Swift Vets and POWs for Truth
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Oct 16, 2026
David McCuanGUEST
And you're going to see independent groups doing this.
David McCuanGUEST
You know, we had the swift vote of the Veterans for Truth ads in 2004 in August against John Kerry.
David McCuanGUEST
And those ads came in a time when traditionally political advertising didn't occur.
David McCuanGUEST
We had, you know, Reagan's classic Morning in America ads in 1984.
Dan TurrentineHOST
I mean, I almost fell out of my chair when I read that in the New York Times laughing because.
Dan TurrentineHOST
For the last 30 years, this has been true, right? I go back to John Kerry, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Chris Lasavita, who kind of made his name nationally at least, running ads saying that John Kerry, who literally served and got shot in Vietnam, was a phony compared to George W.
Dan TurrentineHOST
Bush, who flew, you know, Naval Reserve flights in Alabama.
Dan TurrentineHOST
Okay, but that's
Derek HunterHOST
Look, I remember 2004, Sam, when John Kerry ran for president and they brought out some people who'd served and they didn't give very specific stories or anything.
Derek HunterHOST
But then the other, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, some people who did serve with him were saying, you know, he's really inflating what he did.
Derek HunterHOST
blah, blah, blah.
Derek HunterHOST
And it was damning.
Lisa GravesHOST
Um, there was an adjacent group working, uh, closely with some of the key people over at Progress for America.
Lisa GravesHOST
That group you know, it's called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, um, attacking Kerry's military record.
Lisa GravesHOST
And George W. Bu- Bush won that election, um, in 2004, and what happened next was that at the end of that term, Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement.
Lisa GravesHOST
But what happened before then was that John Roberts was interviewing for that job that spring of 2005 while he was sitting on a case, uh, in which the George W. Bush administration was claiming that it could go around the Geneva Conventions and create tribunals outside of congressional authority to try people around, um, the wars in Afghanistan and, and Iraq.