{"id":1093,"date":"2004-08-20T05:25:49","date_gmt":"2004-08-20T09:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/friendly_fire\/"},"modified":"2004-08-20T05:25:49","modified_gmt":"2004-08-20T09:25:49","slug":"friendly_fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/08\/friendly_fire\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Friendly Fire&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lest there was any doubt, <a title=\"Friendly Fire: The Birth of an Anti-Kerry Ad\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/20\/politics\/campaign\/20swift.html?ex=1250654400&#038;en=8afa4fded4046b86&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">this <i>NY Times<\/i> piece<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/graphics7.nytimes.com\/images\/2004\/08\/19\/politics\/campaign\/20040820swift_graph.gif\">accompanying graph<\/a> details how angry Vietnam veterans and Texas Republicans united to form the so-called &#8220;Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.&#8221;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure if it was a coincidence or not that Kerry finally came out swinging against Bush and the group yesterday.  Perhaps he got tipped off that this type of disclosure was in the works.  These revelations, coupled with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliverwillis.com\/node\/view\/329\">Michelle Malkin&#8217;s meltdown<\/a> after accusing Kerry of shooting himself, should be a real credibility hit for the &#8220;Swift Boat Veterans.&#8221;  It will be interesting to see if the TV news continues to play up their claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/08\/friendly_fire\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to &#8220;Friendly Fire&#8221;\"><p>Lest there was any doubt, this NY Times piece and accompanying graph details how angry Vietnam veterans and Texas Republicans united to form the so-called &#8220;Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure if it was a coincidence or not that Kerry finally came out swinging against Bush and the group yesterday. Perhaps he got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}