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The mini-mob members have been treated as deeply important newsmakers by the press during a slow summer news month. Sound familiar?
Jackson Williams | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
A "Swift Boat" type effort could well be nigh as the dog days of summer settle in. We saw what happened in August 2004, as John Kerry took time off to gear up for the presidential campaign.
Washington Post | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
When conservative leaders wanted to criticize the White House over Sonia Sotomayor's record on crime, they turned to a little-known Alexandria public ...
Judah Freed | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home
Republicans are seeking to suppress the voter turnout among youth, minorities and poor people. If Republicans can prevent enough Democrats from casting ballots, McCain could win the election.
Michael Hughes | Posted 11.30.2008 | Home
As November 4th approaches, voters are determining if they want to be an integral part of history, or on the wrong side of it. Forces are at work beyond description, like some divine hand pushing us forward.
Larry Gellman | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
In just a few years Pickens has moved from being a totally partisan political animal to a man who is looking for the partial truth in the disparate views of a variety of people.
RJ Eskow | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics
It's more reasonable to ask McCain about Corsi than it was to ask Obama about Farrakhan. The Democrat and the Nation of Islam leader are not linked. Corsi and the GOP are.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics
Corsi has been referred to as a "conservative gadfly." But the word "gadfly" implies someone who is well intentioned and who seeks to provoke thought in others, not a lying, white supremacist, propagandist.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 09.14.2008 | Media
These books destroy civic debate on purpose -- and are fundamentally at odds with democracy. The goal of Corsi's project is not to discuss facts -- it is to destroy the very possibility of discussion.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics
Jerome Corsi, Swift Boater and author of the newly released Obama Nation, appeared on Larry King Live last night to defend his smear-plagued, yet best...
Michael Carmichael | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics
A military commander tested in wartime, a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, a Secretary of State, a Vice President Powell would strengthen Obama's candidacy more deeply and more consummately than any other American.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics
Corsi's biggest claim to fame is co-authoring the infamous Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Judging from the shrill and paranoid tone of his latest effort I get the impression Obama has really scared these guys this time.
Media Matters | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
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...
Eric Boehlert | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media
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...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
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...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.09.2008 | Media
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...
USA Today | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
Republican John McCain, who four years ago condemned independent ads challenging Democrat John Kerry's military record, has accepted nearly $70,000 fo...
Richard Klass | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
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.
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
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.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
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
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
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...
Thomas Lipscomb | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics
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...
Robert Creamer | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics
Our goal shouldn't be to keep money out of politics -- but rather to keep big money out of politics.
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Eric Boehlert | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media