Statement from John O'Neil about ABC's Nightline with Ted Koppel Oct 14 [read last paragraph]

redstate.org ^ | Oct 15, 2004 | John O'Neil

[Mike Fieschko]

The following statement from John O'Neil, member of Swift Boat Veterans and POW's for Truth, concerns a news segment that aired on October 14th on ABC's Nightline with Ted Koppel.

"While I have a tremendous amount of respect for Ted Koppel and ABC News I was appalled to learn that ABC News would go to the lengths of traveling to Vietnam to interview three Viet Cong communists in yet a third attempt by ABC to corroborate John Kerry's version of the events that took place on February 28th, 1969.

"I would only ask the American people: 'Who do you trust more, three members of a communist regime that tortured and killed our American troops or a group of more than 280 highly decorated American veterans, who proudly served their country and are now responsible members of their respective communities.

"The number of veterans who support John Kerry's accounts of his military service would not fill one Swift Boat. But instead of sitting down to interview some of the 280 plus members of our Swift Boat organization, ABC News chose to travel to Vietnam taking extraordinary and highly suspect steps to find someone to corroborate John Kerry's story.

"ABC News Nightline has now dedicated three seperate programs to this one incident while ignoring John Kerry's now discredited Senate testimony that he spent Christmas in Cambodia, his receiving a purple heart after all three of the officers required to approve such an issuance rejected his application, or his constantly changing account of the circumstances surrounding his remaining medal, a bronze star.

"Further, one has to wonder why ABC News will not address the serious questions as to why John Kerry only received an honorable discharge through the act of then President Carter, seven years after his discharge, and had to have all of his military citations reissued, on the same day, when he became a United States Senator in 1985. And, finally, why has Nightline found it of no interest to permit any POWs to come on their program to explain why they believe John Kerry betrayed their nation, caused them to be incarcerated for an additional two years and caused them tremendous additional hardship and suffering."

[rwfromkansas]

We will see I guess. There is nothing out so far that proves it.

The Lipscomb piece is pretty damning, but still engaging in largely speculation. Still no smoking gun...yet.

Perhaps the Swifties have that.

[PhilDragoo]

[StAnDeliver]

You know what that last paragraph does for me? It explains why the Clintonistas thought they could play this election on either side and come out ahead. Bush wins (and he will), Hillary is '08 candidate vs. Rudy; if Bush were to lose (he won't), Lurch's discharge disaster conveniently becomes 'public' early in his admin, and Hillary runs right over him in '08 to face Rudy.

[nuconvert]

LoL - Good One

[pyx]

This is all part of their[The Republicans] efforts to get away with as much as possible with the stepped up, renewed efforts to win the election by destroying Senator Kerry at least partly through distortions. -- Halperin Memo Dated Friday October 8, 2004

I've read, re-read and re-read a re-re-read a third time the underlined quote from Halperin above. What I interpret [gotta parse LEFTISTS as usual] it to mean is, 'What is being said about Kerry is FACT with a couple of grammatical and spelling errors'.

So the LEFTIST scum that heads up ABC's "News" Department, seems to openly admit that the charges against Kerry are FACTUAL.

[gsrinok]

I wonder if this is going to be the "October Surprise."

[STOCKHRSE]

Titillating is what it is.....

[optimistically_conservative]

Kevin Drum: It's impossible to say for sure who Khoai spoke to in March (Reese doesn't know if Khoai was one of the villagers he talked to), but it appears it probably wasn't someone from SBVT. My apologies for jumping to conclusions about this.