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[DerbyRed]

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has seen fit to compare the SBVFT with the CBS/Rather kerfuffle. Now I know all that super-thin air out there effects their thought processes, but this represents a greater stretch than normal. You know this is the land of Rep Jim Dermott (D WA-7) and Sen Patty Murray -- two über-liberal whackos who are just a bit to the left of Lenin!!!

The editorial is about CBS, yet URL sez “swiftboated” . . . CBS got “SwiftBoated” -- “SwiftBoat” is now a damn verb!!! And a bad one at that . . . reminiscent of the verb that was created by Ted Kennedy & the Senate Judiciary Committee back in ’87 . . . “borking.” WTH, CBS is a “scandal” . . . when did the SBVFT campaign become a “scandal”???

And don’t miss SP-I’s wishful thinking re: “The sinking of the Swift Boat campaign . . . “!! Did we miss it? Is it over??? > > > GBA/cul/dmm

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/191634_swiftboated.html

Swiftboated

Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Tuesday, September 21, 2004

Self-inflicted black eye

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial Board

In the flap over the 35-year-old military records of George W. Bush and John Kerry, it seems poetic justice that discredit has fallen on those who would discredit them.

First it was the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Now it's the Columbia Broadcasting System. That second violation of public trust is by far the more damaging.

"After extensive additional interviews," CBS News "60 Minutes" newsman Dan Rather said yesterday, "I no longer have the confidence in these documents that would allow us to continue vouching for them journalistically. I find we have been misled on the key question of how our source for the documents came into possession of these papers."

In short, the authenticity of the documents was insufficiently vetted before the broadcast on Bush's Texas Air National Guard record was aired. The vaunted CBS News operation was either sloppy or duped. It's a bad day at Black Rock.

Other allegations about Bush's Guard experience still stand, including former Texas House Speaker Ben Barnes' statement that he helped Bush avoid the Vietnam War by helping him get into the National Guard and The Boston Globe's analysis showing that Bush "fell well short of meeting his military obligation." Neither is based on the questionable memos.

The sinking of the Swift Boat campaign and the black eye for CBS suggest that what each of the candidates would do in the future remains more important than what they did -- or did not do -- in the past.
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[RogerRabbit]

[Geano]

[Dimsdale]

Very interesting.

[Tom Poole]

[tugboatphil]

[cipher]

To "swiftboat" as a verb is sort of a multi-dimensional fisking. A multiplexed approach to bringing out the truth by means of disassembly and fact-checking, then promulgating the results in mass media, conventional brick-and-mortar publishing, paid advertisements, talk show appearances, and -- of course, internet blogging. There are checks and balances, which is more than can be said of the Left Stream Media -- even with Rather's wimpy apology and promises to "find the real truth". I'm sure Dan will have a meeting with O.J. on the golf course to discuss strageties for finding the real criminals.

I don't view it as a BAD verb. Just a verb. That the word conjures an image in the minds of those that read or hear it is not necessarily a bad thing.
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[Geano]

With all due respect for PCF's:

Swift: Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt
Boat: Transitive verb: to place or transport in a boat. Noun: a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce
ED: Acronym: Effective Dose; Erectile Dysfunction
-ing: denoting material used for or associated with a process

Therefore:

“(to) Swiftboat”: “Move a great distance in a short time and speedily load the gravy or sauce and dispense an effective dose in order to render the target unable to respond appropriately.”

Swiftboated: “ Having been subjected to the process by which large numbers of Biological Computers interfaced with Cybernetics and Hyperspace moved a great distance in a short time, speedily loaded the gravy or sauce, and dispensed an effective dose of truth which rendered the victim unable to respond in an appropriate manner.”

Swiftboating: The process of denoting the material necessary to produce the Swiftboat effect.
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MSM Lead Nov 3 2004 "Kerry Oval Office Hopes killed by 10,000 Mice..."
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States they "moved too Swiftly"....

[cipher]

(Apologies to Adam Sandler and no offense intended to rbshirley!)

Perhaps one of the most interesting words in the English language today is the word "swiftboat".
Out of all the English words that begin with the letter S, "swiftboat" is the only word referred to as "The S word."
It’s the one magical word that just by its sound can describe pain, pleasure, hate and love.
"Swiftboat" as most words in the English language, is derived from Latin.
The word "Swift" which means "Fast", and the word "Boat" as in "designed to sink".
In English, "swiftboat" falls into many grammatical categories.
As a transitive verb for instance, "Shirley swiftboated Kerry," as an intransitive verb, "Shirley swiftboats."
It’s meaning is not always nautical.
It can be used as an adjective such as, "Shirley’s doing all the swiftboat work."
As part of an adverb, "Shirley fisks too swiftboating much."
As an adverb enhancing an adjective, "Shirley is swiftboating wonderful."
As the object of an adverb, "Shirley is swiftboating beautifully."
As a noun, "I don’t give a swiftboat."
As part of a word, "Abso-swiftboating-lutly" or "In-swiftboating-credible."
And as almost every word in a sentence, "Swiftboat the swiftboating swiftboaters."
As you may realise, there are very few words with the versatility of "swiftboat."
As in these examples describing situations such as, Truth: "I got swiftboated by the bloggers."
Dismay: "Aww, swiftboat it," trouble: "I guess I’m really swiftboated now."
Aggression: "Don’t swiftboat with me buddy."
Difficulty: "I don’t understand this swiftboating question."
Inquiry: "Who the swiftboat was that?"
Dissatisfaction: "I don’t like what the swiftboat is going on here."
Incompetence: "He’s a non-swiftboater."
Dismissal: "Why don’t you go outside and play hide and go swiftboat yourself.?"
I’m sure you can think of many more examples.
With all of these multipurpose applications, how can anyone be offended when you use this word?
We say use this unique, flexible word more often in your daily speech.
It will identify the quality of your character immediately, so say it loudly and proudly, SWIFTBOAT!
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[Navy_Navy_Navy]

LOL! Love it!

Take the word they try to use as a pejorative and use it, yourself.

Bloggers, help us out with this one, if you like.

Kerry's getting swiftboated, badly!

CBS and RAthER are sooooo swifted!

Hey, it's worked before!

Just look how many people are now "Proud members of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy."
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[BuffaloJack]

A year ago the general population didn't even know what a swiftboat was.
Now it is in such common usage that it has become a part of the everyday American speech as both a noun and a verb.
Kerry and company have been swiftboated by the Swiftvets and they don't like it.
Excellent !!!

[DerbyRed]

Thank y’all . . . I was hoping to inject a little levity in the proceedings. Seemed like we were all getting too preoccupied trying keep everything that’s going on around us in perspective.

But in the true spirit of the “blogosphere’, I’ve gotta come clean. When I ran across the op-ed, I kept wondering how in the world someone -- even a LeftCoast whacko -- could have figured out a way to combine the two instead of treating them as mutually exclusive (i.e. SBVFT = ‘positive’ and CBS = ‘negative’ -- that may work for batteries, but not for this!!!)

When I saw what the SP-I did with their URL, I figured it was just too good to pass up. In fact, they tag all of their ‘editorial’ pieces with “ed” in the URL. It just caught my eye when I was copying the URL for my post.

Y’all certainly took the ball and ran with it . . . those response-posts are absolutely “swiftboat.” And, yes, y’all’ve probably created a great in-house shorthand for identifying all things great and proper and dedicated to truth, justice and the American way . . . Ooooh, I’m getting dizzy. Man, everything’s just positively “swiftboat”!!! > > > GBA/cul/dmm
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