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To Set The Record Straight
ToSetTheRecordStraight.com ^
| 12/5/2007
| Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler
Posted on 12/08/2007 11:29:34 AM PST by Jabba the Nutt
Sen. John Kerry's 2004 presidential bid became the catalyst for an unprecedented political movement by Vietnam veterans who had long resented his false 1971 testimony that U.S. troops were routinely committing war crimes.
Despite the best efforts of the Democratic Party and its media affiliates, they succeeded in reaching out to the public and turning the presidential campaign upside down.
Here, for the first time, is the complete story of how - and why - they did it.
During the Vietnam War, the original television networks and the leading liberal newspapers were near the peak of their formidable persuasive powers, able to dominate public opinion to an extent difficult to imagine today. In an age without cable news networks, popular conservative radio shows or the Internet, they were the only game in town. What these organizations chose to cover became news, and what they ignored did not. They used that power to instill Kerry's false portrait of American veterans as misfits, drug addicts and baby killers into the popular culture.
(Excerpt) Read more at tosettherecordstraight.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bookreview; kerry; swiftboatveterans; swiftees; swifties
You can now order the brand new book: To Set The Record Straight; How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs and the New Media Defeated John Kerry. Be sure to read the free chapter excerpted here. This chapter is entiled: Rather's Ruin and the Rise of the Pajamahadeen. Free Republic plays a big role in this chapter, which recaps the downfall of Dan Rather, who gave us the "fake but accurate" phrase.
John Kerrey is right now missing a chance to pick up a cool million dollars from T. Boone Pickens. All the french-looking Senator has to do is prove one falsehood in the SwiftVet's ads. Waiting......
To: Jabba the Nutt
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posted on
12/08/2007 11:38:09 AM PST
by
Eagles6
To: Eagles6
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posted on
12/08/2007 11:44:56 AM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(Your "dirt" on Fred is about as persuasive as a Nancy Pelosi Veteran's Day Speech)
To: Interesting Times
The truth of John Kerry’s Vietnam experience & its on the ‘04 campaign/election is told! Thanks to the authors of this book and the Swift Boat Vets....
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posted on
12/08/2007 11:45:45 AM PST
by
Molly Pitcher
(We are Americans...the sons and daughters of liberty...*.from FReeper the Real fifi*))
To: Jabba the Nutt
All the french-looking Senator has to do is prove one falsehood in the SwiftVet's ads. Waiting.........french-looking Senator...but, the french have changed....they're Pro-American now. :D
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posted on
12/08/2007 11:58:31 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you....Run, FRed, Run. :^)
To: skinkinthegrass
OK, scratch Freedom Fries, welcome back FRENCH FRIES. Hoo Rah!
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posted on
12/08/2007 12:03:15 PM PST
by
Jabba the Nutt
(Just laugh at them!)
To: Jabba the Nutt; ForGod'sSake
Ping....
Still looking good!!
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posted on
12/08/2007 12:26:30 PM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Moveon is not us...... Moveon is the enemy)
To: Jabba the Nutt
Thanks for the post. I read Chapter 13, and yes, it shows in time-line detail how FR was the starting point of Rather’s Ruin.
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posted on
12/08/2007 12:31:21 PM PST
by
zot
To: Eagles6
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posted on
12/08/2007 1:11:24 PM PST
by
proudmilitarymrs
(It's not immigration, it's an invasion!)
To: Jabba the Nutt
To: Jabba the Nutt
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posted on
12/08/2007 3:34:30 PM PST
by
Christian4Bush
(Driscoll: "Secretary Heller, who's running CTU? You, or me?" Heller: "You are...unless I am.")
To: Jabba the Nutt
My copy arrived today.
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posted on
12/08/2007 4:19:58 PM PST
by
JoeFromSidney
(My book is out. Read excerpts at http://www.thejusticecooperative.com)
To: Jabba the Nutt
Here’s a bump for this good news.
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posted on
12/08/2007 4:45:14 PM PST
by
zot
To: holdonnow; MNJohnnie; Bahbah; Just A Nobody; cibco; tiredoflaundry; sono; RasterMaster; ...
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posted on
12/08/2007 6:37:35 PM PST
by
AliVeritas
(If the rock's not standing after the smoke clears... then what?)
To: AliVeritas
O’Neill et al went after Kerry “with a ferocity reminiscent of Genghis Khan.”
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posted on
12/08/2007 6:47:21 PM PST
by
sono
(Hillary's Campaign Theme Song? Donovan, "Season of The Witch")
To: AliVeritas
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posted on
12/08/2007 7:00:19 PM PST
by
Just A Nobody
(PISSANT for President '08 - NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
To: Jabba the Nutt
“Wintersoldier.com” did a lot of good work in showing problems with the “witness testimony” in Kerry’s WSI. Kudos to Scott Swett.
But a note of caution - the claim that WSI was debunked by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service depends on the shaky memory of historian Guenter Lewy, unsupported by any documentation of such an investigation, or any testimony by anyone else, including the NCIS.
Unless there’s been an update I’m unaware of from a couple of years ago, citing the purported NCIS debunking will lead to an embarassing smackdown by Kerry’s more knowledgeable supporters. Don’t give then an easy “gotcha”.
To: bert; Jabba the Nutt
Still looking good!! Yes indeedy. VERY stylish, eh?
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posted on
12/10/2007 1:20:46 PM PST
by
ForGod'sSake
(ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
To: Jabba the Nutt
Ordered my copy. Received today! Really fast shipping!!!
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:52:42 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
(http://www.fred08.com/)
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