[Alas Babylon!]

As always, soliciting FReeper comments, observations, and opinions.

[Solamente]

John Podesta squirming and interrupting ala Oliphant....

[InterceptPoint]

This Week - Final Score

O'Neill 10

Podesta 0

[Right_in_Virginia]

Thanks for doing this every week.

[Casloy]

Quite a few NON-FOX SwiftBoat Vet appearances. We'll know if they had any impact Monday morning when the Kerry campaign reacts. Pay no attention to polls or media opinion. It'll be the hysteria of the Kerry camp that will tell you how the story is impacting voters.

[Graymatter]

"Vanessa, could you give us an example of a critical decision your father has made?"

All these decades in public service and they have to ask his daughters for this.

Now they're asking Alexandra the same thing. And she's not giving an example.

Now after stammering Alexandra remembers him making up his mind about something during shooting of a documentary.

[TomGuy]

Steffie has Podesta defending Kerry.

So, was Podesta a crewmate of Kerry's, on Kerry's boat, or even a part of the Swift Boat fleet?

Kerry/Dems must be desperate to dredge up old Clintonistas to defend Kerry. Where are the crewmates of Kerry's? Why aren't they out on the talkshow defending Kerry (as O'Neill is out contradicting Kerry)?

[Graymatter]

Schieffer acknowledges that Bush spent enough time in the NG to learn to fly a jet plane. Out of context that sounds nasty but he was being as fair as we can expect, and in the context of his remarks it was complimentary. Implication being, flying jet planes isn't easy.

[TomGuy]

Hurley on FNS---Kerry was near, around, sort of close to Cambodia...

[Trouble is, Kerry used his 'in Cambodia' to decry Nixon for sending troops secretly into Cambodia. If the 'in' becomes 'near' then Kerry's whole reason for the Christmas in Cambodia becomes a lie. Then, Kerry tries the 'working for the CIA' story. So, what happens to all the nearly 50 times Kerry has retold the C in C story during the last 35 years? No matter how they spin the C in C, it comes up that part of the story is a lie.]

[NormsRevenge]

LiL Timmy came out firing with both barrels about the Bush "duplicity" in allthese nasty atacks on the virtuous Kerry.

What a laugher. Timmy shows his true colors. Grills Ken Mehlman for about the first 10 minutes while Tad Devine, Kerry's adviser sits with a smirk on his puss.

Timmy, Timmy, Do YOU see a pattern? .. in the massive amounts spent attacking the Bush-Cheney admin relentlessly, yet question Kerry at all and it's dirty pool.

The Swift Vets are outing the lies.. Kerry is a pathological liar caught in his own web of deciet, and all those who spew their garbage supporting him are despicable.

[cyncooper]

Wow, Fox segment with Odell and Hurley just finished.

Chris Wallace did a fabulous job.

I have seen Odell before and he is just a terrific man. Solid as a rock and credibility is unquestionable once one has seen him questioned and questioned hard and he answers plainly and clearly.

Hurley comes off as a slimy weasel.

Chris W. really got him nailed down to Kerry standing by the atrocities testimony and pointed out the absurd aspect of the spin that Kerry was just relaying what others claimed was going on.

Well done.

[Libloather]

O'Neill is on the ABC show (whatever it's called) and is ripping Effin' Kerry a new one! I can't WAIT to read this book!

[TomGuy]

Those mean brutes---Kristol and Hume. How dare they almost make Juan cry!!!!

[lol. Juan was nearly in tears by the end of the panel session.]

[Republican Red]

I just finished watching the ABC show with Stephie for the first time in two years. I really cannot stomach Stephanopolus (sp).

I watched to see O'Neill. It was great! To my utter amazement I thought Stephie was pretty fair. O'Neill kicked Podesta's butt. My first thought was why Podesta would be chosen to go out and debate. It reeked of weakness on the democrats part. He was all they could dredge up to defend Kerry. Could they not find one Vet involved that would debate for Kerry? Podesta wasn't there and it was obvious he wasn't. All that Podesta brought to the table was George Bush served in the National Guard. That seemed to be the answer for every question.

O'Neill is just too credible for the opposition. The "Sellout" ad will be devastating to Kerry campaign. Podesta could just stammer "Bush was in the National Guard" all the while Kerry's own words were being used against him.

[jayef]

Does anyone think that NBC and CNBC are going to run clarifications or retractions of the OBVIOUS AND EGREGIOUS ERROR they made yesterday evening in using Rood's account to impugn the Swiftvets' recollections about Kerry's BRONZE STAR?

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Mommy Heinz!
Help!
Look! What the Harvard Crimson wrote about me in 1970

Published on Wednesday, February 18, 1970
John Kerry: A Navy Dove Runs for Congress
By SAMUEL Z. GOLDHABER
Crimson Staff Writer

"...One time Kerry was ordered to destroy a Viet Cong village
but disobeyed orders and suggested that the Navy Command
simply send in a Psychological Warfare team to be
friend the villagers with food, hospital supplies,
and better educational facilities."


Now my shipmates on the
USS GRIDLEY CG-21
are attacking me.

Click Here Mommy
and see what
the USS GRIDLEY crew say.

They say I told lies in Tour of Duty
GRIDLEY CREW ARE LIKE
SWIFT BOAT VETS MEANIES!

Mommy : Can I please sell MY real book?
The New Soldier,
By John Kerry
and Vietnam Veterans Against the War


Mommy : Please don't be mad
about my hero Al Hubbard.

Head of Kerry's Vietnam Vets Against the War was Vietnam Vet phony
"Many of the stories were later shown to be fictional. Other so-called Vietnam veterans, such as the executive secretary of VVAW, Al Hubbard, a self-styled poet ("See what you've become, Amerika," ends one of his Vietnam odes),
turned out to have no record of service in Vietnam."


OOPS! I POOPED in my diaper again.

Mommy : Don't take my allowance away.
Mommy : Why does McCain
still campaign with Bush?
Mommy : Why doesn't Al Gore defend me?
He is a Vietnam Vet.

Mommy : OOPS I Pooped again.

Mommy : Why did Hillary
"leak" FBI Files on me?
I even used her famous slogan?

"Kerry entered and abandoned Vietnamese village and slaughtered domestic animals
owned by the civilians and burned down their homes with his Zippo lighter."



It only takes one idiot to raze a village!
(My original response!)

Mommy : Where is Ted Kennedy?

[CaptSkip]

Did you guys notice Krugman's mouth-agape/jaw-drop look on "Snufalupagus" when George Will revealed the news of the September release of a SBVFT "28 minute documentary"?

Krugman at times has a "dumb as a stump", sneaky little s*** look, but he REALLY looked blindsided and worried by that info.

I wish I had a still-store of that image.

[loveliberty2]

A poster observed ""Georgie played both SBVT ads in their entirety without anyone talking over them."


Stephanopoulos was, by far, the fairest interviewer yet.

Whether it's the Clinton connection or his own savvy as to what's happening to Kerry, he did let the Vet position be heard and didn't allow the kind of talkover that the Dems usually do.

It was true on the segment about the economy also.

[pookie18]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196760/posts

[pookie18]

Oops...http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196890/posts

[AUsome Joy]

Bump to read later. Thanks for this post. I never get to watch any of the Sunday talk shows.