CATCH OF THE DAY
While filling in for the vacationing Kevin Drum, Amy Sullivan points us to this:
Is That The Same Ben Ginsberg?….Hmm. The front-page story everywhere today is that a top lawyer for the Bush/Cheney campaign has, at the same time, been advising the infamous 527 Swift Boat Vets group. The lawyer at the center [...]

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INSIGHT
If you don’t read Digby every single day, you’re missing a lot.
I would just add that I think the “Kerry waitied too long” CW that’s forming is a media driven excuse that lets them off the hook. They know that they are responsible for allowing these assholes to be taken seriously at all and instead [...]

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FIGHTING BACK
I really do hate these campaign shitstorms. But you do have to fight back:
A group of Democratic loyalists is compiling incriminating dossiers on the members of the veteran group - and they sent us a preview of what might be in store for Swift Boat activist James Zumwalt, son of illustrious Adm. Elmo Zumwalt [...]

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HIS AIM IS TRUE
Happy birthday, Elvis! (Costello, that is.)

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HISTORY LESSON
Read what started this whole thing, and then ask yourself who’s lying. John Kerry is the target of such vitriol because he had the audacity to publicize what was going on in Vietnam.
He has nothing to apologize for. Nothing.

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LIE, LIE, LIE…
Okay, I swear to God, this is the last one…
Merrie Spaeth, the Swift Liars PR person, was just on Scarborough, insisting she’d never had anything whatsoever to do with the group that similarly attacked John McCain. None, nada.
“Never? Nothing to do with them, not even for one day?” Scarborough prodded.
She denied it again.
From [...]

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DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU MEAN BY ‘TRUTH’
John O’Neill, Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth: “I have never been in Cambodia.” (This was to prove John Kerry lied about being there.) UPDATE: Atrios has more here.
Played tonight on CNN (UPDATE: here’s the link), a tape of Richard Nixon talking to O’Neill:
O’Neill: I was in Cambodia Sir, [...]

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TERRORISM?
Looks like those two planes that crashed in Russia were likely the result of terrorist attacks.

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HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED
For those of you who can’t stay up late, here’s the transcript of Kerry’s appearance on today’s Daily Show:
JOHN KERRY: Sure I’m surprised. But surprised in a sense. But now that I begin to see the web and the network, I’m not surprised. I think— you know, it’s politics. And for whatever reasons, [...]

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Two of the most important things you need to know about dating. Taken near Princeton this morning. 

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DRIP DRIP DRIP
Come on, tell me you’re surprised:
WASHINGTON (AP) - A lawyer for President Bush’s re-election campaign disclosed Tuesday that he has been providing legal advice for a veterans group that is challenging Democratic Sen. John Kerry’s account of his Vietnam War service.
Benjamin Ginsberg’s acknowledgment marks the second time in days that an individual associated [...]

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LIAR
I ran it before, but now that the media is actually paying attention, perhaps they’re interested in this video of a drunken Bush at the wedding of a friend’s son. In 1992, after he “stopped drinking.”

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YOUR LYING EYES
See, if you read this, you might think that I wasn’t… telling the truth. But at that time, see, it was the truth. It was a long time ago and they’ve changed a lot of things since then. So back then, I was telling the truth.
So we’re clear on that now. So you [...]

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JUST LIKE THE “REAL” NEWS
Don’t forget John meets Jon on tonight’s Daily Show:
Earlier, before being clawed by Kerry’s reps, we spoke to “Daily Show” executive producer Ben Karlin, a charming man who did not take offense at our questions and who promised that the Comedy Central program would try especially hard to resemble an actual [...]

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CONTEMPT ORDER LIFTED
Matt Cooper of Time magazine will now give a statement to Plame prosecutors because Scooter Libby has waived confidentiality.
Ribit… ribit…

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GOOD DAY FOR FISHING
You know, I really didn’t want to print one more thing about the SWVT. I really didn’t. But this is too good to pass up:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ — Earlier today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) with the White House [...]

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WHY DO THESE THINGS KEEP HAPPENING TO HIM?
It’s yet another one of those coincidences that seem to hound Fearless Leader. Via Josh Marshall:
If President Bush really wants to tell the Swift Boat group’s funder, Bob Perry, that he doesn’t like the ads he’s paying for, maybe he can bring it up at the fundraiser Perry [...]

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NO CONNECTION
“Did I mention I’ve been saved, and I’m therefore incapable of lying?”
The president spoke on a day when Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, in another indication of its web of ties to the Republican Party, acknowledged that a woman who helped set it up and works for it is an officer of the Majority [...]

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SPEAKING OF HEROISM
But as long as we’re on the subject, this is in today’s USAToday:
WASHINGTON — At a time when Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has come under fire from a group of retired naval officers who say he lied about his combat record in Vietnam, questions about President Bush’s 1968-73 stint in the Texas [...]

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RAMBO PATRIOTISM
Krugman:
How have they been able to get away with it? The answer is that we have been living in what Roger Ebert calls “an age of Rambo patriotism.” As the carnage and moral ambiguities of Vietnam faded from memory, many started to believe in the comforting clichés of action movies, in which the tough-talking [...]

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WHY DO THEY HATE AMERICAN VALUES?
You mean they lied?
Phil Butler, who spent eight years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, took issue with second ad by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which suggested that Kerry’s antiwar protests caused the POWs to be treated badly. “I lived with two of the POWs who are now [...]

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HEY NOW
The latest Plame rumors, courtesy of Kos:
I’ve received some unsubstantiated rumors that Fitzgerald’s office is nearing the end of its investigation, and that it will issue three indictments including Scooter Libby. According to these rumors, John Hannah, a Libby deputy, has been “turned” by the investigators and is singing like a canary. Hannah has [...]

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GOP ATTACK DOG
Anyone else just see “Crossfire” with Rep. Curt Weldon and Rep. Chaka Fattah? Curt is the guy I used to cover when I was a reporter, and if anything, he’s gotten worse. He’s quite enamored of his own voice - he loves to yell and throw his arms around, and I can tell [...]

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HYPOCRITES
Oh, boo fucking hoo. Do you believe the arrogance of these people?
Letter from Bush Campaign to TV Station Managers(Editor’s note: What follows is a letter to television station managers from from the Bush-Cheney campaign, asking stations to “set the record straight” on Sen. John Kerry’s new advertisement accusing the Bush campaign of illegally coordinating with [...]

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YEE HAW
John Kerry is Jon Stewart’s guest tomorrow night. Now, you just know Stewart isn’t going to go easy on the GOP attacking Kerry’s war record. Can’t wait to see!

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FAKE RIBBONS?
Looks like Bushie’s got a little ’splaining to do. From DU via Kos:
The Texas State Guard Service Medal, shall be awarded to a person completing three consecutive years of honorable service in the Texas State Guard during which the person has shown fidelity to duty, efficient service, and great loyalty to the state.
According to [...]

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91,000
You see? This is why I keep saying the polls are wrong. You don’t see this kind of energy to preserve the status quo:
Nearly 91,000 Coloradans registered to vote in recent months, a stunning surge brought on by a divisive presidential race and wild U.S. Senate battle.
While Democrats signed up the most new voters, [...]

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GOP AMNESIA
Yeah, what Duncan said.

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HA HA
Pretty funny - and true:
So, you’ve decided you want to become a libertarian? Intrigued by Nozick and Rand? Want to join the Cato Institute?
Libertarianism is the hottest philosophy on the internet! Many famous people are libertarians, including John Stossel and Dave Barry. It seems like everyone is becoming a libertarian, and now you [...]

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ALL HAIL THE CORPORATE STATE
So. Are you losing your overtime today?

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