[FairOpinion]

Ted couldn't have been so stupid not to know, that in a communist country people aren't just allowed to talk to foreign reporters and say what they want.

The whole thing was a put up job by the Vietnamese communist government.

Ted, as Kerry did in 1971 was spouting exactly what the communist Vietnamese government wanted them to.

And Koppel calls himself a journalist. How pathetic. It's actually even worse than what Dan Rather did.

[capitan_refugio]

"Ted couldn't have been so stupid not to know, that in a communist country people aren't just allowed to talk to foreign reporters and say what they want."

"I do not claim to know what ignorant men are sure of."

Here's another thing. I was in a traffic accident in 1976. I remember how it happened (a guy ran a red light), I remember what he was driving. I remember what I felt in my car. I remember what I said to him after the accident. But I'll be damned it I remember the exact date of the accident. And I'm not an uneducated peasant out in the rice paddies.

[Deb]

And just like Dan Rather, Koppel actually demanded O'Neill address the substance of the comments made by the Communist Viet-cong "peasants" even though their charges were obviously phony which O'Neill had just proved! Koppel even said the old man and his wife disagreed on what happened.

What a piece of crap. My email congratulated Koppel on living up to the Mark Halperin memo.

[mykroar]

Agreed.

This is supported by the fact that they couldn't get in "at first." The government was getting the story straight first.

And I also agree with the gist of most of the posts here - it seems unlikely they are even in the right location.

[TigersEye]

The whole thing was a put up job by the Vietnamese communist government.

I sincerely doubt that the Vietnamese government has any idea what would or wouldn't be useful for ABC or John Kerry. I suspect their part was a simple "give them full cooperation." ABC supplied the script.