"Swiftboating"

The National Review ^ | June 23, 2008 | Byron York

[WOSG]

Swiftboating, like McCarthyism, is the uncouth act of calling out a liberal for what they are.

[Nick Danger]

People are smarter than they get credit for.

[what's up]

Someday, I would love to see the lies rolled back regarding:

1) The Swift Boat Vets and

2) McCarthy

Oh, and it would be nice if it came out that the Southern slaveholders were DEMOCRATS also.

[nikos1121]

TEchnically Swiftboating would pertain to a characterization of an individual by a group of people who were eye witnesses. I think it’s evolved into a characterization of an individual that is based on facts not those that the individual has drummed up.

I think one could say that Dan Rather’s false story about President Bush was “Swiftboated”.

Having said that, I think there is indeed an issue that needs to “Swiftboated” . I’m talking about several falsehoods that Obama has made in his own auto biographies. Most prominent of these is the apparent forged birth certificate of Obama’s and the fact that there is no record of the man being born in Hawaii. What’s more is that his parents were never married.

This raised the question, where was Obama born? It is more than likely that he was actually born in Kenya and returned to the United States when his mother was able to. What naturalization process he went through would then be in question.

In the spirit of the Swiftboaters, i.e. to seek the truth, the issue of Obama’s birth needs to be examined. He needs to present documents of his birth, including an original Birth Certificate and hospital records.

[kabar]

Based on 35 year-old memories, some of their claims were accurate, and some weren't.

Byron you don't know what you are talking about. What claims were inaccurate, a**hole?

[Continental Soldier]

“Swiftboating” — Revealing the truths that the media doesn’t want you to know!

[x]

Good article. If there were an alternative word or phrase that meant what they want to say, we could suggest it, even insist on it.

For a while "Bork" or "Anita Hill" or "Clarence Thomas" might have conveyed what they mean -- to invent charges against someone.

But it would have to be a neutral, nonpolemical phrase.

Until then, whenever someone does something deceptive -- and often when nobody does -- you get John Kerry's little revenge in the media.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Swiftboating

To publicize verifiable first hand knowledge about a candidate that contradicts the candidate's own statements about a period in the candidate's life. The term "Swiftboating" came about during the 2004 U.S. Presidential Elections when officers who served with the Democrat candidate for President, John Kerry, on a swift boat in Vietnam came forward and contradicted Kerry's version of his war record. The veracity of most of their recollections was confirmed with documents, and the Kerry campaign was forced to retract many of his claims or to restate some of those claims more vaguely.

The term is not applicable to criticism of a Republican - whether true or not, criticism of a Republican is "telling truth to power."

[justiceseeker93]

Well, Larry Sinclair “worked” with “Osama” Obama”, so I suppose the ‘Rats consider that to be “swiftboating” as well.

[flat]

john kerry? john kerry?

he seemed.....well....FRENCH..