Looking for Video or Audio of May 6, 2001 Kerry Apearance on Meet The Press

2-16-04

[jmstein7]

This May 6, 2001 segment is the one where Russert plays the 1971 clip of Kerry saying:

Yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire. I used 50 calibre machine guns, which we were granted and ordered to use, which were our only weapon against people. I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages. All of this is contrary to the laws of warfare, all of this is contrary to the Geneva Conventions. . .

This is an extremely important segment, and we mustn't let the media Deep 6 it before the public has a chance to see it.

So, if anyone has it or can find it, please let me know.

[jmstein7]

BUMP!

[KQQL]

THE KERRY NETWORK WILL NOT RELEASE THE TAPE.....

NBC IS AWOL ON THE TAPE.

[weegee]

Unfortunately for NBC and Kerry, the transcripts have already been released.

[BigSkyFreeper]

NBC probably has it, and they won't release it for fear of killing Kerry's candidacy.

[jmstein7]

Somebody somewhere MUST have a copy... maybe even out on the internet?

[onyx]

Transcript available? You're good, at least you have the date. I'm trying to think...

*pinging expert researchers*

[flashbunny]

Have you contacted the MRC?

[Plutarch]

NBC needs a major Freep to get it to release the video of Kerry's appearance.

[jmstein7]

I have the transcript... it's the actual *audio* Russert plays that I'm after.

[onyx]

You know, Rush has a huge archive. He used to play excerpts from the Sunday shows.

[smoothsailing]

How could kerry, in a boat for 5 months(short tour),have done all that?

No full tour guy will fall for the kerry version.

[Porterville]

Since we are on the subject don't forget the Sam Donaldson interview from April 2001

Wackiest question of the weekend: Sam Donaldson equating the holding accountable of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam with how the U.S. at Nuremberg held individual Nazis accountable, "not just the people who conducted the war."

On Sunday’s This Week Sam Donaldson interviewed the U.S. Senators with Vietnam experience: Chuck Hagel, John McCain, John Kerry and Max Cleland. Picking up on a Washington Post op-ed by Senators Cleland, Hagel and Kerry defending former Senator Bob Kerrey, who last week admitted accidentally shooting and killing civilians in Vietnam in 1969, Donaldson queried the three:

"One line caught my attention. You said, ‘Many people have been forced to do things in war that they are deeply ashamed of later. Yet for our country to blame the warrior instead of the war is among the worst, and regrettably, most frequent mistakes we as a country can make.’ What do you say to people that after World War II we blamed, at Nuremberg and elsewhere, the warriors, not just the people who conducted the war?"

John Kerry replied by recalling how many WW II vets have terrible memories too of civilian atrocities and that in Vietnam civilians were often disguised combatants.

But Donaldson’s premise is preposterous. The Nuremberg trial did not prosecute lieutenants in the field who carried out German Army or Navy orders from above, just the architects and leaders of horrific Nazi policies which, unlike the U.S. goal in Vietnam, was not to free people of tyranny.

[flashbunny]

IIRC MRC actually archives the tapes, so if they have it, they could pull the tape for you (if they are that nice).

[jmstein7]

COuld you send them an email?

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[MeekOneGOP]

Hey, AR ! An fyi bump !

When/if it comes up, someone give me a jingle please !!

Thanks.

[jmstein7]

Hey, all. Give NBC a call at 212-664-4444 (ask for NBC News). I'm curious to see if they give you the same response they gave me: it's lost.

Ask them for a copy. If one of you DOES manage to get one, let us know!

[jmstein7]

Hey, all. Give NBC a call at 212-664-4444 (ask for NBC News). I'm curious to see if they give you the same response they gave me: it's lost.

Ask them for a copy. If one of you DOES manage to get one, let us know!

[TheEaglehasLanded]

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