Deborah Solomon Calls Swift Boat Vets "Ugly Chapter" in U.S. History
Sunday Magazine reporter Solomon (pictured) confronts T. Boone Pickens on the charges made by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth: "I thought it was all invented."
Posted by:
Clay Waters
8/4/2008 12:51:19 PM
Sunday Magazine Q&A reporter Deborah Solomon talked this week with Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens about his plan to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil by harnessing wind power. 
But Solomon, who admitted voting for Al Gore in the 2000 election, also posed hostile questions about Pickens' involvement in the 2004 campaign:
Solomon: You helped re-elect Bush in ’04 when you gave $3 million to the Swift Boat campaign to discredit John Kerry’s Vietnam service. Do you regret your involvement?
Pickens: Why would I?
Solomon: Because it’s such an ugly chapter in American political history.
Pickens: Oh, I see. Well, it was true. Everything that went into those ads was the truth.
Solomon: Really? I thought it was all invented.
Pickens: I never did anything dishonest.
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