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#1 07-01-2008 11:47 AM

Qwinn
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Huffington Post revisits Swift Boat vets

With liberals doing their damndest to make the words "swift boating" into a pejorative, as if it means anything more than "exposing a politician's lies about his military service", the Huffington Post, of all sources, actually does a damn good job of reminding and updating everyone on what the status of that specific controversy was.

The first part is a boring and typically biased attempt to show moral equivalence between Obama refusing to release ANY medical records, versus McCain releasing -thousands- of pages of medical records - but on a Friday evening, which makes it just as bad as not releasing any at all.  roll

But after that, Thomas Lipscomb does an excellent job going over the whole Kerry/Swift Boat thing one more time, including what's gone on SINCE then, particularly with the $1 million bet that was offered that Kerry couldn't disprove anything said in any SBVT ad.

I thought it was a good read.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thomas-li … 09691.html


Qwinn

P.S.  You gotta love the ads on the sides... lashing at Cindy McCain for forgetting to pay $6,000 taxes (total and complete peanuts to her) on a california home that an aunt lives in.  As if this even remotely comes close to the Tony Rezko affair, which as far as I know the MSM has utterly ignored.


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#2 07-01-2008 12:43 PM

zukiphile
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Re: Huffington Post revisits Swift Boat vets

Interesting article.  I either hadn't heard about or don't recall the Pickens bet.  As interesting to me is the conduct of the NYT and WaPo.


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