Anyone want to hit the bloggers with the O'Neill thing?

[WilliamPitt]

Who has a good list of blogger addresses?

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.

[Soopercali]

1. Looks like most of them have it already.

Atrios had it yesterday...

[Cocoa]

2. the gift that keeps on giving

gotta love those Nixon tapes. :toast:

[Mizmoon]

3. I'm a little slow here today

Is this tape of O'Neill talking to Nixon one of the famous Nixon tapes made with his tape recorder in the Oval Office, or is it from elsewhere?

[annxburns]

4. Insta-puke is ignoring it.

His hypocrisy is astounding.
www.instapundit.com

Also the National Review's Kerry Spot Smear is ignoring it.
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[shockingelk]

5. done

http://fearofclowns.com/

Having a ball with this O'Neill stuff.

[KC21304]

6. Will, I think we need to answer their latest BS.

Now they are saying nine days after Kerry's first wound he said in his diary that he had never been shot at yet.

If they had a bit of reading comprehension and they read Tour of Duty they would know that at that point Kerry had just taken over his first Swift, had a new crew, and was talking about not being shot at yet on their first mission.

Some of his new crew had been in Vietnam for almost a year and had been in many fire fights. It is very clear he was not saying that none of them had ever been shot at. I believe Wm. Zaladonis was the only member of this crew that was with Kerry on an earlier mission.

[Ducks In A Row]

7. I enjoy the reporter actually doing his job

the part about wanting to get off this issue, but still needing to respond was spot-on.