Reply #110: Swiftboat the Swifboaters!! [View All]

[exlrrp]

The reason they were able to do this is because it pretty much came out of the blue--no one had ever done this before, or at least in modern memory. They also couldn't have done it without paid help in the media.
The Swiftboating was a classic case of the media being transfixed on a "shiny object"--tattling scandal about a Democrat. One of the main reasons they did this was to take the focus off of BUsh's miserable service record: Suspended from his ONLY job his last 14 months, getting paid for 47 days of pilots duty he COULDN'T have done--he was suspended from doing so. They went after Kerry's medals to hide the fact that BUsh's discharge shows he had NONE and further more was completely unqualified to do ANYTHING useful in the military, not even paint rocks white. Don't take my word for it, read it right on his discharge!! The Swiftboating was done, for the main part, to hide the fact that our commander in chief is thoroughly unqualified to lead even a KP detail.
But Kery's (non) reaction to the Swiftboating hurt him as much as the Swiftboating. Kerry should have demanded an oficial investigation into his record immediately. He did later but it was tardy--the damge was done. And that investigation cleared him. He had plenty of time to do this. And then he should have gone after the liars in court.
Notice that Bush NEVER demanded an oficial investigation of his record. He CAN'T!!ANY oficial investigation of Bush's record will reveal all the falsehoods and mnissing documents in his record (see my diary, the Bush Military History Project: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/exlrrp )
Thats why there was no investigation of the CBS memos, although if false they LIBEL Bush and others.

The antidote to these fatmouth liars is to go after them with evrything you have, not slink away without a comment. Go after the media that enables them too.