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Hello all. I just found this site and am making my first post. It's my latest email to O'Reilly and I'm wondering if there are many of you who feel the same way. Bill, I used to watch you for the entire hour; now I watch you for five or ten minutes just to see if you have stepped up to the plate on the Swift Boat story. Now I see you're hoping it will go away. What I hope is that you go away and make room for a real journalist because I'll sure as hell never trust you...

When John Kerry went postal last week, the major media's preferred strategy for dealing with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth -- to ignore them -- went down the toilet.     Mr. Kerry melted down because the Swifties' exposure of Kerry's "Christmas in Cambodia" fantasy has struck a nerve, and is gaining traction, despite the major media's refusal to report on it.     Mr. Kerry has claimed on dozens of occasions -- most notably in a speech on the Senate floor in 1986 -- to have spent Christmas eve, 1968, five miles inside of Cambodia on a mission in violation of international...

It's late August, and someone in America decided it's time to scrutinize John Kerry's life story on television. For a week in Boston, John F. Kerry wrapped himself around a war effort he had spent decades denouncing, and Dan, Peter and Tom sat around and nodded. No one even considered the possibility that Kerry could be -- should be -- challenged on any point of his self-serving history. Then the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth came along and shattered that mythology. Without their TV ads, the pro-Kerry media would have spent the entire election year with their collective fingers in their...

In light of the current torrent of public discussion about John Kerry and his Vietnam record, it can't be too long before the barons of the established mainline media will be dragged into a people's court for a show trial in which they may feel the urge to confess to their insufficiently inquiring journalistic minds. Luckily for them, this is America, and after their confessions there will be no gulags in their future -- only the re-write desk. Mark the calendar. August 2004 is the first time that the major mainline media -- CBSNBCABCNEWYORKTIMESWASHINGTONPOST L.A.TIMESNEWSWEEKTIMEMAGAZINEASSOCIATED PRESSETC. -- ignored a news...

Steve Gardner will not forget the night as long as he lives. It was mid-January 1969. He was manning the double .50 caliber machine-gun mount in Lt. John Kerry's swift boat. "The PCF 44 boat, engines shut off, lay in ambush near the western mouth of the Cua Lon River," writes John O'Neill in his best-seller "Unfit for Command." Kerry was in the pilothouse monitoring the radar. But, Gardner claims, Kerry had given his crew no heads-up when, suddenly, a sampan appeared right in front of them. The swift boat lights were thrown onto the sampan. Kerry, however, still had...

Bush's dirty work August 25, 2004 AN ANGRY group of swift boat veterans has vowed to continue airing its odious ads attacking John Kerry's military service even after many of its claims have been discredited. Now the group is airing a commercial saying Kerry betrayed his fellow Vietnam veterans in his 1971 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when he said, "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" One veteran in the ad, Paul Gallanti, even suggests that Kerry "gave the enemy for free what I and many of my...

A Savannah man in charge of some of John Kerry's boat patrols during the Vietnam War says the young Navy officer's reckless conduct sometimes disrupted missions. "I had a lot of trouble getting him to follow orders," said Tom Wright, who - like Kerry - served on 50-foot Swift Boats that prowled rivers, looked for trouble and often found it. After the Swift boat commander repeatedly balked at his instructions, Wright said, he persuaded a higher-up to transfer Kerry to another unit. Wright said Kerry refused to coordinate the fire of his .50 caliber machine guns with the actions of...

John Kerry’s 80 Day Cook’s Tour August 24th, 2004 The proper duration of individual front line troop deployments in wartime has been debated since the Revolutionary War without any clear conclusion. Our nation’s first Commander-In-Chief frequently despaired over perilously anemic troop strengths as enlistment contracts expired. Sometimes, battle plans were hastily drawn up and launched just in time before waves of militiamen and continentals were to shoulder their rucksacks and head home. WWII deployments, for all practical purposes, were for the duration. US Army troops, Marines and sailors posted virtually anywhere, but especially on the line, could look forward to...

David: Before I get into the questions I had prepared, I noticed in your interview with Jim Lehrer that there was almost conclusive evidence that both Kerry’s first and third Purple Hearts were fraudulent. Are you saying, then, that his Second Purple Heart was not fraudulent? John O’Neill: No, not at all. If we are using our standard of, you know, burden of preponderance of the evidence, the second Purple Heart would fall as fraudulent. It’s just that we couldn’t conclusively prove it was fraudulent, so we took the position that we have no position on the second Purple Heart....

Finally figured it out Posted by McQ I've been bothered by a passage that was contained in a NYT article that all three of us had a go at this last Friday. You remember the one, it was the topic of the day. The NYT entitled it: "Friendly Fire: The Birth of an Anti-Kerry Ad". But in that article there was this paragraph: A damage report to Mr. Thurlow's boat shows that it received three bullet holes, suggesting enemy fire, and later intelligence reports indicate that one Vietcong was killed in action and five others wounded, reaffirming the presence of...

Who is Steve Gardner? Swift Boat Vet "eyewitness" was not present for events leading to Kerry's medals or Purple Hearts Stephen Gardner has been touted by the anti-Kerry group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and by conservative hosts as a singularly authoritative critic with firsthand knowledge of Senator John Kerry's (D-MA) record in Vietnam because Gardner -- unlike all the other members of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth -- actually served on a swift boat that Kerry commanded. Gardner has questioned Kerry's integrity; has claimed personal knowledge of the circumstances leading to Kerry's first Purple Heart; and has spoken with...

After WorldNetDaily's report last week of a discrepancy in John Kerry's personal account of his first Purple Heart, his presidential campaign has backed off on claims that he was wounded from enemy fire.

August 25, 2004ADVERTISINGVeterans' Group Had G.O.P. LawyerBy JIM RUTENBERG and KATE ZERNIKE he Bush campaign's top outside lawyer said he had given legal advice to the group of veterans attacking Senator John Kerry's Vietnam War record and antiwar activism in a book, television commercials and countless appearances on cable news programs.The lawyer, Benjamin L. Ginsberg, said that the group, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, called him in July to ask for his help and that he agreed. He said he had yet to work out payment details with the group and that he might consider doing the work pro bono.Mr....

Here's a letter I received today from Terry Sater, a Vietnam Vet who served with the Mobile Riverine Force in the Mekong Delta during 1968 and 1969. He writes that "I'm not part of a 527. I voted for McGovern, Perot and Bush. I didn't volunteer for Nam. I didn't want to go. I am not a hero. I served with heroes. Kerry has dishonored all of us." Sater said he sent the letter to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, but doesn't expect it will run. It it is reprinted here in its entirety: People don't get it. They point out...

Has Steve Gardner already apeared on Larry Elder Show? its it now 6:52Central time

Interview: ex-POW in Kerry flap speaks out WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- The battle of claims and counter-claims over Sen. John Kerry's service in Vietnam and his later anti-war activism remains at a brisk boil. Kerry accuses a veterans' group attacking him -- Swift Boat Veterans for Truth -- of having illicit ties to the Bush-Cheney campaign, something that President George W. Bush denies. On Friday former POW Ken Cordier, a member of the campaign's veterans advisory committee, was dumped by the campaign when it learned he was appearing in an anti-Kerry ad for the veterans. In an exclusive interview...

This is a transcript of the first 40 minutes of an interview with John O'Neill and Jerome Corsi from the Sean Hannity Show, taped off AM radio on 8/10/04. I've edited out the repeated introductions to each segment. If I have time, I'll transcribe and post the rest of the interview later in another thread. Hannity: Today is the release date for this book, it's called "Unfit for Command--Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry." The authors of this book join us for their first interview, now in studio John O'Neill and Jerome Corsi. Gentlemen thank you for being...

When John Kerry called the Swift Boat Vets for Truth "liars" on August 19, he ignored a point articulated afterwards by his spokeswoman, Stephanie Cutter: "When somebody's attacking your military record, you reach a boiling point, and he reached a boiling point last night," Cutter explained. "When you go and fight in a war, when you spill blood for your country, your instinct is to fight back and defend your record." Cutter was looking at matters from Kerry's angle, but her point works even more powerfully from the point of view of the Swift Boat Vets. That's because even before...

When John Kerry accepted the Democratic presidential nomination 26 days ago, jauntily saluting his Vietnam vet buddies on a stage festooned with American flags, he chose not to mention his role in the antiwar movement that had angered so many comrades. So his enemies in the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have decided to fill in that biographical gap, in an effort to turn the election of 2004 into a replay of 1971. By doing so, they might provide a valuable service to the Bush campaign, which is seeking to strip Kerry of his patriotic imprimatur. The anti-Kerry vets -...

[snip] JOHN O'NEILL: Jim, one other thing, they can look at swiftvets.com, which is the web site that has a great deal of information on it. JIM LEHRER: Is there a web site that's comparable to that? I'm sure the Kerry -- TOM OLIPHANT: Yes, it's called the daily press, which is the most difficult thing for these guys to deal with. JIM LEHRER: All right. Thank you both very much. JOHN O'NEILL: Thank you very much.