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WHO'S THE BIGGEST LOSER in the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth vs. John Kerry imbroglio? Well, after John Kerry it's got to be hackademic Douglas Brinkley and his quickly sinking scholarly reputation. Quotable: "The [Swift Boat] group's chairman and founder, retired rear admiral Roy Hoffmann, says the veterans were angered after reading historian Douglas Brinkley's book about Kerry's service, Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War. Hoffman says the biography is "replete with gross exaggerations, distortions of fact and outright lies.""

For a devastating takedown of David Brinkley and his book, read this review by Andrew Ferguson. Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack