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kate
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 Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 6:11 am Post subject: WH aides...accusing Bergdahl’s squad of “swift-boating" |
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It’s come to this: White House aides now accusing Bergdahl’s squad of “swift-boating” him
| Quote: | Consider this the beginning of phase three of the Bergdahl fallout.
Phase one was when soldiers from Bergdahl’s unit caught the White House off-guard by publicly accusing him of desertion. Team O probably thought the combination of nondisclosure agreements that they were forced to sign and the prospect of retaliation if they made life hard for the Pentagon would keep them quiet. That was the key misjudgment from which everything else over the past three days has flowed.
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Babbling about “swift-boating” is a good way to get the ball rolling, at least among liberals who are grasping for ways to defend Obama and have come up empty thus far. “Swift-boating” implies that the vets who’ve accused Bergdahl have some political motivation in doing so.......
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full article at link, and video
In the video, he does come right out and accuse of 'swift-boating
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/06/04/its-come-to-this-white-house-now-accusing-bergdahls-squad-of-swift-boating-him/
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 7:26 am Post subject: Swift Boat Vets CoChair:Bergdahl Is No Hero, Just Like Kerry |
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Swift Boat Vets Co-Chair: Bergdahl Is No Hero, Just Like Kerry
| Quote: | And the sergeant’s platoon is right to speak out against him, the Vietnam vet says.
A former chairman of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth defended Army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl’s fellow soldiers from a White House charge that they are unfairly “swiftboating” the former Taliban captive by coming forward to criticize him. Bergdahl’s questionable conduct, he suggests, is analogous to that of Secretary of State John Kerry, whom the group famously opposed in the 2004 presidential election.
“Those guys had friends who died in Afghanistan like we had friends who died in Vietnam, and to allow this kind of thing to occur really does tarnish the whole memory of all those people who gave their lives,” former co-chairman John O’Neill told National Review Online. “To allow a guy like this to be posed as a hero, like Kerry self-posing as a hero, is really an affront to everybody who died there, and that’s why those guys in his platoon have come forward and that’s why we came forward 40 years ago and ten years ago.”
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/379546/swift-boat-vets-co-chair-bergdahl-no-hero-just-kerry-joel-gehrke
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How was it we defined "Swift Boating?"
Something like revealing an unknown truth a politician desires to remain secret?
Glad to see that 10 years later, the guys are still under their skin. 
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| Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2014 11:43 am Post subject: Re: WH aides...accusing Bergdahl’s squad of “swift-boating&a |
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| kate wrote: | | It’s come to this: White House aides now accusing Bergdahl’s squad of “swift-boating” him |
The White House aides got it right! Bergdahl IS being "swiftboated"..and I, for one, am delighted with their characterization.
Most of the sentient world understands that Bergdahl's comrades-in-arms are likely speaking the truth as to the character of his service...and it suggests, rather loudly, that the characterization "to swiftboat", when and where employed by the left, is a false and shameful pejorative.
Sorry Matthews. History has and will make further note. |
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Navy_Navy_Navy
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Funny how things happen in clusters on this board. 
I'm happy to see them using the word, "swift-boating" too - it gives us the chance to repeat the definition of "swift-boating," and it gives us a chance to repeat that NOT A SINGLE CHARGE made by the SVPTs has ever been disproven.
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Here is the unofficial official definition of "Swiftboating" listed in "To Set the Record Straight: How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs, and the New Media Defeated John Kerry" by Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler from the Swiftvets and POWs for Truth movement in 2004:
Swiftboating: Exposing the lies, deceit and fraud of self-glorifying public officials or candidates for public office who exaggerate their military service by lying about feats of heroism or combat wounds.
Variations keeping the same basic core definition but applied to other classes of scoundrels would probably be acceptable....
You might note that Kerry never proved a single claim of the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth to be incorrect...and to this day, he has not kept his promise to release his military records. |
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Me#1You#10
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With all due respect to Scott and Tim, I like...
| Quote: | | "Swiftboating", a left-wing created pejorative, is testimony by credible, informed veterans as to their knowledge and perceptions of a fellow serviceman's military record which contradicts the favored narrative for a progressive pseudo-hero. |
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