Piling on the Lying Veterans Against Kerry.
OK, The Malcontent is not one to pile on for the easy shots, but in this case...
The inaccurately-named "Swift Boat Veterans For Truth" really sink to a new low in political campaigning. In case you have been living in a cave with Osama, this is a group of political operatives, led by right-wing slander monkey John O'Neill, who are impugning John Kerry's character and record of military service. This is an ugly level of character-assassination to which no honorable person would sink, and these men should be ashamed.
The New York Times takes them apart today piece-by-piece here, and Slate does the same with their ad here. Perhaps the most telling indictment of these men who have sunk so low is Republican Senator and former Vietnam POW John McCain's August 5th call repudiating the ad and asking the president to do the same. The president, apparently not a man particularly concerned with being honorable, has yet to do so.
The inaccurately-named "Swift Boat Veterans For Truth" really sink to a new low in political campaigning. In case you have been living in a cave with Osama, this is a group of political operatives, led by right-wing slander monkey John O'Neill, who are impugning John Kerry's character and record of military service. This is an ugly level of character-assassination to which no honorable person would sink, and these men should be ashamed.
The New York Times takes them apart today piece-by-piece here, and Slate does the same with their ad here. Perhaps the most telling indictment of these men who have sunk so low is Republican Senator and former Vietnam POW John McCain's August 5th call repudiating the ad and asking the president to do the same. The president, apparently not a man particularly concerned with being honorable, has yet to do so.
posted by The Malcontent at 12:54 PM
1 Comments:
This SBVFT thing is particularly pernicious because the average American is much more interested in the mudthrowing than in the correction of misinformation. The end result is that a lot of people STILL haven't heard about the discrediting of the ad. Worse yet, the Right wingers out there refuse to believe the GUY WHO WAS ACTUALLY SAVED, the commander's OWN COMMENDATION, and the REST OF THE GUYS ON THE BOATS, the one's that AREN'T REPUBLICANS!!!
I hate two party politics, and I think that the Democratic party is as bad as, if not worse than, the Republican party at representing an actual segment of the American public. I also think that the single worst thing that could happen to this country would be another 4 years of Bush. McCain maybe, but not Bush. Beyond that, our domestic economic situation and foreign reputation are fucked, fixing both of which happen to be Democratic specialties. Even if you assume that Kerry, an actual veteran, is not as good on domestic security as Bush, a guy who might have served in the national guard except that it interfered with his busy schedule, failing fixing the problems that cropped up during Bush's reign there won't be much of a country to secure. Treat the cold after you stop the bleeding from the severed limb.
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