O’Reilly pulled presidential politics into the mix as well accusing John Edwards of using the homeless veterans issue for his own political gain. Today a transcript from one of O’Reilly’s “Talking Points Memos” was published on the Fox News Website. It referenced an exchange between Edwards and David Letterman:
O’Reilly then countered:
Recently the Associated Press reported on an interesting program giving wounded Marines and Navy Corpsmen job placement in the film industry. Working with the Wounded Marine Careers Foundation gives these vets hands on training in the various aspects of filmmaking–even the camera equipment can be modified to suite any injuries the vets may have. As the center’s co-founder Kev Lombard tells the AP, the idea for the program came out of his own project:
Throughout the story we follow one young wounded Marine who’s filming a mock scene of helmets atop inverted rifles set as battlefield memorials to those killed. If movies about Iraq will continue to be made in the future, his lens offers an idea of just how valuable these aspiring filmmakers may be:
“It wasn’t our story to tell. It was theirs,” he said. “So I said how about we teach them to tell their own story.”
