UNTANGLING ANOTHER HUGE LEFTIST LIE: "SWIFT-BOATING"

The current Leftist/MSM use of the term "SWIFT-BOATING" is classic Orwellian DOUBLESPEAK.

It is similar to calling Senator McCarthy's hunt for VERY REAL Soviet agents who had infiltrated our government a "WITCH HUNT" - a "witch hunt" based on a phony "RED SCARE" - only unlike witches (which DO NOT EXIST IN REALITY!) Soviet spies WERE VERY REAL - (like Hiss and Rosenberg and Ames and Hannsen - to name only a FEW of the VERY REAL Soviet agents).

The term "RED SCARE" is equally dubious, as if there was nothing to be afraid of, as if wariness of the Soviets was somehow unrealistic! But it wasn't; rather, the lack of fear by Leftists of the USSR was UN-realistic. The American Left WRONGLY felt that the USSR was benign - and AS LATE AS 1982, they were HORRIFIED when Reagan called them THE EVIL EMPIRE. Well, Reagan was RIGHT and the Left was wrong!

The same falseness lies at the heart of the contemporary Left's MIS-characterization of the Swift Boaters for Truth. The Left uses the term as if "Swift-boating" should mean LYING about someone to besmirch their character. But the TRUTH is that the Swift Boaters TOLD THE TRUTH about Kerry, and it was Kerry's OWN FILTHY CHARACTER which was his undoing in this regard. FACT: Kerry has still refused to release his COMPLETE military record or his discharge. Here's an excerpt from a GREAT POST on "SWIFT-BOATING" by McQ from Q&O:

It has become an article of truth to many on the left that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were a pack of liars. They believe that this group of former Vietnam Swift Boat vets were enticed by Republican operatives to sell themselves out to sink the presidential aspirations of John Kerry. And they further believe that the only reason it worked was because Kerry was slow to respond.

I hate to buck the left's conventional wisdom, but I don't buy that at all.

RTWT. AND YES: ALL FOUR MEN PICTURED ABOVE WERE TRAITORS. NOT ALL WERE CONVICTED OF TREASON, THOUGH. ONLY TWO WERE.

KGB DOC'S HAVE PROVEN THAT NIXON WAS RIGHT ABOUT HISS - WHO WAS "ONLY" CONVICTED OF PERJURY. KERRY HAS YET TO FACE TRIAL. IN A BETTER AND MORE SERIOUS NATION, HE WOULD'VE ALREADY BEEN TRIED AND CONVICTED.