Swett Interview with Paul Weyrich on RighTalk Radio

Rightalk & To set the Record Straight ^ | December 28, 07 | Paul Weyrich

[abner]

Scott Swett interview by Paul Weyrich on RighTalk Radio, December 28, 2007

Weyrich: Back with The Right Hour on the RighTalk Radio Network. I'm Paul Weyrich, and with us now is Scott Swett, who has just written a book entitled, To Set The Record Straight: How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs and the New Media Defeated John Kerry. Swett is a former chairman of the Free Republic Network, and was very much involved with the entire controversy over the Swift Boat veterans in the 2004 elections. Scott, welcome to the program.

Swett: Thank you very much, Paul. It's good to be on the show.

Weyrich: We're happy to have you here because there are many questions that need to be asked of you. For example, the book focuses on the old media presenting false or misleading information to the public during the 2004 campaign. What techniques did the old media use to marginalize the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and other anti-Kerry veterans?

Swett: They used a couple of different techniques. Initially, they simply refused to report on the charges made by the Swift Boat veterans against John Kerry. For example, when they held their initial press conference at the National Press Club on May 4, 2004, the Associated Press decided that the event - which consisted of John Kerry’s entire former chain of command denouncing him as being unfit to be Commander-in-Chief – the AP decided that was not "news" and failed to file any article whatsoever. So that would be... certainly the simplest method is to refuse to convey the information to the public. A second approach, which they fell back to later, was to simply parrot the Kerry campaign's lies about the veterans –

[abner]

Scott Swett's latest interview on Rightalk. This is a great book. It is so well laid out that it is easy to refute anyone that still says the Swifties were Bush robots. I still run into them with too much frequency to count them out. That is why I think this is an important book.

[BubbaBasher]

Congrats again and a bump to you.

[Interesting Times]

Thank you kindly.

[ConorMacNessa]

Swett: We were able to dig more deeply into the relationship between Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. Few people realized at the time that the VVAW was actually taking direction from the Vietnamese communists; they were in constant contact with them – one method of contact was through the Paris peace conferences, and we were able to find internal communications in which the VVAW leaders openly admitted that for their organization, the Vietnamese, quote, "called the shots."

The co-ordination between VVAW, other "new left" orgs, CPUSA and Asian Commies is also well documented in "Stolen Valor".

[Interesting Times]

Leftist war crimes agitprop exposure ping.

Check out what the Iraq Veterans Against the War are up to...

[ConorMacNessa]

Thanks for your great work!

[Interesting Times]

Thanks.

By the way, that logo was created for the Swift Vets by Registered, formerly of considerable FR fame.

[georgia peach]

I could not put this book down.Stayed up until 2 A.M. reading and I thought that I knew the whole story already.Excellent book!

[ConorMacNessa]

The work you guys did in ‘04 was invaluable.

[Interesting Times]

The work you guys did in ‘04 was invaluable.

Thank you.

So was the work you guys did in '69...

[ConorMacNessa]

Thanks - it was an honor to serve. I see your book will be available at B&N on the 28th - I’ll be sure to get a copy.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Interesting Times]

Thanks - it was an honor to serve. I see your book will be available at B&N on the 28th - I’ll be sure to get a copy.

Actually, B&N is a bit behind the times - the book is already available at TSTRS.com.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[Bob J]

Very cool. Those people at Rightalk.com must be some pretty swell people! ;-}.

[The Shrew]

Very cool. Those people at Rightalk.com must be some pretty swell people! ;-}.

They really, really are! And they are very much appreciated.

Regards,

TS

[Interesting Times]

Very cool. Those people at Rightalk.com must be some pretty swell people! ;-}.

Yes, and that would be RighTalk.com for the typing impaired...

[zot]

Excellent interview! Paul Weyrich is is a good interviewer and you made all your points. I’m glad you posted this interview on ToSetTheRecordStraight.com because I got home too late to listen to it live.