Tom Oliphant points out the history of lead “Swift Boat” smear merchant John O’Neill. Having been a witness to Nixon’s hiring and use of O’Neill in 1971 along with an abuse of the Navy itself to try to find smear material on young Kerry, Oliphant reminds us that Nixon failed. John Warner, now the Senator in charge of looking the other way on Abu Ghraib, was the Navy Secretary and cooperated with scouring Kerry’s records for anything bad and came up empty. Today’s Dallas Morning News front page has a story: The guy who paid for the attack ads, Bob Perry, who “has nothing to do” with the Bush campaign, will be hosting a massive fund raiser for Bush in New York next week. The guest of honor? George W. Bush.
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