Since Lawrence O'Donnel is correct - and can be proved correct by reference to
http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx@docID=231.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/print?id=166434 http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2004/03/21/the_anatomy_of_a_smear_campaign/and is now subject to a hate email campaign, the poster is suggesting emails in support of O'Donnel be sent to the email addresses below:
joe@msnbc.com
letters@msnbc.com
:-)
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On Joe's show on MSNBC, Lawrence O’Donnell called Swiftie O’Neill a liar and a filth purveyor - and since that is a correct statement, please congratulate Joe for finally using his airtime to spread a bit of truth. Giving airtime to such scum as the liars in the O'Neill Swift Boat Ads is a poor decision, but thank God Joe had Lawrence O'Donnel on to call a spade a spade, and let the viewer know the truth.
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http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2004/03/21/the_anatomy_of_a_smear_campaign> /
will clear up any questions about just how big a scumbag O'Niell really is. Just for the record:
1. Factcheck.org “
features vets who claim Kerry ‘lied’ to get Vietnam medals. But other witnesses disagree-and so do Navy records.”
Factcheck.org notes that one of the key vets who signed a statement against Kerry wound up retracting it, saying to The Boston Globe: “It was a terrible mistake probably for me to sign the affidavit with those words. I’m the one in trouble here.... I knew it was wrong… In a hurry I signed it and faxed it back. That was a mistake.”
2. Jim Rassman, the army lieutenant saved by Kerry during a firefight, directly contradicted many of the claims made by the Swift Boat Vets. Rassman supported Kerry’s Bronze Star and has always backed up Kerry’s version of the story.
3. The Swift Boat Vets are politically funded by a major GOP donor, and are going after Kerry decades after the action in order to help their candidate-George W. Bush-retain control of the White House.
4. Nightline's research of the facts of a Kerry firefight denied by the Swift Boat Vets, by talking to local villagers who had witnessed the battle, showed that not only was Kerry’s version of the story correct, but the “Swift Boat Vets for Truth” had actually sent a researcher to Vietnam, gotten the same facts-and then buried them.
Congratualations to Joe for having O’Donnell on - and congratualtions to O’Donnell who made clear he was not defaming all vets, or indeed any vet, and did so without losing control, showing only the righteous anger that should be the response to one of the ugliest smear campaigns since the Bush hatchet job of McCain in S.C. in 2000.