Ted wasn't interested. That's clear. Ted was the one repeating himself. Ted was the one who didn't want to talk one on one. Ted was the one adopting the Communist government of Vietnam as his client in an adversarial proceeding with a professional - arbitrator - in John O'Neill.
He was cross-examining a witness, trying to get the witness to say or admit what he required. That's not 'journalism', whatever that word still means. His wasn't the attempt to get the story, but to debunk John O'Neill, as a personality. The problem was, his complaint was with Kerry. O'Neill kept pointing out - this is all from Kerry's book. Brinkley. Kerry. And Kranish, et al. And the Swifties on both sides. None of them saw anything like what Ted was told by a Communist government that reveres John Kerry as a hero of the revolution.
The one question O'Neill never managed to get out, and maybe should have:
The one question O'Neill never managed to get out, and maybe should have:
WHY DON'T YOU ASK JOHN KERRY, TED?
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I think I will use this question in my emails to Ted and Mark Halperin!