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To Set the Record Straight: How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs and the New Media Defeated John Kerry - Softcover
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Sen. John Kerry's 2004 presidential bid became the catalyst for an unprecedented political movement by Vietnam veterans who had long resented his false 1971 testimony that U.S. troops were routinely committing war crimes.
Despite the best efforts of the Democratic Party and its media affiliates, they succeeded in reaching out to the public and turning the presidential campaign upside down.
Here, for the first time, is the complete story of how - and why - they did it.
Foreword by John E. O'Neill, lead spokesman for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
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During the Vietnam War, the original television networks and the leading liberal newspapers were near the peak of their formidable persuasive powers, able to dominate public opinion to an extent difficult to imagine today. In an age without cable news networks, popular conservative radio shows or the Internet, they were the only game in town. What these organizations chose to cover became news, and what they ignored did not. They used that power to instill Kerry's false portrait of American veterans as misfits, drug addicts and baby killers into the popular culture.
When John Kerry made his service in Vietnam the cornerstone of his presidential campaign in 2004, the wounds he had inflicted on millions of Vietnam veterans were re-opened. Many veterans decided they could no longer be silent while a man who had repeated the propaganda of America's enemies rose to the position of Commander-in-Chief.
Kerry and his advisors believed that their old media allies would suppress any challenge to their version of what Kerry had done during his time in Vietnam and in the antiwar movement. It didn't work out that way.
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- PublisherNew American Media Pub Llc
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0979984106
- ISBN 13 9780979984105
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages389
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To Set The Record Straight: How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs and the New Media Defeated John Kerry
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New American Media Pub Llc, 2008
ISBN 10: 0979984106
ISBN 13: 9780979984105
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