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MSNBC Freaked Out by 'Dishonest' Swift Boaters Attacking Obama

On Wednesday's "Hardball," substitute host David Shuster previewed a new book targeting Barack Obama by issuing the following warning to viewers at the top of the show:

It was right around this time four years ago that the dishonest and highly effective Swift Boat attacks on John Kerry began. Now the man who started it all, with a book about Kerry, has one out attacking Obama. Can the Swift Boaters repeat their success, or does Obama know how to fight back?

[again, a very sad example of the media's ability to propagate an untruth and create a pejorative where none should exist: 237 ex-veterans said Kerry lied. Kerry said 237 ex-veterans lied. Naturally, the 237 are the liars, and now 'Swift Boating', a case of private citizens speaking up when they heard untruths, is affixed in our lexicon as a pejorative. wonderful]

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CNN Concerned Anti-Obama Book 'Might Catch on With Some Voters'

Never Again! Not the Holocaust. We're talking about the MSM's determination not to let Barack Obama be "Swiftboated." In successive segments today, CNN provided a perfect example of the phenomenon.

First, a one-sided trashing of Obama Nation, the anti-Barack book by Jerome Corsi, who co-authored Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry.

In the succeeding segment, anchor Suzanne Malveaux worried out loud to Paul Begala that Barack Obama might not be responding fast enough to attacks against him, thereby "falling into the same trap as John Kerry."

[see above - or better: set up a debate with the author. unlikely; I've heard him speak and none of Ob's brave defenders are going to go near him: the man has done a credible work]

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