Web Letters: Return of the Swift Boaters

By Christopher Hayes

January 2, 2008

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  • It is high time all responsible and fair-minded Americans stand up and torpedo the Swift-Boaters and sink their rotten cake of used soap vessels of lies, deceit and fascist-Nazi, Nazi-facist propaganda! Let these hypocritical creeps sink to the bottom of the ocean and drown like the despicable sewer rats they are. Bravo to The Nation and Christopher Hayes for pointing out these miscreants and the underhanded, cowardly, back-stabbing evil they do to America and true Americans!

    Raymond Funamoto

    Honolulu, HI

    01/06/2008 @ 9:42pm


  • Why is this article not in the magazine? An expanded version of this article should be the cover story for the January 28 issue. Christopher Hayes is an amazing journalist.

    Regis L. Roberts

    San Antonio, TX

    01/04/2008 @ 6:09pm


  • Say what you will about the Swift Boaters, but what sank John F. Kerry's PT-108.9 was that deer-in-the-headlamps glazed look that stared back from the windsurfing photos and the hunting garb and every over-calculated, nuanced response to simple questions. What sank John Kerry were the professional Democratic hacks that propelled the not-quite-ready candidate past the others more qualified to run.

    Jim Altman

    Stanley, WI

    01/04/2008 @ 12:10am


  • I always thought that the "penchant for ruthlessly (and effectively) smearing any and all political opponents" was called "borking."

    W.D. Wagner

    St. Francisville, LA

    01/02/2008 @ 5:54pm


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