Will media note O'Neil/Drudge/GOP Xmas in Cambodia Lie - note Kerry Truth

Kerry tells truth about Cambodia XMAS EVE in 68-And Drudge/O'Niel spin lie


Today's lesson in GOP lies - or spin if you prefer.

In Kerry's Journal - and later in Pages 213 through 219 from Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War, by Douglas Brinkley (New York: HarperCollins, 2004) Kerry tells ending his first of 4 months in 'Nam on a Swift Boat by going toward Cambodia from a town called Sa Dec (55 miles south of the border) and 8 to 10 hours later noting a motar that night (3 minutes after the Truce began - as I recall the truce began at 10 pm usually) and - in the book and on the Senate floor in 86 - recalls sitting just over the border in Cambodia before heading back to Sa Dec. His commander had note that many of the heroic deeds done by Kerry were his acting against orders - and apparently this was one of those times since he was not authorized to go over the border into Cambodia. The next 3 months includes 2 full months under Nixon's presidency.

Now the GOP spin the above by saying that Kerry in the book replaces the over the border into Cambodia on Christmas Eve story with a with a report about a mortar attack that occurred on Christmas Eve 1968 “near the Cambodia border” in a town called Sa Dec, some fifty-five miles from the Cambodian border and that it was not under Nixon.

But that was not what Kerry said.

Will the mainstream media notice the GOP lies?

Perhaps someone could point out there is no lie in:

"I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by the Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia. I have that memory which is seared--seared--in me."

www.drudgereport.com

of being in Laos in 1969 while reading a Time magazine in which Nixon was quoted reassuring the American people that there were no US troops in Laos. Nixon kept up that particular lie for a long, long time.

How well they can lie with a straight face. Goes back years. Some lies are worse than others, of course.