{"id":1531,"date":"2004-08-20T12:46:34","date_gmt":"2004-08-20T16:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2004\/08\/20\/swift-boat-veterans-for-truth\/"},"modified":"2004-08-20T12:46:34","modified_gmt":"2004-08-20T16:46:34","slug":"swift-boat-veterans-for-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2004\/08\/20\/swift-boat-veterans-for-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Swift boat veterans for &#8220;truth&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a519'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Times does its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/20\/politics\/campaign\/20swift.html?partner=rssuserland\">usual workman job on filling in the details<\/a>.&nbsp; Also included is this very interesting graphic of the connections between the organization and the Bush world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/natep\/20040820swiftgraph001.gif\" height=\"785\" width=\"612\" border=\"0\">  &#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Tom Oliphant of the Boston Globe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/politics\/july-dec04\/vietnam_8-19.html\">rails on John O&#8217;Neill on the News Hour<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Again, the credibility problem, which is what keeps this thing<br \/>\n          in the tabloids primarily and on cable television where there are different<br \/>\n          standards.<\/p>\n<p> Almost conclusive doesn&#8217;t cut it in the world&#8217;s parts of journalism<br \/>\n          where I live, John. You have a burden here. And almost conclusive is<br \/>\n          nowhere near what I&#8217;m looking for. <\/p>\n<p>There are eyewitness accounts actually on all sides of this story.<br \/>\n          The closer you get to Kerry, the more one-sided in favor of Kerry these<br \/>\n          accounts tend to be. <\/p>\n<p>There is a problem that one of your people, this Mr. Thurlow, has made<br \/>\n          an allegation about there being no combat fire coming that day that<br \/>\n          is contradicted by the citation of his own Bronze Star. <\/p>\n<p>Now, you can then say, well, that was all made up and that Kerry lied<br \/>\n          and produced that, for which you provide no evidence. <\/p>\n<p>And we keep going in this endless cycle of, see, I put this out there,<br \/>\n          I made this accusation, I made this charge, but held to a higher standard,<br \/>\n          I&#8217;m not saying your&#8230; that this didn&#8217;t happen or that something did<br \/>\n          happen, I&#8217;m saying that you haven&#8217;t come within a country mile of meeting<br \/>\n          first-grade journalistic standards for accuracy. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jon Stewart skewers the whole thing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/mp\/play.php?reposid=\/multimedia\/tds\/headlines\/9016.html\">better than any mainstream reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times does its usual workman job on filling in the details.&nbsp; Also included is this very interesting graphic of the connections between the organization and the Bush world. &#8220;&gt; Tom Oliphant of the Boston Globe rails on John O&#8217;Neill on the News Hour: Again, the credibility problem, which is what keeps this thing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-oH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}