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07/16/2004: "California Scuzbuckets Shun Vietnam veteran (and former POW) Admiral Jeremiah Denton"

Via a Snopes report which refers to an email drawn from an official State of California post, California Democrats snubbed a Viet Nam vet in favor of a retiring L.A. Times reporter. The Viet Nam vet spent eight years as a P.O.W. and blinked out "torture" in Morse Code when stuck in front of a TV camera by his captors. Snopes reports that "news sources from both ends of the political spectrum have covered [the July Four incident] without reporting any contradictory information."

In an attempt to be clever, let me try to summarize these actions by the California Democrats in three words. Wrong.