The New N-Word

Jewish World Review ^ | June 30, 2004 | Jonah Goldberg

[presidio9]

The Bush campaign has come out with a bad ad. It's on the Web. It's called "Kerry's Coalition of the Wild-Eyed." It runs a montage of various Democrats (plus Michael Moore) in full-blown rants, veins popping out of their necks, about George W. Bush. It also runs clips from an ad submitted to a contest at Moveon.org-the Web "movement" dedicated to helping the Democrats whenever and wherever possible. The contest asked members and other sympathetic parties for anti-Bush ads. One of them featured comparisons of Bush to Hitler. The Bushies took clips of Hitler from that ad and spliced them in to the montage of Gephardt, Gore et al. Now, the Bush ad makes it clear where they got these images and states explicitly that they are objecting to the vile rhetoric from the left that often invokes Hitler analogies.

Still, the ad is bad because the subliminal message is that all the ranters are similar: Gephardt, Kerry, Gore, Hitler, Dean, Moore, and so on. In other words, the Bush campaign wants it both ways. They want to take the high road by condemning the hateful politics of their opponents, while at the same time they take the low road with a wink and a nod. I don't think the ad is evil or outrageous in the way that the folks at Moveon.org, the DNC and various liberal journalistic outlets do, but, yeah, they have a point. Using your enemies' transgressions as a Trojan Horse to do the same thing isn't worth the cost to your own credibility.

[presidio9]

[we_will_prevail]

This Jonah character sure is a whiner.

[we_will_prevail]

"It runs a montage of various Democrats (plus Michael Moore)"

Wait -- I thought Michael Moore was a Democrat too! Why the "plus Michael Moore" in parentheses then -- because Moore is a socialist?!!!! That's too much! It's too easy to see into this writer's mind.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

The Bush campaign has come out with a bad ad.

Not in my opinion.

When I saw that ad I doubled up my campaign contribution to Bush/Cheney'04 Inc.and sent another check!

[G.Mason]

Poor Jonah.

Another "lost soul", who when being constantly pummeled and beaten, with his dying breath says, "I wouldn't do that to you".

Where is the whale when you really need it?

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Still, the ad is bad because the subliminal message is that all the ranters are similar: Gephardt, Kerry, Gore, Hitler, Dean, Moore, and so on.

They are all the same ideologues on the same side of the political spectrum........national socialists!!

[nmh]

Demoncrats are nothing more than political brownshirts.

When something is true, I don't object to it being touted. Unlike Michael Moore who invents "facts" to make his case.

[NutCrackerBoy]

I have not seen it, but I think the message of Kerry's Coalition of the Wild-Eyed is clear and effective. It captures the stumpers whipping up the frenzy of the lunatic fringe Democrat Party base. It is completely fair to identify the candidate with how he was nominated. Since it is unfair to label all the Wild-Eyed, e.g. Gephardt, as Hitler-baiters, then take out the gratuitous Hitler reference.

[Publius6961]

Let's see now. That's a terrible ad and they shouldn't have done it. Bad Republicans!

Wait. It was assembled from a series of "Progressive" Dem out-of-contol ads...
Not a word of reproach about that.
What's wrong with this picture?

[mtbopfuyn]

Haven't seen it and it most likely won't be shown in TX anyway but it sounds like they've sunk to the rats low standards. Hope not.

[SuziQ]

Unlike Michael Moore who invents "facts" to make his case.

FoxNews did a piece about Michael Moore's movie on Brit Hume's show last night. Brian Wilson was saying that it wasn't a documentary because it didn't fit the dictionary definition for that genre. A true documentary is supposed to be free of bias; not present a particular point. The piece then went on to show parts of the movie where Moore had carefully edited news footage to slant the image in the viewers' minds. So he has his 'facts', but they are not the TRUE facts.

After all this Brian read another definition that described Moore's work to a 'T'; that word was 'propaganda'!

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Haven't seen it and it most likely won't be shown in TX anyway but it sounds like they've sunk to the rats low standards. Hope not."

The ad is on the net. You can view it there. All the Republicans did ius tell the truth. Which is more then could be said for the RATS. The press and the DNC have their panties in a bunch(hehe, I knew I could use that somewhere) because they had it thrown back in their faces and put into the right context.

[PogySailor]

DEMS: "Bush is Hitler and the Republicans are Nazi's"

REPS: "The Democrats are calling the President Hitler and the Republicans Nazi's."

DEMS: "How dare the Republicans use the name of Hitler and the word Nazi in an ad!"

[sweetliberty]

"the ad is bad because the subliminal message is that all the ranters are similar"

And the point is?

[sweetliberty]

[BibChr]

Right. This article illustrates what a poor compass Goldberg is.

He knocks the ad for reporting what Dims embrace. Then he reports what Dims embrace.

Don't look for logic there.

Dan

[Inspectorette]

Ha! I thought the word was going to be "nuance" ;-)

[tx_eggman]

that about sums it up

[Mamzelle]

He has had a few witty moments, but is part of the brigade of neocon writers who can't fight their way out of a paper bag on a rainy day--because Mummykins got him all his jobs and opportunities in the first place. I am sick and tired of neos dominating the conservative literary world. They all say the same thing, the same way. More Ann, please.

[TigersEye]

Here are a couple of fun videos:

http://brain-terminal.com/video/clinton-legacy/

http://junkyardblog.transfinitum.net/archives/week_2004_06_13.html