Today’s video on Dubya’s site is disgusting beyond words. In the video, snippets of speeches by Al Gore, Michael Moore, and John Kerry are compared to Hitler. As much as I’d like to invoke Godwin’s Law and make the sumbitch go 'way, it’s not going to happen.
It takes a lot for me to comment on something I see on a political website, particularly the opposition’s. However, I got so angry at Bush/Cheney that I felt compelled to do so. What follows is the message I sent to the Bush/Cheney campaign:
That message says what I want to say, so I’ll leave it at that.
Say, anyone remember a few months ago, when Moveon.org had an open contest for best political ad, and a few of the rejected ads compared Bush to Hitler? Remember how a lot of people, mostly on the right, got really pissed about it?
Why do I bring this up? No particular reason. Just musing.
As much as I hate to say this, I think that that’s not what the ad is saying. It looks as if they took an earlier ad by “moveon.org” that equated the Bush administration with Hitler & the Third Reich, and used that as an example of the “hysterical democratic party.” In other words, it’s accusing John Kerry of saying that Bush=Hitler.
The editing in the ad is ludicrously inept, so I had the same interpretation of it that the OP did, at first. But now, I think the worst it’s guilty of is lumping everyone left of moderate in the same group and using the worst examples of liberal rhetoric (I’m looking at you, Michael Moore) to cast a bad light on everyone who’s not Bush/Cheney.
If you had said that the Democratic Party actually chose that rejected ad, and put it on their website, then the Dems would have been roundly denounced.
Maybe Bushco accidently put a “rejected” video on their website. Yeah, that’s it. :rolleyes:
There is a difference between ads rejected by an interest group and an ad posted to the website of the incumbent.
Even if moveon.org had not rejected the Bush=Hitler ads, I would have been outraged by those, too. Adolf Hitler was one of the worst, if not the single worst, war criminal of the 20th century. As much as I loathe BushCo, even they’re not to that level.
The part that uses Hitler is the MoveOn.Org footage–footage that someone, as an exercise of free speech, created for a contest and which MoveOn.Org rejected as possible winner–and is as MoveOn.Org sanctioned footage identified in the Bush ad. The implication is that Kerry, who had nothing to do with that footage, has compared Bush to Hitler. Pretty lame, even for Bush, since most people will see right through it.
However, I can not make heads or tails of the footage of Hilter with the “God instructed me to . . .” qoute followed by Bush with the continuation of the quote. It certainly looks like a Bush quote–God did tell him to go to war, after all–but I’m not sure what it is suppose to mean as it is being used.
I also did nto think the Gore, Kerry, Gephart etc. were being pessimistic, and franly, this is a time for rage.
Really, it was a mistake to include the Hitler/Bush ad clips. The first one says MoveOn, but the second clip is just thrown in there with no explanation. When you follow up Dick Gephardt with an unexplained video of Hitler, well, you’re just asking for trouble. That’s going to confuse anyone who’s not really into politics, and it’s going to make people draw the same conclusion as MsRobyn. This is not the first time today I’ve seen someone think that B/C were comparing Kerry and Hitler.
And, for what it’s worth, I thought the video portrayed
Hell, if someone can convince Cheney to say “I am a BANANA!” at a press conference, I’ll vote for them. (“I am a consumer whore, and how!” would count too.)
Gore won Illinois handily in 2000, and Kerry is well ahead this year. Ryan should have known that it is not a swing state.
Thank you, I’ll be here all week.
