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While the Swift Boat Veterans story got a lot of coverage, Elliott’s supposed flip-flop was always mentioned, and was used by the “pro-Kerry” side of the debate to show that Elliott (and the whole Swift Boat Vets group, by implication) was less than credible and perhaps a bit flaky.

Well, now it turns out that Elliott is claiming that he was misquoted by the Boston Globe. He has signed a new affidavit, re-affirming the old and describing the Boston Globe story by Kanish as “extremely inaccurate”:

Captain George Elliott describes an article appearing in today’s edition of the Boston Globe by Mike Kranish as extremely inaccurate and highly misstating his actual views. He reaffirms his statement in the current advertisement paid for by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Captain Elliott reaffirms his affidavit in support of that advertisement, and he reaffirms his request that the ad be played.

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The day after the ad was released, Mike Kranish of the Boston Globe wrote an article in which he stated that one of the swift boat veterans responsible for the ad had retracted his statements about John Kerry and was sorry that he had become involved. That veteran, George Elliot, quickly responded to the article by stating that Mike Kranish had written a very misleading article and that he stood by his statements on Kerry. Soon after Mr. Elliot released his statement, Drudge posted that Mr. Kranish had actually been hired to write the forward for the Kerry/Edwards campaign book, which would be a huge conflict of interest as Mr. Kranish was also covering the campaign in an official capacity of the Globe. Friday evening, Hugh Hewitt posted on his blog a statement by Boston Globe editor Martin Baron that flatly denied that Kranish had contracted to write for an official Kerry/Edwards campaign book. Hugh wondered as to the effect of the Drudge piece on Kranish’s reputation. However, in an interesting twist, Drudge and several other blogs including Instapundit, have linked to a screen capture from Public Affairs that clearly lists Mike Kranish of the Boston Globe as the author of a “penetrating” introduction to the book. Drudge also links to the same page where it appears that the references to Mike Kranish have been removed from the description of the book.