Posted on 01/12/2005 11:45:45 AM PST by Interesting Times
As the special report on the scandal at CBS and "60 Minutes" was circulating around town, I was at a long-scheduled editorial dinner with the leader of the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, John O'Neill. Among the guests at the table was Jerry Corsi, co-author, with Mr. O'Neill, of the book that halted Senator Kerry's surge in the polls, "Unfit for Command." The Swiftboat Veterans for Truth is the 527 group that ran the advertisements on television and the Internet that so startled the American people and, many believe, did as much as any other single factor in delivering a second term to the president.
I've attended at a lot of editorial dinners over the years, but it is hard to recall one as enjoyable - or illuminating - as the sitting with Mr. O'Neill. One can call the story of the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth the flip side of the tarnished coin of CBS. One was the vaunted network that flubbed the story of a generation. The other was a true band of brothers, professional newsmen not, who had a story that none of the big institutions wanted. They put it on the air themselves with the contributions of more than 150,000 ordinary Americans and discovered that it resonated powerfully with an electorate that had grown tired of being treated with cynicism.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Thanks for the ping. We are all forever in your debt.
But, keep all your notes...Kerry is said to having a makeover and will try for the Whitehouse again.
"They say he carried a wallet and money, but neither was taken. Ngor clearly had political enemies from his activities in Cambodia, something police were said to be checking."
"The three gang members were charged with killing Ngor during a robbery in an alley behind his Chinatown area apartment in February 1996."
Ummmm....huh?
On the 25 February, 1996, Dr Haing S Ngor was gunned down in front of the Chinatown apartment he used in Los Angeles. Just two days later, three 19-year-old boys, members of a local gang, were arrested and charged with the murder, which was apparently a simple robbery gone wrong. Haing was shot after refusing to hand over a locket, holding a photo of his late wife.
A wasted life? Not if you take the words of Haing himself. In an interview with the New York Times on the subject of The Killing Fields, Haing is quoted as having said:
"If I die from now on, OK! This film will go on for a hundred years."
- Dr Haing S Ngor - 1950-1996
A courageous, tragic figure. Haing, a doctor and obstetrician, was forced to look on helplessly as his wife died during premature labour following a beating received from Khmer Rouge soldiers.
Read more at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/hub/A842979
Another murder to be laid at the door of leftism.
Truly, "liberals'" hands drip with the blood of the innocent.
So, they panicked and didn't take his wallet and money? Could happen, I guess.
And let us not forget, O'Neill's mission had been to expose Kerry's VN lies for at least 30 years.
Indeed..
Video link to O'Neill / Lawerence O'Donnell (eh)"interview". They should've jerked O'Donnell off his chair and threw him out of the building on the spot.
http://www.dailyrecycler.com/blog/2004/10/breakdown.html
Thank you Swifties.
5.56mm
Thank you to the Swifties and everyone who believed in them! I knew they were going to kick butt!
Thank you to the Swifties and everyone who believed in them! I knew they were going to kick butt!
Dith Pran is alive. Still works for the Times and gives lectures~which in his case, should be called "lessons".
Amazing that he was invited there as it was a lefty school.
Wonders never cease.
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