[okie01]

All the Swift Vets I know were - and are - proud of what they accomplished in 2004. The most under-reported story of the 2004 election was the testimony of a Newsweek reporter who had been given full access to the Kerry campaign on condition he wouldn't write anything until the campaign was over.

In Newsweek, about a week after the election, this reporter wrote that the Kerry campaign didn't respond effectively to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was "because most of what they were claiming was true".

I have yet to see that report repeated anywhere.

[Interesting Times]

In Newsweek, about a week after the election, this reporter wrote that the Kerry campaign didn't respond effectively to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was "because most of what they were claiming was true".

That quote came from Vanity Fair editor and writer Michael Wolff, while being interviewed for the never-released Kerry campaign film "In the Bubble." He said that the campaign's real problem with the Swift Vets' charges was that they "were largely true." The movie trailer made it look like Wolff was part of the campaign, but he actually wasn't.