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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:29 pm Post subject: Ron Winter: "...Swift Boat Vets Still Waiting!" |
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Author and mil-blogger Ronald Winter comments on the recent Thomas Lipscomb LTTE...
| Quote: | "...the deadline has long since passed, and once again, Kerry has produced nothing. But the smears continue, and they have made their way into the current Democratic race for the presidential nomination..." "Straight Talk From the Left?" - Swift Boat Vets Still Waiting!
Friday, February 01, 2008
From the moment that the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth (now the Swift Boat Veterans and POWs For Truth) surfaced in the 2004 election, drawing attention to Sen. John Kerry's questionable war record, members of that organization have been subjected to personal attacks.
It was obvious from the outset that these attacks were diversions, intended to draw attention away from Kerry, and were essentially the same tactics that Kerry accused the Swifties of using against him.
The Swift Boat veterans demanded in response that Kerry find one single thing they were saying that was untrue. I saw their spokesman, John O'Neill, on television numerous times during the summer of 2004 stating that if Kerry's supporters could find anything wrong in UNFIT FOR COMMAND, the book he co-authored on Kerry's service, he would retract and correct it.
It wasn't necessary. In the years since, there has been little coverage by the mainstream media of the continuing hostilities, such as when Kerry surrogates filed unsuccessful defamation lawsuits against individual members of the Swift Boat veterans.
Many of Kerry's activities, however, were highlighted, including his claim that he would prove the Swifties accusations were lies.
Last year, Texan T. Boone Pickens offered to pay $1-million to the charity of Kerry's choosing, if Kerry could back up his claim that the Swifties lied. Kerry blustered, loudly proclaiming he would be claiming the million dollars posthaste, and the press dutifully rallied around his bombast.
But the deadline has long since passed, and once again, Kerry has produced nothing. But the smears continue, and they have made their way into the current Democratic race for the presidential nomination...
Winter's Soldier Story - cont'd |
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baldeagle
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The msm still at the old job of rewriting history. ( repeat a lie long and often and loudly enough, it eventually becomes perceived to be the truth)
Example;
I grew up believing that Senator McCarthy was some kind of monster that somehow wangled his way into a position of power and then abused that power to persecute honest folks. Most folks still believe that, because that is all they have ever been told by the MSM.
Fortunately, the msm no longer has a lock on the dessemination of information.
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