If you cared more about honesty and less about sensationalism you would put a caveat to your original piece. The rest of the article is pretty good if it were not for the unfortunate sensationalist use of “swift boated” in a liberal defined context. If by example, you don’t caveat the term “McCarthyism” then people will naturally conclude that you are talking about the inaccurate liberal context of the term.

If you lead off with sensationalism and then try to redefine it later as process, well… people can see right through that. Again… the rest of the piece is a good read.

If you are a vet and supported the swift boat movement, then you would know that it was far more than simply an “effort to achieve a goal through visible and clandestine means.” Way to try to dilute what these honorable men did by going public to justify you riding on the back of poor insinuations with the comparison – good job. I guess the medal of honor winner swiftboat vet who came forward should be ashamed of himself by operating in clandestine manner – ridiculous. What those men did was honorable and patriotic; what Sowell and Craig James did slimy of the first order. Nonetheless, if you had put your weak attempt at defining what the swift boat movement as just a process as a caveat in your “swift boat-style campaign” comparison, it wouldn’t have come off as putting slimballs in direct correlation to an honorable campaign to correct perceptions – not make perceptions.

You can call me an idiot every day if that makes you feel good but I stand my original comments as well.