OKAY MEDIA - WHERE IS THE O'NEIL STORY?

[annxburns]

Why are you protecting this puke? He tells Nixon he is in Cambodia and then lies about it.

HELLO MEDIA!

[fishface]

1. The kneepadders will be too busy 'debating' the ads by

repeatedly showing clips of them and wondering if they should be a factor in the race..

[Junkdrawer]

2. Someone should at least post the CNN Aaron Brown transcript in LBN...

Ask for special dispensation in the post.

[Junkdrawer]

10. Done.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x775416

[wurzel]

3. NPR had two articles on about "swiftie liars". No Mention of

O'Neil or Ginsberg. Let's face it. It is another walk for Bush.

[flpoljunkie]

4. Link to transcript. Perhaps it's because Kerry's aides found the evidence

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0408/24/asb.00.html

JOHNS: Behind the scenes, Kerry's aides were fighting the swift boat charges with unusual ferocity. They say they have evidence one of the top members of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is an outright liar.

The co-author of the book "Unfit for Command," former swift boat commander John O'Neill said Kerry made up a story about being in Cambodia beyond the legal borders of the Vietnam War in 1968.

O'Neill said no one could cross the border by river and he claimed in an audio tape that his publicist played to CNN that he, himself, had never been to Cambodia either. But in 1971, O'Neill said precisely the opposite to then President Richard Nixon.

O'NEILL: I was in Cambodia, sir. I worked along the border on the water.

NIXON: In a swift boat?

O'NEILL: Yes, sir.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

JOHNS: Now, O'Neill may have an explanation for this but he has not returned CNN's calls. What does seem clear is that a top member of the swift boat group is now being held to the same standard of literal accuracy they've tried to impose on John Kerry -- Aaron.

BROWN: Do they -- are they going to, they being the Kerry side here, are they going to keep talking about this beyond today or are they done with it?

JOHNS: Well they say -- they said both things, excuse me, Aaron. They said they'd really like to get off of it. They've also said they do like to debate the issue of Vietnam because they think it (UNINTELLIGIBLE) in their favor.

The thing that is clear is they think they have to keep going ahead and responding to charges against John Kerry, especially when it has to do with his biography or his resume.

BROWN: And just quickly on the O'Neill thing, just for my edification here, Mr. O'Neill's publicist played for you a tape where Mr. O'Neill says what again?

JOHNS: Well, he says in the tape essentially that he did not go to Cambodia, plain and simple. He says that a couple times in fact in this little short interview that was played for me on the phone. Now, of course, as you listen to that conversation with Richard Nixon, he says something completely different or, at least, that's what it sounds like -- Aaron.

BROWN: It does. Thank you, Joe Johns in Philadelphia tonight.

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And, thank you, Aaron Brown, Joe Johns--real journalists doing their job--seeking the truth and reporting it!

[blm]

6. O'Neill-Nixon tapes have been NOWHERE on any news show this morning.

Disgusting bastatrds. The media is going to let O'Neill slide with this lie after skewering Kerry for weeks. I doubt they will apologize to Kerry for all the countless cartoons and columns mocking his Cambodia story.

[Child_Of_Isis]

8. Thanks!

I really needed this. I am knee deep into it with a freeper who is slinging the Cambodia mud.

[DeepModem Mom]

5. kick

[WilliamPitt]

7. Are DUers writing to the bloggers about this?

Seems to be where it starts. Walt Starr kicked mucho ass because kos picked up his excellent work.

[flpoljunkie]

11. Atrios has picked it up.

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_08_22_atrios_archive.html#109343673655204441

Oops

From Newsnight:

JOHNS: Behind the scenes, Kerry's aides were fighting the swift boat charges with unusual ferocity. They say they have evidence one of the top members of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is an outright liar.

The co-author of the book "Unfit for Command," former swift boat commander John O'Neill said Kerry made up a story about being in Cambodia beyond the legal borders of the Vietnam War in 1968.

O'Neill said no one could cross the border by river and he claimed in an audio tape that his publicist played to CNN that he, himself, had never been to Cambodia either. But in 1971, O'Neill said precisely the opposite to then President Richard Nixon.

O'NEILL: I was in Cambodia, sir. I worked along the border on the water.

NIXON: In a swift boat?

O'NEILL: Yes, sir.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

JOHNS: Now, O'Neill may have an explanation for this but he has not returned CNN's calls. What does seem clear is that a top member of the swift boat group is now being held to the same standard of literal accuracy they've tried to impose on John Kerry -- Aaron.


-Atrios 8:25 AM

[quaoar]

9. On the other hand

It might actually be good news that it isn't in the news.

It may be that there have already been so many stories about what liars the Swift Boat Liars are that it's no longer news when another lie surfaces. I think this latest one won't get much TV time unless O'Neill is on.