Unfit but you know it

Another reason I've not been posting as much as I would've liked to recently, is that most, if not the entire blog community (often and lamely referred to as the "blogosphere") has centered around the discussion of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and their claims about John Kerry. I've been waiting to post something until I came across a reasonably unbiased summary of the whole scandal, something that depended more on statements and quotes than polemic rhetoric. Some of you have expressed some regret at the perceived level of "Kerry-bashing" on this blog. A charge I would deny, but still take to heart.
However, the article points out, and I agree, that it was John Kerry, not the swiftvets, that interjected the issue of Vietnam into the campaign. I blog, you decide.

UPDATE: This, from an editorial in the Chicago Sun-Times:

A handful of other newspapers joined the Post in writing editorials or columns supporting Kerry. Still the New York Times maintained a dignified silence. Then Kerry delivered a major speech last Thursday denouncing the Bush campaign for secretly (and illegally) orchestrating the veterans' charges. At which point the Times reported the speech and its own analysis that not only supported the Kerry charge that Bush was orchestrating the swift boat veterans but that also sought to disprove their accusations. Here then were the denunciations of the "anti-Kerry lies" that would finally enable Times readers to get the news. At long last they could be told what 57 percent of Americans (according to a poll) had already learned from the Internet, talk radio, a handful of conservative papers and magazines, and other samizdat outlets.

The media is absolutely out of control in this election cycle, and it's only going to get worse.