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Live thread: Nightline doing segment on swift vets!
ABC ^ | Me

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...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: abcnews; kerry; swiftboatveterans; unfitforbroadcast; unfitforcommand
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To: Petronski

That is great and so effing true.


41 posted on 08/09/2004 9:19:42 PM PDT by PurpleHeartHaze
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To: Howlin

Are the people who support the "Big Three" that stupid? The frustration continues to mount up in preparation for a November 2 explosion of common sense...


42 posted on 08/09/2004 9:20:00 PM PDT by MontN
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To: Nick Danger

Why don't they point out that those Keyes guys are on his payroll?


43 posted on 08/09/2004 9:20:44 PM PDT by Howlin (Saving Private Hamster)
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To: Dr Snide

Kerry needs to be brought up on charges of treason.


44 posted on 08/09/2004 9:20:57 PM PDT by Merry
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To: Callahan

What happened to Kerry's pronounced Brahman accent so prominent in his congressional testimony tapes??? Did it go the way of his fluent French????


45 posted on 08/09/2004 9:21:02 PM PDT by BlessedAmerican (Pray for our President and those who are fighting to preserve our freedom!)
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To: Callahan

Are the swiftboat people on the show or are they allowed to speak?


46 posted on 08/09/2004 9:21:27 PM PDT by woofie ( It's not an optical illusion. It just looks like one.)
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To: Callahan

You all are surprised that this was going to be a slanted piece in favor of Kerry. I wasn't when I saw who was the reporter doing the piece and refused to watch it. Here's what I posted this afternoon on Traper from the ABC website.

Jake Tapper
ABCNEWS Correspondent, Washington, D.C.

Jake Tapper is an ABCNEWS correspondent based in the network's Washington bureau. He covers a range of national stories.


The author of two books, Tapper has significant print, broadcast, and online experience. He has most recently been the national correspondent for Salon.com, writing on a range of topics from political profiles to the accounting scandal at Enron. Tapper was also a columnist for TALK Magazine, and has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and The Weekly Standard, among many other publications.

He is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Tapper's work was included in The Best American Political Writing 2002.

Tapper has also frequently reported on American popular culture. He was the host of The Sundance Channel's 24 Frame News in 2003 and he was the correspondent for a series of VH1 news specials in 2002.

Throughout 2001, Tapper appeared on the CNN news talk show, Take Five. He has served as a substitute host on a number of CNN programs including The Point, Crossfire, and The Spin Room.

Tapper was the Washington correspondent for Salon.com from March 1999 to March 2002. His writing for Salon.com has received widespread critical acclaim, and Tapper broke a number of stories including candidate President Bush's controversial trip to Bob Jones University during the 2002 presidential campaign. Tapper's reports about Enron were nominated for a 2002 Columbia University School of Journalism online journalism award.

He is the author of Down and Dirty: The Plot to Steal the Presidency, (Little, Brown) a look at the Florida recount, and Body Slam: The Jesse Ventura Story (St. Martin's Press).

Tapper's political comic strip, "Capitol Hell" appeared in Roll Call from 1994 until 2003. He began his journalism career as a senior writer for Washington City Paper. He won a Society of Professional Journalists award for his work there. Tapper is a Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College.


47 posted on 08/09/2004 9:21:37 PM PDT by The South Texan (The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Callahan

Media bastards. Didn't say jack when Bush's Guard service was attacked. Turned the other cheek when Moron made his anti-Bush propaganda movie. Now a group of honorable men exercises their 1st Amendment rights and the media goes into convulsions. Oh the horror, the horror....


48 posted on 08/09/2004 9:21:40 PM PDT by No-Compromise Conservative
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Expect a whitewash from Howdy Doody.

I thought it was Alfred E. Neumann.

49 posted on 08/09/2004 9:21:59 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Merry

Hilarious. They're interviewing "random" vets about their feelings towards Kerry, giving the impression there is an even split. All the polls show vets support Bush approx. 60%-40%


50 posted on 08/09/2004 9:22:09 PM PDT by Callahan
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To: Merry

The Swift Veterans book is number one on Amazon right now


51 posted on 08/09/2004 9:22:22 PM PDT by Merry
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To: MontN
Just Imagine!

San Fran vets are liberal!

I wonder why they interviewed them? [sarc]

52 posted on 08/09/2004 9:22:38 PM PDT by Cold Heat (http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=20040531140357545)
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To: Libertarian444
No offense, but why is any of this a surprise to anyone??? Did you really expect anything different??

Of course not. It's an alphabet network. They'd rather it be a he-said she-said story. They are more than happy to gloss over the fact that vets support Bush by a wide margin.

53 posted on 08/09/2004 9:22:48 PM PDT by GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY
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To: Callahan

How repesentative is this group of veterans? ABC tries to portray it as split ddown the middle. Why did they pick McCloskey? Or McCain? How about Duke Cunningham or Sam Johnson?


54 posted on 08/09/2004 9:22:52 PM PDT by kabar
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To: MontN

The earing guy is a little flamboyant. They went and got total jerkos -- a total unrepresentative sample of vets.

What is up?

I am in bleeping awe.


55 posted on 08/09/2004 9:23:09 PM PDT by PurpleHeartHaze
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To: PurpleHeartHaze

Probably all gays.


56 posted on 08/09/2004 9:24:06 PM PDT by Cold Heat (http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=20040531140357545)
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To: kabar

The people at ABC just declared this won't change anyone's vote. I disagree with them. People need to know the plotting, conniving, dishonorable Kerry for who he really is.


57 posted on 08/09/2004 9:24:26 PM PDT by Merry
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To: PurpleHeartHaze

Welcome to the USSA.


58 posted on 08/09/2004 9:24:30 PM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: No-Compromise Conservative

You nailed it.

Who has us re-fighting Vietnam?
KERRY, KERRY, KERRY.

That long-faced, traitorous SOB has us mired in Nam.

This is freaking beyond comprehension!!!


59 posted on 08/09/2004 9:24:41 PM PDT by PurpleHeartHaze
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To: PurpleHeartHaze

Here's a picture of Sean Kilcoyne (in pink) with Country Joe (front row, white hat) and other anti-war creeps at Country Joe's website.

Remember Country Joe and the Fish at Woodstock: "What are we fightin' for? Don't ask me I don't give a damn. Next stop is Vietnam."

60 posted on 08/09/2004 9:24:42 PM PDT by Petronski (I'm not always cranky.)
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