Holy-moly, don’t know how many of you saw Nightline last night, but after months of whining that Swift Vet Master Shill, John O’Neill was not getting the network exposure that he thought he somehow deserved (how anyone could suggest that group didn’t get enough exposure is beyond me, but anyway)…O’Neill finally got his chance last night. And, man, was it one for the record books!
O’Neill had a complete meltdown on live TV! The Nightline report began with a difficult trip up river into Vietnam to the very location of the disputed Kerry Silver Star incident to speak to the eyewitnesses in the village from that day. They remembered it well. Every witness that Nightline spoke to, none of whom seemed to know who the hell John Kerry was, corroborated every bit of the Navy’s original account of the event.
The report completely destroyed O’Neill’s thesis on this one particular event (the only one this Nightline report focused on), and his charge that there was no enemy fire on that day, and that Kerry shot some lone little 12 year old kid in the back as he was running away.
O’Neill was interviewed by Koppel after the report and he simply imploded with an incoherent rambling explanation of how Nightline had it all wrong, was trusting in those evil Commie’s who love John Kerry (never mind that this village was hours up river into the middle of nowhere, and none of those interviewed had even heard of the man!), and how the accounts of the eye-witnesses had to be wrong because they were at odds with the Boston Globe’s story on the matter.
It was amazing. O’Neill kept holding up the opened pages from the Boston Globe book, Kerry’s autobiography a Kerry Biography (ed: correction made. O’Neill called it a Kerry autobiography, but he was misleading there.) and his own anti-Kerry polemic. Switching back and forth between the books (at least 5 times each!) flashing the unintelligable-on-television pages that he wanted people to read. No matter what Koppel did, he couldn’t bring this guy back to his senses. It was an extraordinary thing to watch! O’Neill, in the bargain, blew any and all credibility he might have had left in a single network interview.
Unfortunately, Nightline doesn’t offer free video online (they have it, but it costs money). Their “What They Saw…” report, from the eye-witnesses will have to suffice, if you even care about that story at this point. UPDATE: Full Nightline show from last night available here in Windows Media Player format! O’Neill’s implosion is last 10 minutes or so of show.(Thanks, Chuck for the link!)
(Prepare now for the wingnuts to repeat, in comments, the defenses that Rush offered them this morning for last night’s embarrassing affair. Ignore them. It’s more smoke and mirrors…O’Neill simply blew himself up with a devastating self-inflicted wound. It was a live televised disaster. Period.)
It’s out on
http://news.globalfreepress.com...atVetLiars.wmv
Thanks, Chuck! Traffic must be huge right now, cause I can’t seem to get to it. But I’ll keep trying, and when it clears up, I’ll post the link as an update!
Nice dig at CBS by Ted at the very end. Something like, "we are journalists. when we uncover a story, we report it, not conceal it."
WOW. It’s actually kind of funny.
R: Please don’t pick up anymore book.
O: Okay. I won’t.
What does he do? Picks up another book.
You know what REALLY bothers me though? It is really starting to tick me off. There are thousands of troops right now in Iraq fighting this war. You republican Americans are the FIRST to attack someone when ANY comments are made about this war, by saying that democrats are "Disrespecting the troops."
That’s all I hear. Liberals disrepect the troops (who are risking their lives for your freedom).America Haters. Liberals should be "supporting the troops". It’s bad to say Wrong War, wrong place, wrong time. Bad, bad, bad.
WAKE THE HELL UP !!!
John Kerry was such a troop. He was just a guy who went to war. What is the BIG DAMN DEAL? Are you going to do this with those poor people who are fighting in Iraq too? Support them now and back-stab them later??!!!
If one of them comes back and decides to run for President in 10 years, are you going to make fun of him and his service? Are you going to talk about how many stars the guy got ad nauseam?? Are you going to dissect what he did in a time of war and criticize him for it?
YOU are the America haters. I finally get the meaning of the term "America Hater" and I have even met a couple of you online.
Kerry is one of your own (unlike your current President) and all you can do is find fault in it. Shame on you all ! Hypocrites.
How sad is it, that Kerry’s life has been in serving the public (whether to your taste or not is a matter of opinion), and O’Neill’s life has been devoted to taking down John Kerry.
The best thing for John O’neill is a Kerry win. Either way, he’ll be offered a commentator’s job at Fox.