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Swiftboating McCain Pt. 2
By Dave - Politics DailyAs a follow-up to the earlier stories from DK and me. From the McCain campaign blog: The only similarity between the two stories is a cross in the dirt, but it is hardly an unlikely coincidence that there were practicing Christians in both Russia and Vietnam, or that in the prisons of those two Communist countries the only crosses to be found were etched in the dirt, as easily disappeared as the Christians who drew them. But those desperate to discredit Senator McCain's record will have to impugn his fellow prisoners as well. Orson Swindle, who was held as a prisoner of war along with ...
The Swiftboating of John McCain
By Dave - Politics DailyI'm aware that the left side of the blogosphere and punditocracy is extremely partisan, but the brazenness of this still shocks me sometimes. This weekend is a good case in point. What do you call it when you cast aspersions on the Vietnam experience of a presidential candidate? Oh yes, swiftboating. Only Andrew Sullivan did not have any first hand testimony when he went up against McCain's cross in the sand testimony, only a gut instinct that it smelled fishy. And that was enough for the left blogosphere (and check the links at memeorandum) to jump all over the story claiming, in essence, ...
George Clooney Never Was 'Advising Obama'
By David Knowles - Politics DailyA good take-down piece in Politico today concerns a rather predictable and now-widespread strategy to thwart Barack Obama's presidential ambitions. In short, the plan consists of the following: Lie, lie, and lie again. The latest smear job concerns George Clooney, the Hollywood actor/director, who, it was claimed, was advising Obama on Middle East policy through a series of phone calls, e-mails and text messages. That rather explosive charge, made in the U.K. tabloid The Daily Mail, was quickly snapped up and recycled by The Drudge Report, and subsequently reported as actual news on FOX and ...
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