Even sports writers know you cant trust a swift boater...

I was just reading up on the local team, the Seattle Sonics, who have been boughten by some people from Okalahoma City who are widely believed to be planning to swipe the team to their city next year. Hear's what a local sports writer said:

"Our friends from Oklahoma claim to be hurt by the cynical reaction to their insistence that they will fight tooth-and-nail to keep the franchise where it has been for the past 40 years. It's inconceivable, however, that they didn't thoroughly investigate the political climate in Seattle before handing over $350 million for the franchise.

(And let's not allow the crocodile tears they've mustered about the media questioning their integrity impress us too much. They know realpolitik. After all, one of Bennett's partners is Aubrey McClendon, who gave $250,000 to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group that ran a since-discredited smear campaign against Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's war record. Republican Sen. John McCain called that effort "dishonest and dishonorable.")" from: Sonics aren't long for KeyArena by Ted Miller.

Maybe people watching Fox News will believe any old piece of propaganda being put out by the right wing propoganda machine, but this kind of bs is not going to fly in the sports world where corporate welfare is just another name for team owners extorting their cities for public tax contributions to corporate bottom lines...

Interesting how lying and stretching the truth in one place makes you less trustworthy in another scenario.