This is just ridiculous.
"In many respects, the Gannon scandal followed a similar trajectory as the similarly unproven allegations of the swift boat veterans who claimed that John Kerry had lied about his military service: Newspapers could not verify any of the allegations except one that Kerry himself acknowledged. But the veterans' TV ads nonetheless commanded wide coverage as symbols of Kerry's weaknesses as a presidential candidate."
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Holy fuck. Not only could newspapers "not verify" any of the SBV charges against Kerry--members of Kerry's unit openly contradicted virtually everything the SBVs said.
On the other hand, not one person ever provided factual evidence of any sort to refute the Gannon claims. On the contrary, we were still on the trail when the whole thing was stonewalled into nonexistance by the White House.
It's precisely because rags like the Boston Globe jumped on the SBV bandwagon and completely ignored Gannon that the two storys' trajectories could not be more different.
Salon.com smackdown on the flip.
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