Those indefatigable gadflies of the right-wing-dominated U.S. media are carping big time about the Swift Boat ads still being allowed to run. 'Stop running these ads' is pretty much the argument. It's their prerogative to protest, but you get the sense that maybe these guys have lost perspective.

Specifically, instead of all the whining and breathless revealing of new indignities, why not just sue the bastards?

Urge John Kerry to sue the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

If their book, Unfit for Command, is full of lies, Kerry should be able to get an injunction against the publisher and the authors and get it pulled from the shelves, and if the television ads are lies he should be able to raise quite a stink about it and get them pulled, and eventually hit those Swift Boat liars where it really hurts.

Save your energy on this useless complaining, Media Matters. It makes you seem petty and inconsequential - because everyone knows that if there are solid grounds for your complaints, the issue will be dealt with in a courtroom, not through a flurry of shrill, impotent protestations.

John Kerry should, by your account, have abundant grounds to take this complaint to the courts, and since so much is at stake we have to think he would do so - assuming the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are not telling the truth.