swiftboat

To bravely expose the lies and manipulations of a powerful person seeking to achieve self promotion based on a falsified personal history and thereby prevent the success of his or her deception.

It took a lot of guts to go up against the lying billionaire, but they were able to swiftboat his dreams of taking over the country.

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swift boat

To thwart a conspiracy to deceive the public by getting the facts out on someone despite a concerted effort on the part of the media to ignore and/or actively discredit a politically inconvenient truth.

ABC's false stories were unable to prevent the veteran's group from being able to swift boat Kerry's Vietnam fantasy.

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swiftboated

To be outed a hypocritical liar.

Thank God Kerry was swiftboated before he got elected President.

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swiftboating

The act of exposing the exagerated or inflated claims of a person seeking to promote themselves into a position of authority.

He would have gotten away with his outrageous lies if not for the swiftboating he received at the hand of his classmates.

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