There have been plenty of stories about T. Boone Pickens’Â plan for American energy independence. Today brings another.
What I hadn’t realized is that Pickens, even with his new Democratic friends, still defends the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth attacks on John Kerry in the 2004 presidential campaign:
In November 2007, Pickens had offered $1 million to anyone who could dispute claims in the Swift Boat ads that said Kerry had exaggerated his military service. Kerry accepted the challenge.
Pickens required Kerry to provide his Vietnam journal, his military records and the movies he shot on patrol. Kerry didn’t supply the items, a Pickens spokesman says. Kerry spokeswoman Whitney Smith says the senator offered to meet with Pickens but didn’t get a response.
Then, in 2008, a group of veterans took up the challenge. So far, Pickens says, the veterans haven’t disproved the claims in the ads and he has yet to concede the $1 million.
No one has disproved the claims?
