Posted on 10/15/2004 4:59:25 AM PDT by 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."
I've been stating this over and over! How can Americans vote for a man who has his picture in the Communist War Musuem in Ho Chi Minh City as helping to defeat America. The world has gone crazy. And throwing his medals/ribbons (who can believe him) away and his testimony. How can he even be TIED with Dubya? God help us.
Why read the transcript when you can see the program (complete with commercials) yourself?
http://news.globalfreepress.com/movs/wonk/ABC/NightlineSwiftBoatVetLiars.wmv
I was really hoping that the witnesses weren't there to support O'Neil - it concerned me that peasants would remember one specific day out of thousands and a handful of vets out of thousands during the many years of that war.
It was just too far-fetched and I was concerned about the wisdom.
I was relieved when I read the witnesses were Communists supposed to be the Kerry support!
snicker, snicker...
bttt
ping
I don't see a big difference.
O'Neill's last paragraph, above, is fascinating. I have hypothesized this for months and believe there is good circumstantial evidence to support it. But, I haven't found direct evidence. I hope O'Neill will spring what he has in a timely manner and on a good news day. The ultra-left wing media will gladly spend all day on Michael Jackson's hangnail if it meant not covering proof of Viet Cong Kerry's termination from the USNR under other than honorable conditions.
And, of course, in view of Kerry's refusal to be honest with America and release his military records, any ideas why he would do so is fair game. Note an extension, not only is he hiding something so terrible, negative and unAmerican that it's release would cause him to lose the election, it would also require his to resign from the Senate.
If he's in the Communist Museum, then how can Koppel say these peasants don't know anything about him?
That makes no sense. He's running for the President of the US, and Koppel's witnesses are Communists.
Does he think the man who has business in Vietnam wouldn't have contact with them, or is he saying they can't read?
This makes no sense.
"once we've checked things as thoroughly as we can, we're in the business of reporting what we learned, not concealing it."
BS! Here's the TRUTH
"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."
I have read that JF'nK's brother, Cameron, was awarded contracts with Hanoi just after JF'nK's whitwash of the Vietnam POWs congressional committee review in the 90s. Was the included in Mr. Koppel's NightLine report?
In "Unfit for Command" they have pictures of that picture (Jane Fonda is in there too)in the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City. And also witnesses who went in there more than once just to make sure and to take the above stated pictures. I know, I find it totally unbelievable. I think the Swiftees should have put THAT in one of their ads (maybe they did and I didn't see it). If you have a chance, read (even at the library) "Unfit for Command", powerful, powerful stuff.
The Soros connection "Remember that infamous Oct. 8 memo from ABC News political director Mark Halperin, which instructed ABC correspondents to slant their reportage in John Kerry's favor? " conservative author Richard Poe said on his blog (www.RichardPoe.com). "Well, it turns out that Halperin's father is none other than Morton H. Halperin, head of George Soros' Open Society Policy Center. Lowell Ponte reveals Mark Halperin's Soros connection in [yesterday's] FrontPageMagazine.com, in a stunning expose titled, 'The ABC's of Media Bias.' " Ohio ruling In a victory for the Democrats, a federal judge ruled yesterday that Ohio voters who show up at the wrong polling place on Election Day can still cast ballots as long as they are in the county where they are registered. U.S. District Judge James Carr blocked a directive from Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, a Republican, who recently announced that poll workers must send voters to their correct precinct. The judge said voters who show up at the wrong polling place after moving without notifying the elections board, and those whose names cannot be found on the registration rolls, should be able to cast provisional ballots there, the Associated Press reports. (Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
LOL! Looks like ABC gave them the title for the internet clip as well.
"Ted CERTAINLY read Mark's memo."
And did you happen to see the following? Talk about an incestuous bunch!
Inside Politics
By Greg Pierce THE WASHINGTON TIMES
http://www.washtimes.com/national/inpolitics.htm
The Soros connection
"Remember that infamous Oct. 8 memo from ABC News political director Mark Halperin, which instructed ABC correspondents to slant their reportage in John Kerry's favor? " conservative author Richard Poe said on his blog (www.RichardPoe.com).
"Well, it turns out that Halperin's father is none other than Morton H. Halperin, head of George Soros' Open Society Policy Center. Lowell Ponte reveals Mark Halperin's Soros connection in [yesterday's] FrontPageMagazine.com, in a stunning expose titled, 'The ABC's of Media Bias.' "
And the beat goes on, and the beat goes on, and the beat goes on, and the beat goes on. (Thank you Sonny)
It's "whack a mole" in the media time. I only offer this unsolicited opinion because I believe it so strongly:
KERRY WILL BE OUTED-HIS RECORDS LEAKED, AND IT WILL HAPPEN BEFORE 02NOV.
In fact, if I had a web-site and PayPal, I would already be running the futures market on this event.
But it's still not working.
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