt whopping.
Pickens, pay up or get out! You have earned hundreds of millions living off America, her government, her fighting men and the politicians, both Republican and Democrat, that your wealth has bought and sold, all except Senator Al Franken. Talk about an unlikely hero…..
Fellow Dem’s were embarassed by Franken, who was genuinely more than impolite to Pickens while other Dems lined up to kiss butt in the usual fashion. Publicists representing Pickens immediately ran crying to the networks and neocon blogs calling Frankens failure to bend over for a buck a "meltdown."
Franken’s first act as senator has been to introduce legislation starting a pilot program to pair service dogs with wounded veterans.
Reputedly, thousands of posts supporting Pickens have been loaded onto military dot com crashing their servers today. I can’t think of a worse disaster than this unless, maybe, Bush and Cheney went hunting together……
When Vietnam veterans submitted a 12 page letter and 42 pages of documents disproving Pickens claims and demanding payment be made to Paralyzed Veterans of America, Pickens made a series of unintelligible excuses, believing, perhaps rightly so, that money and control of the press could help him avoid humiliation for bad mouthing a combat veteran and being called to pay.
In a time when so many veterans are in need of services, the Paralyzed Veteran of America could use the money owed and, just perhaps, some penalties and interest to boot.
Time for Pickens to eat some crow and pay his debt to America’s heroes. Every veteran knows this: you attack one vet, you attack them all. Even Bush spent some time in the National Guard though his record of military service and discharge status are currently being held, from what we hear by the Secretary of States office in Hawaii, as secret.
Pickens military record is made of the same material that fills his hat.
Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran and regular contributor on political and social issues.
Gordon Duff posted articles on VT from 2008 to 2022. He is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. A disabled veteran, he worked on veterans and POW issues for decades.
Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world’s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues.
Duff has traveled extensively, is published around the world, and is a regular guest on TV and radio in more than “several” countries. He is also a trained chef, wine enthusiast, avid motorcyclist, and gunsmith specializing in historical weapons and restoration. Business experience and interests are in energy and defense technology.
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