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	JS Online: Kerry film political but insightful
		And while Kerry was largely an observer in them, he emerged as an anti-war leader during the veterans' march on Washington, and his articulate testimony before Congress during the protest made him a national celebrity.
		Butler puts Kerry's discarding of the medals he earned in Vietnam, at the end of a day of protest in which countless other veterans did the same, into the heat-of-the-moment context of a country even more deeply divided than it is today.
		George Butler documentary is part hagiography, part deeply affecting portrait of a young man of privilege who didn't have to serve in Vietnam, yet in whom the idea of national service had been ingrained.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/movies/sep04/262953.asp?format=print (668 words)

	Cincinnati CityBeat : 09/29/2004 : A Hero's Journey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Butler claims it's his 50th phone interview today, more are planned for the rest of the week, and his voice is in danger of fading from a raspy whisper to complete silence.
		Butler says he began the film about the Vietnam peace movement, and it was a coincidence that it became focused on Kerry and his anti-Vietnam War activism.
		Butler's focus is on Kerry's patriotic activism after his tour of duty in Vietnam, leading the Vietnam Veterans' Against the War (VVAW) and the growing soldiers' peace movement.
	www.citybeat.com /2004-09-29/film.shtml (1585 words)

	CTV.ca - Toronto fest film chronicles Kerry's voyage- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
		Butler met Kerry at a party in June 1964, when both had just finished their sophomore year in college.
		Butler felt strongly enough about Kerry that he began documenting his life in still pictures in 1969, amassing 6,000 photographs since, many of them collected in the new book John Kerry: A Portrait.
		Butler paints a portrait of a young idealist who volunteers for military service, takes command of a "swift boat" on Vietnam rivers where firefights could be a thrice-daily occurrence, is wounded three times and earns a Silver Star for heroism.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1095365670773_90774870?hub=SpecialEvent6&subhub=PrintStory (781 words)

	Toronto Fest Film Chronicles Kerry (phillyBurbs.com)
		Butler felt strongly enough about Kerry that he began documenting his life in still pictures in 1969, amassing 6,000 photographs since, many of them collected in the new book "John Kerry: A Portrait." The only other person he has paid such attention to is Schwarzenegger, the subject of 7,000 photos by Butler.
		Though a friend of Butler's, Kerry declined to grant interviews for "Going Upriver." That turned out to be a blessing, allowing the filmmaker to frame the story as a snapshot of Kerry at a particular time and place, Butler said.
		Butler said his friendship with Kerry simply gives him a good perspective on his subject and that if he had set out to make a film to the election, it would have backfired as audiences sensed they were being manipulated.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/80-09152004-366347.html (805 words)

	AlterNet: Movie Mix: In League with Extraordinary Gentlemen
		Butler is a good storyteller – albeit one with an unavoidable subjective bias – and artfully weaves Vietnam footage with his own stills and interviews.
		Butler's photos would be published in 1972 in a book titled "The New Soldier," a collaboration between Butler, Kerry and Kerry's brother-in-law David Thorne.
		Kerry was part of the first group of "brown-water" sailors who, in a newly devised policy, rode swift boats up riverways, searching fishing boats and exchanging fire with an often unseen enemy.
	www.alternet.org /movies/20025 (1972 words)

	Kerry's New Movie - Going Upriver rebuts the Swift Boat vets, but it will also bring them back. By Chris Suellentrop
		In the film, Kerry protests that he didn't personally see anyone chop off someone's head, but he believes that the U.S. government's policies in Vietnam—such as burning the homes of noncombatants, or creating "free-fire zones" in which all Vietnamese were deemed to be the enemy—were in violation of the laws of war.
		Kerry was almost the last man to stand before the microphone during the protest, and according to Tom Oliphant, he "kind of lobbed" his contribution over the fence and walked away.
		Butler explained that it's very difficult to know whether Kerry was in Cambodia, then changed the subject to the lack of credibility of John O'Neill, the co-author of Unfit for Command.
	www.slate.com /id/2106690 (1008 words)

	Bush or Kerry? by Butler Shaffer
		The comparative Vietnam era war records of both Kerry and Bush, and stem-cell research, are emerging as the issues that are safe for the political establishment and its puppet performers.
		If Kerry is elected, the Democrats – most of whom never opposed the Iraq war in principle, but saw it only as an opportunity to unseat Bush – will breathe a sigh of relief, as Kerry does his Lyndon Johnson routine on the Iraqi people.
		Kerry does have a smoother style than Bush, and for this reason his presidency – one that accepts the Bush policy of gorging the appetites of Leviathan – will be all the more dangerous.
	www.lewrockwell.com /shaffer/shaffer81.html (1960 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After Vietnam, during his botched 1972 congressional campaign, Kerry hired Butler as a media manager and photographer; their lens friendship continued through the decades, and Butler tagged along during the senator's dark days of 2003 before the Iowa caucus.
		Kerry only smiles awkwardly at his public functions; from '72 to '04, he has that presidential timber tucked snugly up his ass.
		All Butler's frankly admiring behind-the-scenes portraits of Kerry in the early '70s reveal a profoundly earnest but haunted young man; he may have gone to Vietnam to bolster his résumé, but it came back written in blood.
	www.seattleweekly.com /features/printme.php3?eid=57549 (484 words)

	A Focused Friend (washingtonpost.com)
		Butler was an eyewitness to the second half of the story told in "Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry," which opened yesterday in Washington.
		Butler, not surprisingly, believes his friend would make an excellent president, and when he talked about Kerry last week, as part of a pre-release publicity push, he occasionally veered from enthusiasm into something like hero worship.
		Butler is under no illusions about the reach that a film like this can have, and he knows that most ticket buyers will already be squarely in Kerry's corner.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A1582-2004Oct1.html (1004 words)

	Wilgoren profiles Kerry's "valet." Any chance that she's really this clueless?
		In the headline, we see the first spin-point—Nicholson is described as Kerry’s “butler!” And as we read the report, the image develops.
		Kerry that raised questions about whether he threw away his war medals in a protest after his combat tour.
		Kerry attended school in Switzerland while his father was stationed in Berlin.
	www.dailyhowler.com /dh042804.shtml (1953 words)

	New York Daily News - Theater - This 'Hairspray' actress has the roller of her life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kerry Butler, out of character and outside the Neil Simon Theater, where she is appearing in 'Hairspray,' a musical adaptation of the John Waters movie.
		Kerry Butler doesn't have the splashiest role or the showiest 'do in "Hairspray" - the Broadway-musical adaptation of the John Waters film - but she gets the loudest cheers.
		Her transformation is punctuated with a diva-like fingersnap (Butler suggested it to the director) and a memorable lyric (to share it would spoil the moment) courtesy of songwriters Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman.
	www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/theater/story/10413p-9827c.html (623 words)

	7.30 Report
		KERRY O'BRIEN: One of Australia's most outspoken Republican activists is to be the next governor of Tasmania.
		Richard Butler, former Australian ambassador to the United Nations and the UN's chief weapons inspector in Iraq in the late '90s, will be sworn in on October 3, for a five-year term.
		KERRY O'BRIEN: Well, back in 2000 I think it was, at the National Press Club, you said of the Queen, "She's some rubber stamp for the person who hangs out in Yarralumla.
	www.abc.net.au /7.30/content/2003/s927035.htm (1232 words)

	The American Spectator
		Kerry's hubris has only grown since that April day in 1971 when he defamed a generation of United States troops in order to jumpstart his political career.
		Butler must be editing frantically in advance of the release date.
		Butler probably won't include the moment when Kerry dismisses the Cold War and pontificates about American consumerism when he says: "There is no threat.
	www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=7131 (703 words)

	The Moving Picture by Joe Leydon
		Photojournalist-turned-documentarian George Butler unleashed Arnold Schwarzenegger on a unsuspecting world with “Pumping Iron,” the critically acclaimed and hugely entertaining 1977 film about the subculture of bodybuilding and the science of self-promotion.
		Butler insists that he didn’t start out to make his movie as a response to the anti-Kerry assaults by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (a group spearheaded by Houston attorney John E. O’Neill, co-author of the incendiary “Unfit for Duty”).
		Butler: Kerry is very old-fashioned in a certain regard: He’s not a self-promoter, and never has been.
	www.movingpictureshow.com /dialogues/mpsGeorgeButler.htm (1018 words)

	Turning the tide: the truth about Kerry’s swiftboat days
		Kerry lost, which was a real shock to the man who had become the nation’s most famous Vietnam veteran.
		Kerry’s testimony is the high moment of the film, and was in important ways the American body politics’s high moment that year, that era even.
		Butler was offered the suggestion that religion is one of the main things wrong with the world today.
	www.thevillager.com /villager_75/turningthetide.html (1441 words)

	Up the River?
		John Kerry was not supposed to be heading into the final stretch of the election defending himself from the charge always thrown at Democrats by Republicans: you're a wimp and not serious about national security.
		Yet the Bush campaign and its allies still have managed to define Kerry (for many voters) as a weakling, as a flip-flopper, as a spineless, finger-in-the-wind pol who has voted against military spending and who lacks the fortitude and decisiveness to be commander-in-chief and protect America from its enemies.
		In these polls, Kerry has a big edge when voters are asked whether the candidates are intelligent, but according to the same surveys, voters think that Bush is better able to manage both the war in Iraq and the so-called war on terrorism.
	www.thenation.com /blogs/capitalgames?bid=3&pid=1861 (1349 words)

	OpinionEditorials.com — WWJD: What Would John (Kerry) Do! - Butler
		We’re going to be in the history books.” That dream has since been destroyed by Moore, Kerry, and the DNC because they have now decided to exploit the tragedy for purely political expediency and have forever tainted that moment as being a failure.
		Using the moment to try and help further Kerry’s political career, he was asked by a reporter what he would have done given that situation.
		Kerry wants the U.N. to help America decide on any future plans of action concerning the war on terror, including our national security interests, yet also wants us to believe that at a moments notice he would ride a mighty stallion into heart of evil’s lair and slay the dragon with his chivalrous sword.
	www.opinioneditorials.com /freedomwriters/lbutler_20040816.html (868 words)

	Weekend: Indie Flicks: Documentarian smiles on Kerry
		Butler doesn't harp on the point, but some things Johnson says about protecting a defenseless nation sound like talking points used by President Bush when discussing Iraq.
		Interviews with Kerry's former shipmates, including former Lt. Jim Rassmann describing how an injured Kerry pulled him from dangerous waters, are less rabid and therefore more convincing than the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads that disparaged Kerry's service.
		It's when Butler brings the troops home that Kerry's record as an antiwar activist is brought into clearer focus.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/09/30/news_pf/Weekend/Indie_Flicks__Documen.shtml (440 words)

	America's Hearts of Darkness: Will a Documentary About John Kerry have Any Affect on the Upcoming US Election?
		Butler, who is about Kerry's age, avoided the draft by joining a group called Vista, similar to the Peace Corps.
		Butler is quick to say he dismisses any idea that he made the film in an attempt to influence voters.
		Butler, using a vast store of archival material, including some 35 years (or 40 hours) of film and numerous photos he took of Kerry, shows the future presidential candidate in Vietnam.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0914-04.htm (877 words)

	Arts&culture - October 7, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Butler, however, corresponded with Kerry at the time of his service and observed Kerry’s anti-war activities firsthand.
		Butler went on to direct Pumping Iron II: The Women, which helped de-stigmatize the sport’s female participants, and two films about explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914-1916 expedition to the Antarctic, which left his ship trapped in ice and his crew marooned for 18 months.
		Kerry the anti-war protester is presented by Butler as courageous, compassionate and committed to public service.
	www.newsreview.com /issues/sacto/2004-10-07/arts.asp (1791 words)

	Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry
		John Kerry's friend, George Butler, a New Hampshire filmmaker who has known Kerry for more than three decades is threatening legal action against Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry.Com.
		Butler is claiming ownership of two photographs pertaining to Kerry's radical pro-Hanoi days.
		John Kerry is not, and has never been, a client of this firm.
	www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com /g_butler_law.htm (432 words)

	John Kerry's Butler reports for duty late - John Kerry for President - USA Election USA WAHL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When John Kerry was “reporting for duty” and Democrats were wrapping him in the flag at his nominating convention in July, a sympathetic documentary about his Vietnam years must have sounded like a sure-fire campaign boost.
		The film, made by Mr Kerry's long-time friend, George Butler, includes original and humanising footage that may be a revelation to those who have only encountered the candidate on the campaign trail.
		The problem for the Kerry camp is that the obsession with the candidate's role in a war that ended 30 years ago has already dredged up damaging albeit, false accusations against him.
	john-kerry.usa-election.de /usa/john_kerrys_butler_reports_for_duty_late.htm (817 words)

	Democrat and Chronicle -- Entertainment -- Rochester, NY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kerry's reflective leadership at a 1971 march on Washington, his star-making testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his participation at a ceremony at which veterans symbolically and painfully threw away their medals are all depicted — just the stuff spun by the Swift Boaters.
		Butler previously won acclaim for such documentaries as Pumping Iron (which made Arnold Schwarzenegger a star) and Endurance (about polar explorer Ernest Shackleton) and has known Kerry since the '60s, when they collaborated on The New Soldier, a book about the Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
		Butler has amassed an impressive array of photographs, home movies and archival news footage that brings his story to life.
	www.democratandchronicle.com /goesout/mov/g/goingu.shtml (446 words)

	WHDH-TV - Boston - Special Report - In the Picture
		Among those on exhibit are Kerry's famous testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, speaking at a peace rally in New York, moments of tenderness with his daughters.
		Butler is also taking his work to the big screen, he's currently making a film about Kerry's experiences in Vietnam, called "Going up River", expected to hit theatres this September.
		John Kerry: A Portrait 1969 to the Present is on display at the Gallery Kayafas until July 31st.
	www.whdh.com /features/articles/specialreport/DBM564 (394 words)

	Blogging untill DC residents are equal Americans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kerry did waiver, he didn't support our cause, which was what the primary on Jan. 13th was all about.
		So Kerry won, hands down in such a powerful straight record that it generated lots of momentum, buzz, fundraising, etc. If he opened with a loss in DC that might have tanked him.
		Equally absurd do I find the proposition that Kerry should be penalized by DC for foregoing the chance to have his hat handed to him on the opening primary in DC, so that he can get to the White House to make the real reform to the issue of the DC Voting inequities that exist.
	blog.letsfreedc.org /email.php?blogid=809 (2340 words)

	Bush Up 51-45, But Jennings Stresses Negatives for Bush in Poll --9/28/2004-- Media Research Center
		Kerry," he discounted Bush's 52 percent favorable rating as "certainly not huge." Unmentioned by Jennings: How Kerry's unfavorable rating is greater than his favorable rating, that Bush has a 22 point advantage in supporter enthusiasm and Kerry has no advantage among women while Bush enjoys an 11 point lead with men.
		The study found three-fifths (62 percent) of Kerry's TV coverage was positive, while nearly the same proportion (59 percent) of George W. Bush's coverage was negative on the evening newscasts aired by the three broadcast networks.
		Butler: "Kerry gave me a great opportunity to do this and I truly wouldn't have done it unless I felt that one day it would be valuable, because the entire time I was taking these pictures, there were no market for the photographs."
	www.mrc.org /printer/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040928pf.asp (4843 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Butler is the founding pastor of the 21,000-member nondenominational Word of Faith International Christian Center Church in Southfield and a former Detroit City Council member.
		Its citizens are held in the thrall of the filthy-rich (except for Kerry and the missus).
		Last Updated: November 1 2002 13:21 Paul Burrell, former royal butler and aide to Diana, Princess of Wales, was on Friday found not guilty, on all three counts, of stealing from the estate of the princess, the Prince of Wales and Prince William.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=butler (4084 words)

	Powell's Books - John Kerry: A Portrait by George Butler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		According to his introductory essay, Butler met Kerry at a party in 1964, and the two became close friends who kept in touch while Kerry served in Vietnam.
		They were so short on staff, however, that Butler not only managed the campaign's media, he also took its publicity photos.
		The photos that are most revelatory, however, are the ones taken off the campaign trail: images from Kerry's marriage to Julia Thorne in 1970, from their joint honeymoon with friends in Jamaica, from his marriage to Teresa Heinz in 1995 and from vacations with his two daughters.
	powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=719&cgi=product&isbn=0821262033 (326 words)

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