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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." --C.S. Lewis

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:: Friday, August 20, 2004 ::

Swiftboat Update

I'm still way out in the middle of Kansas but thought I'd drop in to see what's happening in the blogosphere--looks like Kerry-Swiftboat is still the hot topic.

Here's the latest: Drudge was claiming Kerry's Lawyers were attempting to get some kind of cease-and-desist order on the publisher of Unfit for Command but the headline has now completely vanished (Hindrocket saw it too). I've seen this happen a couple of times on Drudge--maybe he's fact-checking the story or somebody fed him some garbage; in any case, the headline is no longer on his page. Of course, Instapundit is jam-packed as is Hugh Hewitt who looks at how Kerry's polling among vetrans. Roger Simon's is also posting on Kerry's Great Vietnam Adventure and has the interesting observation:

"the Blair Affair was about some extreme neurotic making up stories in a newspaper and getting away with it. Pathetic, but oddly excusable if you think about the nightmare of trying to get a giant paper to bed every night. The partisan obscurantist reaction to the Kerry/Swift Boat affair is completely different because it is deliberate. The mask is off the "impartiality" of the mainstream media as never before. The meetings in the editorial rooms of NYT, WaPo and LAT are not hard to imagine, the coded discussions. A war is on, ladies and gentlemen, and as with most semi-normal people involved in a war, I don't feel particularly comfortable in it - and not, obviously in this case, because I might get shot. I have friends and colleagues at those institutions. I wish them to remain so. But that cannot stop me from telling the truth. They are wrong. Their avoidance of this story was unconscionable. Their treatment of it now... as if the messenger were more important than the message... is worse.

If it turns out the Swift Boat Veterans were right in many of their accusations... and there probably will be more, stronger ones, to come... and Kerry does get elected anyway because the truth was blunted... that same truth will come out eventually and we all (on every side of the tetrahedon-like political spectrum)will pay for it.

The obscurantist mask may be off MSM in the blogosphere but millions still rely on the talking heads for their news. I hadn't watched ratherbrokawjennings for awhile but tuned in last night in my hotel room just for laughs--the contrast between the two media (internet and television)is stark. I figure the vast majority of people are still entirely uniformed.

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