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RideAHarley · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 2:54 pm Post subject: eMail to Bill..

I have been trying to email BOR for two days now and it keeps coming back to me as undeliverable.
I thought I might have the wrong address so I went right to the web site and used the email link there and it came back again.
Is anyone else having the same problem ?

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wvobiwan · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 3:07 pm Post subject: My Letter to Bill

Sent this letter this morning, Aug. 30. A little late responding to his paranoid Talking Points memo of Aug. 27th:

Hi Bill,

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,130338,00.html

I read your on-line talking points memo of Friday the 27th today. I wonder if you aren't making judgments yourself about what's truth or not in your idea of 'fair and balanced' reporting, this is the gist of Ann Coulter's comments in regard to your Swift Boat coverage. John Kerry's veracity, character, integrity, and honor are very important questions in this presidential race, as are George Bush's. The left has no problem with it, and your cheap seats on the fence do a disservice to your readership.

I don't believe that you did serious investigation of the issue first, you immediately came out with a blanket condemnation of the story and the Swift Boat organization - I was watching very closely. Now that one Kerry medal after another is falling, now that his crass, opportunistic betrayals of the 70s are being highlighted, you want the story to go away.

Now that Kerry's camp is back-peddling and nuancing at break-neck speed on Kerry's Vietnam/Post Vietnam history you are forced to defend your non-stance. C'mon Bill, they've even now called out Clinton, the master of 'aw, shucks, poor me'.

I believe you were and are still wrong about Swifties, don't you think you should just admit it and cover the story properly before the entire world scoops you?

Report and let the chips fall where they may, the events will choose the side, not you.

Okay, your fence-sitting may work for you and your career - but it's cheap journalism and my admiration for you has lessened.

Doug
Harpers Ferry, WV
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noc · PO1 Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 492 Location: Dublin, CA

BillGremm · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 3:25 pm Post subject:

O'Relly was a draft dodger. The guy went and taught in an inner city highschool to avoid military service. He is not credible period with these issues.

Isn't interesting how he always brings up what a big man he is because he taught school and then you find out that he taught because he is a well I'll say it a pansy.
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coldwarvet · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 3:31 pm Post subject:

coldwarvet · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 4:10 pm Post subject:

Vortex O'Reilly

Is spinning the SBFT guy's so hard that he is creating a water spout that he won't be able to free himself from.

CWV
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RideAHarley · Last edited by RideAHarley on Sun Sep 05, 2004 12:32 am; edited 4 times in total

I like Mr. O and have watched him for years.. but, what always makes me laugh is (since he didn't serve in the military) is when he says he knows what combat is like (up close and personal) because he was a reporter in El Salvador (or someplace) and has "seen" combat (I guess through his microphone). He makes himself sound like he is some war hardened veteran.

Well Mr. Bill.. I wonder, as a reporter, how many rice fields you waded through, how many nights of standing perimeter patrol after working in the 120+ heat, so tired you couldn't function (in a company so short that you sometimes had to stand watch for 4 hours, get 4 hours sleep and then stand another 4 hour watch), how many nights of wading through **** and muck up to your neck miles and miles from base on an ambush, how many nights you were in a bunker so tired your eyes played tricks on you so badly you swore you saw the enemy in the shadows right in front of you, how many nights you struggled with every bit of effort in your body to stay awake knowing the disaster that could happen if you dozed off even for a second, so friggin tired you couldn't keep your eyes open.. I wonder how many nights you stood on an ambush line so dark and black you couldn't see 10 feet in front of you.. so scared out of your witts your teeth were chattering. I wonder if you spent 14 months in "your combat zone" (as this Marine did) after only being in country not more than 5 minutes before you were being shot at. I wonder, Mr. O, how many days you stood in the Monsoons soaking wet to the bone because your country couldn't supply you with a poncho. I wonder, Mr. O, how long you waited for new boots (when yours were falling off your feet) because your country couldn't supply you with a new pair. I wonder, Mr. O, how many times you ate crap out of a box (called C-rations), lighting bits of C4 high explosives to try and heat it up a little while your govenment flew in hot meals to the villages (in their people to people, you be nice to them, they will be nice to you.. garbage), only to be shot in the back when you were leaving.

I wonder, Mr. O, how many times you woke up only to find out the guy you had bunked next to for months was going home in a body bag. Or, who would be next, or, if it would be you. I could go on and on about my 14 months in Nam (and I didn't have it near as bad as a lot of soldiers over there).. but I won't because I know what your answer to the above would be. You saw combat, so you know what it is like.

So, Mr O. Don't tell me I don't have the right to question anyone's combat record. 3 Purple hearts and never bled.. 4 months in country and fit to be commander in cheif. I don't think so Mr. O.

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USAF66-70 · Lt.Jg. Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 136

Just emailed Bill at oreilly@foxnews.com:

Hi Bill. Love the show. Been nonplussed, however, by your, IMHO, unreasonable refusal to honestly weigh the SBVT documented evidence. They're honorable & decorated vets, not truly all that partisan, entitled to free speech ... not like the slime merchants that attacked you.

Is it possible that you've miscalculated? This thing is exploding, and many of your faithful have been irritated by your perfunctory dismissal of SBVT. Any luck getting Kerry on yet? Heard you got Bono ... is he an American?

Come on Bill, give the SBVT their due. My advice: admit the miscalculation, & apologize and email me if you do so I'll know to listen. Hey Bill, just looking out for you.

coldwarvet · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 6:54 pm Post subject:

Great letter USAF 66-70.

CWV USAF 75-79
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eXcel · Seaman Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 174

coldwarvet · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 8:10 pm Post subject:

Ditto
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markasass · Lt.Jg. Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 131

wvobiwan · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 8:48 pm Post subject: Email to Bill O'Reilly

When you email Bill, for some reason the Oreilly@foxnews.com address on their website often isn't working.

When I send my letters I send them to bill.oreilly@foxnews.com and they seem to be delivered (no delivery failure messages).

Give it a shot!
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Doug
"Proud of my Dad, 2-tour veteran of VN."
Kerry/Edwards Foreign Policy Slogan: Accept our surrender or we'll sue!