IIRC, all the summer fireworks were due to a presser the Swifties ran back in May, and, lo and behold, the Abu Ghraib photos surfaced, and the media went nuts for 4 weeks.
This probably p*ssed off the Swifties, and decided to make the political season more exciting.
I wonder if the fraudulent Ms. Mapes also coordinated that CBS attack? To keep the swifties under the radar?
Would this have prompted them to get the information in book form?
I don't think so. The abu-grab story had a life of it's own. Preparing the battlefield.
Don't you think the Kerry camp was just going to let the MSM make the Swifties story go away by not covering it? Some on the TV said so after the fact. IIRC when the Swifties' first ad came out, even Limbaugh didn't touch it for over a week. It was the Internet that propelled the Swifties.
Looks to me the pajama people did it twice. Once with the Swifties and now with Rather.