August 05, 2004

THE SWIFT BOAT VETERANS are shredding John Kerry's "war hero" record on the Sean Hannity Show -- along with anything which might be left of Kerry's credibility. If the party hacks at the networks and in the big city papers run with this stuff, it'll be Toricelli time for the Democrats. But don't hold your breath. Dan Rather and the Kerry Democrats in the press are as heavily invested in telling lies about Vietnam as is John Kerry himself.

UPDATE: Here is an example of how the Democrats in the press are spinning the Swift boat story.

(Reality check -- 12 of ever 13 reporters in D.C. are pulling for Kerry in the 2004 election, a recent poll showed).

UPDATE II: The CNN story on this hits hard in a straight-forward attemt to smear the Swift Boat veterans -- and all but ignores the substantive case against Kerry. CNN is following the classic M.O. of the propagandist -- attack the messenger, ignore the content of the message.

UPDATE III: Hugh Hewitt on John Kerry, Vietnam and the press: "Since Kerry made his Vietnam service the centerpiece of his acceptance speech --from "reporting for duty" through the close-- this story in all its ramifications deserves far more attention than has been paid to the Bush air gurad story, the other ads, and those other books. Will that coverage happen? Probably not, at least not without a huge push from the blogosphere and talk radio, because Kerry enjoys a huge favorable tilt in the elite media, and nowhere more so than on his Vietnam service because he is the anti-Vietnam anti-hero, a status which appeals so powerfully to media types of a certain age who were part of the narrative of those years. They were against the war, and Kerry came back from Vietnam to lead the charge against the war. They never earned medals, but he threw his away. In a very real way, Kerry gave every anti-war protestor cover that all the others like Hayden, Fonda, and the rest could never deliver. They were noisy kids who never impressed anyone off-campus. Kerry was very different indeed, as were all of the veterans who opposed the war on their return from service. Those who opposed the Vietnam War who are now in the media aren't about to rush to focus on the story that undermines not only their preferred candidate in 2004, but the key anti-war figure from that long-ago era." Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack