Posted on 01/23/2012 9:53:40 AM PST by Interesting Times
Our national commentariat is twisted in an impossible yoga pose trying to compare anti-Bain Capital coverage to the famous 2004 “Swift Boat” ad campaign. The two situations are not close to analogous. I have a more-than-passing acquaintance with the Swift Boat ads - I helped produce them.
Our liberal news media continue to fabricate and fantasize about the Swift Boat saga, which proved to be a decisive moment in the 2004 election. In the parlance of the media, the ads run by a group of veterans opposed to John Kerry were a “smear” and were “discredited.” They were neither, and the only institution that smeared and ultimately was discredited was the liberal press.
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It was FR specifically that exposed Dan Rather’s lie. The rest of the “conservative new media” hopped on board the next morning.
What a great time that was.
[Golly - I am late for my train -]
Seems like it.
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