Oh wow, Kerry is fighting back against the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth

Here's an interesting article from the NYT about John Kerry's belated efforts to rebut criticism raised by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth during the 2004 presidential campaign.

If you know anything about the overall accusations of the Swifties, the purported body-blows of the Kerry effort are incredibly underwhelming. Kerry was SHOWN to be a pompous blowhard for his incessant allusions to his own valor, whether or not the couple of minor facts now being challenged are ever disproven. Besides, Kerry's PAST military experience was, if anything, a mere attempt to mask his PRESENT pacifistic tendencies. The Swifties didn't--as Kerry claims, spend $30 million to spread lies. They spent a couple hundred thousand to get the message out, and the story had legs of its own. But you have got to hand it to the NYT for so artfully doing its part to rehabilitate the war hero.