NYT: Swift Boat Vets Inspired Term for 'Smearing a Political Opponent

Clay Waters
July 16th, 2009 3:44 PM
In his Wednesday afternoon "Caucus" post on nytimes.com, "Conservative Ad Accuses Sotomayor of Supporting Terrorists," Times legal reporter Charlie Savage used a new anti-Sotomayor ad from the Committee for Justice to smear the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign against Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004. Taking advantage of the fact that the new ad was written by someone…