That's the only word I have for this piece from the AP. It's a compilation of all of the Dem talking points in a single article. As someone at Free Republic said, they're not even attempting to pretend to be objective any more. There's an amusing howler in the first graf:

John Kerry's Vietnam War service records run to multiple medal commendations and a notation of "conspicuous gallantry" in combat. President Bush's file tracks the stateside career of a National Guard test pilot. Yet the combat veteran is the one under attack as a wartime pretender in the race for the White House.

The National Guard has test pilots? And George Bush was one of them? Who knew?

Apparently not David Espo.

Of course, if he was smart enough to know the difference, he'd also know that a test pilot has a much lower life expectancy than a Swift Boat commander in the post-Tet-offensive Mekong Delta of late 1968, after much of the Viet Cong had been wiped out.

The last line in the paragraph somehow reminds me of Monty Burns grumbling after he loses the race for governor: "Ironic, isn't it Smithers? This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election. And yet, if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail! That's democracy for you."

Read the whole thing, and be amazed.

This evenings CBS news program was quoting the NY Times extensively about the swifts. All that high paid talent and they can't write their own story? Or is it part of the vast left wing conspiracy?....mmmmmm....could be. I find it indefensible that the media isn't asking for more clarification about Xmas eve in Cambodia or the anti-war testimony before Congress. How hard is to ask, "Senator Kerry, did you lie twice about Vietnam?" I would LOVE to ask that question on anybodys front porch.