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Iowa Independent
November 26, 2008
Chicago Reader
November 26, 2008
When Kerry ran for president in 2004, that 1971 testimony would be revived by the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth, who'd call it a "betrayal of trust. ...
Oklahoma Gazette
November 26, 2008
The
527 groups do raise more money for Democrats than Republicans, he said, but a prominent Republican 527,
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth, ...
The Argosy.ca
November 21, 2008
... on the same website, there are a series of fake ads mimicking the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth campaign, that played during 2004 election. ...
News-Leader.com
November 19, 2008
From the Willie Horton ads in the presidential race of 1988, to the misleadingly named "Swift Boat Veterans For Truth," Lee Atwater and other Republican ...
FindLaw
November 17, 2008
John Kerry's medals were no defense against the
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth;
Barack Obama's service on a board that included prominent Republicans did not ...
NPR
November 17, 2008
All ads and groups are measured nowadays against the standard of Swift Boat Veterans For Truth, the 2004 group that wounded Democratic presidential nominee ...
News-Leader.com
November 15, 2008
The elections of 1988 and 2004 were trashed, respectively, by the Willie Horton and the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth campaigns. ...
Louisville Courier-Journal
November 14, 2008
After a tragic and divisive era of
Abu Ghraib,
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth,
Hurricane Katrina and Mission Accomplished, Obama re-energized many of us and ...
CQPolitics.com
November 14, 2008
... that accept unregulated contributions was down compared to 2004, when groups such as the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth and America Coming Together first ...
Macleans.ca
November 12, 2008
And in the 2004 presidential race, the
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth were so successful in undermining
John Kerry's military record that the group's name ...
Vanderbilt Orbis
November 11, 2008
Pickens was a major financial backer of the
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth, the group that famously slandered
John Kerry's military record in 2004. ...
Columbus Dispatch
November 11, 2008
... a mustache and spreads
rumors that the original
Karl Rove died at the hands of the
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth after fathering an illegitimate child. ...
Bakersfield Californian
November 9, 2008
A leftover from 2004, when the
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth, a
527 group of
Vietnam War vets, successfully turned Democrat
John Kerry, winner of the Silver ...
Boston Globe
November 8, 2008
In 2004,
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth paid millions of dollars for ads suggesting
John Kerry's military service was dishonorable. ...
Traverse City Record Eagle
November 7, 2008
The smears of groups like the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth will continue. But the heat is gone. Obama was himself the target of one of the most extensive ...
Delta County Independent
November 7, 2008
The
neo-con ideologues and the hate mongers with their
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth (SVFT) took the words, Swift
boat, that use to mean something honorable ...
MLive.com
November 7, 2008
for president and defended him to no avail against harsh attacks by
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth on Kerry's military service in
Vietnam. ...
The Miami Herald
November 5, 2008
John Kerry of
Massachusetts did from the
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth when he challenged Bush in 2004. Tracey and Sabato agreed, however, that Obama's ...
Lower Hudson Journal news
November 5, 2008
Feld's campaign spent $319461 on TV ads designed by Stevens, Reed, Curcio and Potholm, which created the "Swift Boat Veterans For Truth" ads credited with ...
Yale Daily News
November 5, 2008
Or 2004's Swift-
boat Veterans for Truth? Most elections have similar x-factors. They seem entirely random, but they can shift the race - and the way we talk ...
Washington Post
November 5, 2008
... with him as a case of guilt by association, likening it to the way the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth created a narrative that helped doom Sen. ...
The News Journal
November 4, 2008
While the 2004 presidential race saw the growth of such groups as
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth, which opposed Democratic nominee
John Kerry, ...
FindLaw
November 4, 2008
St. John's Telegram
November 4, 2008
One such attack - from the
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth - effectively killed
John Kerry's chances of election in the final days of the 2004 presidential ...
Charleston Gazette
November 4, 2008
... by the
Chamber of Commerce on behalf of Greear, is the same company that produced the
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth campaign in 2004 that attacked Sen. ...
Los Angeles Times
November 4, 2008
The 2004
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth campaign against
John Kerry, saying that he lied to get
Vietnam medals, was refuted. But the campaign was political ...
Swing State Project
November 3, 2008
... (creator of the 1988 Willie Horton ad), and its legal consultant is Ben Ginsberg (who was involved with the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth in 2004). ...
MLive.com
November 3, 2008
... and has not stood out amid a flurry of other political commercials, nor gotten the sort of media attention as the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth in 2004. ...
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
November 2, 2008
So-called
527 groups, named after a section of the IRS code, became famous after the
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth bombarded Democrat
John Kerry in the 2004 ...
Boston Globe
November 2, 2008
It is now a consensus in the media that the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth were a bunch of liars. What we found is that they were mistaken some of the time ...
CBS News
November 2, 2008
Consider the damage the
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth did to Senator
John Kerry's presidential ambitions in 2004 over the question of his patriotism. ...
Politicker KY
November 1, 2008
NPR also reports a radio spot targeting Lunsford is in part funded by a key financier of the controversial
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth. ...
Charleston Gazette
November 1, 2008
The
Maryland-based firm produced attack ads from the
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth, the group that made unsubstantiated allegations in 2004 about Democratic ...
Tampabay.com
November 1, 2008
Back in 2004, when the
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth raised questions about Democrat
John Kerry's war record, news outlets took weeks to vet the incendiary ...
Chicago Daily Herald
November 1, 2008
Patriot Majority is a
527 group, like the
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth in 2004. Its donors are made up exclusively of big unions. ...
DesMoinesRegister.com
November 1, 2008
... candidate Michael Dukakis, and its Washington-based legal consultant, Benjamin Ginsberg, advised the political group Swift Boat Veterans For Truth. ...
Chicago Tribune
November 1, 2008
... may have to counter well-financed attacks from outside groups, such as the damaging campaign of Swift Boat Veterans For Truth against Kerry in 2004. ...
Bloomberg
November 1, 2008
While the 2004 presidential race saw the growth of such groups as
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth, which opposed Democratic nominee
John Kerry, ...
The Canberra Times
October 31, 2008
A similar smear campaign run by a PAC, the
Swift Boat Veterans For Truth, raised damaging and unfounded allegations about the Democrat
John Kerry's war ...
