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An American Story
NY Sun ^ | January 12, 2005 | Seth Lipsky

Posted on 01/12/2005 11:45:45 AM PST by Interesting Times

As the special report on the scandal at CBS and "60 Minutes" was circulating around town, I was at a long-scheduled editorial dinner with the leader of the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, John O'Neill. Among the guests at the table was Jerry Corsi, co-author, with Mr. O'Neill, of the book that halted Senator Kerry's surge in the polls, "Unfit for Command." The Swiftboat Veterans for Truth is the 527 group that ran the advertisements on television and the Internet that so startled the American people and, many believe, did as much as any other single factor in delivering a second term to the president.

I've attended at a lot of editorial dinners over the years, but it is hard to recall one as enjoyable - or illuminating - as the sitting with Mr. O'Neill. One can call the story of the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth the flip side of the tarnished coin of CBS. One was the vaunted network that flubbed the story of a generation. The other was a true band of brothers, professional newsmen not, who had a story that none of the big institutions wanted. They put it on the air themselves with the contributions of more than 150,000 ordinary Americans and discovered that it resonated powerfully with an electorate that had grown tired of being treated with cynicism.

(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: americans; bringingithome; jerrycorsi; johnfondakerry; johnkerry; johnoneill; kerrylied; pows; realheroes; swiftboatveterans; swiftvets; xmasincambodia
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To: Interesting Times

Thanks for the ping. We are all forever in your debt.

But, keep all your notes...Kerry is said to having a makeover and will try for the Whitehouse again.


41 posted on 01/13/2005 5:32:01 PM PST by tuckrdout (I try to take one day at a time -- but sometimes several days attack me at once.)
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To: robowombat

"They say he carried a wallet and money, but neither was taken. Ngor clearly had political enemies from his activities in Cambodia, something police were said to be checking."

"The three gang members were charged with killing Ngor during a robbery in an alley behind his Chinatown area apartment in February 1996."

Ummmm....huh?


42 posted on 01/13/2005 11:55:02 PM PST by dsc
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To: dsc

On the 25 February, 1996, Dr Haing S Ngor was gunned down in front of the Chinatown apartment he used in Los Angeles. Just two days later, three 19-year-old boys, members of a local gang, were arrested and charged with the murder, which was apparently a simple robbery gone wrong. Haing was shot after refusing to hand over a locket, holding a photo of his late wife.

A wasted life? Not if you take the words of Haing himself. In an interview with the New York Times on the subject of The Killing Fields, Haing is quoted as having said:

"If I die from now on, OK! This film will go on for a hundred years."

- Dr Haing S Ngor - 1950-1996


43 posted on 01/14/2005 8:19:07 PM PST by Liberty Wins (Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of all who threaten it.)
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To: dsc

A courageous, tragic figure. Haing, a doctor and obstetrician, was forced to look on helplessly as his wife died during premature labour following a beating received from Khmer Rouge soldiers.

Read more at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/hub/A842979


44 posted on 01/14/2005 8:23:39 PM PST by Liberty Wins (Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of all who threaten it.)
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To: Liberty Wins

Another murder to be laid at the door of leftism.

Truly, "liberals'" hands drip with the blood of the innocent.


45 posted on 01/14/2005 9:16:27 PM PST by dsc
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To: Liberty Wins

So, they panicked and didn't take his wallet and money? Could happen, I guess.


46 posted on 01/14/2005 9:17:17 PM PST by dsc
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To: MEG33

And let us not forget, O'Neill's mission had been to expose Kerry's VN lies for at least 30 years.


47 posted on 01/15/2005 7:04:21 AM PST by lonestar (Me, too!--Weinie)
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To: lonestar

Indeed..


48 posted on 01/15/2005 7:17:46 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: JesseJane
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49 posted on 01/15/2005 7:56:51 AM PST by JesseJane (KERRY: I have had conversations with leaders, yes, recently.That's not your business, it's mine.)
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To: MarineBrat

Video link to O'Neill / Lawerence O'Donnell (eh)"interview". They should've jerked O'Donnell off his chair and threw him out of the building on the spot.

http://www.dailyrecycler.com/blog/2004/10/breakdown.html


50 posted on 01/15/2005 8:07:05 AM PST by JesseJane (KERRY: I have had conversations with leaders, yes, recently.That's not your business, it's mine.)
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To: Interesting Times
Toward the end of the dinner, we asked Mr. O'Neill whether he has thought of converting his fame from the Swiftboats into a career in politics, perhaps running for the Senate from Texas. It turns out he has been all his life a champion debater. But he made it clear, as he had done earlier during the dinner, that he and his comrades in the Swiftboat Veterans were in it not for the politics but for the honor of their fellow veterans of Vietnam and that what they were going to do now was what they had been doing before they were interrupted - to go home, back to the families and jobs to which they'd been devoting themselves since the war.

Thank you Swifties.

5.56mm

51 posted on 01/15/2005 5:49:58 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: cake_crumb

http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/pnames-nf/Pran+Dith


52 posted on 01/15/2005 6:08:55 PM PST by GW and Twins Pawpaw (Sheepdog for Five [My grandkids are way more important than any lefty's feelings!])
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To: Interesting Times

Thank you to the Swifties and everyone who believed in them! I knew they were going to kick butt!


53 posted on 01/18/2005 6:55:14 AM PST by Diva Betsy Ross (Just say no to the ACLU!)
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To: Interesting Times

Thank you to the Swifties and everyone who believed in them! I knew they were going to kick butt!


54 posted on 01/18/2005 6:56:26 AM PST by Diva Betsy Ross (Just say no to the ACLU!)
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To: OldFriend

Dith Pran is alive. Still works for the Times and gives lectures~which in his case, should be called "lessons".


55 posted on 02/25/2005 7:42:14 PM PST by jrflmt
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To: jrflmt
He was invited to my daughter's high school years ago and made quite an impression on the students.

Amazing that he was invited there as it was a lefty school.

Wonders never cease.

56 posted on 02/25/2005 11:04:54 PM PST by OldFriend (America's glory is not dominion, but liberty.)
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