NEW YORK — President Bush may just have gotten a multimillion-dollar campaign contribution from an unlikely source — the news media. A new report has found that the anti-Kerry Swift Boat ad campaign ...
Three watchdog groups filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday, charging that Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is violating campaign finance laws with its ads attacking ...
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. OHIO — In 2004, it was the Swift Boat ads. Today in Ohio, we’ve seen the Swift Beard ads. During the 2004 ...
The Trump campaign’s attacks on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s military record are channeling the “swift boating” campaign 20 years ago against John Kerry, which accused the 2004 Democratic presidential ...
WASHINGTON – Senator Kerry took of the gloves yesterday, directly criticizing President Bush for attacking his military record in Vietnam through a surrogate group that has questioned the ...
In helping to create a series of ads attacking the Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry’s military record, he added a new term to the political lexicon. By Ed Shanahan How does the most ...
The tactic credited with unraveling John Kerry's presidential campaign is being re-tooled for President Obama. On Tuesday night, Veterans for a Strong America, a political action group led by Joel ...
Although they have been largely discredited by several national news organizations, the recent attacks on Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry by the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have ...
NEW YORK -- -- Former congressman Vin Weber (R-Minn.) said the Swift boat controversy has had a lasting effect on the presidential campaign and will continue to dog Democratic candidate John F. Kerry.
CRAWFORD, Tex., Aug. 21 -- The Bush campaign said late Saturday that it dismissed an adviser on veterans issues after learning that he is part of an independent group that has been running anti-Kerry ...
LaCivita played a key role in the political advocacy group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which ran the TV ad campaign questioning Kerry’s military service. It’s a playbook that the Trump campaign ...