Wussup Andrew?

Andrew Sullivan appears to have completely bought in to the mainstream media’s Bush-orchestrated “smear” theory of the swift boats controversy. Does he seriously believe that 254 naval officers and enlisted men, admirals and medal of honor winners, are uncredible Republican operatives? Bush didn’t make Vietnam the central issue of the Kerry campaign. Kerry did that. The swifties are, and have been, understandably angry about John Kerry’s 1971 characterization of them as war criminals. They would be doing this regardless of John Kerry’s opponent. Several of their allegations, most notably concerning the Christmas in Cambodia fantasy, have been proven correct. Most of the rest of their allegations are unproven, one way or another. They have every right in the world to express their opinions, and they have the credentials to be taken seriously. The unsupported ad hominem attacks against them and the unquestioning acceptance of Kerry’s unsubstantiated charge of illegal RNC coordination have become the mantra of the mainstream media. That someone like Sullivan, with his fearlessly independent analytical mind, would so casually join in the chant, is astounding to me.