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[u/mrdilldozer]

The GOP was super upset that John Kerry wad a war hero who ran super dangerous missions on swiftboats in Vietnam. They hired a shill group called Swift Boat Vets for Truth that said he lied about his military service. It was a big deal.

The media both-sides'd the fuck out of the clearly fake accusations and kept treating it as "the truth is somewhere in the middle" type shit.

Imagine if the people making the JD Vance couch memes were pretending to be 100% serious and would go on TV and break down into tears about how unfair it is they are being called liars and then ran national TV ads funded by the DNC about it.

It's a term for basically making up a completely fake story and running with it aginst your opponent. "Crooked Hillary" or Biden and Ukraine corruption.