SwiftVets.com Forum Index SwiftVets.com
Service to Country
 
 FAQFAQ   SearchSearch   MemberlistMemberlist   UsergroupsUsergroups   RegisterRegister 
 ProfileProfile   Log in to check your private messagesLog in to check your private messages   Log inLog in 

WAPO at it again

 
Post new topic   Reply to topic    SwiftVets.com Forum Index -> Geedunk & Scuttlebutt
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
1AD
Lt.Jg.


Joined: 27 Aug 2004
Posts: 138

PostPosted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:44 am    Post subject: WAPO at it again Reply with quote

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38749-2004Oct16.html Relevant portions of article are below. Obviously they don't read other papers. But this does give us a two-fer. Letters and flyers to newspapers and other groups showing that the Post does not research before they write and pointing out the obvious errors in this article. For example. 1st purple heart but days later in his own diary Kerry says they have not been shot at yet.

After Late Start, Republican Groups Jump Into the Lead
Since August, 527s Raised Six Times as Much as Democrats

By Thomas B. Edsall
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 17, 2004; Page A15

... The best-known ad was run in early August, right after the Democratic National Convention, by the Swift Boat Veterans. It attacked Kerry's record in Vietnam, charging, "Kerry is lying about his first Purple Heart" and "Kerry lied to get his Bronze Star." These claims were never substantiated, and they were disputed by the Kerry campaign and in newspaper articles, but questions about Kerry's service dominated the campaign through much of August. ...
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic   Reply to topic    SwiftVets.com Forum Index -> Geedunk & Scuttlebutt All times are GMT
Page 1 of 1

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum


Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group