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January 21, 2008 -- Poet and Vietnam veteran Russ Vaughn takes the New York Times to task for its blatant anti-veteran propaganda and looks back on the 2004 campaign as a time of liberation from a media-constructed prison in which many Vietnam veterans had long languished. While reading the new book To Set The Record Straight: How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs and the New Media Defeated John Kerry, Vaughn was struck by how the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth developed what they called a "tap code" to communicate their message to the public. As Swift Vet spokesman John O'Neill later observed:

We had our own set of guards. They were called the mainstream media. We had to have some way to get around them, and we devised a method of doing that.

Vaughn writes:

Reading those words, I experienced a sudden, flashing insight that the forty years of anger, resentment and conflicting emotions that I and my Vietnam veteran brothers had endured since our return from Southeast Asia was no less than a form of psychological imprisonment, a life sentence of disrepute and dishonor imposed upon us by a left wing media which had been too easily manipulated by America's enemies. Worse, not only had this leftist media been the prosecutor, judge and jury in charging us with vile war crimes and passing this life sentence upon us, they had since served as the ever vigilant wardens and guards of this mental prison just as O'Neill described them. And just as at the Hanoi Hilton, their Soviet-directed misrepresentations erected a wall of lies around us and kept us within by controlling what America and the world heard of and from us...

That is, until, the advent of the Internet, which quickly became our tap code. Because many of us were now in our fifties and sixties, not quick to pick up on the freedom of communication this technology offered, the tapping was tentative and limited at first. But it was steadily growing in volume and with the nomination of John Kerry as the Democratic candidate for president in 2004, that tapping quickly became a booming crescendo. With the Swift Vets leading the way, in the summer and fall of 2004 it led to a full-fledged prison break.

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January 19, 2008 -- In Bylines of Brutality, the satirist Iowahawk brilliantly parodies the recent New York Times article claiming that violent crimes by returning combat veterans are commonplace:

A Denver newspaper columnist is arrested for stalking a story subject. In Cincinnati, a television reporter is arrested on charges of child molestation. A North Carolina newspaper reporter is arrested for harassing a local woman. A drunken Chicago Sun-Times columnist and editorial board member is arrested for wife beating. A Baltimore newspaper editor is arrested for threatening neighbors with a shotgun. In Florida, one TV reporter is arrested for DUI, while another is charged with carrying a gun into a high school. A Philadelphia news anchorwoman goes on a violent drunken rampage, assaulting a police officer. In England, a newspaper columnist is arrested for killing her elderly aunt.

Unrelated incidents, or mounting evidence of that America's newsrooms have become a breeding ground for murderous, drunk, gun-wielding child molesters? Answers are elusive, but the ever-increasing toll of violent crimes committed by journalists has led some experts to warn that without programs for intensive mental health care, the nation faces a potential bloodbath at the hands of psychopathic media vets.

Mark Steyn joins the anti-Times-propaganda party with Some Fictional Horrors of War.

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January 14, 2008 -- The New York Times continues its attack on the military with a lengthy article detailing violent crimes committed by U.S. troops after returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Natually, the Times was careful not to mention that civilians in the same age range commit such crimes at a significantly higher rate. Power Line does a good job exposing the Times' dishonest, agenda-driven reporting.

It's worth bearing in mind just who runs the New York Times. Owner Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger, Jr. was asked during the Vietnam War who he would prefer to see shot, a North Vietnamese soldier or an American. Sulzberger answered, "I would want to see the American get shot."

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December 24, 2007 -- Hoping to replicate their forebears' success at character assassination, the Iraq Veterans Against the War have announced their intention to hold their own 'Winter Soldier Investigation' in March to smear members of the U.S. military in Iraq as war criminals. Naturally, the IVAW is working closely with former members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War as they prepare to trash the troops once again.

Denis Keohane covers the situation in depth in a new American Thinker article, Swiftboating history.

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For those of us who haven't had the 'tap code', or the Swiftie pedigree, or (fortunately) weren't POWs, or a Reunion or 2, a million thanks and BZs for the window to a soul that died 35 years ago.................