ABC's The Note ignores O'Neill's Cambodia lie for a second day

[Karmadillo]

All the political news you need to know, except when you don't need to know it. Strange they would ignore this story, when two days ago they wrote:

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&theme=israel

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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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