Is Bush a freeper? (Swift Liar links and other wingnut behaviors)

[ProSense]

Carlton A. Sherwood is a journalist and producer. He is known for his Pulitzer Prize winning work*, with two Gannett News co-authors, on a 1980 series investigating a fund-raising scandal involving the Pauline Fathers, and the Vatican's role in covering it up. In 2004, Sherwood produced the video Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal which documents the viewpoints of various American Vietnam War POW's who claim that harm arose to them as a result of John Kerry's anti-war activities.

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Sherwood and the Moonies

Carlton Sherwood is well known for his purportedly independent investigation of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Sherwood concluded that Moon and his followers "were and continued to be the victims of the worst kind of religious prejudice and racial bigotry this country has witnessed in over a century." Sherwood himself had previously worked for the Washington Times, owned by members of the Unification Church.

In a story on this book, the PBS television series Frontline obtained a copy of a letter addressed to Moon. The letter was written by James Gavin, a Moon aide. Gavin tells Moon he reviewed the "overall tone and factual contents" of Inquisition before publication and suggested revisions. Gavin adds that the author "Mr. Sherwood has assured me that all this will be done when the manuscript is sent to the publisher." Gavin concludes by telling Moon, "When all of our suggestions have been incorporated, the book will be complete and in my opinion will make a significant impact.... In addition to silencing our critics now, the book should be invaluable in persuading others of our legitimacy for many years to come."<2> (http://www.mediachannel.org/originals/moontranscript2.shtml)

Military experience and Homeland Security work

Sherwood is a decorated Vietnam veteran who served as a Marine in Vietnam's De-Militarized Zone.<3> (http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15108) Sherwood formerly worked for Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge, whom George W. Bush later appointed as the first Secretary of Homeland Security. The Bush administration has selected Sherwood to create and manage a new federal website aimed at first responders (police officers, firefighters, etc.). While working as a Ridge administration official, Sherwood directed then-Gov. Ridge's award-winning broadcast TV and radio operations in Harrisburg.

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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Carlton_Sherwood

A group of highly decorated former POWs who played an active role in the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth have formed a new organization, the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation (www.vietnamlegacy.org), to develop a national repository of Vietnam-related materials, information and records, and to counter and expose false information about the Vietnam War that appears in the media. Led by Medal of Honor recipient Bud Day, the group includes former POWs Ken Cordier, Paul Galanti, and James Warner. They intend to continue setting the record straight about the honorable service of Americans in Vietnam.

Please see the attached press release for more details.

Best regards,

Scott Swett, Executive Director
Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation


http://www.swiftvets.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=19288&

Scott Swett is

* webmaster of WinterSoldier.com website
* webmaster of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth website
* director of 'Free Republic' (www.FreeRepublic.com)

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Scott_Swett

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THE PLACE FOR UNBIASED INSIGHT

"Much of the media is helping hamstring our efforts by highlighting casualties, ignoring accomplishments, and generally conveying the sense that we can’t possibly succeed." - Scott Swett

An Interview with Scott Swett
Director of the Free Republic Network
By: Rich Bowden

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Scott Swett is a director of the Free Republic Network, an Internet-based non-profit that supports grassroots conservative activism. During the U.S. invasion of Iraq last spring, the FR Network helped coordinate "support the troops" rallies in hundreds of locations across the country. Mr. Swett represented this effort during an April 1, 2003 appearance on Fox & Friends, noting that an overwhelming majority of media coverage was given to anti-war protests -- which he termed "peace riots" -- while ignoring the 150,000 people who had attended pro-America rallies the previous weekend.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1164383/posts

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Freepers!

[KalicoKitty]

1. Thanks for all that info and links!

:yourock:

[emulatorloo]

2. kick and nominating n/t

:toast: :patriot:

[Kurovski]

3. K&R.(nt)

[YOY]

4. Freepers are the minions, not the masters

Wrap it in a flag and repeat the words freedom over and over and pander to their single issue minds as well as soak it in with useless punditry without true counter arguement and you have the backwash. Fear is the controlling factor here as well as pseudo toughguy rhetoric.

Freepers are just the means to an end. Sadly deluded, horribly misled, and in the end scared shitless of the future.

Their masters hardly beleive this shit and see the real picture. Keeping and staying on top is their goal.

No Bush is not a freeper. I boldly disagree. He and his PNAC buddies have far more imaginiative plans for us. :tinfoilhat:

[ProSense]

5. Agree to an extent.

For example, Ashcroft really is a freeper.

[blm]

8. Dora Bush joined the freepers taunting Gore during recount. They really

are sickfocks in that family.

[ProSense]

9. So she was

Dora the Chimproarer?

Forgive me!

[YOY]

10. Yeps...so are many of the staffers they keep on chains

and campaign 'experts.'

But the brains of the operation (and I use that term loosely) are not freepers.

[Liberal Gramma]

6. Exactly the point that John Dean makes in

his new book, Conservatives Without Conscience. His thesis is that the sheeple are authoritarians, submissive to established authority and showing aggressiveness to others when such behavior is seen to be sanctioned. The really scary ones are the Social Dominants, who be definition must be amoral, have a desire for power, and be opposed to equality. Bush isn't really either, he's a sociopath who mistakenly thinks he's the king, but his strings are pulled by the social dominants around him and the freepers cheer, worship, and defend.

[blm]

7. Scratch the surface of a fundie or freeper you'll find a Moonie underneath

even if they don't even realize it. They have been conditioned in much the same way. The Left Behind books from Tim LaHaye came after many years of working with RevMoon - both considered experts at mind control techniques.