The whole Nightline description of the story is off the mark. They keep repeating "Republican funded" and then as you point out this idiotic "fueled by the media" business.
Still, I am pleased to see it chugging along.
It's so interesting that the Democrats can spend tens of millions of dollars in ads and books and movies against Bush. He doesn't whine or complain.
Some guys in Texas, Republicans, decide to help the Swift Boat guys get their stories out and give them a couple of hundred thousand dollars and Kerry and the DNC are whining like the faux war hero and metrosexuals that they are.