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February 10, 2005
Don't Ignore the Media, Indict Them
John Kerry has re-emerged in public after lying low following his defeat on November 2. In his first extensive interview on Meet the Press January 30, he was asked why he lost. His explanation: voters didn’t want to change commander-in-chief in the midst of a war.
Perhaps. But the election probably was lost in late summer, in the weeks following Kerry’s nomination. That’s when a group called Swiftboat Veterans for Justice began attacking Kerry’s record as a Vietnam War hero. The news media were co-conspirators.
Swift Boats had rasied about $500,000 to buy ads questioning Kerry’s patriotism. The media gave the ads non-stop coverage while Kerry went on vacation, windsurfing off Nantucket.
With that 24-hour-a-day coverage, Swift Boats was able to raise nearly $14 million by Election Day. They slimed John Kerry, especially among white male voters who might have been attracted by his exemplary war record.
The media didn’t create Swift Boat Veterans for Justice, but they breathed life into the nascent body and then gave it steroids.
Without relentless, nonstop media coverage just before Labor Day, the Swift Boat ads would have been a campaign blip. And John Kerry probably would be president.
But Swift Boats made the most compelling case against Kerry, and nullified the central strategy of his convention week — to show Kerry as a fit commander-in-chief.
No doubt about it, the ads of Swift Boat Veterans for Justice were skillful. But the media were the organization’s arms, legs and…megaphone. Once again, the media as unindicted co-conspirator.
Posted Feb 10 2005 @ 06:42 AM
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