OMG, struck a nerve!

[ProSense]

James Boyce
07.13.2006
How Much Is That Admiral In The Window?

Dave Johnson from Seeing the Forest is working on a terrific piece for The Patriot Project scheduled for release early next week called "The Swift Boats Are Back In The Water." detailing how the highly-paid Republican political consultants, media strategists and communication experts who concocted the Swift Boat attacks in 2004 are getting ready to launch a mammoth pile of slime against the remarkable collection of veterans running for Congress this fall, outstanding men and women like Jim Webb, Joe Sestak and Tammy Duckworth.

In the course of his research, Dave uncovered a remarkable, public, on-the-record payment showing how alive and well and profitable lying about former military colleagues can be.

This past February 6, 2006, the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth made a $100,000 payment to Admiral Roy Hoffman one of the key defamers of John Kerry. This was on top of a $10,000 payment made in 2005, another $100,000 payment to the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation, and the Swift Boaters also paid for $137,087 for meeting expenses at Walt Disney Resort in Florida. Who knew that former admirals loved Magic Mountain so much?

With money like this being paid to anyone who is willing to follow orders and lie on cue, is it any wonder that this past May another Admiral who was involved in the Swift Boat lies, Admiral Bud Schachte of Charleston, South Carolina, a man who claimed he was dragged into the Swift Boat mess against his wishes, came out and did a newspaper article ready to "re-engage John Kerry" in the Swift Boat debate.

After all, with his fellow Admiral clearing a solid six figures a year on top of his Naval pension, Bud Schachte certainly wasn't going to let opportunity, or should I say $100,000, pass him by.

Note: Look for Dave Johnson's full piece on Monday at http://www.patriotproject.com.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-boyce/how-much-is-that-admiral-_b_24967.html

Wingnut reaction:

July 15, 2006

Kerry Group’s “actionable libel”?

A very experienced attorney with deep knowledge of the details tells me that the defend John Kerry organization, Patriot Project, may be approaching “actionable libel” by implying Admiral Roy Hoffman and possibly Admiral Bud Schacte of $100,000 payoffs from the Swiftees for their speaking out against John Kerry’s exaggerations and fabrications of his Vietnam service.

James Boyce writes at the Huffington Post, “How Much Is That Admiral In The Window?”

Snip...

I spoke with John O’Neill of the Switees this morning. O’Neill calls the charge a “complete makeup.” Response is to be expected from the Swiftees.

http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/002656.html

[fedupinBushcountry]

1. Did you see this garbage piece

at CNN by Tyrrell, where does this douchebag get off as a journalist.

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/1-0&fd=R&url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/29/tyrrell.kerry/&cid=0&ei=LOe3RKf1HMPkwgHBl_jMBA

Kerry's war

Thursday, June 29, 2006; Posted: 11:42 a.m. EDT (15:42 GMT)


WASHINGTON (CREATORS) -- The comic career of Senator Jean-Francois Kerry is picking up steam, or gas, as the case may be. This inveterate windbag is, according to the New York Times, reopening the Swift Boat controversy of 2004 that did such damage to his presidential prospects when hundreds of the Vietnam War veterans who served with him deflated his reckless boasts of military gloire. He has undertaken this quixotic mission claiming that he can repristinate his military record despite the Swifties' evidence against it. Then the delusory senator from Massachusetts seems to think he will be a shoo-in for the presidency in 2008.

more bs at link

[ray of light]

2. he's not a journalist. He's simply an op-ed. But CNN pretends he's

a journalist.

[globalvillage]

4. You mean resume-padding fake-pulitzer-nominee

Emmett Tyrrell?
He's been exposed as a liar.

I can't wait to see the piece on the Liars' payoffs tomorrow. I had wondered how much it took to get these assholes to do what they did. I guess 100K is the going rate if you're looking to sell your soul.

[ProSense]

5. A few weeks ago

some of us wrote to the Patriot Project about the piece. I'm glad to see them moving forward to expose these paid liars! Scum!

[ray of light]

3. great find! They are so corrupt even their own bot's don't get it.

It's like the saying, "You can't WRITE scripts like this because people wouldn't believe you..."

Ok..well, I probably messed up the saying. I always do!

[ProSense]

6. Story

here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2728357&mesg_id=2728357

[karynnj]

7. Thank you for posting this - the Patriot project is fantastic

Exposing this should help both Kerry and future Democrats. (Seeing that the media has called this a group of Kerry friends - maybe someone should call LW and RW liars on their lie that Kerry had no friends - these seem to be an extremely loyal, talented and persistent group of friends - who clearly believe in Kerry.

[ProSense]

8. You're welcome!

I was eager to see it after Boyce's heads up. The article blew me away. The author did an excellent job.