Is Kerry going to be on "60 Minutes" over the swift boat thing?

[Quixote1818]

I heard once or twice that they were trying to get on 60 minutes just before the Republican Convention. I think it would be better to be on after the Convention.

[David Dunham]

1. Better to talk about jobs and health care.

[Quixote1818]

2. That wont get him on 60 minutes though.

[Psst_Im_Not_Here]

8. Don't forget

the new "overtime rules"!

[jefferson_dem]

3. Some info here --

Found on usenet. Not sure about the credibility of source. Isn't the "Prowler" an off-shoot of that "American Specator" rag?

By The Prowler
Published 8/25/2004 12:09:11 AM

BLOODY SUNDAY
Rumors floating around Washington mid-day Tuesday had the Kerry
campaign reaching out to a couple of media outlets -- NBC's "Meet the
Press" and CBS's "60 Minutes" -- to discuss a possible appearance by
candidate John Kerry this coming Sunday.

A Democratic strategist outside the campaign said the thinking
appeared to be to get the candidate out to speak about the mounting
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth controversy before the Republican
Convention.

"I don't know if they are thinking a full-blown mea culpa from Kerry,
but that seems to be the way some people are thinking," says the
strategist. "He wouldn't use the words 'I'm sorry' in speaking about
his actions after Vietnam here at home. But he would seek to try to
put this thing to rest."

Swift Veterans for Truth have pointed to Kerry's antiwar activities as a reason for their campaign. But they have also pointed to Kerry's use of a fancified military record.

Kerry appeared on "Meet the Press" earlier this year, and at the time
made a statement that appeared to be an indirect apology to veterans
he might have offended with his activities in 1970. During that
appearance he said he might have allowed his anger and frustration to
get the best of him. But he stopped short of making any formal apology or admission that he was wrong for taking such a public stance against the war.

Kerry advisers are said by some to be alarmed at how quickly the Swift Boat story has spun out of their control. Not only is campaign staff now furiously trying to keep up with the Swift Boat story, but there are mounting inquiries coming into the campaign about Kerry's Purple Heart awards and the citations for his two other medals, one of which was re-written and expanded by then-Secretary of the Navy John Lehman around 1986.

"As long as Kerry wouldn't be followed by a Swift Boater on the show
my guess is that the campaign would like to try to get this thing dead and buried before the convention. The New York speech today doesn't appear to have done much to help them," says the strategist.

[Connie_Corleone]

4. I would like to see an ad

where Kerry speaks directly to the american people about this and be done with it.

[Quixote1818]

5. Thanks

[A_Possum]

7. "Mea Culpa????"" FOR WHAT!?!?

For this?

Kerry, the Congressional Record, 1971:

"Mr. Kerry: Well, Senator, frankly it does not appeal to me if American men have to continue to die when they don't have to, particularly when it seems the Government of this country is more concerned with the legality of where men sleep than it is with the legality of where they drop bombs. (Applause.)...

...But at the present moment that is not going to happen, so we are talking about men continuing to die for nothing and I think there is a tremendous moral question here which the Congress of the United States is ignoring...

...But I think if we can talk in this legislative body about filibustering for porkbarrel programs, then we should start now to talk about filibustering for the saving of lives and of our country. (Applause.)

And this, Mr. Chairman, is what we are trying to convey."

**********

[KC21304]

6. I would like to see him have a press conference

and recite his 1971 testimony, in its entirity. With the part that the swiftboat liars didn't want to put in, about hooking up genitals to telephone wires. They knew the image of Abu Ghraib would pop into peoples heads and they would think everything Kerry said is reasonable.

I think this would be very powerful, just as it was in 1971. And he could make comparisons to Iraq, and hopefully say he would not have taken us into Iraq.