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While I have a tremendous amount of respect for Ted Koppel and ABC News I was appalled to learn that ABC News would go to the lengths of traveling to Vietnam to interview three Viet Cong communists in yet a third attempt by ABC to corroborate John Kerry’s version of the events that took place on February 28th, 1969.

Cong for Kerry Nightline interview at VC village where Kerry got his questionable Silver Star. VC display extraordinary memory of a 35 year old event, that mysteroiusly coincides with third version of Kerrys SS citation.

ASHEVILLE - Television station WLOS-TV Channel 13 has received about 2,000 e-mails from both program supporters and protesters commenting on parent company Sinclair Broadcast Group's decision that its affiliates would broadcast "Stolen Honor: Wounds that Never Heal." The program is expected to be critical of Sen. John Kerry's anti- Vietnam War activities and is set to air locally at 9 p.m. Oct. 22. Although Sinclair says the final format for the program hasn't been set yet, the company's decision has set off a nationwide debate. The letters, found in the station's public file, were sent from people around the mountains...

The US Federal Communications Commission does not have authority to step in to stop a television network airing a film that attacks Senator John Kerry for his anti-Vietnam War activities. "Don't look to us to block the airing of a program. I don't know of any precedent in which the commission could do that," the chairman, Michael Powell, said on Thursday. Blocking the program "would be an absolute disservice to the First Amendment and I think it would be unconstitutional if we attempted to do so." Nineteen Democratic senators and 85 Democratic House members wrote to Mr Powell this week,...

The Soros connection "Remember that infamous Oct. 8 memo from ABC News political director Mark Halperin, which instructed ABC correspondents to slant their reportage in John Kerry's favor? " conservative author Richard Poe said on his blog (www.RichardPoe.com). "Well, it turns out that Halperin's father is none other than Morton H. Halperin, head of George Soros' Open Society Policy Center. Lowell Ponte reveals Mark Halperin's Soros connection in [yesterday's] FrontPageMagazine.com, in a stunning expose titled, 'The ABC's of Media Bias.' " Ohio ruling In a victory for the Democrats, a federal judge ruled yesterday that Ohio voters who show up...

Statement by John O'Neill on "Nightline" Appearance Author: Dated: Friday, October 15 2004 @ 08:00 AM PDT Viewed: 1485 times While I have a tremendous amount of respect for Ted Koppel and ABC News I was appalled to learn that ABC News would go to the lengths of traveling to Vietnam to interview three Viet Cong communists in yet a third attempt by ABC to corroborate John Kerry’s version of the events that took place on February 28th, 1969. I would only ask the American people: "Who do you trust more, three members of a communist regime that tortured and...

What Happened in Kerry's Vietnam Battles? 'Nightline' Speaks to Witnesses of Disputed Firefights Oct. 14, 2004 -- In the controversy over Sen. John Kerry's service in Vietnam, Americans have heard from Kerry, from the crew of the Navy Swift boats he commanded and from other Swift boat veterans who question the official account of a 1969 incident for which Kerry was awarded a Silver Star. But there is one group they have not heard from: the Vietnamese who were there that day. According to the military citation, Kerry was awarded the medal for his actions during an intense firefight on...

The following statement from John O'Neil, member of Swift Boat Veterans and POW's for Truth, concerns a news segment that aired on October 14th on ABC's Nightline with Ted Koppel. "While I have a tremendous amount of respect for Ted Koppel and ABC News I was appalled to learn that ABC News would go to the lengths of traveling to Vietnam to interview three Viet Cong communists in yet a third attempt by ABC to corroborate John Kerry's version of the events that took place on February 28th, 1969. "I would only ask the American people: 'Who do you...

<p>If soeone can get a clear screen shit of the dead V.C.'s tombstone it would be appreciated.</p>

In the early 1990s, Kerry headed a Senate committee that was supposed to determine whatever became of American troops in the Vietnam War whose whereabouts were not recorded. Under his leadership, the panel concluded there was “no evidence” that any Americans left behind in Vietnam were still alive. Shortly after Kerry declared to the world, “President Bush should reward Vietnam within a month for its increased cooperation in accounting for American MIAs.” Hanoi then announced that it had awarded a fat contract to Boston real estate firm Colliers International, then headed by the senator’s cousin Stuart Forbes. Colliers International was...

Here is the audio of tonights interview on Nightline where Ted Koppel tried to debunk the silver star story. http://s2r-tech.com/swifty/jo-nl.mp3

According to the after-action report, after beaching the Swift boat, Kerry "chased VC inland, behind hooch, and shot him while he fled, capturing one B-40 rocket launcher, with round in chamber." Does the following square with Kerry’s after action report? "Firing from over here. Firing from over there. Firing from the boat," Vo Thi Vi told Nightline. She was only a couple hundred yards away when a Swift boat turned and approached the shore, she said, adding that the boat was unleashing a barrage of gunfire as it approached. "I ran," she recalled, "Running fast. … And the Americans came...

The Swift Boat Controversy: New Witnesses October 14, 2004 John Kerry's service in Vietnam has become a campaign issue. The group calling itself Swift Boat Veterans for Truth alleges that Kerry has distorted the truth about what happened during the war and questions whether he deserved the medals he received. Tonight, you'll hear from eyewitnesses who have not spoken before: the Vietnamese who fought against him. We've had the debates and the race is a virtual dead-heat. This is the part of a campaign when there are daily fires--issues that rise, flare, and then go away, only to be replaced...

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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU SEPT 09, 2004 22:45:32 ET XXXXX Marjorie Connell — widow of the late Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, the reported author of memos suggesting that Bush did not meet the standards for the Texas Air National Guard — questions whether the documents are real on tonight's NIGHTLINE, sources tell DRUDGE. Transcript: I WAS ANGRY, BECAUSE HERE THEY ARE GOING BACK AND PULLING RECORDS OF A MAN WHO IS DECEASED TWENTY YEARS, WHO IS NOT HERE TO EXPLAIN WHAT ANY OF THESE DOCUMENTS SAID OR SUPPOSED TO HAVE SAID, AND I JUST FOUND IT APPALLING. I WAS...

Ben Ginsberg, the Bush campaign counsel who resigned Wednesday, fought back against the media's double standard on the subject of legal counsel overlaps between campaigns, parties and 527 groups. When Nightline anchor Chris Bury on Wednesday said "hold on, Mr. Ginsberg. Jake Tapper in his report just laid out many of those ties" between Democrats, Kerry and Bush-bashing 527 groups, Ginsberg fired back: "Yeah, and this was the first time and they've been running those ads since March, Chris. Where were you?" Near the end of the contentious interview in which Bury pounded away about how the Bush campaign left...

Sandy Who? Two weeks ago, Republicans were filled with glee, as Democrats fell all over themselves, trying to diminish the fact that Bill Clinton’s former national security adviser, Samuel Berger, better known as Sandy, was caught stuffing classified documents and national secrets down his drawers, in his jacket, in his socks, and in a leather portfolio, in order to steal them from the National Archives, and to later destroy some of them. (Berger returned some documents, but only after he was caught, and had “accidentally” destroyed the most important ones.) Note that Berger reportedly burgled the Archives on as many...

Nightline Daily E-Mail August 9, 2004 TONIGHT'S FOCUS: Service in the Vietnam War, or lack of service, has become an issue in this election. John Kerry is running on his service record, the President is still dogged by questions about his service in the National Guard. Now there are veterans for Kerry, and veterans against him. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am amazed at how angry people are these days. There is a group out there called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. They have launched an ad attacking John Kerry's service in Vietnam. They have paid to run the ad in only three...

The normally press-shy Bruce Springsteen is going public tonight with a one-on-one interview with ABC's Ted Koppel. Springsteen is appearing on "Nightline" to talk about the intersection of pop culture and politics, as well as a long-rumored concert tour starring him and a lineup of other politically outspoken acts such as REM and Pearl Jam. The Los Angeles Times reported last month that the tour would hit swing states around the country this fall, with the goal of unifying fans to vote against President Bush in November. Springsteen rarely does interviews, print or television, so nabbing him for tonight's "Nightline"...

DNC: A serious interview with Jon Stewart While eating breakfast with reporters in Boston on Monday, Jon Stewart accused the media of being "stage managed." Now Nightline's Ted Koppel asks Stewart some tough questions about his role on The Daily Show. What follows is a partial transcript of an incredible (and oddly serious) interview: KOPPEL: Back 40 years ago, we would actually come to these events with the expectation that something unexpected was going to happen. STEWART: But unexpected things used to happen in the world. They don't happen anymore. KOPPEL: Oh, sure they do. STEWART: Very rarely. Very rarely...

Where have you gone, Joe Wilson? Now that the Senate Intelligence report has exonerated the Bush Administration of coercing policy-friendly intelligence interpretations(on top of the Senate's finding that Valerie Plame indeed recommended her hubby for the investigating it despite his colorful denials), and the UK's Butler Report reaffirms British intel's belief in Iraqi inquiries into acquiring yellowcake, I noted that all the coverage of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson-as-martyr had dried up, but it wasn't being replaced by Turns-out-Joe Wilson-is-full-of-it coverage. Last Friday morning, I called ABC News in New York, and was referred to a Nightline staffer. I mentioned to...

Anyone who saw Nightline tonight saw the power of the liberal media to completely hide facts and spoon feed a message to the American people straight from the DNC. Tonight's Nightline was a 30 minute John Kerry campaign commercial.It was mentioned that John Kerry became a "peace activist" after the war, and we heard Karen Hughes in a 5 second clip saying that Kerry accused his fellow soldiers of horrendous acts. We were never shown what Kerry said about the soldiers.We were told there was some controversy about John Kerry throwing medals, but not told what the controversy was. Instead,...

Nightline Daily E-Mail June 2, 2004 TONIGHT'S FOCUS: It's no secret that Americans are getting fatter. But, you may be surprised to learn that there is a higher chance of being obese if you live below the poverty line. When you think back on the stark depression-era images of impoverished families in rural America, it seems counterintuitive that those with the least financial resources would face the greatest battle of the bulge. When it comes to tackling the mounting obesity epidemic, Americans are inundated by messages of personal responsibility. It is simple, just eat a well-balanced diet with lots of...

"TONIGHT'S FOCUS: They honor the nation's fallen. Standing guard over the Tomb of the Unknowns, and providing the honor guards for all of the funerals at Arlington National Cemetery. They are the Old Guard. And we will honor the Fallen from the war on terrorism as part of tonight's broadcast.... ...As part of tonight's broadcast, we'll have a live camera at the Tomb for the changing of the guard." -----

Nightline Daily E-Mail May 10, 2004 TONIGHT'S FOCUS: The President went to the Pentagon today to meet with the Secretary of Defense and other top leaders in his administration. In response to a growing number of calls for Mr. Rumsfeld's departure, President Bush reiterated that the Secretary is doing a great job and will stay on. The President also promised justice for the victims of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse. That story has consumed news outlets for the last week, but the clock is ticking fast to the handover on June 30th and there's a lot more going on in...

Rosen: 'Nightline's' exploitation May 7, 2004 Last Friday, a special edition of ABC's Nightline was devoted entirely to reading the names and showing matching photos of every U.S. serviceman and woman killed, to date, in Iraq. If you accept Ted Koppel's explanation at face value, the only motivation for dong this was to honor all of those who have fallen in service to their country. Well, I don't accept Koppel's explanation. As the self-proclaimed watchdogs of the public interest, liberals who dominate the mass media are routinely skeptical of the stated motives of conservative politicians, business executives and generals. (I...

Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace is taking on his former colleague at ABC News, Ted Koppel, saying Koppel's reading of the names of 720 soldiers killed in Iraq on a Nightline special Friday smacked of a ratings stunt and a political statement. "If you want to pay tribute to the troops, talk about what they fought and died for — not just that they died. It should be more than just a telephone directory," says Wallace, who plans a segment to list U.S. accomplishments in Iraq Sunday on his show. Wallace left ABC last year. Preliminary ratings show Friday's Nightline...

According to Ted Koppel, dragging his gravitas like a ball and chain, ''The most important thing a journalist can do is remind people of the cost of war.'' So on Friday night on ABC he read out the names of the American men and women to die in Iraq. Is reminding people of the ''cost of war'' really the most important thing a journalist can do? Costs don't exist in a vacuum, but relative to their benefits. For example, the cost of Ted Koppel to ABC is said to be $6 million per year. That sounds a lot when you...

Fox News Sunday to go Nightline one better. In reaction to Nightline's Friday night recitation of the names of every serviceman killed in Iraq, which Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace regretted had failed to provide "a context of what they went halfway around the world to do," the next edition of his show, he announced Sunday, will feature "a list of what we've accomplished there through the blood, sweat and, yes, lives of our military. We think the point is not just that those hundreds of troops died but what they died for." Wrapping up a panel discussion on...

Soldiers In Harms Way Pulling the Plug on Nightline Airing tonight was a broadcast that Ted Koppel and ABC's Nightline said was nothing political. An hour long reading of the names of soldiers killed in the Iraq conflict, according to Koppel and Nightline, was to honor the fallen soldiers. Taking this explanation at its face, the broadcast is still dangerous. Those who don't think so should think again. While we mourn and Koppel reads the names of our fallen soldiers, our enemies will be emboldened and cheer these soldier's deaths. When 700 plus dead U.S. soldiers are put on Nightline's...

ABC-TV journalist Ted Koppel, who caused a firestorm of controversy with his plan to read the names of U.S. troops killed in Iraq, today announced that in the interest of balance and fairness next week he will read another list on his show, Nightline. "I would never want anyone to accuse me of bias. After all, I'm a journalist, devoted to accurately portraying world events," said Mr. Koppel. "So, next week I will read the list of Iraqis who were raped, tortured and killed by Saddam Hussein's regime after President George H.W. Bush declared victory in the Gulf War on...

KTRS will air audio from tonight's Nightline which has been pre-empted from TV broadcast in St. Louis. Nightline will air at 10:35pm and will include the reading of the 500+ names of US soldiers killed in Iraq.

"Nightline" divides audience HARTFORD, Conn. - (KRT) - ABC newsman Ted Koppel's plan to devote tonight's "Nightline" to reading the names of the more than 700 U.S. servicemen and women killed in action in Iraq has stirred anger and praise, and prompted one media company to bar its stations from airing the program. Maryland-based Sinclair Broadcast Group said Thursday that the unique program is politically motivated and ordered its seven ABC affiliates, including WGGB in Springfield, Mass., not to air it. "While the Sinclair Broadcast Group honors the memory of the brave members of the military who have sacrificed their...

Press Release Source: Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. Sinclair Responds to Senator McCain Friday April 30, 2:17 pm ET BALTIMORE, April 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The following is a copy of Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.'s (Nasdaq: SBGI - News) letter sent today to Senator McCain regarding the Company's decision not to air this evening's episode of "Nightline." April 30, 2004 Senator John McCain Chairman United States Senate Commerce Committee U.S. Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator McCain: I am writing to respond to your letter to me regarding Sinclair Broadcast Group's decision not to air this evening's episode of "Nightline." Let me...

Sinclair Stations to Boycott 'Nightline' Tribute LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A major television chain, the Sinclair Broadcast Group, will bar its ABC-affiliated stations from airing a planned "Nightline" tribute to fallen U.S. troops in Iraq (news - web sites), saying the program is a political statement disguised as news. ABC News plans to devote Friday's entire "Nightline" segment to the tribute, with anchor Ted Koppel reading aloud the names of hundreds of fallen American servicemen and women as their photographs are shown. The network's intentions drew a denunciation from Sinclair, a Baltimore-based owner of 62 television stations in 39 markets...

<p>April 30, 2004 -- Tonight, ABC's "Nightline" will do something unique: It will use its entire program to show the name and face of each U.S. service member killed in Iraq, including those who died in accidents and other non-combat situations. There's nothing inherently wrong with this. Done right, it could serve as a moving tribute to those young Americans who have died in the War on Terror.</p>

Asking if you agree with this local station to pull Nightline special on name reading.

Ted Koppel and Nightline are using the co-appearance of President Bush and Vice President Cheney in front of the 9-11 Commission today to spend a half-hour painting Dick Cheney as the puppetmaster of George W. Bush.Three-plus years into his presidency, the mainstream press still misunderestimates President Bush.

Rich Noyes, the MRC's Director of Research, will appear tonight on CNBC's Capital Report which airs from 7 to 8pm EDT. Topic: The controversy over Nightline's plan to devote the entirety of Friday's program to reading the names, of all those killed in combat in Iraq, as pictures of them are displayed on screen. Today, the MRC distributed this message to radio talk show hosts: Honoring the Dead, or Exploiting Them? Will ABC News use dead American soldiers as props in a one-sided anti-war program? On Friday's Nightline, Ted Koppel is slated to read the names of more than 500...

NewsBlues.com is reporting [no free link] that Sinclair Broadcast Group has ordered its ABC-affiliated stations not to carry tomorrow's "Nightline," which will air the names and photos of soldiers who have been killed in combat in Iraq. Sinclair General Counsel Barry Faber tells the site: "We find it to be contrary to the public interest." The boycott will affect eight ABC-affiliated Sinclair stations.

"Nightline" devotes show to reading war dead names Reuters, 04.27.04, 7:20 PM ET LOS ANGELES, April 27 (Reuters) - A U.S. television news program is to dedicate an entire broadcast to a reading of the names of American servicemen and women killed in action in Iraq. Ted Koppel will read aloud the names of those killed since the March 2003 start of the Iraq war on the Friday edition of ABC News "Nightline", the network said on Tuesday. The reading will be accompanied by a photograph of each person named. While "Nightline" and other U.S. TV news broadcasts have reported...

TONIGHT'S FOCUS: At long last, National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice testified this morning before the 9/11 Commission about what the White House knew and when they knew it. Time and time again the questions and answers returned to the testimony and public statements of former counterterrorism chief, Richard Clarke. Tonight we'll let you hear the highlights of Rice's testimony - and Ted Koppel's guest will be the man in question: Richard Clarke. For weeks the White House insisted that what happened today before the 9/11 Commission could not, would not happen. Condoleeza Rice, the sitting National Security Advisor, could not...

Nightline Daily E-Mail February 25, 2004 TONIGHT'S FOCUS: Whether by cunning marketing, runaway buzz and controversy or the inherent power of the story, Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ" opens today to enormous advance sales. The film will open on over 4,500 screens in the U.S.--more than "The Lord of the Rings." Much of the advance ticket sales are driven by the phenomenon that has developed around the film. While many Christians and Jews remain concerned about Gibson's depiction of Christ's crucifixion story, some Christian churches are seeing the film as a powerful tool for marketing of another...

[Paraphrasing--ABC News played a clip of Gergen saying that the president left the clear impression that the thread was imminent. Link takes you to Gergen's page, where it simply states he'll be pushing this lie on Nightline tonight.]

Veteran's tale a true horror storyBy KENNETH SMITH I am U.S. Army veteran receiving medical help at the Lebanon VA Medical Center. I ponder my future. In 1998, I was living in Schwabisch-Hall, Germany, with my wife and two children. On Dec. 31, 1998, we held a New Year's party. Some of my wife's family came over. Around 2 a.m., my wife and I went to bed feeling good about how much fun we had. On Jan. 1, 1999, my daughter, Samantha, came into our room as a happy little 3-year-old would. She said "ma-ma, pa-pa, let's make breakfast." I...

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, UNITED STATES The danger to our country is grave. COLIN POWELL, SECRETARY OF STATE There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. TED KOPPEL, ABC NEWS That was then. COLIN POWELL 85 hundred liters of anthrax. 500 tons of chemical weapons. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH 500 tons of SARIN, mustard, and VX nuclear agent. DAVID KAY, FORMER CHIEF US WEAPONS INSPECTOR Saddam is so far along in his nuclear weapons program. Do you want to continue living with that risk which will only grow with time? TED KOPPEL This is now....

<p>DURHAM, N.H., Dec. 9 -- In a third-floor conference room in Washington last Thursday afternoon, Ted Koppel decided it was time to talk about the pink elephant in the room.</p> <p>Ten ABC News staffers had gathered to prepare questions for yet another presidential debate, and a consensus emerged that more queries about health care or Iraq would simply produce the same scripted sound bites that had bored viewers to tears in the previous debates. The solution, they decided, lay not in the black-bindered, color-coded briefing book they had produced but in the lopsided nature of the contest itself.</p>

We've been discussing FOXNEWS and Roger Ailes success in the last day. I know a lot of people here have expressed that they are getting bored and tuning away from FOXNEWS in primetime because O'Reilly gets more and more difficult to watch, Colmes is too annoying, and Gretta just covers whatever is the fad for the day: Sharks, Kobe, whatever. What I think FOXNEWS needs is a documentary or investigative program like Frontline, 20/20, or Nightline. I know they tried this on FOX with Sheppard but they took the entirely wrong approach by focusing on Jerry Springer type topics. The...

"Let's see if your lies match up with your partner's lies." That trademark line, uttered by NYPD Blue's "Det. Andy Sipowicz" (Dennis Franz) to one or another suspect about to be interrogated, would be a fitting opening for the interrogation of any number of New York Times reporters and editors. But if I had my pick of TV detectives to grill the mopes at the Times, I'd call "Det. Frank Pembleton" (Andre Braugher) of the late series Homicide: Life on the Streets, up from Baltimore. Pembleton, a master interrogator and avenging angel ("We speak for the dead"), is particularly adept...

Marla Ruzicka, 26, from the San Francisco Bay Area, has been in Baghdad since the day Saddam's statue fell in the city center. She has been doing a headcount of the Iraqi injured and the dead. She's found more than she expected. She has formed her own nonprofit organization, called the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, or CIVIC. She has organized 150 surveyors to fan out across Iraq. So far, they say they have documented 620 civilian deaths in Baghdad, 256 in Najaf, 425 in Karbala and as many as 1,100 in Nasiriyah. It is only a preliminary count....