Swiftboating is a pejorative. Much like my own term "Zogbyism" that I use to criticize the media when they falsify the news. Yellow journalism is what it is. Zogby biased the election day polls and used them to try to sway the 2000 election by depressing the conservative base.
Dan Rather, reporting a story that was coordinated between the DNC and CBS News, stuck by "fake but accurate" forged documents.
THESE incidents NEVER get mentioned by leftist critics of the Swift Boat Veterans. Hell, even Joseph McCarthy was right about there being Communists in government and in Hollywood.
He is damned because of his "list" but the Left has similarly bragged of non-existent lists in their hands in recent years.
The left has also taken the term "Chicken Hawk", a term for a gay man who likes young flesh, and used it to paint a negative perception of those who support the war. They know what this term has meant for decades.
Don't play the leftist word games. And for the record, it is the Democrat party, not the Democratic party. Socialist if we are being honest.
You strike at the nerve of my point. With "swift boating" the dims/libs are trying to dictate the terminology. Martin is reinforcing their objective. I am trying to get conservatives to see that and fight it.
I like Zogbyism!