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 Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 10:54 pm Post subject: "Things You Don’t Know About Bud Day" |
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Dean Esmay of "Dean's World" directs us to an excellent commentary on Col. Bud Day by "Greyhawk" of "Mudville Gazette" with a short retrospective on his blogging experience in Campaign 2004 and an observation on three American heroes who played a significant role in formulating Kerry's worst nightmare...
| Quote: | Things You Don’t Know About Bud Day
by Dean Esmay
July 5, 2008
An amazing article about one of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
Dean’s World was added to the Library Of Congress’ archives in 2004 as being “culturally significant” for the 2004 election, in part because of three exclusive and in-depth interviews we published of three of those men. I wish Bud Day had been one of them. You can read the interviews with the three men I did talk to here, here, and here. As a blogger, it’s some of the work I’m proudest of, and I’m often rather perturbed by those who continually insist that these guys were nothing but a Rove/Bush/RNC group of political hacks.
I guess those of us who grew up in families with multiple members of the military, who respect and understand the honor code that unites those who’ve served regardless of their politics, understood intuitively what was not obvious to most others: these guys were for real, and were very seriously angry for reasons that had little to do with politics.
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A quick observation...Dean Esmay (in my personal experience) was, perhaps, one of the first bloggers to actively pursue an opportunity to personally interview one or more of the SVPT principals. From the day Mr. Esmay made his initial request (and I believe it was through this forum...I'll have to check), I spent considerable energy trying to somehow induce SBVT (through my immediate superior I'll hasten to add) to take not only Mr. Esmay up on his offer but to greatly expand their approachability and availability to a still-neophyte "blogosphere" about which the SBVT was, for all intents and purposes, essentially clueless.
What a difference a few months would make in the concurrent and almost unprecented explosive growth in both the influence of the blogosphere and the power of the SBVT story. It truly was "the perfect storm". |
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