Swift Boat Veterans for Truth

The NY Times Sends A Dittohead To Interview Rush Limbaugh

Eric Boehlert | Posted 07.09.2008 | Media

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Eric Boehlert

The Times writer who profiled Limbaugh is pretty much a Dittohead, a Limbaugh devotee. So of course there was no reason to fear a "hit job." The whole...

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

Talking Points Memo | Posted 07.03.2008 | 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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John McCain and "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

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Joseph A. Palermo

More than any other act of rank hypocrisy that we have grown accustomed to expect from McCain his recent embrace of the Swiftboaters to help his presidential campaign is beyond astonishing.

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Jason Linkins

Media Scorecard: How Well Did The Media Do In Identifying McCain's 'Swift Boat' Support?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.01.2008 | Media

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As the media fanned flames in the direction of General Wesley Clark for the egregious offense of noting that being a prisoner of war did not necessari...

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McCain Taking Donations From Swift Boaters

USA Today | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

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Republican John McCain, who four years ago condemned independent ads challenging Democrat John Kerry's military record, has accepted nearly $70,000 fo...

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Keep to the High Ground

Richard Klass | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

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Richard Klass

Wes Clark's remarks remind us what we should have learned from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth: questioning someone's military record lowers the tone of the campaign and distracts from the real issues.

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McCain Camp: Obama Aided Enemy in Vietnam

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

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Jacob Heilbrunn

A McCain "Truth Squad" is now alleging that Obama's true vulnerability isn't that he didn't see action in Vietnam, but that he did -- on the side of America's enemies.

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Memo to Obama: Moving to the Middle is for Losers

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

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Arianna Huffington

By running to the middle in an attempt to attract undecided swing voters, the Obama campaign is making a very serious mistake. It didn't work for Al Gore in 2000. It didn't work for John Kerry in 2004. And it didn't work when Mark Penn convinced Hillary Clinton to do it in 2008. READ MORE Seven Things Barack Obama Should Do to Keep from Blowing It To counter the conventional wisdom pundits, the cautious campaign advisers, and his own inner cautiousness, I'm offering Obama seven suggestions for staying true to the vision that took him from longshot "unlikely candidate" to presidential frontrunner. READ MORE Watch Arianna Discussing Secretary Rice's "Proud" Comment on CNN's The Situation Room

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Sam Stein

Kerry Rips McCain For Relying On Swift Boat Vets

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

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Sen. John Kerry harshly criticized John McCain on Monday for using a member of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in his efforts to counteract criticis...

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Why Running "On the Record" Is Harder Than You Think

Thomas Lipscomb | Posted 06.29.2008 | Politics

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Thomas Lipscomb

To understand how we got ourselves in the middle of an election with so little information and so much suspicion, we need to review the 2004 election issues that revolved around John Kerry.

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Sam Stein

Kerry's Vietnam Allies Go After Major Swift Boat Funder

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

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It is a lesson in just how persistent and irritating smear campaigns can be. Nearly four years after the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth trotted out a s...

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Obama's Opt-Out of Public Financing Will Increase the Odds of True Public Financing for All Federal Races

Robert Creamer | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

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Robert Creamer

Our goal shouldn't be to keep money out of politics -- but rather to keep big money out of politics.

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Democrats Still Have Work to Do to Win in November

Mitchell Bard | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

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Mitchell Bard

I besiege Democrats not to take an Obama win for granted. We can't assume everyone in the country is aware of McCain's weaknesses and fidelity to the Bush agenda.

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Swift Boat Vets' PR Firm Now Pushing Abstinence-Only Campaign

Think Progress | Posted 06.03.2008 | Life

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On Sunday, the Washington Post reported that the National Abstinence Education Association (NAEA) is launching a $1 million "Parents for Truth" campai...

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Front Groups/Swiftboaters and Dirty Tricks

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics

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Craig Newmark

There are already a few groups damaging the election process, but there are also good investigative reporters exposing these groups.

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Obama Expands Rapid Response Team To Battle Swift-Boating

Newsweek | Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff | Posted 04.20.2008 | 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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Swiftboating John McCain?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics

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Jayne Lyn Stahl

The Arizona senator is about to be swiftboated by the same group that attempted to blow away John Kerry's candidacy by launching a kamikaze attack against his military record.

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Kerry Urges Obama Supporters To Fight The Lies

Boston Globe's Political Intelligence | Foon Rhee | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics

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Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, who endorsed Barack Obama earlier this month, is now coming to Obama's aid to rebut what he calls "disgusting ...

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Jason Linkins

Bush-Cheney Mouthpiece Boards 'Straight Talk' Express

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics

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Remember back in 2004, when the Swift Boat Veterans For [Depends On What Terrifying, Sick, Debased Definition You Have For The] Truth attacked preside...

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Kerry Blasts McCain For Taking "Dirty Money" From Swift Boaters

The Nation | Chris Hayes | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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More than three years after John Kerry's bitter defeat, at the dawn of what looks like a far more promising campaign cycle for the Democrats, the part...

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NY Times re: Consumers Union: "Success Without Ads"

Craig Newmark | Posted 12.09.2007 | Media

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Craig Newmark

Success without ads? A focus on the useful, if boring?

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Swift Boat Backer Offers $1M To Anyone Who Can Prove Ads Were Wrong

AP | GLEN JOHNSON | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics

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Sen. John Kerry, whose 2004 presidential campaign was torpedoed by critics of his Vietnam War record, said Friday he has personally accepted a Texas o...

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Michael Roston

Freedom's Watch Watch: Top Swift Boat Vets Donor Not Yet Signed Up

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 10.08.2007 | Politics

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Freedom's Watch is already being compared with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which falsely attacked John Kerry's military credentials in 2004. Bu...

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