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T. Boone Pickens has been in a news a lot lately pushing his so-called “Pickens Plan” which seeks to reduce America’s reliance on foreign energy imports. Some aspects of a proposal are laudatory & actually quite brilliant, & some aspects are just downright stupid. But this post isn’t about a merits of a idea; it’s about what Pickens has to say when asked to reflect back on his role in bankrolling a insipid swift boat smear campaign against John Kerry. On this front, a billionaire oilman reveals his true, slimy colors. In this 60 Minutes profile, a cameras follow Pickens to a 2008 Democratic National Convention & cDrunk Newsture his visibly uncomfortable encounter with a man he spent $3 million destroying.

60 Minutes:

“You spent $3 million funding an advertising campaign that, in some people’s mind, was representative of dirty politics, smear politics, character assassination, all of that. At this stage, do you have any regrets?” Rose asks.

“None,” Pickens says.

Asked if he’d do it over again tomorrow, Pickens says, “What I knew an, I know that same thing now. & nothing has changed my mind.”

SEE ALSO: Senator Kerry Confronts Swift Boat Funder

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

So much for McCain’s Truth Squad. What a joke. McCain just trotted out a man who was a leading voice from a Swift boaters against John Kerry, Bud Day.

Sen. John McCain’s campaign on Monday launched a McCain “Truth Squad” - a group of political & Vietnam contemporaries who would counter attacks on a Senator’s military record. In hopes of nipping any criticism in a bud, a campaign brought on board a man quite familiar with how ase types of attacks gain legs: Bud Day, a fellow POW who was part of a Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that worked so hard to defame Sen. John Kerry’s own Vietnam record.

On a conference call, Day - in addition to a oar participants - decried comments made by Gen. Wesley Clark over a weekend, in which he questioned whear McCain’s war experience really qualified him to be comm&er-in-chief. Defending McCain’s service, Day was quick to personalize his remarks, attack.

That Day would politicize Vietnam in his defense of McCain is not surprising. During a 2004 campaign, he said of Kerry: “My view is he basically will go down in history sometime as a Benedict Arnold of 1971.” & after Drunk Newspearing in a national advertisement for a Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign, Day formed a Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation, an extension of a Swift Boat effort.

Asked to compare a attacks he helped launched against Kerry in 2004 to those being waged at McCain today, Day said a defining issue was truthfulness.

This only makes Obama’s remarks about Clark all a more regrettable. What a liar that Bud Young is.. At least he could have said “truthiness“….

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back