Need Help Re: Anti-Kerry Swift Boat Vets as Repub Operatives and Freepers

[seventhson]

Has anyone written an article on this yet in the mainstream media.

I suspect that Drudge might even break it if it has a solid regular article behind it.

All I can find is the disinfopedia info so far and google searches are not enough.

SOMEBODY needs to write an expose on the swift-boat nutjobs and their ties to homeland security contracts, info technology and the corporate right wing.

(see related threads on who these guys are)

[annxburns]

1. Check here ...

... http://mediamatters.org

also the Boston Globe has archived articles on them

[trumad]

2. Joe Conason wrote this over a month ago

and followed up with it in todays Salon as well... Read both pieces and it will tell you whay you wnat to know....

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2004/05/04/swift/print.html

[janx]

3. Get over to Salon today. Conason's most recent article (today's)

mentions both.

I can't access it via the day pass for some reason.

[DeadHead67]

4. When the Democratic Party legal staff gets off it's collective ass and. .

sues these lieing motherfuckers for fraud, AND their media wing makes some BIG NOISE about this travesty, THEN I will send money to the party to support it. QUIT TRYING TO BE NICEY-NICE TO THESE CRIMINALS!!!! WAKE UP!!!! This is a life and death struggle and they want YOUR blood!

[Claire Beth]

5. here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=109x11728

[City Lights]

6. Doug Brinkley claims Larry Thurlow earned a Bronze Star

the same day as Kerry for the heroics they displayed that day.

<snip>

"Kerry and the other wounded men received medical attention aboard a Coast Guard cutter, which was the closest ship capable of treating them. Along with a third Purple Heart for the injury to his right arm, Kerry was also awarded a Bronze Star for his bravery, as was Larry Thurlow."

http://www.thehistorynet.com/ah/blkerryinvietnam/index3.html

If Thurlow now claims there was no enemy fire in the area that day, I'd like to know if Thurlow still has his "unearned" medal.

[seventhson]

7. Thanks All! Drudge has an interesting "retraction" right now

But we still need to get the goods on the bastards working for the extremist right and repaet the memes that will expose them all for what they are.

[Tennessee Gal]

8. Got a link?

I went there and could not find a retraction.

[LTR]

9. Check out this thread

And various links:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x597555

There's been a few links about it in the past couple days. The freeper connection was discovered by someone on the Bartcop board.