Reply #2: Oh, good God almighty [View All]

[beachmom]

It's actually called the Creators Syndicate which makes sense, since the author has "created" a most remarkable tail of fiction. Okay, now I'm getting more and more suspicious about those Swifty telephone numbers -- it's a lot easier for a RW source to get their names and numbers than an opposition party would. This is an outright lie, that I can verify IMMEDIATELY:

Kerry's statement is long and lurid, and the Swifties gladly reproduced a tape of it during the 2004 election. Now these veterans are being harassed by the senator's supporters with crank calls in the night and venomous postings on the liberal website HuffingtonPost.com. On that celebrity-ridden site the names and personal information of more than a dozen Swift Boat veterans were posted by such "trusted" Huffington Post celebrities as "SatanLivesinUSA." Could this be Barbra Streisand's username? At any rate, this eminence wrote on June 24: "SwiftBoatVets who need some Black Ops done on them. I have some very good ideas I gleaned from 'CIA BOOK of DIRTY TRICKS' Don't get mad, get EVEN." Minutes later another "trusted" celebrity poster repeatedly pasted these threatening words on the page and on another Huffington Post post.

The American Spectator's indefatigable reporter, Dave Holman, found all this and reports that "Aside from one or two complaints, fellow commenters did not object to the posting of the information or the threats." Within hours the veterans were receiving threatening calls. In the early hours of June 25 one Swiftie, Van Odell, got three in four minutes, the last from a man who inquired, "I want to know why you lied about John Kerry . Traitors must die. We will get you." Holman notes that the Swifties have reported these calls to law enforcement but that they had no luck in getting HuffingtonPost to address the harassment. The comments remained posted until Holman reached Katharine Zaleski, the site's news editor, on Tuesday afternoon at her unlisted telephone number. As I say, Holman is indefatigable.

Um, I don't know how to tell you guys this, and I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say this:

We, the online supporters of John Kerry, have just been swiftboated!!!! They're making up lies about us that cannot be disproved, and are using the Swift Boat vets, once again, as the victims of a crime by . . . us!!

How do we fight this? Because what we learned from '04 is you don't stay silent when attacks like this are launched.