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Obama Swiftboat

The Media Stovepipe

Matt Osborne | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media

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Matt Osborne

We've seen this pattern before. A non-sourced, anonymous story enters the right-wing blogosphere and gets picked up by mainstream media, allowing the right to stovepipe their insanity.

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Obama Trying To Keep Swiftboat Response Low-Key

Talking Points Memo | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics

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Here's a development that really bears watching: In stark contrast to John Kerry's 2004 campaign, the Obama team has developed a very aggressive respo...

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Swift Boat Sugar Daddy's Other Water Issues?

Patt Morrison | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

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Patt Morrison

Harold Simmons has written a check for all of the $2.87 million it's costing to run ominous-sounding ads in Ohio and Pennsylvania about Obama's relationship with William Ayers.

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How Should Obama Respond? A Third Way to End the Sliming

Joel Weinberger | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics

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Joel Weinberger

Obama is refuting charges against him in an effort not to repeat the mistake of the Kerry campaign -- but this just substitutes a new mistake for the old one.

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Reading The Pictures: Swiftboating A Facial Expression

Michael Shaw | Posted 09.14.2008 | Media

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Michael Shaw

2008-08-15-corsi_cover_shaw.jpgWhat makes a meme effective -- be it verbal, visual or the combination -- is repetition.

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Swift Boat Redux? Two Anti-Obama Books Hit Shelves Next Week

Media Matters | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

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Two books attacking Sen. Barack Obama are scheduled to be released on August 1 and August 4 -- The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Pers...

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The Swiftboaters Are Back: GOP Funds Group With Finance Law Loophole

Talking Points Memo | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

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The "Swift Boaters" from 2004 are back at it. A group of top Republican contributors who financially fueled the famous "Swift Boat" campaign ads that...

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Obama: Don't Call Wes Clark A Swiftboater

Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

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At a media availability in Ohio today, Obama says that the part of his patriotism speech read as a response to Clark was written months ago, and that ...

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Kerry Swiftboater: "We Will Attack Obama Viciously"

Washington Post | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama has been making efforts to tamp down donations to independent issue groups in an effort to control the level of negative attacks in the f...

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Obama Expands Rapid Response Team To Battle Swift-Boating

Newsweek | Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics

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The Obama campaign is planning to expand its research and rapid-response team in order to repel attacks it anticipates over his ties to 1960s radical ...

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John Kerry: Obama Won't Be Swiftboated Like Me

Hotline | Posted 04.13.2008 | Politics

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Sen. John Kerry reached out to veterans here on Barack Obama's behalf Saturday, saying he believes Obama is more prepared to be commander in chief tha...

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Obama: Swiftboating Can't Stop Me

CBS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Sen. Barack Obama could withstand any last-minute "swift-boat" attacks from Republicans on his race or past drug use because winning the grueling cont...

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