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T. Boone Pickens: From Swift Boater To Pluralist

Larry Gellman | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics

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Larry Gellman

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.

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McCain Needs to Be Asked If He'll "Repudiate and Denounce" Jerome Corsi

RJ Eskow | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics

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RJ Eskow

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.

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Jerome Corsi's Greatest Hits

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics

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Joseph A. Palermo

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.

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What America Needs To Hear About Jerome Corsi

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 08.14.2008 | Media

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Jeffrey Feldman

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.

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Jason Linkins

Obama Nation Author Assailed By All Parties On Larry King Live

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics

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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...

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August is the Cruelest Month for Democrats

Michael Carmichael | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

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Michael Carmichael

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.

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Jerome Corsi's Shameless Hatchet Job on Barack Obama

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics

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Joseph A. Palermo

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.

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The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Brett Favre, The New York Times and T. Boone

Jeffrey Jena | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics

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Jeffrey Jena

Being unhappy with the bias of The New York Times is like being shocked at the graphic nature of Hustler Magazine.

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

Media Matters | Posted 07.30.2008 | 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 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 | Living

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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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