Check out this article from "Newsday" in which Kerry campaign mucky-muck admits underestimating the impact the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" ads would have:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-bush-kerry-managers,0,7580888.story?coll=
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Pay particularly close attention to her surprise that the cable news stations "amplified" the initial allegations, even though those allegations were disproven.
Where the fuck has this woman been for the past several years if she was not able to anticipate the way the corporate media would cover these allegations?
This, to me, is just exhibit number 3478 demonstrating how, at its highest levels, the people who run the Democratic Party inhabit rarified bubbles that put them out of touch with reality and make them lacking in any real common sense.