Truth - Al Franken [128]
Cheney appeared on CNBC’s Capital Report on June 19, 2004.
President Bush “pirouetted” in a June 17, 2004, press availability.
The New York Times article discussing the President’s fumfering ran on April 15, 2004, and was titled “Bush Takes Strategic No-Remorse Stance.”
The transcripts of Republican National Convention speeches are available on-line at rncnyc2004.blogspot.com/2004/09/rnc-official-speeches-list-full-text.html.
The other TMT study I read, available at www.apa.org/divisions/div46/images/cohen.pdf, is properly cited as follows:
Cohen, Florette, et al. 2004. “Fatal Attraction: The effects of mortality salience on evaluations of charismatic, task-oriented, and relationship-oriented leaders.” Psychological Science (in press).
Chapter 4: How Bush Won: Smear
The Los Angeles Times debunked the false claims of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in an August 20, 2004, article titled “Kerry Starts Firing Back at Critics of War Record.”
The Washington Post’s “opus,” “Swift Boat Accounts Incomplete: Critics Fail to Disprove Kerry’s Version of Vietnam War Episode,” was published on August 22, 2004. Mike Medeiros’s comments came from this article.
The New York Times added some debunking and examined the close ties between the Swifties and the Bushies in an August 20, 2004, article titled “Friendly Fire: The Birth of an Attack on Kerry.”
Supporting documentation for Kerry’s Navy awards, in .pdf format, is available on-line at www.factcheck.org/article231.html. Here are the documents cited in the chapter:
The citation for John Kerry’s Silver Star, signed by U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Elmo Zumwalt
A supporting citation noting Kerry’s “extraordinary daring and personal courage,” signed by U.S. Navy Admiral John J. Hyland
George Elliott’s July 21, 2004, affidavit supporting the Swifties’ claims
George Elliott’s second affidavit, dated August 6, 2004, in which he retracts the retraction published in the Boston Globe
Michael Kranish’s profile of John Kerry, in which George Elliott stood behind John Kerry’s version of the “loincloth” story, was titled “Heroism, and Growing Concern About War,” and was published on June 16, 2003. Kranish’s report on Elliott’s retraction of the July 21 affidavit, “Veteran Retracts Criticism of Kerry,” was published on August 6, 2004.
Jim Rassman was Bill O’Reilly’s guest on the August 10, 2004, edition of The O’Reilly Factor.
William B. Rood’s firsthand account, “What I Saw That Day,” was published on August 22, 2004.
Andrew Morse summed up the results of Nightline’s investigation in an October 14, 2004, piece on ABCNews.com titled “What Happened in Kerry’s Vietnam Battles?”
Joshua Green’s article on Karl Rove, “Karl Rove in a Corner,” was published in the November 2004 issue of The Atlantic Monthly.
Chapter 5: A Brief Recuperative Debunk
Jonathan Chait’s article, “The Invention of Flip-Flop,” appeared in the October 18, 2004, issue of The New Republic.
Here are the sources for the debunking of Sean Hannity’s lie-tany on his March 25, 2004, show. They are all collected at The Al Franken Show’s website (shows.airamericaradio.com/alfrankenshow/node/1345):
Here’s a guy who supported gay marriage, now against it.
Kerry’s speech against the Defense of Marriage Act was delivered on September 10, 1996.
Here’s a guy that by my count has had six separate different unique positions on the war on Iraq.
The President’s interchange with a reporter took place during a September 19, 2002, news conference in the Oval Office.
Kerry’s speech on the Iraq resolution was delivered on October 9, 2002.
Kerry appeared on Face the Nation on September 14, 2003.
The San Francisco Chronicle debunked the lie thoroughly in a September 23, 2004, article titled “Flip-flopping Charge Unsupported by Facts.”