CNN runs article by RW author claiming Left harrassing Swift Liars

[ProSense]

Snip...

Now we read that the campaign against the Swifties is going to gain momentum. The sorehead Kerry supporters have joined together in a group called the Patriot Project. It will seek out the Swifties and scrutinize their complaints against Kerry. It will also support opponents of the war in Iraq and visit editorial offices to make the case for such veterans as Rep. John P. Murtha, a Vietnam War vet who now opposes the Iraq War.

All of this sounds like political harassment to me. But as the shrinks are wont to say, "If it is true for you, it is true for you." For a certitude, the left wing of the Democratic Party believes that whatever it believes is true. Kerry believes he would be president today if he had not been Swiftboated. He has hired a researcher to prove from naval archives that he was in Cambodia three decades ago for a few hours when the Nixon administration said he was not supposed to be there.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/01/tyrrell.swiftboating

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2656536&mesg_id=2656536

[tanyev]

1. Scrutinizing complaints = political harassment ???

Hoo boy, we do live in interesting times.

[oasis]

32. Swiftboat liars reveal their fascist nature. (n/t)

[rocktivity]

2. The punishment fits the crime!

rocknation

[unhappycamper]

3. three whole hours?

Wow. I was there for about 2 1/2 months. I still have a user manual for a (ChiCom) hand-cranked generator, written in Chinese of course.

[blm]

RW covers up for the fact that CIA was ferried into Cambodia by swiftboats

who ran them in COVERTLY while Nixon was LYING about it. See, if Kerry is right then Nixon and Kissinger were LYING ABOUT IT.

That's what makes this a bigger issue to the RW and they will smear Kerry from here to eternity.

Sadly, some DUers will join them.

[blm]

4. Not a word about Swifts CONTINUING their assault on Kerry AND other vets

running for office. as Democrats. This is how CNN works their mission to protect the House of Bush and House of Saud.

[Trillo]

5. Taint an election candidate

with lies, no big deal.

Complain about tainting the candidate: major federal case.

What's wrong with this picture?

[karynnj]

17. Great points

[blm]

19. This is why GOP bought control of media in the 80s and 90s while Dems were

and are still trying to fight fair.

[ProSense]

25. Instead of pursuing

the election discrepancies, CNN has decided that hateful opinions about John Kerry and the Left is fit to print.

[ginnyinWI]

27. If they were going to be fair,

they'd find somebody who was willing to write a similar article about John McCain. Hm, let's see--what "cute" name could we call him? Let's ascribe all sorts of self-promoting motives to his behavior! Let's show how absolutely useless he is and ignore anything positive he's ever done. And let's not forget to poke fun at all of his followers while we are at it.

[Totally Committed]

6. Harrassing them????

They helped the Bushies steal our country from us. They're lucky they haven't been rounded up and tarred & feathered. They haven't BEGUN to feel the wrath... F*ck them!

TC

[Mz Pip]

7. Wow

What a convoluted piece of logic.

The subtext of this little RW screed is that the right can say what it wants to take down and opponent but if said opponent fights back then he is a nutcase. :crazy:

Political harrassment, indeed.

This is a prime example of projection. SInce this guy seems to need to analyze behavior I suggest he look up "projection." Accusing someone of doing what you yourself are doing.

Projection, Tyrrell, is what you are doing.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[NYCGirl]

8. They used to run Novak's columns — is this any different? NT

[ProSense]

14. Novak was part of the media onslaught, but this is a lot worse

Novak part of the coy "they said, he said" reporting onslaught. He also tried very hard to claim the GOP weren't involved.


This is not that! This is attacking the anyone who denounces the Liars, holding them up as credible and further attacks Senator Kerry. Here is how the writer refers to Senator Kerry:

Consider the ongoing controversy over Sen. Jean-Francois Kerry's military service in the faraway Vietnam War.

I think it proves that beyond being a self-aggrandizing, self-indulgent showoff, this guy is a nut.

[Mr_Spock]

9. Well, too effing bad - those f'ers helped ruin our country

They should be glad it's only harassment.

[Gregorian]

10. Yeah, how dare we defend ourselves from the lying bullies.

It's like the documentary I saw on the Kalahari Bushmen. The tribe returned to their village to see it burnt to the ground. One of the tribe asked the (white) police officer why they burned down the village. The cop told him to never ask him why. But he had to ask again. And the cop kicked him to death. 100 years later, they finally got their village back, after years of hard efforts.

We'll fight until justice is achieved.

[patrice]

11. Truth-tellers would welcome the scrutiny. Swifties are not welcoming

the scrutiny, ergo they are not truth-tellers.

[987654321]

12. Those poor swift boat liars.

Lets see, they made lots of money for what they did, made lots of friends that they otherwise would never have had, and they got their 15 minutes of fame extended by an unethical press, and yet they are being thought of as victims?

I hate how the right wingers are always claiming themselves to be victims of the evil left. Poor, poor republicans, they only control most of the country, the three branches of government and the fourth branch, which would be the press. Damn, those poor people have it so bad I think I might shed a tear. No, actually I just vomited a little.

[underpants]

13. Why didn't the press check out the Swifties claims?

Oh that's right I forgot the liberal bias thingy.

[blm]

18. CNN is really in full cover up mode for swifts - wanna bet something's up?

Methinks the swifts connections to BushInc have been nailed down - that and detailed refutation of every charge they made.

[underpants]

20. Well we already have the link confirmed

When caught working in the White House AND for the Swifties Benjamin Ginsberg chose to quit working for the President...or so the story goes.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/25/ginsberg.swiftboat/

[blm]

22. Yeah - and media failed to question why ANYONE would stop working for a

PRESIDENT just to represent a group who'd already been caught lying at that point. The only answer is that by working with that group, he was STILL working for the president.

[ProSense]

21. The headline tries to cover the fact this is wingut blog material.

"Tyrrell: Swiftboating has becomes a hate term"

That is not what this article is about, it is a direct assault on Kerry and anyone who dares to call out the Liars.

This article is promoting hate!

[Cell Whitman]

15. Tyrrell is the American Spectator hack who lived off Paula Jones and

Scaife's money.

Palast was on C-Span with him a couple weeks ago and ate his lunch. All Tyreel could do was call Palast names and try to make him into a conspiracy nut who believed Roosevelt knew about Pearl harbor. Palast handled him like Ali did Ernie Terrel. Basically Palast talked past his smears and stayed on the attack and said "look at the documents"... I love it when Palast juts smiles at them...

These freaks have too much invested in their lies to give up the Ghost now.

[karynnj]

16. I sent CNN an email - though it won't help

In reference to the Tyrell article on the the Swiftboat Smears:

This article is beneath CNN. The Navy has verified that John Kerry served honorably and that he deserved the medals he received. The SBVT have been caught in several obvious lies, while Kerry's account is consistent with the official record and is backed up by all but one of the men who reported to him. (In terms of fairness, consider the media dropped the TANG story when documents that backed part of the story couldn't be authenticated.

The tenor of this article was obvious from the beginning when the author, thinking he was witty, referred to the Senator as Jean-Francoise Kerry, instead of the name his parents gave him. John Kerry and his friends - which Tyrell used to claim he didn't have -have every right to search for documentation that debunks every lie spread by these RW funded liars.

Senator Kerry has served his nation in various positions for nearly four decades. The author has spewed hatred for nearly as long. Far from being self- aggrandizing or a nut, Senator Kerry has lived his life with integrity, dignity and honor; the same can not be said for this author.

Publishing this garbage puts CNN at the level of these hate filled creeps. It also sends the signal that any soldier who runs for political office as a Democrat may have their sacrifice used against them. I hope that makes you feel proud as you go through your day. If you had an ounce of integrity, you would pull this article.

[blm]

23. CNN hates Official Naval Records - Sides with LIARS.

That's the bottom line for CNN - doing the bidding of their masters House of Saud and House of Bush.

[Raster]

39. "...this message brought to you by the Corporate News Network, a wholly-

owned subsidiary of the American Petroleum Party

[primative1]

24. Harrassing Swift Liars?

I'm not, but if CNN would give me their names and addresses I could get started on it right away :)

[pscot]

35. My thought precisely

Anybody got a list of names and addresses? How do we get started?

[ginnyinWI]

26. I just wrote CNN too. n/t

[NightOwwl]

28. "Sen. Jean-Francois Kerry"

"Any innocent observer who watched the showboating senator from Massachusetts bungle his 2004 presidential campaign must know that he is today a self-aggrandizing, self-indulgent showoff. Why would he not have been one as a youth, back in the late 1960s, when he brought camera equipment into the jungles to film himself at war?"

"This strange man chose to make his Vietnam experience a major theme of his presidential candidacy. This is a matter for a seasoned psychiatrist to explain. To the rest of us, it appears as egotism at the outer reaches of sanity."

"No matter the occasion, he (Kerry) doesn't miss an opportunity to parade his campaign wounds however incoherently and obsessively."

"What does this prove? I think it proves that beyond being a self-aggrandizing, self-indulgent showoff, this guy is a nut."

Yet, according the the author, It's Kerry who is using "political harrassment" against the SBLiars.

:wtf: Is this man certifiably insane or just bug-fuck nutzoid?

[blm]

29. This also tells me that CNN and media are scared of Kerry - - - AGAIN.

Why else ramp up the campaign against him? This same "nut" charge was made against Kerry when he uncovered IranContra. They use it when they're SCARED.

Maybe the fear of the Rolling Stone article?

[karynnj]

31. Does showboating mean knowing all the answers to the debate questions

without a wire? Did they forget that he also was audacious enough to appear taller than Bush?

Seriously, when will they drop the "filmed himself in VN" stuff - from "Going Up-river" to the campaign ads, I doubt there was more than 5 minutes of Kerry in the movies - and in none of that was he doing anything remotely warlike.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

30. What trash.

CNN should be ashamed to put their name along side of this tripe. I bet if Jack Cafferty is aware of this article, he is yelling his head off.

[tsuki]

33. How dare a lefty complain about being smeared and lied about

by the More-All Right Wing? It is the Ubermensch's Gawd Given Right to lie, cheat and steal. Personal Responsibility is for the Left Wing not the Right Wing. :grr:

[AX10]

34. CNN and it's sibling networks, MSNBC and Fox are in full....

"cover mode" for the current occupant of the White House.

[blm]

36. And apparently attacking Kerry because they knew the Rolling Stone article

was coming out.

[ProSense]

40. Agree, this is a desperate atttempt!

Attacking the entire left seems deliberately timed to coincide with the Rolling Stone article.

[blm]

42. He worked in the word delusional. CNN must have approved.

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[globalvillage]

37. Thank you, ProSense.

I wrote to CNN. They should be ashamed.

Something else Mr Tyrrell can 'leave to the professionals', obviously, is any pretense of objective journalism.

The disgusting screed presented on CNN.com "Swiftboating has become a hate term", is little more than right wing hack commentary and far less than what should meet the standards of CNN.

What man, Mr. Tyrrell, would not be justified in defending himself against attacks of the long-ago exposed lies of O'Neill and his Republican funded smear merchants? Do you think Senator Kerry is not entitled to vindicate himself? In what distorted version of America is a person not entitled to speak in his own defense?

Why, Mr. Tyrrell, do you hate America?

No veteran should be in the position to have to defend his medals. If they were presented, barring any proof that they were not deserved (AND THERE IS NONE IN SENATOR KERRY'S CASE), they were earned. Period.

Mr Tyrrell has dishonored the service of everyone who has worn the uniform and earned commendations for bravery in combat with his disingenuous and disgraceful hit piece. That said, of course, most of the chickenhawk Bush administration is safe from his attacks.

Mr R. Emmett Tyrrell is a sad excuse for a writer, an obvious apologist for the Swift Boat Liars and the Bush administration, and a vet-basher. Got a defense for that one? Why don't we have a look at your service medals and see if they stand up to scrutiny?

How dare CNN print this garbage.

[proud patriot]

38. boy, RWers sure whine a lot

x(

[Norquist Nemesis]

41. Glenn Beck must have bot more than just a show

in his contract.

[blm]

43. CNN beefed up its right wing talent for the 2006 election cycle.

Pretty damn obvious that the House of Saud and House of Bush are not planning on a fair election - - AGAIN.