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Political perils abound in online rumor hothouse
April 30, 2011
an outside group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.'' You've got to be very aggressive, and very quickly shut things down,'' she says. ...

FEC Fines Group Allied With Democrats
February 03, 2012
They include groups on both sides of the election, including the anti-Kerry Swift Boat Veterans and POWs for Truth as well as the liberal MoveOn.org. Lawyers for these groups...

Bush Bypasses Senate to Name Ambassador
January 25, 2011
Democrats had denounced Fox for his 2004 donation to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The group's TV ads, which claimed that Sen. John Kerry exaggerated his military record...

Iowa group becoming a conservative power
May 17, 2010
Among those working for the group include media strategist Larry McCarthy, who produced the Willie Horton commercials in 1988, and Ben Ginsberg, who was involved with Swift Boat Veterans ...

Bill would allow states to veto offshore drilling
May 11, 2010
Pickens, a well-known Texas oilman, paid millions in support of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group that attacked Kerry's Vietnam War record in the 2004 presidential...

Outside Groups Spending Millions on Ads
February 04, 2012
who helped finance the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that attacked Sen. John Kerry's Vietnam record during the 2004 presidential race. Progress for America is credited with...

Wis. Democrats still searching for Walker opponent
January 16, 2012
He received $250,000 alone from Bob Perry, the Texas conservative who was one of the main financial backers behind the Swift Boat Veterans ads that attacked Sen. John Kerry...

Kerry, Pickens: Odd couple of climate legislation
May 19, 2010
Six years ago, oilman T. Boone Pickens paid millions to support TV ads run by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group that attacked Democrat John Kerry's Vietnam War record in...

Wikipedia

Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, formerly known as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT), was a political group of United States Swift boat veterans and former prisoners of war of the Vietnam War, formed during the 2004 presidential election campaign for the purpose of opposing John Kerry's candidacy for the presidency. The campaign inspired the widely-used political pejorative "swiftboating. " The group disbanded and ceased operations on May 31, 2008.

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