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Cash crunch.

“I deserved the ding.”

Setting the record straight.

Fake and litigious: The $70 million suit.

Patterico calls out ABC News.

Here’s our second Hot Air video report from CPAC–An interview with Newt Gingrich during his visit to bloggers’ row.
Topics covered: illegal and legal immigration, the Diversity Visa Lottery (he’d kill it), Visa Express and Saudi visas, the matricula consular card (he said he doesn’t know about it), the war, and defeating Hillary Clinton. My [...]

Good for Tim Russert, who just grilled John Kerry on Meet the Press about lingering questions raised by the Swift Boat Vets for Truth.
First, Russert asked Kerry about the impact the Swift Vets had on the campaign. Kerry said he “should have responded faster and more forcefully” and blamed his inability to combat “the new [...]

The rest of the story: Steve Gardner, the “10th brother” in John Kerry’s “Band of Brothers” who refused to stand with Kerry at the Democratic Convention, fell on hard times after the election. The Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty has now stepped forward to offer Gardner legal and financial help. The center is run [...]

OUTRAGEOUS.
Don Imus takes aim at the war veterans who made an incredible impact on this election, despite the ULM’s (unhinged liberal media’s) worst efforts to stifle their voices. Freepers are reporting on Imus’ rant here. Check back. I’ll try and have more after get off my column deadline at 10am-ish.

“…the scariest proposition that I can think of at this point in time is John Kerry being President of these here United States.”
- Swift Boat Vet Steve Gardner, in an interview with blogger Dean Esmay
Read the whole interview, one of a series Esmay conducted with the Swift Boat Vets, here.

Something unbelievable just went down on MSNBC’s Scarborough Country. Lawrence O’Donnell screamed at John O’Neill for two segments as substitute host Pat Buchanan hopelessly tried to moderate. O’Donnell interrupted O’Neill every few seconds, repeatedly called the Vietnam veteran a “liar” and a “creep,” and sneered, scowled, and shouted at the top of his lungs about [...]

Maj. Bud Day (Bert V. Goulait, Washington Times)
The Washington Times and RedState have previews of the latest devastating ads from the Swift Boat Vets, which will feature 90 veterans who oppose John Kerry, including Medal of Honor recipient Bud Day.
I wonder if Newsweek writer Susannah Meadows will smear these noble war heroes as “curdled [...]

In case you missed it, the New York Times Book Review finally got around to slamming Unfit for Command.
Two quick comments–one about the reviewer and one about the book review section:
1) The reviewer is Susannah Meadows, who is covering the Kerry campaign for Newsweek. In the second paragraph of her screed against the Swift Boat [...]

Interesting article in the Los Angeles Times about John O’Neill, co-author of Unfit for Command. Although many of John Kerry’s defenders say the Swift Boat veterans are basically undercover Bush operatives, the Times reports that:
* O’Neill voted for Al Gore in 2000;
* he has described President Bush to several friends as an “empty suit;”
* [...]

Belmont Club has a trenchant analysis of the battle underlying the “Kerry vs Swiftvets bout.” The veterans’ story is not only a threat to the Kerry campaign, but also to the control freaks in the mainstream media. Excerpt:
The power of the Mainstream Media lay in the fact that they controlled the generation of news objects; [...]

The blogosphere has been teeming with great stuff on the Swift Boat Veterans, Kerry’s Vietnam War record, and related matters. A few that stand out:
Captain’s Quarters. Ed Morrissey raised questions about Kerry’s first Purple Heart claims and the Washington Times editorial board picked up on the angle, asking “Was Kerry in combat on Dec. [...]