Looking around for some way to staunch the political hemorrhage caused by the ransoming of alleged deserter Bowe Bergdahl by releasing five Taliban chieftains, the White House is doing what it does when under threat. It is identifying an enemy and setting about to destroy them. We’ve seen this before with the attacks on “the 1%” and the demonization of private citizens like the Koch brothers. The newest target for the White House are the members of Bowe Bergdahl’s platoon who have spoken out about the facts and circumstances of Bergdahl’s alleged desertion to the Taliban.

White House aides are accusing soldiers who served with Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl are “swift boating” him following his release over the weekend after five years in captivity.

NBC News’ Chuck Todd reported Monday that the White House did not expect this sort of vitriolic backlash exchanging five high-level Taliban members held at Guantanamo Bay for Bergdahl, who left his Army post in 2009 in Afghanistan and was subsequently taken captive.

“They did not expect this backlash on Bergdahl himself,” Todd reported on NBC’s “Today.” I’ve had a few aides describe it to me as we didn’t know that they were going to ‘swift boat’ Bergdahl. And that’s a reference to that political fight back in 2004 over John Kerry’s military service.”

For those who were around in 2004, you know that “swift boating” is short hand for revealing the truth about an inflated military resume. It is a bad thing if the target is a liberal or Democrat but a manifestly good thing, called “fact checking” if the target is a conservative or Republican.

We can look forward over the next few weeks to the men who have spoken up about Bergdahl’s actions being publicly excoriated, their tax returns will be released to the public, their medical records and confidential personnel files will arrive on the desks of friendly reporters, they will be accused of war crimes. All of this in the service of saving Barack Obama from yet another self inflicted humiliation.

http://www.redstate.com/2014/06/04/white...-swift-boating/

Anybody see that blonde chick with the state department become unglued with the reporter yesterday?

Talk about having a tin political ear...

"A former chairman of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth defended Army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl’s fellow soldiers from a White House charge that they are unfairly “swiftboating” the former Taliban captive by coming forward to criticize him. Bergdahl’s questionable conduct, he suggests, is analogous to that of Secretary of State John Kerry, whom the group famously opposed in the 2004 presidential election.

“Those guys had friends who died in Afghanistan like we had friends who died in Vietnam, and to allow this kind of thing to occur really does tarnish the whole memory of all those people who gave their lives,” former co-chairman John O’Neill told National Review Online. “To allow a guy like this to be posed as a hero, like Kerry self-posing as a hero, is really an affront to everybody who died there, and that’s why those guys in his platoon have come forward and that’s why we came forward 40 years ago and ten years ago.”...

O’Neill said that it’s “crazy” to suggest that the “leave no man behind” principle justifies President Obama in exchanging five Taliban leaders for Bergdahl.

“Were we supposed to go to England to rescue Benedict Arnold?” he asked, referring to the Revolutionary War traitor. “All I can think is that the government must believe people are incredibly stupid in order to say something like that. They haven’t fooled the military at all – they’re outraged by it.”"

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/37...rry-joel-gehrke

From the same piece: "“Now that Sergeant Bergdahl is back and under our control, first and foremost we must ensure his health is taken care of and he is properly reintegrated,” Army chief of staff Raymond Odierno said Wednesday. “At the appropriate time, we will conduct a thorough, transparent, and complete review of the circumstances surrounding his capture.”

Transparent? Anyone besides me think that is total bs?

If you ever wonder how we got where we are, consider the word "Swiftboating". That word originally described the process by which men who served with John-Claude 'Lurch' Kerry made their countrymen aware of what a fraudulent 'war hero' that POS was. Within 10 years, the Left has turned it into a verb meaning to unjustifiably and maliciously lie about somebody. They realized early on that he who controls the language controls the agenda. thjey never forgot that. We never learned it.

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If you ever wonder how we got where we are, consider the word "Swiftboating". That word originally described the process by which men who served with John-Claude 'Lurch' Kerry made their countrymen aware of what a fraudulent 'war hero' that POS was. Within 10 years, the Left has turned it into a verb meaning to unjustifiably and maliciously lie about somebody. They realized early on that he who controls the language controls the agenda. thjey never forgot that. We never learned it.

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