Media refuses to note Bush close connection to Swift Boat/O'Neill/ENRON

[papau]

Disinfopedia Aug. 2004

John Ellis O'Neill, now a Houston lawyer, is "the guy George W. Bush trotted out to attack John Forbes Kerry's military service, also did Richard M. NIXON's DIRTY anti-Kerry work (in addition to clerking for Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist). A PARTISAN HACK spanning multiple administrations," according to The Daily Kos blog site. <1> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/4/22/1551/39504) The Kos states the obvious that two REPUBLICAN presidents have used O'Neill "to try and discredit Kerry's post-service ANTI-war efforts." <2> (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/4/21/172634/848)<snip> The Kos expended great effort to discover who O'Neill is and writes on April 22, 2004 (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/4/22/1551/39504), that "We also found out that he's a partner at the Houston firm of Clements, O'Neill, Pierce, Wilson and Fulkerson. One of his co-partners is Margaret A. Wilson, who was George Bush's general counsel 1998-2000. "Well, there's more about good ol' Margaret," the Kos continues. "She was a lawyer at Vinson & Elkins before she worked for Bush. Vinson & Elkins was ENRON's main law firm -- the very firm that facilitated ENRON's frauds (http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/front/1538107).
Vinson & Elkins was also the firm that SPAWNED Alberto R. Gonzales -- Bush's current general counsel. "In other words, Vinson & Elkins and COPWF (http://www.copwf.com/) are the very embodiment of the Houston good ol' boy REPUBLICAN network. That this network spawn Kerry's harshest critic should be of no surprise (his career was probably made thanks to the NIXON DIRTY work). Thus, there should be no illusions that O'Neill is in any way an independent and impartial critic of John Kerry."

The Kos also located the March 31, 2004, Houston Chronicle article "An old Kerry foe, Houston lawyer back in spotlight" (http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2476454) by Bennett Roth:

"In 1971, O'Neill squared off against Kerry on the Dick Cavett Show (http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=176287540) in a 90-minute, televised forum in which the two Vietnam War veterans sparred over the U.S. role in Southeast Asia.
"President Nixon and top aide Charles W. Colson had taken a keen interest in O'Neill as part of their effort to discredit Kerry AND the anti-war movement, according to memos and tapes in the National Archives.<snip>



Read this at: http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=John_E._O'Neill

[Kolesar]

1. I think tying O'Niell to Nixon is a good message

Nixon used O'Niell to attack John Kerry when Kerry was leading Vietnam Veterans against the war. A lot of Americans still hold Nixon as the "gold standard of sleaze".

[Democat]

2. If it was Clinton, the media would not stop until they were tied together

But it's Bush, so the media will defend him to the end.

The U.S. media is part of Bush's campaign team.