[Dean's World] Dave Price: The Fight That Never Ends

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Posted by Dave Price:
The Fight That Never Ends
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1175104702.shtml


   [1]This is sort of amazing:

     Bush pulls nominee opposed by Dems over Swift Boat donation
     President Bush on Wednesday withdrew the ambassadorial nomination
     of businessman Sam Fox after Democrats denounced Fox for giving
     money to a controversial conservative group that undermined Sen.
     John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign.
     ...
     At the end of the hearing last month, Obama told Fox he found his
     testimony "somewhat unsatisfying."
     "I would have preferred you saying, you know, 'In retrospect
     looking back, contributing to the Swift Boat campaign was a mistake
     and I wish I hadn't done it,"' Obama told Fox.

   The relentless demonization of the Swift Vets is beginning to be
   reminiscent of the endless efforts to rehabilitate [2]Alger Hiss'
   reputation.
   Apparently it is an article of faith among the MSM/DNC elite that the
   254 Swift Vets who came forward to challenge Kerry's, shall we say,
   conveniently airbrushed version of events regarding his service in
   Vietnam were all lying Republican shills and nothing they said was
   true (thus their coining of the malediction "Swiftboating" to mean a
   dishonest smear campaign). But while some of the SBVFT allegations may
   be disputed, they did bring attention to a number of deliberate
   untruths propagated by Kerry's campaign (e.g., portions of his Winter
   Soldier testimony, the Christmas in Cambodia story, the [3]noncombat
   status of Swift Boat duty when he volunteered), some of whose falsity
   was admitted or never disputed by the Kerry camp, as well as
   accurately spotlighting Kerry's postwar comments denigrating U.S.
   servicepeople. These critics seem to hold the Swift Vets to a much
   higher standard than the man running for President.
   Meanwhile, Dan Rather, who really did help promote a [4]proven lie
   about a Presidential candidate, is [5]back on TV, and I'm guessing
   being associated with him or Mary Mapes isn't exactly a political kiss
   of death.
   I'm often reminded in situations like this of what [6]Ford Prefect
   said near the end of one of the HHGTG novels about an enemy trying to
   destroy all life (paraphrased): "It's hopeless. We're going to lose.
   Why? Because we just don't care as much as they do."

References

   1. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-03-28-swiftboat_N.htm?csp=34
   2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alger_Hiss
   3. http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2004_08_01_archive.html
   4. http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12526&only
   5. http://www.tvpredictions.com/ratherhd113006.htm
   6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Prefect_%28character%29