{"id":13545,"date":"2007-11-10T09:30:37","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T14:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/13545.html"},"modified":"2007-11-10T09:30:37","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T14:30:37","slug":"kerry-1-limbaugh-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/kerry-1-limbaugh-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry 1, Limbaugh 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more common criticisms of John Kerry&#8217;s 2004 presidential campaign is that he was too slow to smack down right-wing smears, and when he did, his responses weren&#8217;t hard-hitting enough. I think it&#8217;s safe to say Kerry can no longer be accused of timidity.<\/p>\n<p>Consider yesterday, for example. Rush Limbaugh <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200711090008?f=h_latest\">defended the Swiftboat liars<\/a>, insisting that their bogus smear withstood scrutiny.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the November 7 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio program, Rush Limbaugh claimed that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth &#8220;were right on the money, and nobody has disproven anything they claimed in any of their ads, statements, written commentaries, or anything of the sort.&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In fact, most of the allegations the Swift Boat Veterans made about Kerry&#8217;s Vietnam War service have been thoroughly discredited, often by official military records, but also by the Swift Boat accusers themselves, who struggled to <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200408130010\">keep their stories straight<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Media Matters does a nice job detailing some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200711090008?f=h_latest\">painfully obvious lies<\/a> the hatchet men told, and the multiple instances in which their lies were &#8220;disproven,&#8221; but for <em>real<\/em> entertainment, consider the official response from John Kerry&#8217;s Senate office.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kerry spokesman David Wade issued the following statement today in response to Rush Limbaugh, who said on his radio show that Kerry&#8217;s Swift Boat attackers in 2004, &#8220;were right on the money and nobody has disproven anything they claimed in any of their ads, statements, written commentaries, or anything of the sort.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At first I thought, that&#8217;s not Rush, that&#8217;s just the OxyContin talking. Nonetheless, this is a despicable but unsurprising new lie from a man whose closest brush with combat came when customs officials tried to take away his Viagra.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Damn<\/i>. Note to Dems: The more you respond to right-wing smear with statements like these, the less you&#8217;ll be smeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more common criticisms of John Kerry&#8217;s 2004 presidential campaign is that he was too slow to smack down right-wing smears, and when he did, his responses weren&#8217;t hard-hitting enough. I think it&#8217;s safe to say Kerry can no longer be accused of timidity. Consider yesterday, for example. Rush Limbaugh defended the Swiftboat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}