Good point.
Swift boating should be defined as the exposing of a poltroon who inflates his biography.
This is often confused, quite deliberately by the mainstream media, with "borking" which should be defined as "attack viciously a candidate or appointee, especially by misrepresentation in the media.” According to William Safire in The New York Times.
Our mission on FreeRepublic should be to "Swift boat" the unworthy and to prevent the "borking" of the worthy.
The problem for us conservatives is that we seem to be losing the postmortem battle over not just the definition of Swift boating but the actual facts of John Kerry's war record inflation. If one forms his opinion on this event strictly from what one finds on the net, it is difficult to come to the conclusion that the Swift Boaters did not libel John Kerry. We saw much the same phenomenon in which the people who watched the Anita Hill hearings concluded that she was lying but after the media relentlessly dinged away on Clarence Thomas the people ceased to believe the evidence of their own eyes.
