Out to Launch: Bush somehow puts Kerry on a swift boat to nowhere

NY Village Voice ^ | Aug 31 2004 | James Ridgeway

[Starboard]

Kerry never ONCE spoke of his 20 year Senate record.

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The Swifties are methodically exposing Kerry's fraudulent Vietnam "exploits". When the presidential candidate debates roll around, Bush won't even have to bring up this issue and will instead be able to focus the debate on Kerry's dismal Senate career. Advantage Bush.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Something tells me the Clinton goons would find a way to outbid Teresa, to keep Carville on the sidelines. The Clintons do NOT want Kerry to win, and Carville would rather work for Hillary in 2008 (and be kept in cushy little Demo-machine jobs in the meantime) than for Kerry now.

[Kozak]

Typical Bush lie - it was really 4 months.

3 months 11 days.

Don't know who said it first but the best formulation was "Kerry's semester in Vietnam".

[4woodenboats]

I tried following the silver star links for the original revision and the Lehman revision. They are no longer there, just the hyland revision.
Do they think deleting fraudulent material means the fraud never happened?

[christie]

I tried following the silver star links for the original revision and the Lehman revision. They are no longer there, just the hyland revision. Do they think deleting fraudulent material means the fraud never happened?

The other day I downloaded the Silver Star citations and I got the original and the Lehman. But the one linked to Hyland gave me the Lehman. I needed to go find the link to the Hyland. I don't know if they are moving things around or not.

[Lancey Howard]

Notice how a Kerry advisor admits that they expected the media to hide the Swiftee’s story:

No surprise (to us at least). The Democrats have been propped up and thoroughly accomodated by the nation's liberal newsrooms for decades. Old habits die hard and so do old mindsets. After Rush Limbaugh, everything changed.

The "old" media (network news, newspapers, weeky news magazines) are in their final death kick while the "new" media (talk radio, competetive 24-hour cable news, C-span, and the internet) are energized, motivated, and growing so fast it's hard to keep up.

Apparently nobody told the Democrats.

[Republic]

Yep.

Big media could not contain it because they no longer control stories via their biased editing...alternative media has taken over. How they must hate it! They are becoming irrelevant simply because they are failed journalists and newsreporters.

Funny how the truth, or the balance as it were, of telling both sides of a story has taken Fox News Cable viewership on a continual upsweep.

Could not believe hearing tom brokaw say that president bush said to matt lauer:
"WE CAN NOT WIN THE WAR IN IRAQ??? WHAT??? I heard the president say to Matt Lauer-WE may never win the war on TERROR, there will BE NO FORMAL SURRENDER, NO SIGNED PIECE OF PAPER ON A TABLE SOMEWHERE...

Swift, huh? Trading the words IRAQ war for the words TERROR war.

I DISPISE TOM BROKAW. What a dishonorable man.

Kerry FIRED the adviser who told him NOT to FOCUS on VIETNAM...Lehane or Lelane, or something like that, was his name.

Kerry WANTED to appear to be a real fighter ( HEROIC VET, biker, skier, yacht captain, snowboarder,etc ), at least as MANLY as President Bush (the warrior), and has failed because he cannot change what he is (metro-sexual, manicured, blow-dried, girlie man) and cannot hide what he is from the American people without the mainstream press controlling what stories make it to front page news.