Cybercast News Service: Swiftboating Repeats Itself

I've done a bit of research and the term "swiftboating" is exactly appropriate for the smear article on John Murtha released by the "news" organization Cybercast News Service.

The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth parallels are very very close.  Cybercast News Service also claims to have run what might have been the first Swift Vets story on John Kerry: Kerry 'Unfit to be Commander-in-Chief,' Say Former Military Colleagues (May 3, 2004)

More after the jump..

Cybercast News Service is owned by the Media Research Center.  

Here's a page of kudos to the Media Research Center from Rush Limbaugh, Bob Novak, Brit Hume, Don Feder, Edward Capano, Rich Lowry, Fred Barnes, John Fund, Newt Gingrich, Steve Forbes, William Bennett, Robert Bork, Jerry Falwell, Lucianne Goldberg, Phyllis Schafly, John McLaughlin, and others.  Do they all get "news" from Cybercast News Service?

Here's a piece I found on the celebration thrown by the Swift Vets at the National Press Club after Kerry's defeat:

The Gadflyer: Not So Slim Pickens

There was a lot of patting oneself on the back yesterday at the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's celebration of their role in propagandizing a war hero into a liar and a war-mongering liar into a second-term president. Among the honorees at the event were the "news" organizations who helped spread the propaganda last summer, honored for their role in turning the activities of a group of well-funded, mean-spirited propagandists into the news of the day, while the news media ignored the real story of trumped-up claims about WMD.

Among the honorees at the National Press Club event was NewsMax editor Christopher Ruddy, according to Newsmax's own coverage of the affair. Brent Bozell's Cybercast News Service (CNS), which also "reported" on the event, boasted that it was the "first news organization to report that Kerry's Swift Boat veterans were organizing to oppose Kerry's candidacy in May 2004," as if it had been doing the work of real reporters -- hunting down stories -- rather than being a mouthpiece for the propagandist radical right.

I looked under the hood of the site - at the source code - and found the following commented out:

This may be used without permission
// --Michael Quinn Sullivan

Michael Quinn Sullivan profile at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

The site GOPUSA.com picks them up as if they're a legitimate wire service, so just like Talon News, content is proliferating this way:
http://www.gopusa.com/...

Finally, here's sourcewatch.com on Cybercast News Service -
http://www.sourcewatch.org/... which is worth reading for the section CNS claims proof Hussein had WMD and ties to Al Qaeda, which shows the original piece on CNS News and the links as this piece gets picked up on National Review Online, Insight magazine, the New York Sun, NewsMax, and WorldNet Daily among others.

One might watch these same outlets to see if they'll be picking up this piece of "news" on John Murtha.