>>Is this a tacit admission by the Rat media the Swift Boat Veterans were telling the truth about Kerry in 2004?<<
No, probably not, but it might be an inadvertent one. A few more articles like this one could result in “swift boated” being understood, accurately, as “outed for blatant lying to advance one’s political career.”
Word. They're doing it to themselves, and they don't even know it.