Matt Drudge (no blue siren):
The Kerry campaign calls on a publisher to ‘withdraw book’ written by group of veterans, claiming veterans are lying about Kerry’s service in Vietnam and operating as a front organization for Bush. Kerry campaign has told Salon.com that the publisher of UNFIT FOR COMMAND is ‘retailing a hoax’… ‘No publisher should want to be selling books with proven falsehoods in them,’ Kerry campaign spokesman Chad Clanton tells the online mag… Developing…
Presuming this is true, does the Kerry camp really think this is a smart approach?
And will they be issuing a call for a recall of Tour of Duty?
UPDATE: Yes, I know this isn’t technically “censorship,” since the government isn’t doing it. But “book banning” didn’t fit the virtual alliteration I was going for.
UPDATE (1716): Drudge has a new variant–with a blue siren!–saying KERRY FILES FEC COMPLAINT OVER SWIFT BOAT ADS. No link as yet, althought a presumably related blurb says, “Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry’s campaign formally alleged Friday that a group attacking his Vietnam war record had illegal ties to US President George W. Bush’s reelection bid…”
To coin a phrase: Bring it on.
