Federal Election Commission Chairman Defends Swift Boat Ads

News.google.com ^ | 08/24/04 | Bloomberg

[Pikamax]

Says for Kerry group to complain is a little bit absurd.

[Pikamax]

Bloomberg via News.google.com

[concerned about politics]

Says for Kerry group to complain is a little bit absurd.

Yes, it is.

[Belisaurius]

Kerry jabs...and connects! Down goes Kerry! Down goes Kerry!

Kerry is so funny it's hard to remember how serious this all is.

[headsonpikes]

LOL!

Kerry - the absurd candidate!

[Waco]

Geee, doesn't anyone get it? The only vet with rights in this Nation is John Kerry. See? Puke?

[Spok]

Kerry expects the helping hand he gets from the media to be every where. His expectations are making him look foolish.

[BunnySlippers]

Good link. Thanks.

[backhoe]

To read the latest on the Franchurian Candidate's bizzare exploits, click the picture, goto "last," and work backwards:

If you would like to help the Swift Boat Vets ( as I have, and I urge all to do-- even a few dollars will help ) kindly click on this logo:

If, perchance, the top "click the pic" link is not visible, click here:

-John Kerry- some selected, informative links...--

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I want you to help the SwiftVets-- here's how:

1st download the videos and burn them onto a CD or DVD and Hand Them Out! Take lots of extra copies.

Q. Could you please help those of us that are neophytes how to copy?

Both ads are on the SwiftVets.com site. Under "topics" click on "Latest News".Then, see newbie guides at http://www.doom9.org/guides.htm

( Kudos to Fuzzy! )

To read the latest on the Franchurian Candidate's bizzare exploits, click the picture, goto "last," and work backwards:

If you would like to help the Swift Boat Vets ( as I have, and I urge all to do-- even a few dollars will help ) kindly click on this logo:

[cyncooper]

The Bush campaign said a member of its National Veterans Steering Committee, former Air Force Colonel Ken Cordier, appears in a commercial for Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The Bush campaign did not know in advance that Cordier was working for both Bush and the veterans group, said Steve Schmidt, a spokesman for Bush's campaign.

Interview: ex-POW in Kerry flap speaks out (Ken Cordier)

excerpt:

UPI: "What did you do with the campaign's veterans steering committee?"

Cordier: "Well, I didn't do anything except have my name on the list until June of this year. In June of this year I was asked to give a surrogate speech to a VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) convention in Colorado. I did that and since then I had no contact with them. ... I had no further contact with them until this situation came up here this last weekend."

~snip~

Q: "Were you paid in any way by the Bush-Cheney campaign?"

A: "Absolutely not."

Q: "Were you paid in any way by the Swift Boat vets?"

A: "No. This is strictly a voluntary effort."

~snip~

Back to the article in your post:

John O'Neill, a member of Swift Boat Veterans, debated Kerry on the Dick Cavett Show in 1971. O'Neill was enlisted by President Richard Nixon and then-White House counsel Charles Colson, who later went to prison for his role in the Watergate scandal that led to Nixon's 1974 resignation.

FGS. O'Neill is heard on the Nixon tapes telling Nixon that he, John O'Neill, had voted for Humphrey. It is beyond the ken of the media to comprehend being united as Americans over party lines.

And be sure to throw Chuck Colson in and his prison sentence for good measure. It helps to cast aspersions on O'Neill in a vague and subtle way.

What good little propagandists.

Straightforward and honest reporting is all we are asking for. Not this mish mash of information that gets molded, some emphasized and taken out of context, some omitted, to hurt one side and help the other.

[Eastbound]

'Mommy, I went to the FEC and they told
me to 'SHOVE IT!' WAAAAHHHHHH!

[concerned about politics]

Little Johnny is such a cry baby.
"I'm telling, and you're going to get in trouble!"

[SandRat]

but I complained to a Clinton appointee on the FEC and he's the chairman!

Terry MacAwful and the Kerry/Edwards ticket as last seen in public.

[mylife]

``For the Kerry group to be complaining'' when Democratic donor-funded groups have raised much more ``seems a little bit absurd,'' said Smith, who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton, a Democrat.

Well I'll be jiggered...