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The Truth About the Swift Boat Vets and Kerry's Deceit
Human Events ^ | February 14, 2008 | Cheryl K. Chumley

Posted on 02/14/2008 12:25:11 PM PST by Interesting Times

"I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty."

Who can forget this now-infamous July 29, 2004, Democratic National Convention acceptance speech when the party's nominee publicly set his course for the next few months?

"At the heart of the 2004 presidential campaign was a long-deferred national debate over whether American troops had systematically committed war crimes in Vietnam, as John Kerry and other activists had insisted, and as Hollywood, the media and much of the American public had long assumed," begins Chapter One of To Set the Record Straight: How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs and the New Media Defeated John Kerry.

Settling Scores

At root, co-authors Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler provide readers a remarkable and painstakingly notated historical account of the cultural war that coursed beneath the 2004 presidential election — a cultural war that pitted mainstream media against truth, and brought to the forefront of political influence the likes of Internet bloggers, talk-radio hosts and a handful of humble but righteously indignant veterans who simply refused to cave in on their cause. But on the way toward documenting that point, the book offers much more.

(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004election; cherylchumley; johnkerry; madamebinh; swiftboatveterans
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To: FreedomPoster
It’s worth noting that the Left still maintains as an article of faith that the Swift Boat Vets have been completely debunked regarding their statements on Kerry. The fact that Kerry still has not allowed a complete unrestricted military records release means nothing to them.

True. A leftist "article of faith" is an assertion leftists are unable to defend with rational argument, and therefore merely repeat and agree upon over and over, in hopes of persuading the uninformed.

61 posted on 02/15/2008 7:48:17 AM PST by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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To: abner
None of these reviews ever mentions that there is also your amazing and subtle humor in the book.

Maybe it was too subtle. :)

62 posted on 02/15/2008 7:49:02 AM PST by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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To: MinuteGal
The attractive book is right on the the top of my coffee table.

No... please... not... not the coffee table.

63 posted on 02/15/2008 7:49:46 AM PST by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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To: Interesting Times
Better the coffee table than the occasional table. At my age I have more coffees than occasions, LOL.

Leni

64 posted on 02/15/2008 8:18:05 AM PST by MinuteGal (Mitt and Fred are Still My Guys!)
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To: Interesting Times

Yes, that is *exactly* what they do, and I’ve seen it again and again on this issue.

It’s The Big Lie in action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lie


65 posted on 02/15/2008 8:56:05 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: Interesting Times

Thanks.

Passing some of these out.


66 posted on 02/15/2008 9:03:30 AM PST by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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