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Don't let Swift-boaters sail again
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 8/15/8 | Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Writers Group

Posted on 08/15/2008 8:00:33 AM PDT by SmithL

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To: SmithL
It sounds like the kind of book that should quickly be consigned to the remainder bin, but - unsurprisingly - it is already a bestseller.

If Barack Henry Obama is not going to reveal anything true about himself, he can't be surprised when somebody else fills in the blanks.

21 posted on 08/15/2008 8:09:33 AM PDT by gridlock (Barack Obama is the Sanjaya Malakar of American Politics...)
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To: skeeter

“The allegations in that book were discredited,” This is a DNC talking point. Which allegations were discredited? They never say.
Odd because if this was nothing but a lie, where was the lawsuit?


22 posted on 08/15/2008 8:10:11 AM PDT by Holicheese (Hillary deserves the CMoH for her time in Tuzla!)
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To: SmithL
NY Times #1 Best Seller !!

Let's see for how many weeks.

They can only trash the messenger, not the facts that are well documented by Dr. Corsi

...even Jr.'s own words about taking koran classes while in public school in Jarkarta.

23 posted on 08/15/2008 8:10:13 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: SmithL
Kerry was a decorated war hero...

Who put in for his own decorations, treating the equivalent of paper cuts as injuries, lying about supposed offenses committed by U.S. troops, lying about times & places in combat, lying, lying, lying!

Now that the Obomanation's lies are coming to light, the truth must be resisted at all cost!

24 posted on 08/15/2008 8:10:27 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: SmithL

Not wanting to “swift boat” a candidate is the same as saying “we don’t want the truth to come out.”

Let’s get the meaning of the words straight.


25 posted on 08/15/2008 8:11:13 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: SmithL

If Eugene doesn’t like sand in her panties, she shouldn’t play volleyball with the big girls.


26 posted on 08/15/2008 8:11:28 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Islam: Imagine a clown car.........with guns.)
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To: SmithL
The liberal Web site Media Matters has already demonstrated that the book is riddled with factual errors - for example, Corsi repeats the charge, thoroughly disproved, that Obama was in church for one of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's most incendiary sermons.

In 'The Greatest Speech Ever', Obama admitted he was in the pews when Rev. Wright made controversial statements. The one fact the author used to demonstrate Corsi's book contains lies is not even true.

27 posted on 08/15/2008 8:12:33 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: DJ MacWoW
All of us must have missed this. All I heard was a bunch of libs screaming "Not true!".

You have to remember, that for a Donk, sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting "LALALA LA LA LA!!! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!" is a valid rebuttal.

28 posted on 08/15/2008 8:12:52 AM PDT by gridlock (Barack Obama is the Sanjaya Malakar of American Politics...)
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To: SmithL
The lins mean that they do not want the TRUTH to sail again. the truth shoots down their candidates every time.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOIUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA



CHOOSING THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES




NOBAMA MOVEMENT SPREADS ACROSS THE NATION

29 posted on 08/15/2008 8:13:08 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: SmithL

Robinson has been in the tank for Obama for a long time. The problem with his article is that what Corsi wrote about Kerry was all true. Instead of attacking Corsi he should try and refute what he says in his book. But of course, he might have trouble doing that.


30 posted on 08/15/2008 8:13:16 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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To: gridlock

And on the other side of the page keep a list of any significant facts that are successfully refuted.

Here, I’ll start.

Zero.


31 posted on 08/15/2008 8:13:30 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: SmithL

Looking back not too far, today’s Swiftboating is akin to yesterday’s Keelhauling.

Both methods entail the delivery of just and realistic punishment.


32 posted on 08/15/2008 8:13:54 AM PDT by OldNavyVet
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To: SmithL

John Kerry could clear all this up with one piece of paper.


33 posted on 08/15/2008 8:13:57 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: Lee'sGhost

telling the truth about a liberal is “hate speech”


34 posted on 08/15/2008 8:14:06 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: SmithL

Where’s the Form 180?

Where’s the birth certificate?


35 posted on 08/15/2008 8:14:34 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: SmithL
The allegations in that book were discredited, ...

As I remember, the most effective 'discrediting' was kerry and a few others reciting "nuh-uh, so there" in unison.

36 posted on 08/15/2008 8:15:15 AM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Man, that's stupid ... even by congressional standards.)
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To: SmithL

“Kerry was a decorated war hero, yet somehow his valor and sense of duty were turned into a political negative and used against him.”

Anyone remotely familiar with the military would be suspicious of someone who spent only four months in Vietnam, was awarded three Purple Hearts, but never missed any time due to wounds, and left Vietnam eight months early because he’d been awarded three Purple Hearts.

Anyone remotely familiar with the military would also know that it is a giant bureaucracy where all sorts of butt kissing and string pulling and favoritism can take place, just like any other organization.


37 posted on 08/15/2008 8:17:13 AM PDT by Will88 (.)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

I anticipate that like with John O’Neil, eventually the MSM will invite Corsi on their shows under the impression that they will be able to discredit him.

Unfortunately for them, like O’Neil, Corsi is proving himself to be quite adept at defending himself and his charges without throwing a tizzy.

Stand by to watch history repeat itself. has Lawrence O’Donnell recovered yet?


38 posted on 08/15/2008 8:17:31 AM PDT by wilco200 (Typical White Person)
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To: MrB

As Ann Coulter once stated, conservatives get angry if you lie about them. Liberals, on the other hand, get angry if you tell the truth about them.


39 posted on 08/15/2008 8:18:55 AM PDT by JamesP81 (George Orwell's 1984 was a warning, not a suggestion)
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To: Will88

Wasn’t there a million dollar offer made (perhaps by one of the authors) if someone could actually discredit the arguments of the Swifties? I seem to remember that Kerry claimed they should send it to some charity because they were untrue but that was the end of his rebuttal.


40 posted on 08/15/2008 8:19:22 AM PDT by philled ("I prefer messy democracy to the stability of tyrants." -- Howar Ziad, Iraqi Ambassador to Canada)
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