Swiftboats: Schedule of Swift Veteran Appearances

Swiftboat Veterans for Truth ^

[gilliam]

Monday, August 9, 2004

7:40 am: Former Kerry crew member Steve Gardner will appear on WOR radio in New York.

8:40 pm: Steve Gardner will appear on the Kevin Miller Show (talk radio, WPTF).

11:00 am: Steve Gardner will appear on Battle Line with Alan Nathan (talk radio, national).

8:00 pm: Steve Gardner will appear on the Bill O'Reilly Show (Fox News cable TV, national).

9:00 pm: John O'Neill will appear on the Hannity & Colmes (Fox News cable TV, national).

---------- Wednesday, August 11, 2004

8:05 am: Steve Gardner will appear on the Brad Crantz Show (talk radio, Burlington, NC).

[kabar]

I believe Leston was the only Doctor at the facility, so Carreon might have treaty Kerry but Leston was the Doctor in charge and this isn't hearsay as the "nonpartisan group" Factcheck.org alleges.

You are correct. Letson was the only doctor and J.C. Carreon was a Hospital Corpsman (HN) who worked for Dr. Letson and filled out the treatment form and signed it. Carreon died in 1992. Letson is adamant that he treated Kerry.

Kerry can't have it both ways. In order to qualify for a PH, you mustmeet the following condition:

A wound is defined as an injury to any part of the body from an outside force or agent sustained under one or more of the conditions listed above A physical lesion is not required, however, the wound for which the award is made must have required treatment by a medical officer and records of medical treatment for wounds or injuries received in action must have been made a matter of official record.

There was no casualty report or after action report filed on Kerry's first PH, which he somehow got approved three months from the date of the injury (Dec 2) and after his transfer to another unit.

The Annenberg Fact Check organization is not a non-partisan organization despite its claim to be one. There are plenty of errors in their fact sheet about Kerry and his medals.

[longtermmemmory]

YES!!!!!!!!BUMP BUMP BUMP!!!

[stop_fascism]

According to David Brock:

Corsi is also a frequent participant in FreeRepublic.com's online forums, posting under the pseudonym "jrlc" since 2001. (Click here to read a full set of Corsi's posts; click here to read the post in which "jrlc" admits to being Jerome Corsi.)

To jrlc - Makes me proud to be here. Keep up the good work!

[no dems]

One of them, not sure of the name, will be on Pat Robertson's 700 Club tomorrow, Tuesday, August 10.

[cyncooper]

Prediction: O'Reilly will NOT be sympathetic to Gardner.

I agree. I anticipate smirks alternating with disapproval while hectoring him about how wrong he and these men are to speak up.

[cyncooper]

Thanks!

[CaptainK]

How did Brock find this out?

[socal_parrot]

I heard Gardner on with Michael Savage on Friday and he was great!

[jveritas]

"The anti-war record of John Kerry. It's irrefutable."

You are absolutely correct.

There are tons of videos and audio records about Kerry treasonous anti-war record. This will bring a swift end to Kerry campaign if it is used in a smart way. I have no doubt about it.

[stop_fascism]

Corsi discusses it on a previous thread. Click on the "Brown Book" link in the original article for more information.

[americanmother]

Will be on the 700 club tomorrow.

[mwl1]

This will bring a swift end to Kerry campaign if it is used in a smart way.

Very clever!

[Lady GOP]

O'Reilly will give him a fair opportunity to speak his mind. Dont agree with O'Reilly or any of the others 100% of the time.

[gilliam]

cool, but they really need to get on shows that moderates watch

[TimPatriot]

Don't underestimate the cross audience appeal of Fox. I know two independent, democrat leaning moderates and they both watch O'Reily and H&C. The libs wouldn't hate FoxNews so much if it was only watched by people firmly in the "conservative" camp.

[OPS4]

Some get carried away like the dems who call George W Adolph Hiler, or as a whoopi put it, she pointed at her privat parts and called Bush the infamaous C word while Kerry was sitting right there.

So heated displays of four letter words slip out when the rage sets in on both sides.

Ops4 God Bless America!

[gilliam]

NIGHTLINE: Truth is the First Casualty

Nightline Daily E-Mail
August 9, 2004

TONIGHT'S FOCUS: Service in the Vietnam War, or lack of service, has become an issue in this election. John Kerry is running on his service record, the President is still dogged by questions about his service in the National Guard. Now there are veterans for Kerry, and veterans against him.

I am amazed at how angry people are these days. There is a group out there called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. They have launched an ad attacking John Kerry's service in Vietnam. They have paid to run the ad in only three states, figuring, quite correctly, that they would get lots of free coverage on news shows. Now there are some interesting things about this group. There are connections to the Republican Party, one of the veterans who had written a glowing assessment of Kerry back in Vietnam signed an affidavit attacking him, then sort of retracted that in a newspaper interview, and then apparently retracted the retraction.

Now I say people are angry because we have gotten a number of e-mails, starting the day the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth began their campaign, accusing us of all sorts of bias and worse for not investigating their claims. Whatever happened to patience? We wanted to investigate, but that takes a little time, but these days, unless there is some sort of instant response, it's clearly evidence of a conspiracy, or bias, or worse. Not sure what the "worse" is, but it seemed like a good way to end the sentence. I am increasingly convinced that we have lost something important in this country, and that's the capacity for honest disagreement. These days it's not enough that you have to prove the other person is wrong, you have to attack them and prove that they are a bad person for being wrong.

In any case, we're going to take a look at all this tonight. Correspondent Jake Tapper will take a look at the dispute, the dueling groups of swift boat veterans, and the political connections on both sides. He'll also try to sort out the accuracy of the claims on both sides, although, as I said above, I don't expect that to satisfy anyone. And I don't say that with any happiness. Correspondent Mike Cerre, himself a veteran of Vietnam, will look at the split within the Vietnam veteran community as a whole. And does this dispute matter to other voters?

Michel Martin will anchor tonight. Will we answer people's questions about this? That's certainly our intention. Will we bring back civility to this debate, or any other? I'm not that naïve.

Leroy Sievers and the Nightline Staff
Nightline Offices
ABC News Washington Bureau

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[foreshadowed at waco]

He's a FReeper? ;-)

...thought the same thing myself...lol!

[JustaCowgirl]

Let's hope he isn't having Steve Gardner on so he can do a hit piece and try to shred him on national television. If he does that, O'Reilly is going to be finished with most of his audience.

[alnick]

Brinkley accuses the group of "a smear campaign." He interviewed at least seven of the men, some of whom he portrays harshly. Hoffmann, the Navy's top swift boat commander in Vietnam, is described in the book as "blood-thirsty" and "egomaniacal."

Isn't it interesting that Kerry's defense against the Swiftvets is that they didn't serve with him, yet several of them were written about in Brinkley's biography of Kerry.