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Times and WaPo Jump On Board Trump Camp Swift Boating of Walz
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I don't remember much of the Kerry campaign, but didn't he lean into his service record? The stolen valor argument is much weaker seeing as Walz has never claimed he's seen active combat.
Regardless, it's incredibly disappointing to see reputable news outlets bat for Trump just because the Dems have two ever so slightly left-leaning people on the ticket.
They are clutching at straws. Every step the Democrats have taken since Biden decided to withdraw from the race has tripped the Republicans out. They had no game plan for that contingency, and they are still several steps behind and frantically playing catch up. They are falling back on their old negative handbook tactics. Hopefully they don't work. Because that Swiftboat Vets thing against John Kerry was really stupid. The only thing that was more stupid back then was that so many idiot voters believed it.
ETA: Some of these newspapers / media outlets are really freaked out, but only about Walz. They were fine when it was just Harris because she's very moderate. Her choice of Walz (which was a smart choice because it reinvigorated liberal voters towards her) is the thing that they are stressing out over, because of the (tax) implication.
There's a documentary about it because the Swift Boating was such bullshit.
Several of the swift boaters themselves recanted after the Questionable Victory of GeeDubz part II.
Can't find the documentary, here's a relevant article:
Ah yes. Texas scumbag T. Boone Pickens, the Musk of his day, funded the whole smear campaign.
And it's a reminder that republiQans do not give one good goddamn how true something is or not. If it has "political impact" they'll use it.
The Republicans have never given a single shit about veterans, they just like the flag waving and faux patriotism. They nominated the guy who consistently insults veterans, calling those who fell in war "losers", and the rest of their elected officials consistently starve the VA so that veterans can't receive the care they were promised.
Like everything else the Republicans claim to "support", it's in name only, and no substance. They only support their billionaire overlords, and the orange fuhrer himself.
I got a real Boone T' Pickens with that guy
Have you been drinking tonight, sir?
Step out of the thread, please sir.
And please not, this is literally the same person trying to swift boat here - Chris LaCivita, now the co-manager of the Trump campaign.
Grifters all the way down the trump camp
It's equally weak because it's all bullshit. The problem is that the press isn't willing to assess truth on this kind of thing, and then center that.
Remember Kerry was miligned by much of the veteran community because he protested against the war in Vietnam. The swiftboat claims helped to fit into a narrative that his service record was flawed, especially against GWB's controversial record with losing flight status with the Air National Guard.
Snorting coke and going AWOL from the TANG was way more respectable to these idiots.