Posted on 06/27/2004 12:13:01 PM PDT by Pikamax
Hitler Image Used in Bush Campaign Web Ad
JENNIFER C. KERR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Adolf Hitler's image has surfaced again in the White House race. President Bush's campaign contains online video, removed from a liberal group's Web site months ago and disavowed, that features the Nazi dictator.
The Bush Internet video, which was sent electronically to 6 million supporters, intersperses clips of speeches by Democrats John Kerry, Al Gore and Howard Dean with the footage of Hitler.
Democrats want the video pulled from the site. Campaign aides said it would remain.
Republicans had criticized the group MoveOn.org in January because it briefly posted an ad contest entry that linked Hitler and Bush. It showed images of Bush with text saying, "God told me to strike at al-Qaida," before turning to images of Hitler with the words, "And then He instructed me to strike at Saddam." The submission ended with the words, "Sound familiar?" on a black and white screen.
The group later said the entry was in "poor taste" and pulled it from its site.
The 77-second video on the Bush-Cheney re-election site splices footage of Kerry, the presumptive nominee, and his 2004 rival Dean along with 2000 nominee Gore and film director Michael Moore. The spot calls them Kerry's "Coalition of the Wild-eyed." Clips of Hitler's image are seen throughout the spot.
"The use of Adolf Hitler by any campaign, politician or party is simply wrong," said Kerry's campaign manager, Mary Beth Cahill, who called on the GOP campaign to remove the Web video from its site.
"We're using the video from MoveOn.org to show our supporters the type of vitriolic rhetoric being used by the president's opponents and John Kerry's surrogates," said Scott Stanzel, a spokesman for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign.
The online spot begins with clips of Gore assailing the Bush administration. "How dare they drag the good name of the United States of America through the mud of Saddam Hussein's torture prison," Gore shouts during a public speech.
It then cuts to an image of Hitler, followed Dean, Moore and Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., all bashing Bush. There are more clips of Hitler, Gore and then Kerry, before the screen cuts to the words, "This is not a time for pessimism and rage." Video images of Bush follow.
A disclaimer was added to the beginning of the Web spot on Saturday afternoon to explain that the video contains "remarks made by and images from ads sponsored by Kerry supporters." The disclaimer also accuses Kerry of failing to denounce those who have compared Hitler to Bush.
Given what we know about the facts of this story, can anyone doubt that AP has deliberately slanted this story to make it seem like the Republicans are comparing Democrats to Hitler?
I shouldn't be surprised, but I am.
The AP is resorting to their highly biased style. In other words, it is okay for the democrat groups to make an allusion to Hitler, but if the Republicans call them on it, that is wrong.
BTW: 'Spotted Al' Gore does a really good impersonaltion of Hitler, he really has the voice tones down good.
They say it was just an "entry," but didn't the Bushitler video get a high initial ranking from MoveOn.org and become one of the finalists (or something like that)? If the AP actually admits that MoveOn.org was behind this ad until Republicans criticized it, that gives Bush more credibility (than if MoveOn stopped the ad on its own).
If you don't want to be getting in a knife fight, don't be dissing the the guy with the machete. Especially when he is also packing an M-1911 Colt .45 in his holster.
Also heard it on AP network news on radio very early this morning. No mention of MoveOn, just that Bush is comparing Kerry to Hitler. Their selectivity in the use of information was obvious to the point of embarrassment (assuming, of course that these folks can be embarrased ).
Absoutely amazing...
Moveon.org uses Hitler to help out John Fraud Kerry and the media says nothing...
The Bush campaign uses a clip of the Moveon ad to show the character of the Demoncrat party faithfuls and all of a sudden now it needs to be removed from the airwaves.
Click on the big ol' "Watch" button at: http://www.georgewbush.com/Default.aspx.
I think the RNC video ad makes the point. The Democrats offer nothing but rage and shouting with little coherent policy behind that and absolutely no real alternative to Bush other than that they are liberal Democrats and the president is not.
Verdict: Bush wins in November.
I don't know if others did, but I called Ms. Kerr and spoke with her, telling her her story was disingenuous. These reporters need to be politely confronted regularly.
Vice President Cheney hasn't left the f-word up permanently on his web site. Does that mean the Democrats have no right to mention it?
Democrats have regularly been calling Republicans Nazis and Fascists for the past 50 years. They just don't like anyone calling attention to it. It works better if it is unexamined.
That's one reason why they really, really hate Ann Coulter for calling their bluff on Senator McCarthy. It seems to me that it's been about a year now since they pulled the McCarthyite card, which they have been regularly using to smear Republicans for the past 50 years.
That ad is awesome !
At least they added some new text to sort of clarify, but the ad should've stuck to the "faces of pessimism" like Gore and Dean and at least made it clear where the MoveOn clips start/stop. This issue is now officially FUBAR.
Trying to make it look like it wasn't THEM why really used the Dolf
There is definately a unified effort (conspiracy?) on the left to do as much damage to Bush in this election year.
I just got back from a Barnes & Noble book store in Little Falls, NJ (the one on Rt. 46 for all you Freepers unfortunate as me to live in NJ) and to say the least, I am pissed!!!
As soon as you walk in the front door, there is a shrine to Bill and Hillary Clinton with their books and pictures everywhere on the two main tables. When you walk back to the next row there are more tables with literally nothing but Bush bashing books everywhere: "Why I hage George W. Bush", "Five Lies Bush Told to Go to War in Iraq", "Worse than Watergate", "50 Things We Can Do To Take Back America (Moveon.org)", and a slew of others that I can't recall. I counted 15 different titles on each table and they were all anti-Bush, including a few by that hog, Michael Moore.
What was a little funny was that all these books were marked 30% off (including Bill's).
My wife and I were looking for a copy of O'Reilly's newest book, but they didn't have any of his books in the store!!!
My wife, who is conservative, but is a bit more moderate than I, was stunned. I explained to her that this is indeed a full frontal assault on our President by the left (who are the enemies of America and the American way of life).
My understanding of the McCain/Feingold Campaign Finance bill is that it will allow Michael Moore to advertise his movie through Ads that directly attack President Bush during the 60 days before an election. With the exemption provided for Mr. Soros so that he can spend unlimited amounts the real purpose of Campaign Finance Reform is obvious. The Democrat’s anti-American comrades should be free to flood the Country with their propaganda while any criticism of corrupt Democrats should be verboten.
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