Thank you, Charlie: The Truth Inside Romney's Swift Boat Moment

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(this is not about Gingrich claiming to be swift boated, but a differently erroneous use of the term)

I happen to really enjoy the writings of Charlie Pierce. (THAT Charlie Pierce, for NPR fans.) This is a short piece but I love the emphatic statement.

The Truth Inside Romney's Swift Boat Moment
By Charles P. Pierce
at 4:14PM

DES MOINES — Over on Liberal MSNBC, I just heard Mark Murray, who is a deputy political director at NBC News, chatting with Martin Bashir over the possible political effectiveness of using what happened to an Indiana company when it fell under the gentle ministrations of Willard Romney and his pals at Bain Capital. (In 1994, Ted Kennedy made a dog's breakfast out of Willard in their Senate race by bringing some laid-off employees of the company to Massachusetts. ...

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This went along swimmingly until Bashir and Murray compared the use of the displaced workers against Romney to the Swift Boat campaign against John Kerry in 2004.

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The Swift Boat campaign was completely a lie.

Bain Capital did gain control of that factory in Indiana. The company did lay these people off.

Nothing the Swifties said about John Kerry was true.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/mitt-romney-bain-capital-indiana-factory-6631529

Please go give Charlie some love in the comments section, if you feel so inclined.

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1. "dog's breakfast"

. Here is to more of the same.

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2. I love Charlie Pierce.

Thanks for calling this to our attention. If memory serves, he wrote a long, insightful piece on Sen. Kerry in the Boston Globe magazine some years ago.. at some point, will try to find it .

Also good to know about this blog of his. . his weekly gig seems to have disappeared from the Boston Globe magazine, and I'd been missing his wry commentary.

Yup, completely a lie. Thanks, Charlie, for telling it like it is.

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4. Yeah, he moved from Globe to Esquire recently.

I'd love to see that other piece you mentioned.