Reply #6: Agreed. Even when we were urging Kerry respond to the SwiftVet smears...

[deckerd]

We never wanted Kerry HIMSELF to respond. We wanted his surrogates to respond, forcefully.

This is a different situation. SwiftVets would have needed no response
had the media not picked up and ran with it, over and over.

A direct preemptive, or in-kind response to the Sinclair broadcast would lend credence
to a smear attack that HAS NOT AIRED YET.

Forget about Sinclair. It's Kerry's job to preempt this in a different fashion: by arranging for "Going Up River" to be broadcast on a COMPETING NETWORK -- A DAY OR TWO IN ADVANCE OF SINCLAIR.

Using the same methods Sinclair and Rove are using to get this smear broadcast. What's good for the goose is good for the gander -- everyone knows that.