1AD Lt.Jg.
Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 138
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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:44 am Post subject: WAPO at it again |
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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. ... |
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