Kerry's 9/11 Ad

Newsmax ^ | 5 March 2004 | Steve Malzberg

[An.American.Expatriate]

Don't look now, folks, but the left-wing mainstream media are at it again, with one exception.

On Thursday morning the media started a firestorm, blasting President Bush's TV campaign spot that includes a few seconds of images from Ground Zero. They immediately flocked to a small group of 9/11 families that accused the president of exploiting the tragedy for political gain.

The New York Daily News went so far as to print a photo of President Bush standing at Ground Zero, bullhorn in hand and arm around a former firefighter, in its story. It gives one the impression that the image is in his TV ad. It is not.

In addition, some of the family members who lost loved ones on 9/11 are members of a group called September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. Their stated mission is to promote an end to terrorism through nonviolent means. That includes opposing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

That position puts them on the extreme left fringe of the political spectrum and ideologically opposed to George W. Bush.

We are now into day two of the nonstop Bush-bashing all over the networks and in the papers. But before day one had ended, MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews" broke some major news that has for the most part gone totally ignored.

"Hardball" reporter David Schuster did a report which included part of a John Kerry ad that aired in New Hampshire and Iowa last year. In it the announcer says that John Kerry is a senator who "sounded the alarm against terrorism years before 9/11."

Really? What alarm was that? Could it be his vote against the death penalty for terrorists who kill Americans? If the ad wasn't exploitation enough, it was released just two days prior to the second anniversary of the attack, Sept. 9, 2003!

Last night on my WABC Radio program I played the Kerry sound bite over and over again. So far the media have given John Kerry a pass on this one, except for "Hardball" and me.

They also have given him a pass on his 1971 testimony to the United States Senate, where he called his "Band of Brothers" a bunch of war criminals. All of the networks should have that video, but I haven't seen it or heard it.

Let's hope the Bush campaign sees this and gets hold of the Kerry spots from 9/9/03. The voting public needs to see what real exploitation is.

[An.American.Expatriate]

Just one more example of of Dem-o-wit dualstandards.....

[InvisibleChurch]

it's only hardballl; only a couple hundred people watching anyway, mostly friends and relatives

[Musket]

Last night on my WABC Radio program I played the Kerry sound bite over and over again. So far the media have given John Kerry a pass on this one, except for "Hardball" and me.

And Limbaugh. Rush was playing this yesterday. He also played side-by-side cuts of the 9-11 widows taken from the mainstream news that proves they were obviously reading from the same script.

The depths of the Left's depravity knows no bounds.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I wrote and posted this yesterday in response to the ad flap.

We Remember

We saw the look upon his face,
Through whispers he was told.
We knew he felt just what we felt,
We wouldn’t sit here cold.
We knew this time that we would act,
And not just turn our head.
This time we’d go and we’d go big,
We wouldn’t bomb some shed.
He called them faceless cowards,
He vowed we'll hunt them down.
We watched as he spoke to us all,
Sincerely, not some clown.
His eyes assured us he’d not rest,
Until they paid the price.
Yes we’d turn over every stone,
Until they were on ice.
He warned the battle would be long,
That many would forget.
That some would say, let’s just move on,
Not him, his mind was set.
We backed him then, we back him now,
The fight must still go on.
We can’t back down, we can’t let up,
Until the threat is gone.
God Bless our troops as on they fight,
Each day for them we pray.
We thank them all, for all they do,
“They are the best”, we say.
We will support our President,
He’s proven he will stand.
We’ll vote for Bush this coming fall,
We will protect this land.

Conspiracy Guy 3/5/4

[Vigilanteman]

Very moving. It would even be more so if set to music.

[facedown]

bump

[Casloy]

How about just getting the footage of Kerry from 71 and letting him know, "you wanna play it that way puffhead, we're ready for ya."

[GraceCoolidge]

I keep reading here that the firefighters' union also has used 9/11 imagery in its campaign materials supporting Kerry. Since that union has been one of the leaders in denouncing President Bush's message, I sure would like to get a look at their fliers. I have read here that the documents were widely distributed to union members. I would love to see the media pick up on this fact and expose the hypocrisy of the union....

[Sgt_Schultze]

I heard those families blaming Bush for benefitting from the tragedy. To my mind, there was one group of people who did benefit from the 9-11 attacks ... the families of the victims. They successfully held up the taxpayers of the US for millions of dollars per victim. I wonder why the civilian victims of Pearl Harbor weren't so compensated, or the victims of Oklahoma. Regardless of personal life insurance policies, the feds paid out a chunk.

[bushfamfan]

It's up to the President, his campaign, the GOP to continually point out the hypocrisies as such from Kerry and the Demonrats and their faithful in the press. There's ways to get the message across when you keep hammering away. They've got to fight.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Thanks. Got any music?

CG

[Milligan]

This just came to me. Kerry is unconscionable. He is flip flopping because there is something wrong with him mentally. It's a ongoing pattern...since 1971! He thinks lying is the truth. Is this man of sound mind? Should we have a unsound mind running our country? Kerry habitually distorts the truth and claims he's Johnny on the spot when he's not. People who suffers from mental illiness are not aware they are doing this! We can't afford to have Kerry as President. There is so much at stake. By the time he is finished with his term he will have our domestic economy in a shambles and our creditability as a Nation in ruins. Think about it!

[Mo1]

BTT

[surrey]

First, I love Steve Malzberg. I listen to him up here in Boston at 1 AM. Yesterday our local morning talker, Pat Whitley, played the clip of Kerry's testimony and I was about ready to scream. Pompous, arrogant ass. He's changed his manner of speaking since then. Maybe he wants to sound like average Joe but back then he sounded like he had "Westchester Lockjaw".

[cookcounty]

"By the time he is finished with his term he will have our domestic economy in a shambles and our creditability as a Nation in ruins. Think about it!"

Here's a real possibility: Kerry gets the nomination just as people begin to wake up and realize he's a nut case. He's stubborn and refuses to give up the nomination until his VP-choice bolts. Now the Dems insist on a last minute insertion of Hillary onto the ballot and sue all 50 states to switch it out. The election goes into legal limbo and Scalia casts the deciding vote denying the ballot switch, and we get 4 more years of "we wuz robbed!"

[Alas Babylon!]

I would love to see the media pick up on this fact and expose the hypocrisy of the union....

It isn't the Firefighters Union, nor John Kerry, nor Clintonistas, nor these few anti-Bush 9/11 survivors...it is the media. Democrats will, of course, campaign and try to make the worst picture of President Bush and the Republicans--it's just the way it is. What is so different this year is how the media has become the:

-Echo chamber of the anti-Bush coalition
-DNC mouthpiece/spokesman
-Constant questioner of Bush Administration policies
-Suppressors of good news for Republicans and anything negative about the Democrats.

We all ought to take on big media, who are really the key enablers of the left wing. Here is the thread that we all need to read:

Express YOUR outrage over media-manufactured outrage against Bush Ads

jmstein7 is asking us to write letters or call the media and express our outrage at their tactics. I did, and while it might not matter to them, if enough of us do it, it could start something big. I'm not holding my breath, but I just can't sit here and continue to take it without doing something.

Thank you!

[OrioleFan]

It all comes down to getting the message out. President Bush is going to have to pay to get his ads on TV and radio, and in the newspapers. With the uproar over the 911 images, the lamestream media has made it clear they will carry Kerry's water for free. Life sucks.

[Verginius Rufus]

This whole affair (which reminds me of the fake outrage over the "RATS" commercial in 2000) is Bush-bashing for its own sake, but also an attempt to scare the Bush campaign away from talking at all about 9/11--any reference to it could be portrayed as upsetting the victims' families.

The nuclear-tipped torpedo in Bush's arsenal, which he probably has no intention of using, is the soundtrack of Bill Clinton publicly admitting that the Sudanese government offered to hand over Osama bin Laden, but he turned them down. 9/11 wouldn't have even happened if we had Osama in our possession.

Perhaps some groups not officially affiliated with the Bush campaign can remind people of that--I'm sure very few people are aware of it.

[NYCVirago]

I heard those families blaming Bush for benefitting from the tragedy. To my mind, there was one group of people who did benefit from the 9-11 attacks ... the families of the victims. They successfully held up the taxpayers of the US for millions of dollars per victim. I wonder why the civilian victims of Pearl Harbor weren't so compensated, or the victims of Oklahoma. Regardless of personal life insurance policies, the feds paid out a chunk.

Not to mention over a billion dollars in private donations that the victims' families received. And the professional victims are still whining. Where is their gratitude for the unprecedented outpouring of support they received?

[VadeRetro]

Teresa Heinz paid for all that anger with money laundered through a chain of foundations.