We'd better get real busy correcting the misconception about the meaning of swift boating.
Here's an example of the former: a news item about the recent passing of 89-year-old Mr. Mel Fiske, "a member of Communist Party U.S.A. [who] worked as a reporter for the party's newspaper, the Daily Worker, from 1940 until 1956, when he realized Soviet-style communism was not aligned with his vision of a socialist utopia."
(Of course 1956 was when Khruschev admitted the truth about Stalin causing many "American" Communists to leave the Party and -- some say -- spawning the New Left when the Party's young turned to Mao and their own plans for revolution and "paradise.")
Here's the funny part: "As a reporter for the Daily Worker he covered Congress, the Supreme Court, the White House and the Pentagon, focusing on the opposition to labor organizing, political dissent and the rise of McCarthyism."
The San Francisco Chronicle employee is totally oblivious to the absurdity; to wit, a Communist reporting on the rise of an evil that was looking for something (Communists) who many wanted us to believe didn't exist -- or at least Mr. Fiske the Communist was busy stirring up hatred against that "evil" McCarthyism!
(I stopped listening to Bill O'Reilly for about a year because of his swift boat ignorance, also.)
It occurred to me (borrowing on the SF Chronicle article in post #49) that some time many years from now there might be this in the news:
"Former Senator John Kerry passed away today at age 99. Blah, blah... It was learned a few years ago that his charges of war crimes against his fellow Viet Nam veterans were lies and his service records did not comport with his public claims. He is best remembered as a victim of swift boating."
Yes, when BOR was sucking up to Jon Cary and smearing the Swift Boat Vets for Truth I tuned him out for good and haven’t watched him since. For a guy who supposedly prides himself on critical judgment and good reporting, BOR proved himself an incredible sucker for liberal b.s.