SwiftVets.com

[skipper]

To all,

My message to O'Reilly is not a pithy for public consumption e-mail. It is intended to sway Bill's personal convictions to our side. If enough people sign on he might be persuaded because, like all media - its a numbers game. Moreover he is a big dog in the media circus, and where he goes many will follow.

Skipper

[Bystander]

I may have been half asleep when a future interview was announced because I find O'Reilly is becoming b-o-r-i-n-g, but I thought I heard the person named was John NELSON. Anyone else hear it this way?
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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[Bystander]

I may have been half asleep when a future interview was announced because I find O'Reilly is becoming b-o-r-i-n-g, but I thought I heard the person named was John NELSON. Anyone else hear it this way?
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
..................................Eleanor Roosevelt

[Bystander]

Whoops! Wonder why the double post? Sorry.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
..................................Eleanor Roosevelt

[canman]

This is my first post here but I have been watching, reading, and am waiting for my local Barnes and Noble to finally get Unfit in so I can more intelligently respond.

Personally, I believe SwiftVets are great Americans and believe John Kerry lied and exagerated about his service in vietnam.

I can understand your anger at BOR over his brushing off many of the statements they have made about John Kerry.

Now for the hard part. In BOR's defense, I believe he is trying to give Kerry the benefit of a doubt with regards to his medals and actual service. After seeing George Bush (41) and Bob Dole's wartime actions in WWII questioned insidiously by their political opponent's, I am particularly sensitive anytime someone questions a veterans service to our country.

I have seen BOR accept that criticism of John Kerry's anti war activities are fair game. I have also seen him acknowledge that John Kerry lied about being in Cambodia Christmas Eve.

I think that if O'Neil gets on, he may sway BOR to his side rather than his current position of treating it as a "he said, she said" issue. When a guest honestly answers questions without spin and has backup, they end up in some instances gaining a grudging acknowledgement from him.

Anyway, thank you again for the sacrifice you are making to assure the truth is known about John Kerry before it is too late.

[Cali-HeyGirl]

[Cali-HeyGirl]

[Malvern]

Below is one of the emails I sent to O'Reilly and numerous other tv news anchors and analysts. The answers to these questions are pretty obvious.
***Email****
From the beginning I've had two questions:
1) What if the SwiftBoat Vets for the Truth are right?
2) Where is the line between "telling the truth albeit negative" and "smear."

Until such time that it is proven that SwiftVets are lying, anyone accusing them of smearing is being completely irresponsible.

http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/8/29/230923.shtml
Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004 11:07 p.m. EDT
Kerry Stonewalling on Medals Mystery

Chicago Sun-Times reporter Thomas Lipscomb said Sunday that he's tried to reach Kerry campaign spokesman Michael Meehan 10 times about the controversy - all without response.

"I [also] tried to get John Hurley, head of Veterans for Kerry, to give me reaction," Lipscomb told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg on Sunday. But he wouldn't respond either.

On Friday, Lipscomb reported that former Navy Secretary John Lehman is challenging citations posted to Kerry's campaign Web site that include his signature.

"It is a total mystery to me. I never saw it. I never signed it. I never approved it. And the additional language it contains was not written by me," Lehman said.

B.G. Burkett, author of the definitive book on fraudulent medals, "Stolen Valor," told Lipscomb there's a problem with the citation for Kerry's "Silver Star with Combat V."

"I've run across several claims for Silver Stars with combat V's, but they were all in fake records," he told Lipscomb.

Several of the military records that appear on Kerry's Web site "appear to be fraudulent, according to U.S. Navy standards," the Sun-Times reporter told Malzberg.

"The Navy is now saying Kerry's records are incorrect," he added. "He's not entitled to this award. He's not entitled to that award. This is a new ballgame.

***End of article***End of email***

This article was posted on Newsmax Aug 29th, so it's really old news at this point. But, take heart, if Lehman is really looking into this, watch out!

I hate to see O'Neill and the other true heroes maligned, but there is part of me that is just sitting back and waiting for the time that all these folks who are maligning our Swifties end up with more than egg on their faces. Let’s see of O’Reilly is better at apologizing than Jeanine Garafalo was.

Linda Kulp
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Malvern
Proud Navy Brat

[P. Aaron]

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[markasass]

In addition, I'm hoping for confirmation, via the SwiftVets "Appearances: Swift Vets on the Air" on this site, which hasn't been updated since 27 August. This would be all the confirmation I need.
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[zinfella]

IMO, this is becoming a non productive tangent. The truth is out there, let O'Reilly find it, or wind up with egg on his face. It's not the job of the swift vets to convince O'Reilly of anything, and energy is being wasted, energy that may be put to better use elsewhere. The fact that he hasn't read the book is evidence of this being a Quixotic effort on our part.
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No whiners!

[angrylady]

Off the Swiftboats, today O'Reilly said Zell Miller was just like Michael Moore.

[markasass]

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