The Kerry campaign i…
The Kerry campaign is admitting that it was caught flat-footed.

“We did not calibrate the degree to which [the ads by “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” would become the entire focus of August, and really the entire focus of cable television and then jump into print,” said Mary Beth Cahill, Kerry’s campaign manager.

Well of course they couldn’t predict it, because they didn’t expect their syncophants in the mainstream media to get outflanked. They’d been so reliable in the past, you can’t really blame them for expecting the story to stay buried.

In actuality, it wasn’t cable TV that made the first end-run; it was the blogosphere’s scoop for 10 days before Fox picked it up. The political campaign situation has changed (hopefully permanently) with the addition of this army of pundits, and no story can stay buried for long. The mainstream media is going to have to adapt or die.

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