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To: LindyBill who wrote (77715)	10/15/2004 5:10:00 AM
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Nightline examining Kerry Vietnam award. By: krempasky · Section: Breaking News - REDSTATE ABC's Nightline has sent a reporting crew all the way to Vietnam to investigate the circumstances under which John Kerry was awarded a Silver Star. Apparently that report will air this evening. Will this help President Bush? I doubt it. Will it hurt the already-hobbling mainstream media? I think it will. I'm looking forward to it with very low expectations, and as I get more information, I'll update this post. Update [2004-10-14 19:58:26 by krempasky]: Oh boy, are we looking at KoppelGate? We might be. John O'Neil was interviewed for the Nightline piece - this evening. For five minutes. Think about that. Nightline can send a crew to Vietnam to interview former members of a Communist regime, but they get around to interviewing a guy who was there - who leads a group of 280 American soldiers, sailors, and airmen who where there - AN HOUR AND A HALF BEFORE THE SHOW AIRS? On top of that - as far as I know, NOT one other Kerry critic was interviewed for the piece. For an organization willing to invest a truckload of money to get to the bottom of the story, they sure act like a PR firm trying to shore up Kerry's story. Update [2004-10-14 23:8:29 by krempasky]:Ok, so it was the hatchet job I expected. O'Neill got some shots in, but my earlier objections remain. Read on for John O'Neil's statement. Who do you trust, Ted? (as an aside, most of my objections to the Sinclair broadcast just evaporated) Posted On: Oct 14th, 2004: 19:46:19, Not Rated 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."