10/15/2004

O'Neill Backed Into Corner

ABC News: What Happened in Kerry's Vietnam Battles?

Ted Koppal last night did a great job of maintaining "his cool" when talking to John O'Neill of the Swift Boat Vets Against Kerry.

ABC reporters visited the village in Vietnam where Kerry was supposed to have earned his Silver Star. Many of the same villagers still live there that were residents during Kerry's encounter. The reporters didn't tell the residents what either side in this debate were saying. They simply asked for their memories of events. It seems the villagers remembered the battle just as John Kerry and U.S. Navy documentation had said.

O'Neill, then caught in a corner with the froth of lies still fresh on his lips, babbled on so Koppal could barely get a word in edgewise.

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