Swifties showed that you beg, indeed, but your begging is misplaced.
Dubya wanted to shut the Swifties-along with every other loose-knit, political advocacy group or organization that escaped the clutches of McCain-Feingold-down.
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth were able to promulgate their message in spite of-not due to-the Bush administration.
The notion that President Bush is a devotee of the First Amendment is laughable on its face.
He has run the most anti-speech Republican White House in recent memory.