Drowning Kitty

Remember a few weeks ago when John Kerry said the Swift Boat ads should be pulled from the air? Republicans all over cried fail and claimed Kerry was trying to suppress free speech. Well, check this out:

Anticipating a barrage of unflattering accusations and innuendo about President Bush's personal life in a soon-to-be-published book by the celebrity biographer Kitty Kelley, the Bush campaign has opened a wave of advance counterstrikes intended to undermine her credibility.

A representative of the White House recently called Neal Shapiro, president of NBC News, to discourage that network from broadcasting interviews with Ms. Kelley about the book on its "Today'' program and on its MSNBC cable program "Hardball With Chris Matthews,'' a network executive said.

Yup, that's Republicans trying to suppress free speech. Nice isn't it? I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning.

I can make no claims as to the veracity of Kitty Kelly's book. I haven't read it, nor do I intend to. And even if she is playing a little fast with the truth, well, it doesn't really differ that much from the discredited Swift Boaters, now does it?

I thought not.