"Swift Boat Veterans for Truth"

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"Many media outlets have been providing
a relatively easy outlet for the
so-called "Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth" (SBV for short; more
appropriately described as the Swift
Boat Veterans Who Have a Problem With
The Truth or as Swift Boat Veteran..."

"Many media outlets have been providing
a relatively easy outlet for the
so-called "Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth" (SBV for short; more
appropriately described as the Swift
Boat Veterans Who Have a Problem With
The Truth or as Swift Boat Veteran..." 08/12/2004 08:05 AM

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth -
Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth Member Larry Thurlow

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth -
Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth Member Larry Thurlow 08/20/2004 10:56 AM
Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for Truth Member Larry Thurlow .. Larry Thurlow responds to attacks from the Kerry campaign .. Instead Thurlow has spurned this dishonorable honor

swiftvets.com/article.php?story=20040819100856500
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Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - Senator
Kerry: Tell the Truth and We'll Stop the
Ads

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - Senator
Kerry: Tell the Truth and We'll Stop the
Ads 09/01/2004 06:10 AM
open letter to John Kerry .. offered

swift4.he.net/~swift4/article.php?story=20040831145849995
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Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - Service
to Country

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - Service
to Country 08/05/2004 05:17 AM
picture .. photo

swiftvets.com/index.php?topic=SwiftPhoto
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Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are
identity thieves

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are
identity thieves 09/03/2004 06:29 AM
Cory Doctorow: Remember the Lying Swift Boat Veterans for Truth who made up a bunch of base smears about John Kerry's military record and aired them in a TV spot? They even published an open letter in which they lied some more, claiming to have served with Kerry when they hadn't.

Well, it turns out that some of the swift boat veterans whose name appeared at the bottom of that open letter never saw it, never signed it, and don't agree with it. Those Lying Swift Boat Veterans For Truth! Whacky.

"It's kind of like stealing my identity," said Anderson, who spent a year on a swift boat as an engine man and gunner.

The letter, which was posted on the Swift Boat Veter-ans for Truth Web site, claims the Demo-cratic presidential candidate has "grossly and knowingly distorted the conduct of the American soldiers, marines, sailors and airmen of that (Vietnam) war."...

"After reading the letter," Anderson said, "it kind of got under my skin. I had never come across a situation where someone used my name without my support or approval. It's not a very comforting feeling."

What's worse, he said, he disagrees with the letter.

"Had they asked me to use my name, I wouldn't have allowed them to," he said...

Anderson does not know how the Swift Boat Vets for Truth got his name, but it appears exactly as it has appeared on rosters at swift boat vet reunions. He suspects the list was pulled from the Swift Boat Sailors Association, a nonpolitical, not-for-profit organization linking swift boat veterans.

Link (via Atrios)

The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth: A
Willie Horton ad for a new election

The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth: A
Willie Horton ad for a new election 09/07/2004 08:51 AM
Paul Fahri

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1151-2004Sep6.html
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A call for President Bush to denounce
"Swift Boat Veterans For Truth"

A call for President Bush to denounce
"Swift Boat Veterans For Truth" 08/11/2004 11:56 AM

The Key Monk: Swift Boat Veterans
AGAINST Kerry

The Key Monk: Swift Boat Veterans
AGAINST Kerry 08/05/2004 12:22 PM
disagree .. Key Monk .. here

thekeymonk.blogspot.com/2004/08/swift-boat-veterans-against-ker ry.html
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Lying Swift Boat Veterans for Bush

Lying Swift Boat Veterans for Bush 08/22/2004 07:30 AM
Cory Doctorow:
The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is a gang of liars who ran a thoroughly debunked TV ad in which they lied about serving with John Kerry in Vietnam and lied about his service record. Then the Bush campaign disavowed any connection to the Lying Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

It was lying.

This New York Times infografic traces the financial connections between the organization and the Bush administration's staff, financiers, and cronies.

It also delves into the Lying Veterans' own on-the-record statements, like George "John Kerry has not been honest about what happened in Vietnam" Elliot's 1996 statement that "The fact that he chased an armed enemy down is not something to be looked down upon, it was an act of courage. And the whole outfit served with honor." Link (Thanks, bomark!)

Several veterans signed Swift Boat
letter because of Kerry's anti-war
activities

Several veterans signed Swift Boat
letter because of Kerry's anti-war
activities 08/21/2004 08:46 AM
The Washington Post

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20242-2004Aug20.html
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Submerging the truth about Swift Boat
Vets on H ... [Media Matters for
America]

Submerging the truth about Swift Boat
Vets on H ... [Media Matters for
America] 08/06/2004 08:11 AM
The major discrepancies and errors in the spot .. At Media Matters .. has another

mediamatters.org/items/200408050007
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Swift Boat Smears

Swift Boat Smears 08/12/2004 10:28 PM
in their op-ed: .. condemns .. condemn

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58315-2004Aug11.html
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Swift Boat ad nauseam

Swift Boat ad nauseam 08/27/2004 01:29 PM
Is the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign against John Kerry finally sinking? While President Bush still declines to condemn the group's widely discredited, corrosive claims about Kerry's war record, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert is trying to make some sense of a melee so tilted that it appears to be utterly disconnected from the real military history of the respective Bush and Kerry camps.

Follow Up on Swift Boat Saga

Follow Up on Swift Boat Saga 08/27/2004 01:28 PM

Spinsanity's Brendan Nyhan says I've contributed to the mis-impression that John Kerry knew he was volunteering for "particularly dangerous" duty when he took command of a Swift boat in Vietnam. He cites a Boston Globe story quoting Kerry's observation that the Swift boat duty he thought he was signing up for was relatively safe for a Vietnam posting. I have some quibbles with his interpretation of what I wrote in this post a few days ago; I'd argue that "relatively safe" in Vietnam was still dangerous, so that my post was technically correct (I didn't say "particularly" dangerous). But that's splitting hairs. Nyhan is undoubtedly right to say that some readers probably got a mis-impression from my posting. So mea culpa.

Bush Almost Condemns Swift Boat Ads

Bush Almost Condemns Swift Boat Ads 08/23/2004 02:46 PM

AP: Bush urges end to TV attack ads by outside groups, whatever their target. President Bush denounced campaign commercials aired by outside groups on Monday, including an ad that accuses John Kerry of lying about his combat record in Vietnam.

Bush still won't directly address the substance of the sleazy Swift boat ads. That's shameful. I hope some reporter pins him down on this one of these days. The stifling of the "independent" political action groups is a separate topic. There's no doubt that the system is becoming even more poisonous than it already was. Is making the 527s illegal -- and trampling even more on political speech, however obnoxious it can be at times -- the right approach? I don't think so.

Swift Boat Story a Sad Chord

Swift Boat Story a Sad Chord 08/27/2004 01:49 PM
That we are still fighting about the Vietnam War is sad. Watching an old political fight try to finish itself thirty years later in either the wreckage of the Kerry campaign or its triumph over the attempt to wreck-- that's sad. William B. Rood of the Chicago Tribune spoke out Sunday; he was a commander of a swift boat who had first hand knowledge. Rood thought it was sad that we're still fighting about this.

Move over, Swift Boat Vets

Move over, Swift Boat Vets 09/07/2004 05:41 PM
Austin-based nonprofit group Texans for Truth, an offshoot of Drive Democracy.org and partially funded by MoveOn.org, has launched a new television ad regarding the black hole that is George W. Bush's record of service in the National Guard.

The Swift Boat Garbage Haulers

The Swift Boat Garbage Haulers 08/20/2004 10:49 AM

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has disassociated himself from a much milder MoveOn.org ad that talks about Bush's Vietnam-era military "service," a questionable period for the president at best. Josh Marshall notes the tight connections, politically and financially, between the anti-Kerry "Swift boat veterans for truth" and Bush and his associates, and wonders why Bush isn't man enough to disclaim the sleaze. Marshall notes:

"In any real world sense, this is a front for the president. And for the saps who are willing to give the president the most improbable benefits of the doubt -- that this is something he has nothing to do with and is utterly beyond his control -- well, he won't even toss them a bone by making even the most innocuous statement of disassociation."

Meanwhile, the Washington Post uncovers information about the co-author of the Swift boaters' accompanying book that pretty much shreds his claim that Kerry wasn't under fire during the operation that resulted in the Democratic candidate's Bronze Star:

"But Thurlow's military records, portions of which were released yesterday to The Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act, contain several references to "enemy small arms and automatic weapons fire" directed at "all units" of the five-boat flotilla. Thurlow won his own Bronze Star that day, and the citation praises him for providing assistance to a damaged Swift boat "despite enemy bullets flying about him."

"interviewed one of the Swift Boat Vets"

"interviewed one of the Swift Boat Vets" 08/12/2004 02:13 AM

"FIRST LADY ON SWIFT BOAT ADS: ‘Do I
Think They’re Unfair? Not Really'..."

"FIRST LADY ON SWIFT BOAT ADS: ‘Do I
Think They’re Unfair? Not Really'..." 08/29/2004 09:12 PM

Must-reads bonus, Swift Boat edition

Must-reads bonus, Swift Boat edition 08/23/2004 10:43 AM
The nasty fight over John Kerry's Vietnam War record (we're waiting for similar obsessive scrutiny in the media of George W. Bush's Guard record) continued to rage over the weekend, with new eyewitnesses coming forward to back Kerry and his campaign trying to put the onus on President Bush to denounce the dirty work being done on his behalf. So far, no denunciations from the Bush-Cheney camp, just an attempt to equate the lies of the Swift Boat Veterans for "Truth" with all 527 group activity, including MoveOn.org. The Kerry campaign, late to the fight on this one, seemingly caught off-guard that the SBVT campaign to destroy his candidacy would have such legs, issued a TV ad on Sunday calling on Bush to "denounce the smear" and get back to the issues.

Swift Boat Accounts Incomplete
(washingtonpost.com)

Swift Boat Accounts Incomplete
(washingtonpost.com) 08/22/2004 12:00 AM
washingtonpost.com - When John F. Kerry rescued Jim Rassmann from the Bay Hap River in the jungles of Vietnam in March 1969, neither man could possibly have imagined that the episode would become a much-disputed focus of an American presidential campaign 35 years later.

Robert Novak: Swift boat interview

Robert Novak: Swift boat interview 08/27/2004 05:25 PM
Swift boat interview .. Robert Novak .. That said

townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20040827.shtml
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Amazon.com Hacked Yet Again on Swift
Boat Book?

Amazon.com Hacked Yet Again on Swift
Boat Book? 08/12/2004 07:35 AM

"Columbus swift boat vet angry about
letter"

"Columbus swift boat vet angry about
letter" 09/02/2004 09:07 PM

Columbus swift boat vet angry about
letter

Columbus swift boat vet angry about
letter 09/01/2004 11:19 AM
Columbus swift boat vet angry about letter Swift boat veteran Bob Anderson of Columbus is ticked. It bothers him that Sen. John Kerry's swift boat history has become such a political hot potato. But he's even more irritated that his name was included - without his permission - on a letter used to discredit Kerry. "I'm pretty nonpolitical," the 56-year-old Anderson said Tuesday. So, when he found out last week that his name was one of about 300 signed on a letter questioning Kerry's service, he was "flabbergasted."

Take Kerry's Swift Boat for a
Nonpolitical Spin

Take Kerry's Swift Boat for a
Nonpolitical Spin 09/15/2004 05:10 PM
Kuma Reality Games, which specializes in recreating military encounters, is making one of Mr. Kerry's Swift boat missions the situation for a game.

Salon.com | Smear Boat Veterans for
Bush

Salon.com | Smear Boat Veterans for
Bush 05/05/2004 03:27 PM
Smear Boat Veterans for Bush: The "swift boat" veterans attacking John Kerry's war record are led by veteran right-wing operatives using the same vicious techniques they used against John McCain four years ago. 5/5 .. Salon

salon.com/opinion/conason/2004/05/04/swift/index_np.html
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GI Joe Veterans for Truth

GI Joe Veterans for Truth 08/16/2004 09:41 PM
From Salon comes a nice satirical piece about the group GI Joe Veterans for Truth. In one 60-second ad, veterans of the two-year-long, completely...

"Swift boat skipper: Kerry critics
wrong"

"Swift boat skipper: Kerry critics
wrong" 08/22/2004 08:59 PM

Swift Boat Vets owe much to cable TV,
talk radio

Swift Boat Vets owe much to cable TV,
talk radio 08/20/2004 02:38 PM
The initial ad buy for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth only reached three states, but the media coverage of the anti-Kerry group's ad and allegations, especially on cable TV and talk radio, has fueled awareness, the National Annenberg Election Survey says. In a new poll, NAES says more than half of the country has heard about or seen the ad. (Thirty-three percent report having seen it and 24 percent say they've heard about it.) NAES polled 2,209 respondents between Aug. 9 and Aug. 16, 2004, and the sample has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percent. That means the poll was conducted before news reports today and yesterday that provided documentary evidence contradicting the anti-Kerry vets' claims.

Columbus swift boat vet angry about
letter - billingsgazette.com

Columbus swift boat vet angry about
letter - billingsgazette.com 09/02/2004 12:57 AM
Columbus swift boat vet angry about letter - billingsgazette.com .. Really? The Repubulicans lied? .. are they

billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&tts=1&display=rednews/2004/0 9/01/build/state/25-swift-boat.inc
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New Swift Boat Ad: Kerry's Own Shipmate
Calls Kerry on Lie

New Swift Boat Ad: Kerry's Own Shipmate
Calls Kerry on Lie 08/27/2004 01:41 PM
this new ad from the Swiftboat Vets .. Human Events Online .. Swift Boat

humaneventsonline.com.edgesuite.net/unfit_video3.html
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Game Puts Players in Kerry's Swift Boat

Game Puts Players in Kerry's Swift Boat 09/24/2004 01:55 AM
AP via Los Angeles Times Sep 24 2004 5:52AM GMT

Game Puts Players in Kerry's Swift Boat
(AP)

Game Puts Players in Kerry's Swift Boat
(AP) 09/23/2004 11:37 PM
AP - An upcoming video game lets players re-enact the Swift boat mission in Vietnam that won Sen. John Kerry a Silver Star award for battlefield heroism.

CNN.com - Edwards: Bush could stop swift
boat ads - Aug 21, 2004

CNN.com - Edwards: Bush could stop swift
boat ads - Aug 21, 2004 08/22/2004 09:23 AM
"I was with Kerry when he won his Silver Star, and as far as I'm concerned, he did right," he told CNN on Saturday .. CNN.com - Bush adviser quits after appearing in swift boat ad - Aug 21, 2004 .. something like that .. censorship

cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/21/edwards.swiftboat/index.ht ml
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Swift Boat Accounts Incomplete And
Flawed (washingtonpost.com)

Swift Boat Accounts Incomplete And
Flawed (washingtonpost.com) 08/21/2004 04:23 PM
Green and gangly trumps the Old Liars' Club .. Washington Post story

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21239-2004Aug21.html
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"Rowboat Veterans for Truth"

"Rowboat Veterans for Truth" 09/13/2004 02:40 PM

"Veterans battle over the truth."

"Veterans battle over the truth." 08/17/2004 11:14 AM
The LA Times .. mentioned

latimes.com/news/politics/2004/la-na-kerryswift17aug17,1,6 210087.story?coll=la-home-headlines
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