American Thinker
Robert Oscar Lopez
Oct. 15, 2017
Do you remember 2004? That was when John Kerry suffered a massive blow in the press because of what happened when he was serving in Vietnam. In a nation full of men and women who avoid military service entirely, one would normally not hold a man's service against him. But Kerry built a career on claims about his courage in war. When a host of his former comrades came forward and said he hadn't been the gutsy warrior he claimed – in fact, he may have misrepresented his actions to get awards – his reputation suffered. Some would argue that the "swift boat" campaign cost him the office of presidency.
To this day, liberals call it "swift-boating" when people propagandize (in liberals' minds, unfairly) against an individual. They forget that in 2004, the campaign controversy about the candidates' valor began earlier, when Michael Moore produced Fahrenheit 9/11 and stirred gossip that George W. Bush had acted indecorously during his service in the Air National Guard.
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