"...The 2004 Swift Boat story began at the National Press Club in May, when the anti-Kerry veterans held a press conference. Except for a short and snide article on the inside pages of the New York Times, the event was completely ignored by the mainstream media. If the media’s intention was to assist Kerry by ignoring his critics, the strategy backfired in an historic fashion..."
FReepers followed this story since May.
Both right wing and left wing media "discovered" this story in August.
LIVE THREAD: Swift Boat Veterans for Truth Press Conference on C-SPAN
www.freerepublic.com | May 4, 2004
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1129629/posts
Posted on 05/04/2004 4:58:36 PM PDT by Howlin
Q) What's the difference between mainstream left and right media?
A) Neither side would know a real story.
BUT if it's anti Bush or anti military they will let you know.
BTTT!!!!!!
BUMP
Thanks for the ping!
Bump!
Bump.
As an aside
http://www.powerlineblog.com/
Paypal for Steve Gardner (corrected)
Tony Snow has provided us the information that so many of you have been asking for in order to help Steve Gardner:
Here's the info I have from Steve. He has a paypal account through his email: sgardner5@carolina.rr.com; there's also a snail-mail address: P.O. Box 908; Clover, SC 29710.
P.S. Tony has made me a hero at home. He's coming through on the autographed photo for Mrs. Trunk.
UPDATE: We have corrected the email address above; we had originally omitted the "s" in "sgardner5@carolina.rr.com." It now reads correctly.
Posted by The Big Trunk at 09:50 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (7)
Tony Snow to the rescue
Today's day brightener comes via Tony Snow and Griff Jenkins, the producer of the Tony Snow Show on Fox News Radio. Griff writes:
KUDOS to you guys on Steve [Gardner]! We've made it our goal to help Steve in some significant way this way by encouraging conservatives to commit acts of compassion and get Steve a job!!
Steve's on Tony right now - 09:35a ET - he's doing very well! You can listen to it live or hear the highlight recap later this afternoon at www.tonysnow.com!
Tony is singing your praises and will get powerline some plugs too!
Thanks.
Griff
Griff Jenkins
Producer
The Tony Snow Show
Fox News Radio
Any chance we can get the editorial staff over at the New York Post to pick up the ball?
Tony Snow writes:
Thanks for the great work on Steve Gardner. He told me off-air that he was down to $400 in savings before the story ran -- and still has about $900 in bills to pay. I'm urging listeners to practice compassionate conservatism by writing checks. I'm also directing them to your site via the Tony Snow Show website and my nascent blog, tonysnow.blogspot.com (those posts probably won't get up until the afternoon because I have to fly to NY as soon as I get off the air). Again, keep up the sensational work!
Best,
Tony Snow
Tony, is there any chance we could get an autographed photo for Mrs. Trunk?
Posted by The Big Trunk at 08:46 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
Spread the word.
Good read, thanks!
FOXNews aired part of the first commercial for news purposes when the MSM refused to even mention the Swift vets opposition to Kerry.
However they became involved with LaCivita and PFA, the bottom line is the word got out... and it hit hard!
George W. Bush won Virginia because he won Virginia ~ we can make up all of the reasons we want, which human beings are very good at. :)
Kerry's loss is a veteran's win. Thanks for the ping, Tonk!