NBC: White House Now Accusing Bergdahl’s Squad of ‘Swift-Boating’ Him

Chuck Todd: White House Aides Accuse Vets of 'Swift-Boating Bergdahl' (Breitbart)

On Wednesday's "Today Show," NBC's senior White House correspondent Chuck Todd reported that "a few [White House] aides describe it to me as ‘we didn’t know that they were going to Swift Boat Bergdahl.’"

In a later tweet, Todd didn't dispute that the White House used the derogatory term "swift boat" to "describe Bergdahl's platoon reaction."

With Democrats, the term "swift boat" or "swift boating" is used as a pejorative to attack political opponents as liars. Democrats want the public to believe that John Kerry was "swift boated" unfairly during his 2004 presidential run when a number of the men he served with in Vietnam came forward to claim that Kerry had wildly exaggerated his war exploits.

They called themselves "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth," hence the term "swift boating."