The Last Thing We Need
I hope the Kerry people know what they're doing, and what the truth is. Night after night at this convention, people have played up his heroic rescue of a comrade, plus his decision to turn the boat into the enemy at one point and take them head on. Sounds riveting and dangerous and selfless. Apparently tonight there will be a film that highlights some of these events and has dramatic footage of Kerry in Vietnam. But if this story on Drudge catches on (this is his second day of pushing it), and it turns out that Kerry reenacted scenes to catch them on film, presumably to exploit for political/personal gain at a later time (who does things like that??), then this could cause a serious problem.

If people are moved by the film, and then find out later it was somehow fraudulent, especially for personal image-building, this Vietnam strategy could seriously back-fire. I haven't heard news channels all day, but if this is the story of tonight, or begins to dominate/frame the questioning, either tonight or into next week, this could be a disaster. It sounds like just the kind of thing CNN, MSNBC, FOX especially, and then eventually the networks would love to run with.

Hopefully it will turn into nothing.

UPDATE: Here's a story Drudge links too for the bit about bullets in the water "not being from the actual event." It is a look at the man who made the film.