Posted on 12/15/2007 8:00:52 AM PST by shoptalk
FReeper Scott Swett will join Loud & Clear (Central Jersey 1450 AM WCTC) to discuss his new book, "To Set The Record Straight" today (Saturday, December 15th).
Mr. Swett will be the guest of Keith Rasmussen and Maggie Glynn who host Loud & Clear on Central Jersey 1450 - 1 pm to 4 pm Eastern. He will join Loud & Clear at 3:30 pm (Eastern).
Scott Swett created and managed the web sites SwiftVets.com and WinterSoldier.com during the 2004 campaign, working closely with Swift boat veterans, former POWs and other Vietnam veterans to help bring their experiences to the public.
Read more here: http://www.tosettherecordstraight.com/ . "To Set The Record Straight - How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs and the New Media Defeated John Kerry" by Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler may be ordered at this website.
Listen live on WCTC (April 21 at 4:15 pm Eastern): http://www.wctcam.com/
Call in toll free at 888 545-9282 (888 545-WCTC).
Sen. John Kerry's 2004 presidential bid became the catalyst for an unprecedented political movement by Vietnam veterans who had long resented his false 1971 testimony that U.S. troops were routinely committing war crimes.
Despite the best efforts of the Democratic Party and its media affiliates, they succeeded in reaching out to the public and turning the presidential campaign upside down.
Here, for the first time, is the complete story of how - and why - they did it.
During the Vietnam War, the original television networks and the leading liberal newspapers were near the peak of their formidable persuasive powers, able to dominate public opinion to an extent difficult to imagine today. In an age without cable news networks, popular conservative radio shows or the Internet, they were the only game in town. What these organizations chose to cover became news, and what they ignored did not. They used that power to instill Kerry's false portrait of American veterans as misfits, drug addicts and baby killers into the popular culture.
When John Kerry made his service in Vietnam the cornerstone of his presidential campaign in 2004, the wounds he had inflicted on millions of Vietnam veterans were re-opened. Many veterans decided they could no longer be silent while a man who had repeated the propaganda of America's enemies rose to the position of Commander-in-Chief.
Kerry and his advisors believed that their old media allies would suppress any challenge to their version of what Kerry had done during his time in Vietnam and in the antiwar movement. It didn't work out that way.
To Set the Record Straight is the inside story of how an ad hoc collection of veterans and activists overcame their opponents' efforts to silence and marginalize them, and delivered the explosive truth about John Kerry's past to the public. It is a story of justice and vindication long delayed, of an insurgent assault on the old media by a new wave of online reporters, and of the long struggle of America's Vietnam veterans to make their way home.
Ping.
We need to hear this in the Boston market.
Mr. Swett appeared on WCTC in New Jersey three years ago. The lib callers convulsed into a fevered frenzy, but couldn’t lay a glove on him.
Don’t be shy. WCTC streams live at wctcam.com (the *Listen Live* button is near the top left of the page). CONSERVATIVE callers are rare, but always welcome at 888 545-9282.
Thanking you!
Fan mail sent to the authors. This is a must-have book.
Keith, thanks for the thread - I’m looking forward to the show.
I have already gotten it, read it(couldn’t put it down-wonderful read,stayed up until 2 A.M.) and wrapped as a Christmas gift for my son.Get the book-give it as a gift-excellent! Take BP medicine first.
On the air ping.
By the way, I’m also going to be on Air America next Wednesday. I’ll put up a thread for that appearance in a couple of days.
Better hurry while they're still on the air. They just lost two more stations.
That's great to hear. Remind me to pester you to repost that at Amazon when we launch the book there next month. :)
I would love to and it would be my honest assessment.Every American needs to read this book.
BTTT
Nail ‘em good, Scott.
Very nice. Thank you.
Nah, I bet it is going to be boring....
:)
I’ll try not to nod off...
I’m with you...read then gift. I too have it, but must often put it down when blood boils.... Only thing that could have saved us from our current mess is President Joe McCarthy! Reagan was brilliant with “We Win, They Lose”, unfortunately he only applied it offshore while he was president! (tho’ the flight controller union effort on his part was reassuring) And I’m fairly certain he knew we needed a strong dose here as well, and was probably extremely conflicted when it came to his own country’s failings. The book doesn’t fall short in identifying the source of the failings, that’s for sure. What’s clear is the extent to which we’ve been ‘infiltrated’, and how close to the mark Savage is with his ‘enemy within’ issue!
Thanks for the heads up! I will be tuning in...
And I look forward to putting up a review on Amazon. I spent until 3 AM the other night reading.
You're cordially invited to take the next plane to Tampa to appear on local radio.
Local freepers will be all agog.
It was 80 degrees here yesterday and we're putting up Christmas decorations in shorts and sandals.
What time shall I pick you up at the airport?
Sincerely,
Leni/MinuteGal
I do appreciate the offer, but I think I'm going to stay here in chilly DC with my family. If any Florida stations are interested, just send me the contact info - the beauty of doing radio is that you don't have to go anywhere.
ahhh, but amplifying on Minutegal’s remark... we look forward to the first FL book signing....perhaps a few more blizzards will change your mind! Methinks that you’ve ‘out-footnoted’ the grand master O’Neill himself!....but then you took a bigger measure of time and subject on, so congratulations, big time! The subject has been dormant too long! I knew there musta been a reason I kept seeing your name come up on ‘the other’ site. in Author space, you’re way up there now with John, and Col. Hal Moore, hope the effort was, is and will be as rewarding as it promises! and as rewarding as your other successes, Wintersoldier.com and swifvets.com. What a service you’ve provided to the country! my humble thanks.
Scott’s gonna have a tough act to follow...(or talk to if she’s still on). The 1450 anchorette reminds me of a joke I heard today...
“If your dog’s barking at the back door and your wife is yelling at the front door, which door do you open?....
Your dog, at least he’ll shut up when you let him in”!
Liberals try but just can’t pass for either sanity or intelligence! BDS was just a catalyst for the rest of us to notice!
They’re talking about you!
Thanks for your reply.I recently read “Witness”, by Chambers.What a hero.And Coulter’s “Treason” was worth the effort as well.
How do you get people to see the truth?I think Americans are good people and have a very hard time “seeing” evil. Thus, 9/11. We just cannot conceive of what others are capable of.
People like Horowitz and the blogger Neoneocon and Whittaker Chambers give me hope that minds can be changed by the truth.The Spirit is at work.
The chick sounds hostile.
Apparently, they haven’t read the book!
my guess is that she only speaks one language,
LiberalSpeak
While she may be ‘sweet’, never quite comes off that way!
Scott has. He has the info down cold.
Ms. Glynn appears to be in over her head.
Mr. Rasmussen is moderating the discussion well.
Glad to see you! Merry Christmas!
TS
Great to see you too!
Great book!
Merry Christmas!
Too many explanation points!!!
Note the liberal technique of asking the question that the guest just answered....
Ms. Glynn is becoming overtly hostile. Ha!
Yep.. But Scott is fantastic cause he knows the tricks..
In defense of the talk show hosts....even for some of us who see this as a Great Book...we won’t be done reading it til after Christmas! Like the Swiftvet site itself, great pains are taken to keep it factual...something the liberal mind can’t come to grips with, since that is not one of their typical character traits! Whole lotta truth to take at one sitting!
“People like Horowitz and the blogger Neoneocon and Whittaker Chambers give me hope that minds can be changed by the truth.”
no doubt about it, Reagan comes to mind....and his followers, the whole country of USSR!
Ah, well... next time.
Keith, thanks for a great interview. Catch you soon...
best time and money I ever spent
“Ah, well... next time.”
And there will be a next time, too!
You were great. Thank you.
I wasn’t following Ms. Glynn when she was mining for info on SwiftVet contributor, Sam Fox. She often uses *Mr. Fox* to disparage Rupert Murdoch, so I was a little slow on the uptake.
I guess a contribution to the Swiftees somehow disqualifies one from being appointed an ambassador to Belgium (hardly the point of the interview).
Again, thanks for your time and I hope “To Set the Record Straight” sells a million copies.
~ shoptalk
On Air America?
Good luck.
Thanks. I knew who Fox was, but his $50K contribution to the Swift Vets was just a drop in the bucket - they raised more than $26 million overall. What made it possible for the Swift Vets to continue their ad campaign was massive support from ordinary people who believed in them.
It’s okay... I’ll Lysol the phone before and after the interview.
I totally understand...LOL and good luck.
Oh my goodness. I definitely want a ping to that.
Is there audio available somewhere to your previous interviews? So far I’ve missed all of them. :-(
No, I’m afraid they just went out across the ether and are gone...
Announcer: “Ladies and gentlemen, that repetitive thud you hear is Mr. Swett banging his head on our console.”
;o)
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