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.
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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 ...
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.
Maybe it was too subtle. :)
No... please... not... not the coffee table.
Leni
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
Thanks.
Passing some of these out.
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