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Wednesday, July 27, 2005

The swiftboating of Paul Hackett continues
Posted by Jill | 3:54 PM

Eric Minamyer was just the beginning. Swing State Project gives us the birdseye lowdown on the kind of coordinated effort is underway in Ohio to smear Paul Hackett's military service:

A local conservaitve radio host started by questioning Paul Hackett's service to country. Scott Sloan of WLW 700 AM in Cincinnati went off on some insane rant about the real level Paul's patriotism regarding the war in Iraq and claimed Hackett was using his service for "political purposes."

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A few days ago, an Army Private First Class was burried in Fairfield, Ohio. Within 24 hours, a number of flags were burned and tossed into a pile infront of his mother and father-in law's home. As you can imagine, this incident has led to a lot of press and sadness for the family.

The same host above, Scott Sloan, attempted to tie Paul Hackett to the flag burning incident. He said that it was people like Paul Hackett that allow things like this to happen.

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Last night, a number of people in the district began receiving robo-calls talking shit (for lack of a better word) about Paul Hackett. Of course, they hit on the standard themes, choice, equal rights, and yes, Iraq.


You know, it's OK to attack Hackett on the issues. It's OK to question his inexperience. But this kind of smear on his military record is just unconscionable.

Every time I hear of a Swiftboating of this guy, I'm going to kick in another $20. Who's with me?.
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