Daily Howler today, Raspberries to Raspberry

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Yes, your mainstream press corps lacks the courage required of actual journalists. For example, how cowardly has the press corps been in the face of the past month’s Swift Boat attacks? At the Post, William Raspberry penned a “profile in cowardice” when he tackled the topic in yesterday’s column. Raspberry plans to vote for Kerry—it’s “anybody but Bush” for him. But after listing hackneyed complaints about the Dem hopeful—yes, he included the quote about the $87 billion!—Raspberry considered those Swift Boat attacks. And his knees went weak, like jelly:

RASPBERRY (8/30/04): And I don't know what to make of the controversy over his wartime heroism and the Swift boat incident, except to say that the details of his indisputably valiant war service more than 30 years ago shouldn’t be a matter of significance in this election.


Incredibly, that was Raspberry’s full discussion of “the Swift boat incident,” as he oddly put it. “I don’t know what to make of the controversy,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist said. He does believe that “the details of indisputably valiant war service...shouldn’t be a matter of significance in this election.” But in that passage, you get vintage Raspberry. Kerry’s service was “indisputably valiant,” he says. But wouldn’t you know it? Raspberry “doesn’t know what to make” of people who say that it wasn’t.

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