Murtha “Swiftboated”?

There’s continuing arguments whether the new verb “swiftboating” means a baseless or a well-founded attack on a politician’s purported record. As used by the MSM, it usually infers any attack that liberals disagree with, regardless of facts.

The MSM may have to reconsider its use of the term after John Murtha’s latest use of the term to distract from his trail.

"I thought we were above this type of swift-boating attack," he said… "This is not how we restore integrity and civility to the United States Congress."

John Fund punctures Murtha’s pompous posture with facts as surely as John O’Neill did John Kerry’s. This time, however, with so many of Murtha’s Congressional colleagues being witness to Murtha’s self-awarded earmarks, the MSM must pay closer attention and investigate than their purposeful ignoring of Kerry’s lies when exposed by his fellow Swiftees.

Speaking of which, the embarrassment that is Murtha should end up as shuffled aside as Kerry was today, being booted from the Democrat’s Senate leadership photo. Kerry, however, all puns intended, was appointed to chair the Senate’s Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, fitting for someone who is such small business and whose bio epitomized entrepreneurial invention. By this portent, Murtha will end up heading some corruption committee, either before the House bar or behind real ones.