Lapdogs: How the Media Delivered the Election by Aiding the Swifties

Good Dogs, Bad Dogs, Lapdogs: How the Media Delivered the Election to Bush by Aiding and Abetting the “Swifities”

May 4th, 2006 @ 9:59 pm

There’s good dogs and there’s bad dogs, big dogs and small dogs. Small dogs are commonly referred to as Lapdogs, they are usually cute and furry and cuddly. But now we have a new breed of Lapdogs… the kind that roll over for Bush and his cabal.

They are not cute and furry, and by no means cuddly, their bark and their bite have caused a lot of damage to America in recent years. Why? Because they became “spooked by allegations of liberal bias” and proceeded to be “afraid of the facts and the consequences of reporting them” during the Bush administration years.

Ron posted earlier today that the Washington Post “reports that George Bush may have Fox News to thank for the 2000 election.” That story in the WaPo is a prime example of what Eric Boehlert’s new book “Lapdogs” is all about. Salon has a 5 page excerpt from “Lapdogs” here.



The HuffPo has a piece on “Lapdogs” as well today, that exposes the truth about the “Swift Boat Hoax” in no uncertain terms.



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I’m not sure if I want to laugh or cry that someone has taken the pains to lay out in print all of the rotten things the MSM has done over the years to the American people. I do know however, that I plan on reading “Lapdogs,” and for what it’s worth, I hope to hell that American’s start waking up and the MSM stops rolling over for this lying bunch of crooks in the White House.

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I’ve never been a fan of those little cuddly, furry lapdogs — they yap too much, just like the lying media shills do.

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Knowing the truth and seeing it in print is worse than I imagined. After watchting the Donnie Deutsch interview with Kerry, I couldn't help but think that if he had gone after them with more money, the media whore would have just turned up the volume. They wanted Bush period.

I knew I saw a lot of them, but this is sobering. You're likely right. Kerry's money would likely have been wasted - either because the media would have increased their free assistance to the SBVT or his ads would in the lazy end of summer have justed added to the drone about his record.

I thought I knew how bad the media was and it seems that it was the tip of the iceberg.

This sounds really good. The charge that Kerry didn't respond, or inadequately responded to the SBVT has always ignored that the media complicity was significantly beyond anything that ever happened before. Kerry had the official records and virtually all of the people actually there backing him up - the charges and the ads should have been rejected. (Beyond that, Kerry had Nixon administration people a few years after the events conceding that he was a very clean war hero.)

He sounded very angry, but in control on the small excerpt I saw with him denying it. The only thing he didn't do was respond in an out of control emotional way - like McCain did - which caused his candidacy to immediately implode. That worked well.

I ususally like lapdogs, except when they have accidents in the house. This is what a lapdog should look like, not like Tweety. (This is Punky, in the role of Anna Karenina)

As soon as he found out that one of the doctors claiming to have treated kerry for his wounds NEVER TREATED HIM, Tweety went after them w no mercy. He was like a dog with a bone when he would interview them. He slapped down Michele Malkin for pulling a "some people say Kerry deliberately wounded himself." Tweety did not let swifties get away w their lies.

ON EDIT -- Cute dog!!!

I oddly picked one of the few (non Keith) fair cable people on this.

He really is a cute dog and good tempured enough for my daughter to get (after 27 shots she didn't aprove of) this picture.

I'm glad the info made it into book form, because it gives it more legitimacy than only a magazine article or webpage. We need a definitive source--both in case JK runs again, and for the benefit of any other Dem who gets swift-boated in the future. I hope this is the one!

a few days ago. I was thinking how wrong it was that the burden of proof of Kerry's service record was placed on the accused (JK) rather than the accusers (SBLs). The media was totally complicit in the smearing of a good man who had served his country honorably. There is no way in hell JK could have ever answered all of the false accusations leveled at him, even if he spent everyday on the campaign trail doing so. This is something I wish the lefty-freepers and others on the left who complain about JK's reaction (or perceived lack of reaction) would understand.

This book sounds like it will be worth reading. Has anyone see "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism"? It explores the same "lapdog media" theme, not only in relation to the '04 campaign, but also in regard to the media's treatment of Democrats in general. Check it out if you've not yet seen it.

Asking them how they would answer their boss if asked to defend a grade on their transcript questioned by some guy who said they went to school with them. It was the closest analogy I could think of.

The entire thing made no sense:
-Kerry had the official record, the navy gave him medals - he didn't steal them.
-The Nixon administation checked them out in 1971- when they were about 2 years old

And the Bushies whined that Rather didn't check out his story. It seems unfair that Kerry risked his life for his country and this was how he was treated.

with you at all, or just went to the same school another time and never knew you but claimed they did.

but for many, you wonder if they ever really thought about what it would have taken. (For example, one person read the article after Kerry released his records - and angrily said that these would have made a huge difference. That they were all (except one page Kerry didn't have - which was good, just like everything else) on his web site seemed lost him.

Thanks for the gift suggestion.
:-)