Boone Pickens lies like the Swift Boat Veterans

T. Boone Pickens offered $1 million to anyone who can disprove “even a single charge” leveled at John Kerry in 2004 by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

John Kerry took him up on the challenge.

I welcome the opportunity to prove that you are a man of your word and that the so-called “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” lied. While I am prepared to show they lied on allegation after allegation, you have generously offered to pay one million dollars for just one thing that can be proven false. I am prepared to prove the lie beyond any reasonable doubt.

I would request that your check be made payable to the Paralyzed Veterans of America which is doing incredible work every day to meet the needs of veterans returned home from Iraq and Afghanistan. My hope is that by sending this money to such a dedicated organization – founded for veterans, by veterans – some good can come out of the ugly smears and lies of the orchestrated campaign you bankrolled in 2004 in an attempt to discredit my military record and the record of the men who served alongside me on the Swift Boats of the Mekong Delta.

Pickens reneged:

I will ultimately need you to provide the following:

1) The journal you maintained during your service in Vietnam.

2) Your military record, specifically your service records for the years 1971-1978, and copies of all movies and tapes made during your service.

I now challenge you to make this commitment: If you cannot prove anything in the Swift Boat ads to be untrue, that you will make a one million gift to the charity I am choosing -- the Medal of Honor Foundation.

So Pickens went from offering ANYONE a million dollars to disprove ONE Swift Boat Veterans claim against Kerry to demanding specific items of "proof" and deciding himself where to send the $1 million payout.

It should be clear to all that Pickens will continue to shift the goalposts, and that he has ZERO intention of admitting Kerry is right and the same intent when it comes to paying the million dollars.