Sunday, August 22, 2004
Swift boat smear: The usual faith-based intelligence and winger projection
Um, if "intelligence" is the word that I want... As opposed to "ratfucking." Anyhow:
So here's the state of play so far.
Because Odell wasn't wounded, Kerry's a liar. But Odell wasn't on the same boat. His claim that he's an "eyewitness" is worthless, he has no documents, and he's clearly an assert of the permanent Republican campaign. Why on earth are these guys getting coverage? Oh, it's FUX. I thought it was on the news.
Remember when the Republicans used to "the party of ideas"? What a sad decline.
It's a classic case of winger projection, isn't it? Over and over again, Republicans push their own guilt onto others. (See Hyde, Henry, youthful indiscretions of, Gingrich, Newt, divorces, several, Limbaugh, "Rush," illegal drug purchases of, Bennett, Bill, gambling habit of... And other examples too numerous to list here.)
The essential point: Be prepared for more and worse. That's how winger projection operates, as we saw in the VRWC's operation against Clinton.
The projection is especially obvious in this case, given that Bush is, at a minimum guilty of payroll fraud (back) during his own "service." It's entirely natural and expected, therefore, that when Bush encounters an actual hero, he copes by trying the destroy the hero's reputation. This must be an especially conflicted and painful situation for Him, given that His own father was not only a genuine war hero, but the pilot that Bush Himself so signally failed to be. And given that Bush has surrounded himself with a cadre of enablers who will do anything to reinforce his self-image, we can only expect the smears to get worse and worse. We're dealing with a terrified, vicious, cornered rat. Be prepared.
I'd love to see Kerry do a "Checkers Speech in Reverse" on this one... When the smears get just a little too obvioius.... As they will.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A veteran who has disputed Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's Vietnam war record admitted on Sunday he did not have "a single document" to prove Kerry fabricated reports of enemy fire that won him two medals.
Van Odell, a member of the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that has spearheaded a campaign against Kerry's service record, said his was one of seven eye witness accounts and he was not being directed by the campaign of President Bush.
"Our message is our message and no one tells us what to say," Odell told "Fox News Sunday."
Odell said he had met with Republican strategist Merrie Spaeth, a public relations consultant to his group, and once bought a home from Bob Perry, a large Republican donor from Texas and close associate of Karl Rove, the president's chief political adviser.
He acknowledged he had no proof of his charge that then Navy Lt. Kerry, a Swift boat commander, fabricated the "after-action" report saying he faced enemy fire on March 13, 1969, for which he was awarded the Bronze Star and his third Purple Heart for being wounded while pulling a fellow soldier to safety.
"I do not have a single document," Odell said. "I have the fact that I wasn't wounded in that 5,000 meters of fire that he wrote about."
(via Reuters)
So here's the state of play so far.
Because Odell wasn't wounded, Kerry's a liar. But Odell wasn't on the same boat. His claim that he's an "eyewitness" is worthless, he has no documents, and he's clearly an assert of the permanent Republican campaign. Why on earth are these guys getting coverage? Oh, it's FUX. I thought it was on the news.
Remember when the Republicans used to "the party of ideas"? What a sad decline.
It's a classic case of winger projection, isn't it? Over and over again, Republicans push their own guilt onto others. (See Hyde, Henry, youthful indiscretions of, Gingrich, Newt, divorces, several, Limbaugh, "Rush," illegal drug purchases of, Bennett, Bill, gambling habit of... And other examples too numerous to list here.)
The essential point: Be prepared for more and worse. That's how winger projection operates, as we saw in the VRWC's operation against Clinton.
The projection is especially obvious in this case, given that Bush is, at a minimum guilty of payroll fraud (back) during his own "service." It's entirely natural and expected, therefore, that when Bush encounters an actual hero, he copes by trying the destroy the hero's reputation. This must be an especially conflicted and painful situation for Him, given that His own father was not only a genuine war hero, but the pilot that Bush Himself so signally failed to be. And given that Bush has surrounded himself with a cadre of enablers who will do anything to reinforce his self-image, we can only expect the smears to get worse and worse. We're dealing with a terrified, vicious, cornered rat. Be prepared.
I'd love to see Kerry do a "Checkers Speech in Reverse" on this one... When the smears get just a little too obvioius.... As they will.
