The American Spectator

p> INDEPENDENTS’ DAY br> Re: George Neumayr’s Gag Orders : /p> p>Thank God for the Swift Boat ads. Without this 527 we would have to rely on both political parties and the media for information on the events surrounding John Kerry. Bush and Kerry of course would not have brought it up. That would leave us with the media. Most of the media on this subject has followed the lead of the NYT and Washington Post . These two papers in turn have followed the lead of the latest Democratic talking points memo. These past few days we find that multiple eyewitness accounts of Kerry’s actions in Vietnam aren’t credible according to the media’s high journalistic standards. Yet Democratic accusations that Bush is behind the Swift Boat ads are taken as fact because a donor to his campaign has also donated to that 527. It truly is a scary thought to think that soon most political dialogue might very well be left to the media and both major political parties. br> — Sean Conness br> The Colony, Texas /p>