Posted on 10/15/2004 12:09:42 PM PDT by marlon
Statement by John O'Neill on "Nightline" Appearance Author: Dated: Friday, October 15 2004 @ 08:00 AM PDT Viewed: 1485 times 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 separate 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.
-- John O'Neill
I have no idea.
Could get interesting if it is. ;-)
Please tell your husband I said
"Welcome Home Brother"
GREAT GRAPHIC!!!!!
Mind if I steal that??? It's excellent!
Listen to the audio here of O'Neill vs. Koppel (can also download the Dennis Miller/Leno appearance where he says Bush wakes up, scratches himself, and wants to go kill some terrorists if you want by going to the file folder of the site where the clip is hosted):
http://s2r-tech.com/swifty/jo-nl.mp3
Please be my guest.
Thanks!! Will do....
Memo-gate!
I'm volunteering my time to spread the news about an effort to convince Clear Channel Communication to take action against ABC like Sinclair Broadcasting did with Koppel. I think the only way to hurt these people is reducing the market share. Two groups I belong to are doing a couple things.
1. Suggesting Clear Channel dump ABC news feeds in favor of Fax News.
Click this link to send an email Clear Channel Executives.
2. Sending messages of appreciation to Sinclaire's Mark Hyman
Click this link to send Mark Hyman a thank you e-mail.
I don't know if any of this helps but I can't just sit by and do nothing. We're still doing voter reg until Monday and trying to help turn out the vote. Wish there was more I could do. Suggestions?
Can someone tell me where to find VetsCorp on FR? Think they might help? My first post here was ABC - You're fired! Should Clear Channel learn something from Sinclair Broadcasting? but I didn't know where it should go.
He graduated first in his class at University of Texas law school and clerked for Rehnquist (although Nixon may have pulled some strings to get Rehnquist to take him). Now he's a partner in a law firm with his name in it. He is by all accounts an extremely competent and successful lawyer.
He's the perfect political operative: he's a man of honor and skill, who understands politics and how to make a case in a courtroom (how to put arguments together). He's tough enough that he can go on Nightline and duke it out with Ted Koppel. He's got enough charisma to get hundreds of Swift Vets and POWs to join him. And he's not a sleazeball like most political ops, so he isn't going to shoot himself in the foot. He also has ZERO loyalty to George W. Bush, his only goal is taking down Kerry (that sort of focus is imporant for his integrity).
We're not going to see another "Swift Vets"-type group for a long time. They are something special.
""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?" "
I talked to the SacBee editorial guy yesterday for about 30 minutes. He trusted the 3 commies more than the vets.
Just sent Hyman a letter commending his character.
What did you expect??:)
One obvious point is ABC contacted NVN officials weeks in advance who, in turn, probably contacted the villagers and gave them their stories to parrot. sKerry himself said ONE (1) as in "less than 2". So why would the villagers remember the millions of fighters attacking poor ol' sKerry? (so I exaggerate a little).
BTTT!!!!!
powerful words....too bad the old media will ignore them
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