And I got a note from reader Ivy today who is obviously no fan of Sen. Kerry nor of the mainstream press. Ivy sent in the links below.

Now I know that people can change over 30 years or so (lord knows I have), but back then The Harvard Crimson reported this about John Kerry's attitude about the relative places of the USA and the UN in the world.

Kerry said that the United Nations should have control over most of our foreign military operations. "I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations."

On other issues, Kerry wants "to almost eliminate CIA activity".

(emphasis added)

Ivy also sent in this link to an unflattering assesment of the Iraq war coverage by an NBC reporter who was there.

"I’m uniquely positioned to report the story," he wrote. "NBC Nightly News routinely takes the stories that I shoot and uses the footage, even to lead the broadcast," but "refuses to allow the story to be told by the reporter on the scene."

In other words, he suggested, NBC News did not like putting him on the air.

Dr. Arnot included excerpts from an e-mail from Jim Keelor, president of Liberty Broadcasting, which owns eight NBC stations throughout the South. Mr. Keelor had written NBC, stating that "the networks are pretty much ignoring" the good-news stories in Iraq.

Thanks Ivy. Good work.