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.
Bogus. What a juvenile scam job.
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?
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.
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!
I'm looking for a tape to catch it when it airs here. Apparently O'Neil whipped koppel's butt.
Ted spent the segment shouting over Mr. O'Neill.
Nice journalism, Ted.
I have many friends in/from Canada.
Ted ain't one of 'em.
ABC went all the way to communist Vietnam to help Kerry but Koppel considered it a joke when O'Neil suggested they talk to a group of 250 U.S. combat veterans and former POWs who were tortured by the communists.
If you want to understand how ABC can ignore America's own war heroes and create heroes of our communist enemies, just read 1984.
As of this post I have yet to see this program. However,
I wonder if Koppout would consider asking Vietnamese peas-
ants if the Viet Cong ever committed war crimes? Somehow,
I doubt that the answer would be in the affirmative.