We conservatives ought to take a very important lesson from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The truth is that the left lost the argument during the election but won the argument after-the-fact. We saw the same phenomenon occur in the hearings for the confirmation of Clarence Thomas, the majority of the country believed he was innocent at the time of the hearings but after a sustained media campaign a majority of the country subsequently believed he was guilty.
If you watch the clip on CNN that accompanies the article, it is simply reported that the weight of established opinion favors John Kerry and debunks The Swift Boat Veterans. A bit of research on the Internet will confirm that analysis. In other words the truth of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has been stood on its head.
The ghost of Saul Alinsky still haunts us.
Some time ago I made this 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 " to 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 Ministry Of Propaganda has rewritten the truth of much of my lifetime.
Joe McCarthy was right. There were communists in Hollywood and our government.
Republicans were responsible for the Civil Rights Act.
We won most of the battles in Viet Nam including the Tet offensive.
The two examples you illustrated.
That’s not what most people believe.
I agree with your thoughts.
Owning the nations media and eduction centers sure has worked wonders for the Left.