OPSEC Seeks Donations To Run Anti-Obama Ad Against Seal Team Six Movie

Movieline.com ^ | October 27, 2012 10:00 PM EDT | Frank DiGiacomo

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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The political action committee that opposes the National Geographic Channel's cablecast of Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden is seeking grass-roots donations to runs its anti-Obama 'Bump in the Road' ad during the telecast, according to an email making the rounds. 

The email, which links back to the website for OPSEC, a Republican-leaning group of former special operations and C.I.A. officers that has been likened to the Swift Boat veterans that swamped John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, is looking for donations of $25 or more to air its commercial during the debut of Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden on Nov. 4, just two days before the presidential election. OPSEC is not happy that major Obama supporter Harvey Weinstein's The Weinstein Company is behind the film, which, according to the New York Times, has been recut to bolster the President's role in the historic military operation.

Seal Team Six director John Stockwell and other sources told the Times that the changes were not politically motivated but, rather, were meant to give the movie a more realistic feel.  Those sources added, however, that Weinstein suggested some of the changes that were made to the film and that Meghan O'Hara, a producer who has worked with liberal firebrand Michael Moore on his left-leaning films Fahrenheit 9/11 and Sicko was also involved in gathering research.

Weinstein, who's identified as a "Hollywood liberal,"  is targeted in the fund-raising email, which is reproduced below. (Except where indicated, the use of boldface is replicated from the email and the name of the recipient has been withheld.) The motto on the home page of OPSEC's website reads: "I Serve Quietly. Not Seeking Recognition or Accolades...."

The fund-raising email links back to the OPSEC website which indicates that the Bump in the Road ads "are live right now in Ohio and have impacted Virginia ....but our budget likely won't last to November 6th," adding:  "We have to count on you to keep these ads running."

The Weinstein Company and OPSEC had not responded to requests for comment at the time of this posting, but I'll update accordingly.

This is the email:

We've got a major problem....In just a few days, National Geographic Channel will begin broadcasting "Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden," even after reporting by the New York Times and other media outlets disclosed that the timing and editing of the film by Obama mega-donor and Hollywood liberal Harvey Weinstein were orchestrated to use the heroic work of U.S. Special Operations Forces to promote President Obama's re-election.  OPSEC's not going take this sitting down.

If we can raise the funds necessary -- we're going to air our hard-hitting ad, "Bump In The Road," right along-side the documentary on National Geographic Channel. Every person who watches will know how this documentary is exploiting service members, divulging national secrets that are putting special forces lives at risk, and is timed to be nothing more than an ad for President Obama.

[Name Withheld], please make an urgent donation of $25, $50, $100 or more right now to help OPSEC send a powerful message to Obama, Hollywood liberal Harvey Weinstein, and anyone else who wants to exploit the hard work of America's Special Forces that they will have to score political points elsewhere!

It's truly sad that once again, Special Forces operations are being used as a political pawn to win votes for Obama's reelection....not to mention the further leaks of tactics and methods that will further jeopardize future missions against Al Qaeda. National Geographic's Channel own President even admitted that, "that some people were suspicious of the film's intentions."

[In the original email, a link to the NY Times article on the editing of Seal Team Six appears here. (Boldface ours)]

Our ad hits the Obama Administration hard for lying about the attacks in Libya that cost the U.S. Ambassador, two former SEALs and another U.S. diplomat their lives while also having politicized the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

So will you make an urgent donation to help us run this ad side-by-side with Harvey Weinstein's exploitive Seal Team Six documentary? It's absolutely critical we raise the funds necessary to get our response running right along side this TV program.

Playing politics with national security is wrong and endangers American lives. It will only result in special forces coming home in flag draped coffins because their missions have been reduced to petty political games in place of protecting America.

Thanks,

Scott Taylor

Former Navy SEAL

PS: If we can raise the funds necessary -- we're going to air our hard-hitting ad, "Bump In The Road," right along-side the documentary on National Geographic Channel. Please make an urgent donation of $25, $50, $100 or more right now to help OPSEC send a powerful message to Obama, Hollywood liberal Harvey Weinstein, and anyone else who wants to exploit the hard work of America's Special Forces that they will have to score political points elsewhere!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[FlingWingFlyer]

If that photo is a screen capture from the movie, ummmm. Wrong!

Read "No Easy Day" and get the real story told truthfully. Excellent book for anyone interested in what REALLY occurred that night. I had a lot of question about what happened. Now I know.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Fortunately this movie hasn't gotten a lot of publicity so I don't think there's a huge audience waiting to see it. An e-mail campaign, which may have started on FR, got one of the big networks to cancel an anti-Reagan miniseries about five years ago.

[Sir Napsalot]

I got the same email from Scott Taylor. However, when I click on the link in his email, it says “404 - server error, server or file not found”.

[Sir Napsalot]

Ok, never mind. I found the correct site.

[annajones]

I’ve been busy sending out email r/e OPSEC ad. Hope it all works out. Ask some of them to help advertise it.

for others; see latest ad at:
http://www.opsecteam.org/new-ad/

[annajones]

I’ve been busy sending out email (conservative news sites with videos and superpacs that advertise videos) r/e OPSEC ad. Hope it all works out. Ask some of them to help advertise it.

for others; see latest ad at:
http://www.opsecteam.org/new-ad/

please pass.

[annajones]

I’ve been busy sending out email (conservative news sites with videos and superpacs that advertise videos) r/e OPSEC ad. Hope it all works out. Ask some of them to help advertise it.

for others; see latest ad at:
http://www.opsecteam.org/new-ad/

please pass.

[KeyLargo]

I will not watch this Obama commercial disguised as a movie.

Video: Scene National Geographic Cut From “SEAL Team Six” Movie, Insinuates Romney Opposed Raid…

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[Lumper20]

Now you know, and; you probably do. Why the hell couldn’t you Navy types keep mouth zipped like MACVSOG did? That tells me you are not ready for the missions that SOG ran.