The new attack ad, highlighs the testimony Kerry gave in 1971 - making it seem, of course, as if Kerry is condemning the troops rather than the officers in charge.
Tavis Smiley gave the reporters a chance to refute the ad on NPR this morning.
The ad has Kerry accusing US troops of very specific atrocities: cutting of heads, raping, etc. I want to see if the TV media bring on the Pultizer winning writers of the Toledo Blade (2003 award) - who helped expose the actual atrocities carried on for a 7 month period by the Tiger Force in Vietnam. Their atrocities were documented in classified papers revealed by a military officer who could not let these horrors go by. And, of course, there was My Lai.
My rhetorical question: Will the media bring on these reporters, or Tiger Force members, or Vietnam survivers, on every network as they did O'Neill, the star player the Swift Boat crap ads. I think we know.
The networks are playing dirtier than the politicians and the Bushites. That's a far more dangerous game than sleazy politics.
I posted this earlier in the week. For those who missed it..please see how the mud is being slung by the corporate media...and making it possible for Bush to gain points from the lies. The ads work.
But we can fight back....
WALLOWING in the MEDIA MUDFEST:
http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/media_mudfest.html