Liberal media, my ass (ver. 2.0)

Hey, you remember four years ago, you couldn't swing a cat in a room full of reporters* without hitting about a dozen who couldn't talk about anything else but "Swift Boat Veterans Against John Kerry?"

There's a group now called Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain (VVAJM). According to them, our pal Huggy Bear was responsible for a number of deaths of U.S. servicemen in Vietnam, and he sang like a canary to his captors, among other such distasteful charges.

Is it true? Does it matter? It didn't matter to the media and the wingnuts that the Swift Boat allegations were debunked over and over again in 2004, did it? Yet what do we hear from the mainstream corporate media about VVAJM?

Crickets. Or nearly so. Look -- I don't know if VVAJM is "smearing" Huggy Bear or not, and frankly, it's not relevant to my point. If it's true, then the media needs to be all over it. If it's not true, then how do the media justify not covering it in light of what they did to Kerry four years ago?

Some "liberal" media ...

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* And believe me, I wanted to ...