Legal Terrorism-How the Kerry team ambushed the Swift Boat Truth Squad ..

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 8/10/04 | Henry Mark Holzer and Erika Holzer

[kattracks]

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

I've always felt that the lawyers' threats to sue the T.V. stations was a bullying bluff.

The problem for the Kerry campaign is that if it doesn't work, it will almost assuredly backfire. And it apparently has.

[musicman]

WOW kattracks !! Great article !! BTTT !!!!

[JoeSixPack1]

hey,,, this starting to get really really good! :-)~

[GeronL]

How many stations are running the ads and how many refused? Do the SwiftBoat Vets keep track?

[tioga]

Excellent summary cartoon.

[JoeSixPack1]

Hey, can I be first:

How much can sKerry take before he steps down and she-who-would-be-obeyed steps in?? Can he last till the October surprise?

Oh yeah,, President sKerry? HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA Ain't happenin'!

[Chieftain]

Excellent article. I hope the TV stations have the good sense to get this kinda brief from their legal department.

I hope some one in the Media, like Russert maybe, will bring these guts on for a full hour and let 'em go at it. (Hey I know I'm dreamin here, but since I'm up in the middle of the night I might as well!)

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

I don't know how many are running the ad. I do know just a few have backed down when threatened by the Donks. However, the ad has been shown on the national news because of the lawsuits threatened over it. So by threatening to sue, Mr. Kerry's campaign has achieved the polar opposite of what they intended.

[GeronL]

don't even joke about that

[GeronL]

Hillery I mean

[Humal]

Excellent! Would this be enough proof for O'Riley, I wonder? Would it do any good to e-mail it to him?

[GeronL]

Its gotten a lot more attention. They should have just let them air it and run out of cash. The media would have let it go, they are his sycophants after all. At most it was a one or two day story in the biased left-wing media.

Now its here to stay

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Yeah. We can most assuredly count on the children who compose the leadership of the DNC to ensure that this issue stays front and center for some time to come.

[woofer]

So by threatening to sue, Mr. Kerry's campaign has achieved the polar opposite of what they intended.

And at no cost to the Swifties For Truth.

Good job, Terry McAwful. You putz.

[joesnuffy]

You got a better shot at a free room at the Atlantis Hilton
than finding one nano-scintilla of 'integrity' in John 'fn' Kerry
imo

[reformedliberal]

Give it a try. I emailed him the day he went on about how it was *indisputable* that Kerry was a hero because *the Navy gave him those awards". 2 days later (yesterday) he had Gardner (IIRC) on and O'Reilly was actually polite and trying to salvage something for Kerry, while not totally refuting the Swifties. He (BOR) tried to get Gardner to admit that *at the least* Kerry was a hero. The Swiftie managed to dispute that, although BOR left it til the last seconds and the final answers were a bit too quick to really register, IMO.

I sense a serious reconsideration going on about all this. The media still has some credibility to protect, perhaps, in their own minds.

Everyone needs to keep on holding their feet to the fire.

Brian K on F&F is another person to keep writing to. Again, I sense he is an honest guy and he often seems uncomfortable w/the official spin.

Brit has been tough on this and Hannity handled Lanny Davis well last night, while Alan, of course, tried to keep the Kerry-was-a-hero BS alive w/the refrain of "half a football field away" and "didn't serve ON the SAME boat" sh!t. Keep emailing them. Keep reiterating the way Swift Boats operated. Hammer on the fact that these guys in the other boats were sometimes only 5 feet away, while the supporting vets mostly didn't spend more than 2 months each on the same boat as Kerry. Include that the supporters got Bronze Stars and an early transfer out of a combat zone. I sense an opportunity.

[NCjim]

a dramatic, highly effective TV spot that flatly disputes Kerry’s claims, and, worse for Kerry, his integrity.

As we saw with the Bent One, lack of integrity is not a problem. Its lack is becoming a trademark of the Democrats.

[jwalsh07]

Nice piece.