Hyperbole, Fiction and the Left, Part V
Posted by McQ - Q&O blog
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In my seemingly never ending series about the left's propensity for hyperbole and fiction, I enter into evidence today's Ron Brownstein column in the LA Times.
Speaking of the Swift Boat Vets ad about John Kerry, his hyperbole entry is:
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In his venom, though, Moore has been trumped by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group of Vietnam veterans with strong Republican ties. Last week, the group aired an ad in three battleground states that was to traditional political discussion what a snuff film was to a conventional horror movie.
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The ad <font color=blue>"was to traditional political discussion what a snuff film was to a conventional horror movie"<font color=black>? Are you kidding me? Is that over the top or what?
If you haven't seen the ad, check it out here.
The fiction? The strong Repbulican ties. One of the guys who put up about 20% of the money raised to get the Swift Boat Vet's site up is a Republican donor. <font color=red>However, John O'Neill, the impetus behind the SBVT's site claims he most likely would have voted for Edwards had he been the nominee. He has stated numerous times categorically that he has had no contact with the Bush administration, Bush reelection campaign or the RNC.
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But that's not Brownstein's only entry into the hyperbole and fiction category.
He then throws this out there for your consideration:
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In the ad, several veterans, none of whom served with Kerry on the two Navy boats he commanded in Vietnam, accuse him of lying about his combat record. The ad is stunning less for its accusations — it charges that Kerry lied to win his medals in Vietnam — than for the venom with which Kerry's accusers deliver their claims. It creates the unmistakable impression that if these men had the authority to order a firing squad for Kerry, they would.
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Again, I'm going to use an analogy which is quite true in this regard, but one which Brownstein and the rest of the left just cannot seem to grasp (mostly because few if any have ever been in the military). To pretend that those who weren't on the same boat as Kerry (but were on other boats in the same events) didn't observe and/or participate in the events is tantamount to saying because a wing man wasn't in the same aircraft as a fighter pilot, he can't have observed/participated in the dog fight.
Its stupid, its nonsense and the fact it has any legs at
all just shows you the shallow an understanding the media
has of how the military works.
Oh, the hyperbole? Per Brownstein, the ad <font color=blue>"creates the unmistakable impression that if these men had the authority to order a firing squad for Kerry, they would."<font color=black>
Good lord.
The irony?
Brownstein's piece is entitled: <font color=blue>"America Needs an Antidote to the Election's Partisan Venom"<font color=black>.
Really?
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"Physician, heal thyself"!<font color=black>
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