Posted on 10/14/2004 9:07:29 PM PDT by unbalanced but fair
ABC Nightline now in Vietnam trying to defend Kerry by interviewing Vietnamese. Also arguing with John O'Neill.
The swift vets are coming, their sails are in site!
Sorry about the typos. I was so upset I think I was shaking!
"You've been had Ted."
O'Neill stuck to his guns. It was a lively interview. Koppel was his usual smug self.
O'neil did a fantastic job of stopping the propaganda reterect of Koppel...Koppel would not let him talk about anything than one incident and O'Neil by far won this round. Even quoting from the swiftboat book and Kerrys own account in VN...Koppel tried to show a very slanted show and actually I felt uncomfortable watching O'Neil being sabotaged by Koppel...what a shame and God Bless the Swifties!! I was proud of O'Neil tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!
O'neil did a fantastic job of stopping the propaganda reterect of Koppel...Koppel would not let him talk about anything than one incident and O'Neil by far won this round. Even quoting from the swiftboat book and Kerrys own account in VN...Koppel tried to show a very slanted show and actually I felt uncomfortable watching O'Neil being sabotaged by Koppel...what a shame and God Bless the Swifties!! I was proud of O'Neil tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!
John Kerry in essence formally endorsed tonight by the communist dictators he helped bring to power. Disgusting that he's even in this presidential race. I fear for my country.
"First, the Vietnam gov't would not let us in. Then they amazingly did let us in. We used their maps. Why would they lie to us?"
Not watching. Dont want to puke. We got bigger fish to fry. I mean, we got to get to the friends and family and co-workers, et al... about how it really is, and what is really true. One at a time adds up.
was there only one battle on thoses shores in all those years?? how the heck can they pretend to know all this stuff 35 years later? duh? go Mr. O'Neil!!!! you are good!
Bogus. What a juvenile scam job.
howdy doody is another lib rat...these media comrades
wouldnt know the truth if it was firmly attached to their
@ss.
Wow, I just finished watching it and O'Neill really cleaned Koppel's clock!!!
Koppel: (In Essence) "We aren't going to be outdone by Dan Rather! I don't give a damn that these commies' propoganda doesn't even match Kerry's story, The commies had us just like they had Kerry and this is the best we can do. Now why don't you just admit that these two commies are right and EVERY American eyewitness including John Kerry is just a stinking liar?
***First, the Vietnam gov't would not let us in.***
I thought the SAME THING. The ABC crew couldn't get in and then, poof, they were allowed in - no explaination.
Somebody got to them.
I wonder who...
I don't believe that many people would still be alive from that year..or if they were, they would not have remembered one firefight like that..O'Neil was GREAT!!!
You know, I'm only 31 years old so I obviously didn't fight in the Vietnam War. But I was furious at the way Ted Koppel tried to catch John O'Neill in a "gotcha" and I can only imagine how Vets feel.
The one great thing that may come out of this is my sincere belief that Vietnam Veterans who were slandered 3 decades ago were once again riled by this arrogant, smug political hack and will hopefully help deprive John Kerry from the brass ring he's craved all his life.
I think you people are being too hard on Koppel. Besides, I heard that CBS has some memos that back up ABC and Vietnam's version of events.
Ted is a piece of work, guess he would rather take the word of Vietnam peasants then those of honorable men. O'Neil missed his chance when Ted asked why would a bunch of Vietnam peasants make up something about a guy they didn't know. Well heck Ted if they didn't know him, then how did you get the story, how did they know it was Kerry. Not to mention people have pride and the people there maybe wanted to embellish a great war story where they defended off the Americans. Let's see who to believe, Americans or Vietnamese I guess it was tough for Ted to choose since John K was on the American side of this issue. May God Bless us with 4 More years so we can squelch these people.
This is an attempt by ABC to make it appear as though they’ve covered the swift boat charges – but notice Ted warning John O’Neil “we are only going to talk about the Silver Star controversy” – that’s only a small part of what the swifties claim makes Kerry UNFIT!
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