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| O'Neill falsely quotes Tour of Duty, saying it says Kerry and Cavett were friends | ||||||||||||||
| P. 14 | ||||||||||||||
| This is a fairly significant misquoting in my opinion. On page 14 of Unfit for Command O'Neill says this about Kerry's acceptance of The Dick Cavett Show as a time and place for the two to debate: | ||||||||||||||
| ...which Kerry accepted because Cavett was a friend and shared his antiwar position. | ||||||||||||||
| As his source O'Neill gives page 304 of Brinkley's Tour of Duty. However, when one examines that page one finds this: | ||||||||||||||
| No one had even heard of O'Neill. So Kerry played cat-and-mouse games, picking and choosing the venues where he appeared with O'Neill. He turned down, for example, offers to debate O'Neill on 60 Minutes and on an NBC special hosted by Edwin Newman. Instead, Kerry said yes to Dick Cavett, who was known to be antiwar. The format would be a sit-down conversation... |
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| Nowhere in Tour of Duty does it say that Kerry and Cavett were friends. The index gives pages 5, 342, 344, and 403 as all pages mentioning "Cavett", but on none of these pages are there any words about Kerry's relationship with Cavett. It seems to me that if these two men were friends Brinkley would have mentioned it in Tour of Duty. O'Neill's motive for this apparent lie is obviously to suggest that O'Neill's opponent for the debate had an unfair advantage over him because of being on close terms with the host. |
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