In order to make his point, however, Gibson has to suggest that the Swift Boat Veterans, whose attacks on Democratic candidate John Kerry helped Bush win re-election in the midst of an unpopular war, were unconscionable liars.

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First of all, this story should never have been called ClimateGate. Given the similarities between this smear job and the Swift Boat attacks on Senator John Kerry, SwiftHack is a far more appropriate name.

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The advertisement I've seeded here is the most brazen attempt to swiftboat Barack Obama thus far: It notes that United 93 didn't hit the Capitol building but that a domestic terrorist group, The Weathermen Underground, did bomb the Capitol.

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Boston Globe's Scot Lehigh on Jerome Corsi.

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The Wesley Clark affair revealed something important about John McCain. Now we know what a McCain administration would represent: namely, a third term for Karl Rove.

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As some of you might know, John McCain is a long-time acquaintance of mine that goes way back to our time together at the U.S. Naval Academy and as Prisoners of War in Vietnam. He is a man I respect and admire in some ways.

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Sen. John McCain's campaign on Monday launched the McCain "Truth Squad" - a group of political and Vietnam contemporaries who would counter attacks on the Senator's military record.

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On a campaign conference call Monday, a Politico reporter asked Day if there was any similarity between former Gen. Wesley Clark's controversial Sunday comments about McCain's military service and his own remarks about John Kerry during the last presidential campaign.

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Democratic The Democratic race for President has descended to "a level of meanness and acrimony that is damaging to American politics," the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth said today.

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The Republicans Have Already Lost

With nine months to go until the general election this article's title seems full of hubris and unjustified confidence, but one look at the language and the ire directed at Barack Obama says otherwise.

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Take Vicki Hercsky, 47, a teacher from Boca Raton, Florida. "Obama, I don't even know how he got where he is," she told me after a Rudy Giuliani event late last month. "Why do you say that?" I asked. "He's Muslim," she replied, matter-of-factly. I stammered.

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This email is from a Neo-Convict group called Freedoms Watch and maybe the name of this group should be called Watch Freedoms Disappear. We can expect the same type of horse crap from this group as you saw in 2004 from the Swift Boaters for Truth in the 2004 election.

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An inside look at the craptacular hyuck-fest that is the world of 527s, as exemplified by the political effort to tar Hillary Clinton as a [special flower].

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Obama, Don't Let Them Rattle You

The Clintonians are getting scared and wary and desperate. They seem to be looking for a PT boat they can convert to go do some Swift Boating. Please, Barack, keep the faith, keep the hope, keep the race as above board and accurate as you can.

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Swift Watched

John Kerry suffered at the hands of Swift Boat Vets, the 527 group setup to specifically attack John Kerry's Vietnam record. Now we have Freedoms Watch, a 501 (c) non-profit group setup to support continued action in Iraq.

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Why I'll Never be President.

I'm a political junkie. But then, most of you have already figured that out. Like most political junkies, I have this (till now) secret desire to one day be president of America.

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Republican swiftboaters, led by swiftboater-in-chief Bob Perry, are spoofing caller id signals to make negative attack calls in various states.

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"Veterans" of Swift Boat ad campaigns past are firing up the swiftboats to make another run against American patriots. This time, their tactics, their names, and the people providing their financial support are well known.

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In one of the most vicious and dispicable displays of political hate-mongering I've ever seen, Bill O'Reilly lamblasts a Federal Judge on national television as wanting Americans to die. Fox news should be ashamed of itself. Over the line? You bet.

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Vietnam Veterans for Truth, formed to attack John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign, has a new target, U.S. Rep.

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Rove and Cheney are firing up the old fear machine again. I'm sure we can expect to see a few more pathetic "terror plots" uncovered, and the "threat level" is bound to change colors a few times between now and November. The tactic has worked well for these guys up until now.

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All I can say is, it's about time. From the article:Three decades after the Vietnam War and nearly two years after Mr.

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Claus Jacobsen seeded an article here which has a subthread dealing with the swiftboat phenomenon. In his book "Lapdogs," Erec Boehlert addresses the failure of the media with respect to this an other issues.

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