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So they received about $200,000 dollars from Republican Bob J. Perry a few weeks after forming a 527 with the explicit mission to reveal John Kerry's lies about Viet Nam and his service? Well, isn't that shocking? Did anyone labor under the impression that the Swiftvets would get their money from billionaire George Soros? Oh, wait, sorry ... Soros' money is tied up in activist groups like Americans Coming Together and MoveOn.org dedicated to unseating George Bush -- to the tune of at least 25 times that amount.

I assume the big expose' of MoveOn as a dirty-tricks front for the Democrats will be forthcoming from the New York Times. I'll start looking tomorrow.

Unfortunately, half of the article is dedicated to the list of influential people SBVT founder John O'Neill knows through his law practice in Houston the way the Old Testament documents its geneology: O'Neill represented Falcon Seaboard, and so he knows David Dewhurst, who was (cue heavy music) "a central player" in the Texas redistricting plan. O'Neill's practice also brought him into relationships with Perry and Harlan Crow, who donated money to his cause. And because Perry was active in Texas politics, you know who he knows? Karl Rove, the eeeeeevil genius behind eeeeeevil Republicanism.

If you can sit through this litany of begats and connected-tos that lead to no conclusion whatsoever, the Times then begins to use memes that had been discarded before they wrote the article to cast doubt on the Swiftvets' credibility -- amazingly, without bothering to provide any resources to actually investigating their claims:

I see you "conveniently" overlooked this paragraph buried near the end of the 74 paragraph article:

This week, as its leaders spoke with reporters, they have focused primarily on the one allegation in the book that Mr. Kerry's campaign has not been able to put to rest: that he was not in Cambodia on Christmas Eve in 1968, as he declared in a statement to the Senate in 1986. Even Mr. Brinkley, who has emerged as a defender of Mr. Kerry, said in an interview that it was unlikely that Mr. Kerry's Swift boat ventured into Cambodia on Christmas or Christmas Eve, though he said he believed that Mr. Kerry was probably there shortly afterward.

Look at it this way - some 254 men have put their names on these allegations. If they're lying, they can be sued for liable, by a guy married to a presumed billionare with more resources than all of them put together. Kerry could sue them all into bankrupsy if they're lying.