Should the media be paying greater attention to O'Neill's Cambodia visit?

[Karmadillo]

A Google search turns up next to nothing. Could it be the liberal media has decided it's time to drop the story now that just about every "revelation" the Swift Boat liars had to offer has been debunked? Or are we here at DU overestimating the importance of the story?

Even ABC News The Note, alleged purveyor of all the political news one needs to know, fails to mention it. Fairly strange since yesterday that particular source wrote:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote_Aug2404.html

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When we first read Unfit for Command's charge that Kerry was never in Cambodia, it struck as perhaps the single item in the book deserving of further exposition from Senator Kerry, in that there are no eyewitnesses and no documents to back up the Senator's contention that he spent Christmas in Cambodia where no American troops were said to be operating. And because Senator Kerry has made that event a turning point in his political development.

Now that the charges of medal inflation and fabrication have been largely discredited by the likes of Tapper, Dobbs, the Los Angeles Times and others, supporters of the book fall back on the Cambodia charge to tar Kerry with the book's central thesis that he's prone to verbal prestidigitation.

If it sounds like an upside-down world version of a calculated PR effort — put your weak stuff out there first to get attention and your strong stuff out there when folks are paying attention — it is.

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[Cocoa]

1. no

it would be unfair to O'Neill to suggest he was associated with Nixon. /sarcasm

[seabeyond]

2. i think it is going to have to be on the hardball and olderman

type shows before it is going to get into day media. watching tonight to see who picks it up. seems to be what is happening

[kentuck]

3. O'Neill Lies to Nixon about Cambodia visit !

That's the headline. I saw it on DU. It even got the attention of the media. Wow! What a liar! :)