Posted by
reasonmclucus on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:26:15 PM
Many people in the Main Stream Media (MSM)misuse the term
"Swiftboating". They refuse to admit what the Swift Boat vets
were actually doing during the 2004 election.
The Swift Boat vets were doing what members of the MSM would have done
if they had been real journalists. The first thing
political
reporters should learn is that one thing Republican and Democratic
politicians have in common is a tendency to lie about their
backgrounds.
Real journalists are supposed to check with a variety of sources before
writing or telling stories, or at least that's what I learned when I
took some journalism courses over 30 years ago. The MSM in 2004
accepted
whatever candidate John Kerry told them without question because
they were good Democrats who believed it was their duty as journalistic
prostitutes for the Democratic Party to follow orders from party
leaders.
Those of us who have been in a war know that some people like to
exaggerate what they did. Real journalists would have attempted
to verify Kerry's account by talking to the other men who were
there. The Swift Boat vets were the other men who served
with John Kerry and knew what he had actually done.
Real journalists would have checked to see if Kerry and his crew had
provided consistent accounts of what happened. The Swift Boat
Vets did that and discovered
discrepancies
in the published accounts Kerry and
his crew provided. For example, there was even an account in the
July 23, 2004, "Oregon Statesman Journal" that the Green
Beret who fell off Kerry's boat and had to be rescued was
supposedly on another boat entirely.