This is how backwards this issue was at the time:
1. We had swift boat guys saying John Kerry was a fraud during the Vietnam War. This was all we knew as voters about John Kerry’s potential ability as a commander in chief. Media ignored or discounted what they said.
2. Meanwhile CBS pulls out bogus memos about Bush’s time as a NG pilot in 1972. But this was irrelevant information for us as voters. We had already seen Bush operate as commander in chief for the previous 4 years. We could make an informed decision based on the his current capability, we didn’t need 30 year old memos to make a decision.
But it is even worse than that:
But those “memos” were NOT even memo’s (they were re-typed FITREP’s based on verbal interviews from a democrat supporter, NOT on the actual FITREP’s actually submitted and recorded at the time!) So, as forgeries, the democrat national press corpse treated them as FACT, and not even “alleged charges by a political insider”
But the ACTUAL CHARGES by ACTUAL Kerry shipmates about actual real-time incidents and exaggerations were insulted and demeaned and “defined” as lies and political insults imediately and forever by Oboal’s press corpse.