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BuffaloJack
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 Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:42 am Post subject: Prickly City - Swift Goat Veterans for Truth |
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I'm not sure I like the term "Swift Goat Veterans for Truth".
Scott Stantis in today's cartoon of Prickly City takes a backhanded swipe at us and at the same time says we tell the truth.
I'm not sure how to react.
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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Jack, I'm inclined to overlook the satirical play on words in light of the underlying sentiment. 
By the way, and on a related note, there was a recent commentary published by one of the leading SVDS (Swiftvet Derangement Syndrome?) victims bemoaning a purported universal trend on the part of the MSM in failing to "properly" denegrate the Swiftvets at every mention of their name. The lefties are having some great difficulty, apparently, in making "Swiftboating" into a pejorative verb. It seems that the MSM, perhaps to their own chagrin, are recognizing that effective "Swiftboating" requires an important element...TRUTH.
Witness the recent ballyhoo over the much-anticipated "Swiftboating" of Giuliani by the firefighter union bosses. Can you say "lead balloon"?
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I B Squidly
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| Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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Without the 'Swift' reference we'ld have missed the association that makes the satire work. Goat rhymes with boat but as well opens the implication that a goat's been gotten. I like it.
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BuffaloJack
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| Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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Heah, I kind of like it too. Especially the truth part.
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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| I B Squidly wrote: | | ...opens the implication that a goat's been gotten. |
I think you mean that the goat did some gettin' |
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fortdixlover
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| Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Me#1You#10 wrote: | | there was a recent commentary published by one of the leading SVDS (Swiftvet Derangement Syndrome?) victims bemoaning a purported universal trend on the part of the MSM in failing to "properly" denegrate the Swiftvets at every mention of their name. |
I think Kerry's recent delusional statements on the wonderful outcome of the Vietnamese re-education (aka concentration) camps and the absence of a "bloodbath" need significantly more Swiftboating. 
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