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My lawyer readers will immediately recognize this as an invitation to Kerry supporters to make a motion for partial summary judgment on the SwiftVets' claims.This short paragraph from a New York Times article perfectly illustrates the liberal media's widespread characterization of the results to date of the SwiftVets' campaign (boldface added):Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which drew national attention with advertisements making unsubstantiated attacks against Mr. Kerry's military service, has less money and uses several strategies to stretch its dollars, said one of its leaders, John O'Neill.To find a similar example from the blogosphere, one need look no farther than...

Ad Renews Charges of Bush-Saudi Ties By Howard Kurtz Friday, September 24, 2004; Page A07 Charges of excessive coziness between the Bush family and the Saudis, last seen in theaters during "Fahrenheit 9/11," have made it to the small screen. Two new ads from the Media Fund, a liberal advocacy group, question whether the president's family and the "wealthy," "powerful" and "corrupt" royal family in Riyadh are "too close for comfort." Admaker Steve McMahon says the effort is to tie Bush to a country that has some religious schools teaching anti-Americanism and is at least partly responsible for $2-a-gallon gasoline....

Swift boat veteran suspended 9/24/2004, 5:23 p.m. PT The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Clackamas County prosecutor has been suspended for two weeks without pay because he used office equipment to prepare his affidavit as one of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, District Attorney John Foote said Friday. Alfred French, a senior deputy district attorney, used the computer in his office to receive and print a draft of the affidavit on July 21. On the same day, he asked a legal secretary in the office to notarize the document, Foote said in a statement. The Swift Boat...

She [Vice President Dianne Brandi] also turned down the latest spot from Swift Boat Veterans for Truth because it "accuses Kerry of treason, a crime punishable by death."

MISSION: IMPLAUSIBLE Navy dismissal of Kerry probe appealed Ignored Lehman's insistence he didn't sign Silver Star citation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: September 23, 2004 2:05 p.m. Eastern By Art Moore © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Judicial Watch is appealing the U.S. Navy secretary's unwillingness to probe allegations of fraud thoroughly in the awarding of John Kerry's war medals, charging that the limited examination dismissed obvious evidence and that the senator's presidential campaign was tipped off. Chris Farrell, Judicial Watch's director of investigations and research, told WorldNetDaily if the Navy does not respond within the required 10 days to a Freedom of Information Act request...

Kerry Must Explain Meeting With Vietnamese The new ad from the Swifties is on the street and most of the points it makes are good and valid. Kerry needs to explain more about what was said in his meetings with Vietnamese officials while America was trying to negotiate an end to the Vietnam War. With respect to the charge that Kerry was still in the Naval Reserve and that fact makes the visit even more inappropriate, the Pentagon will put holes in the argument if pressed. Kerry was not a drilling reservist and was not subject to the Uniform Code...

A Tale of Two Coverages Dated: Monday, September 20 2004 @ 08:00 AM PDT -- by Chris Field Before I begin, allow me to say that it's not "beating a dead horse" when the horse ain't dead yet. Dan Rather is still the national news anchor for CBS: he has not retired in shame nor has he been fired. So, since the matter is not yet over, allow me to yak for a minute on a glaring instance of Leftist media hypocrisy. On the Bush National Guard Report: CBS decided to air a report calling into question Bush's truthfulness about...

Unfortunately after Richard (ass) Holbrooke :-(

I think that many people who have seen the sixth ad being put out by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth will agree with me when say that the ad, entitled "Friends" had the potential to do as much damage to the Kerry campaign as the entire Rathergate/Danron fiasco. Don't believe me? Watch the ad yourself. And, in case you can't see it, here's a transcript. The beauty of this ad is that it is simple, verifiably true, and utterly devastating. We know that John Kerry met with the Vietnamese Communists because he admitted it to us. We know that,...

Due to popular request, these are the links to all of the SwiftBoat ads on the SwiftBoat Vets site with ad dates and file sizes.Be kind to their bandwidth! Download and watch it from your own computer instead of streaming it multiple times! You can download it by right-clicking the link and choosing "Save". No matter what format you choose, the ad is the same, so to just pick the format that works for you. The RealMedia format tends to be the smallest download size, but you need to have RealPlayer.Here is a direct page to the same links for...

The ad is back up.

A new Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (search) ad comes out. Are the ads having an affect on the Kerry campaign? We ask John O'Neill, author of "Unfit for Command."

On Human Events http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,132980,00.html

First Look at New Ad Set to Air Wednesday, 9/22 [Go to the website to see the video. It is amazing! Best attack ad I have ever seen!]

If the Federal Election Commission has any sense of shame, it will immediately meet in an emergency session to deal with a scathing new court decision that pinions the commission for what it has long been: the chief writer and enabler of election law loopholes that invite big-money corruption of the political process. In a stinging judgment, a federal judge in Washington struck down 15 of the F.E.C.'s recent rule interpretations as gimmicks transparently designed to undermine - not uphold - the campaign finance reform law of 2002. Rarely has a federal watchdog been so thoroughly rebuked. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly...

Up till now, the Swift Vets have made relatively small ad purchases multiplied many times over by earned media. That's about to change. I'm hearing that starting mid-week, the Swifties will make their biggest ad buy yet (maybe twice as large as any previous). And if you look at the trend of the ads they've put out so far, it's only getting worse for John Kerry. Word is, they're in the studios right now cutting a spot that looks at Kerry's exploits in Paris when he met with the North Vietnamese (read: THE ENEMY) while he was still a naval...

Last week’s column, in which I wrote about a group I called the Swift Boat Liars, generated an unprecedented e-mail response. Within hours of its publication, about 60 e-mails bleeped in my inbox, most of them questioning my veracity, sanity, patriotism or manhood - sometimes all four. If anyone had figured out how to send anthrax by e-mail, I’d be dead already. One week and a considerable amount of soul-searching later, I must acknowledge that I erred on a couple of points. Among other things, I accused the mainstream news media of swallowing the swift vet stories whole, without critical...

Up till now, the Swift Vets have made relatively small ad purchases multiplied many times over by earned media. That's about to change. I'm hearing that starting mid-week, the Swifties will make their biggest ad buy yet (maybe twice as large as any previous). And if you look at the trend of the ads they've put out so far, it's only getting worse for John Kerry. Word is, they're in the studios right now cutting a spot that looks at Kerry's exploits in Paris when he met with the North Vietnamese (read: THE ENEMY) while he was still a naval...

As a warning to young servicemen, a former Army Ranger in Vietnam and Florida state senator purchased full-page ads in military newspapers recounting how he learned of John Kerry's 1971 accusations of war crimes as he lay severely wounded in a hospital. Dexter Lehtinen, a Miami attorney, told WorldNetDaily the ads are entirely his own, though he consulted with his wife, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., and grown children before pouring more than $50,000 of the family's money into spots in the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines Times last week. He also bought full pages in the Capitol Hill newspaper...

Have you heard? John Kerry served in Vietnam! There is no place on earth I would rather be than with the Swift Boat Veterans on Election Night. When George W. Bush defeats John Kerry to earn a second term, the Swiftees will, in the words of one veteran, “get the parade [they] never had.” President Bush will return to the White House for four more years. And John Kerry can plan a return trip to Southeast Asia to celebrate Christmas with the Cambodians (“Deck the halls with boughs of horry, Fa-Ra-Ra-Ra-Ra, Ra-Ra-Ra-Ra”).