Posted by
JP on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:43:44 AM
by Steve
Finefrock - Hollywood Forum [scriptwriter]
Michael
Kinsley is wearing his intellectual short pants again, in his essay on
Swiftboating. Wishing upon wishes for a ‘clean’ campaign of purity, he
asserts, “Swift-boat is shorthand for the brilliant, despicable
Republican campaign strategy in 2004 that turned John Kerry's honorable
service in Vietnam into a negative factor in his campaign. The phrase
has become more broadly the term for a particular category of campaign
tactics and has even become a verb. To ‘swift-boat’ somebody is to use
these tactics against him or her.”
Kinsley is not stupid,
nor ignorant, but plainly very conveniently ‘forgetful’ of much history
in his lifetime, never mind that of the DNC and its minions earlier in
the century, before Kinsley’s mind was even a glimmer in his parents
youthful eyes. Swiftboating began in January of 1929, nine gestative
months before the Black Tuesday stockmarket crash foreshadowed the
Great Depression, and the swiftboating by historians and journalists of
Herbert Clark Hoover. [more]