National Public Radio’s Rachel Treisman followed MSNBC and CNN in equating Trump running mate Sen. J.D. Vance’s claim, that Kamala Harris’s running mate Gov. Tim Walz was guilty of “stolen valor,” to the 2004 controversy over the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. That group credibly attacked the brief Vietnam War record of Sen. John Kerry when he ran against George W. Bush for president in 2004.
The headline to Treisman’s written report gives the game away: Vance’s attacks on Walz’s service mirror ‘swift boating’ of 2004.”
You may recall how the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were tarred by the press for questioning the Vietnam medals and wartime recollections of Sen. John Kerry. Kerry tried to exploit his Vietnam service during his campaign against Bush (whose own military record in the Texas National Guard became a liberal obsession, which…
