Posted on 08/09/2004 9:10:33 PM PDT by Callahan
Live! Nightline is doing a story on the Kerry Vietnam controversy. I notice the correspondent is Jake Tapper, formerly a liberal reporter for Salon. We'll see...
What a snob he is .. managed to get the talking points in though
Well towards the end ABC was somewhat fair
But all in all .. they did a very poor job in their airing the truth tonight
Nightline! - - Har har! That show was a liberal load of DNC talking points for decades! I can hardly believe that thing is still on the air. Is that guy Ted somebody still alive?
I just can't figure out why the so called main stream media has such an aversion to truth.
I feel I've soiled my hands by watching ABC.
I swore to myself I would never watch ABC again.
Why oh Why did I watch again.
I'm going to wash my hands of this.
FRegards...
She wasn't given much time, while the old geezer was allowed to ramble on and on...
What else is new? The very fact that Kerry's statements concerning Vietnam have never been challenged by the Lemmings should tell us something.
Of course the records support Kerry. He wrote them!
That actually never happened. Bush had nothing to do with people trying to expose McCain.
McCain is just bitter that nobody wants him.
I fall for it every time - thinking that truth matters. These people know that the people of America are ignorant, so that throwing caca WILL WORK. We are beginning to see the Clinton era repeated, same techniques and, I fear, same results.
I fall for it every time - thinking that truth matters. These people know that the people of America are ignorant, so that throwing caca WILL WORK. We are beginning to see the Clinton era repeated, same techniques and, I fear, same results.
ABC is the same news network that said homosexual marrige will not, in the end change any votes. ABC glossed over Missouri
Did the vets get to speak?
Did they get to attack the ridiculous "on the boat" BS?
It's astonishing.
Bush is standing on his 4 years as POTUS.
Kerry has decided that he is going to duck his 20 year Senate record and stand only on his 4 controversial months in Nam. Kerry has invited all of this. The Vets have been waiting thirty years to confront him--this isn't complicated.
At first blush, the fact that Kerry only served four months should raise eyebrows.
The fact that he obviously lied about being in Cambodia should inspire further scrutiny.
The fact that he was never hurt and won't release his full medical records tends to make the Swifties look very credible.
The fact that he has redefined a bad war (that's what he called it) into the second coming of the Revolutionary War is insane enough. This is freaking nuts to have to wade through.
If they wanted to even play this halfway fair, Kerry would have gotten ripped to shreds tonight. This was one of the most startling unfair pieces of journalism in world history.
I'm simply in awe.
Why did I just watch that? Next time I see some conservative biased reporting on FOX, all I will have to do is remind myself of the pablum that appears on network news and remember that for years that's all there was.
I feel the same way. I was laughing with my wife tonight because I had absolutely no idea what channel ABC was on. I haven't watched anything on ABCNBCCBS since I can remember...until tonight. Now I remember why. Back to forgeting what channel they're on. It's no wonder their ratings just keep falling.
Just turn the channel back to FOX news, the only true news channel.
The can control media heads.
If they put a swiftie they have to do a story about the events in Viet Nam. from the thread they reported everything BUT what happened there.
No commanding officers asking kerry to leave.
No eyewitness accounts.
No chocolate chip cookie eating before the mine collision.
Nothing but DNC talking points.
I know, that was such madness. They are counting on the total ignorance of the masses. I hope a lot of folks watched this and saw the motley crew of Pro Kerry vets they got-- didn't they also seem to outnumber the people who had problems with his service? It really looked like that to me--which we know is counter to all the polls.
This is shameless propaganda. What a nasty, dishonest piece of "journalism" that was.
At least it was pushed back half an hour on the east coast by football.
I expect nothing but a hitjob from the liberals in the press. I would be surprised even if they interviewed one of the swift boat vets against Kerry. The usual MO is to just interview the liberal attackers of their veracity.
Did anyone read a link on Breaking News about an hour ago that was saying there was a rumor on a radio station on WA that al-Sadr had been captured? I tried to check back and I can't find it?????
That was dissapointing on so many levels. They didn't even try to get into the debate much at all and then they brought on two talking heads at the end. That Habersham dude was so boring he put me to sleep.
I give Nightline an F on handling the issue.
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