Bill Boyarsky / TruthdigAug 25, 2012
If the election is tight, two Republican tactics -- one well known and the other just emerging from the political sewer -- could be enough to defeat President Barack Obama. If the election is tight, two Republican tactics—one well known and the other just emerging from the political sewer—could be enough to defeat President Barack Obama. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigAug 15, 2012
It's the biggest feather in the president's re-election cap: the confirmed killing of America's most wanted criminal. But a new group plans to air commercials diminishing the president's role in Osama bin Laden's assassination. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 3, 2009
The "Real Time" host battles the birthers, "the far-right goofballs who claim Obama wasn't really born in Hawaii and therefore the job of president goes to the runner-up, Miss California Carrie Prejean." [Video fixed] Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigOct 7, 2008
Jerome Corsi's scheduled visit to Kenya to promote his latest book, "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," was cut short after local authorities, who claimed that Corsi didn't have the right permit, arrested the author and sent him packing on a plane to Europe on Tuesday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Eugene Robinson / TruthdigAug 15, 2008
Here come the goons, right on schedule. The "author," and I use the term loosely, whose vicious lies damaged John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign has crawled back out from under his rock to spew vicious lies about Barack Obama. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 8, 2008
There are two major veterans groups trying to make a splash in this year's election, one conservative and the other broadly liberal. Both, says NPR's Peter Overby, will attempt to have an impact on the order of the 2004 efforts of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. It sounds like the anti-war group will have the edge this year. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Andy Borowitz / TruthdigApr 28, 2008
The Democratic race for president has descended to "a level of meanness and acrimony that is damaging to American politics," the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth said today. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Dennis Kucinich / TruthdigFeb 8, 2008
Rep. Dennis Kucinich is back in Cleveland and fighting for his political survival as his longtime corporate opponents finance a Swift-boat-style media onslaught to take over his congressional seat. Here he fires back and makes his case for why Cleveland, and the country, needs his voice in Congress now more than ever. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Joe Conason / TruthdigJan 10, 2008
Conspirators with a "Swift boat" style are looking at the Illinois senator and sharpening their knives. One of their delicious subjects of attention is the candidate's provocative spiritual adviser. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 22, 2007
It may be a few years too late, but Sen. John Kerry is going after the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, taking SBVT sympathizer T. Boone Pickens' offer to pay $1 million to anyone who could disprove the group's claims. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 19, 2007
Conservative columnist Robert Novak initiated a scuffle between the Clinton and Obama campaigns over the weekend by reporting that "agents" of Hillary Clinton claimed to possess "scandalous" information about Barack Obama. Obama promptly accused the Clinton campaign of trying to "Swift-boat" him and demanded that the front-runner come clean. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Marie Cocco / TruthdigApr 10, 2007
How much damage can an ambassador to Belgium do? Probably not as much as an ardent antagonist of Social Security might unleash in a top policymaking position at the agency that millions of Americans depend on. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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