The Nation has a great article that attacks the false equivilence of the attacks on

[karynnj]

5. I get what he is saying, while adamantly disagreeing

He seems to be speaking of the style of the SBVT attacks - and I do remember the parodies of swiftboating - like Hamsters for truth and a Comedy Central that used the same tone to question Kerry's having saved the life of a chocking Republican.

However, I would suggest the better comparison might be not to the SBVT that started with complete lies, but with Michael Moore. In common with him is all he said in the first paragraph of what was said being true. But, like Moore, it is cherry picked and dots are drawn sometimes a bit too freely.

The big difference is that the Kerry smears were both more personal and completely not true. Not to mention, there is the wholeissue that this is the way these people repaid a brave young man, who had a wonderful family, fiancee and friends and more connections than can be imagined, but who still risked his life rather than having "other priorities".

The "bitch slap" nonsense really shows that he didn't get it and partly saw it as a game.