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DNC Lawyers Work To Muzzle Swift Boat Vets' Ad
humaneventsonline.com via Drudge ^

Posted on 08/05/2004 2:31:25 PM PDT by Grig

HUMAN EVENTS has obtained a copy of a letter which lawyers for the Democratic National Committee and John Kerry have sent to television station managers attempting to suppress the blistering anti-Kerry TV spot created by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and first reported here on HumanEventsOnline.com.

The letter claims the ad is "false" and "libelous" and suggests, in not-so-subtle terms, that TV stations should use their "legal authority" to refuse any requests for advertising airtime, stating that "because your station has this freedom [to refuse the ad], and because it is not a 'use' of your facilities by a clearly identified candidate, your station is responsible for the false and libelous charges made by this sponsor" (emphasis added).

As their first piece of evidence of the ad's supposed lies, the DNC/Kerry lawyers claim that the veterans in the ad "purport to have served on Senator Kerry's SWIFT Boat in Vietnam" but, "in fact, not a single one of the men who pretend to have served with Senator Kerry was actually a crewmate of Senator Kerry's." The problem is that none of these men claimed to have served on Kerry's SWIFT Boat. They simply said they "served with John Kerry" -- and they did.

The letter goes on to make several more misleading statements about the advertisement, in an attempt to protect Kerry's "war hero" record. Read the full text below.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ads; alllawyersareliars; bandoflawyers; dnc; kerry; swiftboat; swiftboatveterans
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To: GarySpFc
there was a picture on FR showing the crew of Kerry's command

Those were not the "crew of his command", meaning the enlisted sailors serving on one or both of the two PCFs he commanded. (the only officer was the OIC, officer in charge, of the boat). They were fellow OICs from the other boats and staff of the PCF division.

181 posted on 08/05/2004 6:02:36 PM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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To: Grig; All
I have a word-for-word transcript of the Swith Boat Vets from today's hannity radio show up in the Swift Boat Vets on Hannity Radio Show after 4PM EST thread. Direct links to the three parts follow. Read it and you'll see what the RATs HAVE to kill this ad and then the book.

part 1

part 2

part 3

182 posted on 08/05/2004 6:03:06 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("I actually was going to throw like a man before I threw like a girl." JFK 7/25/2004)
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To: p. henry
If there is a shred of integrity left in American media

That's a might big IF. Mighty big indeed. Bigger than Kerry's ego, and approaching that of his wife.

183 posted on 08/05/2004 6:05:35 PM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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To: OXENinFLA

HAHAHA ... Did ya just catch Susan Estrich on H&C

Can you say PANIC


184 posted on 08/05/2004 6:09:12 PM PDT by Mo1 (Kerry & Edwards .... they will leave no Special Interest Group behind)
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To: Mo1

Carol Channing!


185 posted on 08/05/2004 6:12:22 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("I actually was going to throw like a man before I threw like a girl." JFK 7/25/2004)
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To: Grig

Thanks for keeping this on top of breaking news!

Sincerely!


186 posted on 08/05/2004 6:18:18 PM PDT by JLO (Heads buried in the sand.)
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To: eno_

UPS and Goodrich are the only two that I patronize.

You can bet tht I will use FedEx and another brand of tires in the future.


187 posted on 08/05/2004 6:24:22 PM PDT by sport
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To: newgeezer

No it's not a shakedown..this is a preview of the "election challenge" if Kerry doesn't "win". Reportedly, Kerry is going to apply the Goreon Strategy to take the election to the courts. Kerry has retained dozens if not hundreds of attorneys for election night.


188 posted on 08/05/2004 6:27:05 PM PDT by lawdog
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To: P-Marlowe

What can individual lawyers do when they know of a violation of professional ethics? Do they likewise have to have standing to pursue it?


189 posted on 08/05/2004 6:34:16 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army and Supporting Bush/Cheney 2004!)
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To: bayourod
RE: #71

Club for Growth just posted a letter the Kerry Campaign is sending to stations threatening them if they run Club For Growth Ads.

190 posted on 08/05/2004 6:44:28 PM PDT by bayourod (I resent Kerry telling me that his values, not mine are the only true American values.)
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To: GraceCoolidge

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And Kerry has the nerve to refer to conservative protesters as "goons"? "

That quip reminded me of Ross Perot's paranoid "crackup" moment when he said George Bush had spies taking pictures at his daughter's wedding.

He's close to a meltdown, everyone! Keep it up!

:-)


191 posted on 08/05/2004 6:47:16 PM PDT by SerpentDove (November 2004: Win One for the Gipper.)
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To: SerpentDove

Where can I send money to help run more of these ads?


192 posted on 08/05/2004 7:01:40 PM PDT by George from New England
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To: George from New England

I'm not sure...may be a link on www.swiftvets.com

???

Good thinking. We need to push this through a solid grassroots effort.


193 posted on 08/05/2004 7:04:03 PM PDT by SerpentDove (November 2004: Win One for the Gipper.)
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To: Grig

It makes a big deal out of Dr. Letson not treating Kerry. But I thought that was the whole point. As I understand it, there is no medical officer report supporting award of the first Purple Heart, which supposedly is a prerequisite. All there is is the corpsman scribbled record of applying bacitracin and a bandaid.

Why would a medical officer waste his time writing up a wounded in action report on "applied bacitracin and a bandaid"?


194 posted on 08/05/2004 7:08:05 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: xzins; jude24
What can individual lawyers do when they know of a violation of professional ethics? Do they likewise have to have standing to pursue it?

They have an ethical obligation to report it to the bar.

195 posted on 08/05/2004 7:08:08 PM PDT by P-Marlowe
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To: Ramonan

I wonder how well it will work in the middle of a presidential campaign. I sure hope it backfires on them. It seems to me that if it wasn't a stupid move for a politician to sick lawyers on the media, politicians would do it all the time. I guess at worst this tactic is the equivalent of plugging a leak in a dike with your finger.


196 posted on 08/05/2004 7:10:37 PM PDT by dr_who_2
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To: stylin_geek

"Hmmm, the time is probably charged to the DNC. We need to encourage all station managers to call these lawyers and run up the bill."

Call the number yourself and see how long you can keep them on the line.


197 posted on 08/05/2004 8:06:12 PM PDT by Grig
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To: Grig

O'Reilly and Dick Morris are trashing the ad.

The are both idiots.


198 posted on 08/05/2004 8:17:04 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (Hey, RNC! Get Bob Dylan to sing "Saving Grace" at the Convention!)
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To: Jorge

"I already downloaded the ad and burned it on a CD. A guy at work took it home to play on his computer tonight. Everyone is going to see this ad."

There's an idea. I bet the file is small enough to fit on one of those small CD-Rs (round or business card sized). Burn a bunch and hand them out like candy.


199 posted on 08/05/2004 8:45:00 PM PDT by Grig
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To: SandyInSeattle

You got it! At least in part.....The Swift Boat Vets' were getting no where....They had a news conference, they released statements, they signed petitions.....No one paid them a bit of attention.

They release and distribute a pointed controversial ad and all of a sudden everyone want to know who they are, what's going on. ANything milder would have been glossed over too...........

It's possible that the DNC were so busy planning the party that they were a little blindsided by this.....promoting his Nam linked played right into the Swift Boater's hand......or there are some really dumb people at the DNC........

My hats go off to these men...They were and still are HEROES!


200 posted on 08/05/2004 8:46:27 PM PDT by hoosiermama (19 five * meals for $200---"The sKerry-- Real Meal Deal")
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