A group called the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is running an anti-Kerry commercial in battleground states. But Kerry and the Democratic National Committee are pulling out all the stops with intemperate threats of lawsuits against any of the TV stations that dares run the commercial. One wonders whether Kerry`s running mate John Edwards, that boyish multimillionaire former personal-injury attorney, had anything to do with this novel strategy of defeating the First Amendment?
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