Readers mad that Chronicle ran ad to impeach Bush, Antiwar group paid about $45,000

SF Chronicle ^ | 4-8-03 | John Wildermuth, Chronicle Political Writer

[Oldeconomybuyer]

San Francisco -- A full-page ad Monday calling for the impeachment of President Bush sparked dozens of calls, letters and e-mails from readers angered that it would appear in The Chronicle.

"We consider it an outrage that you accepted the advertisement to impeach our United States President," said one letter faxed to Dick Rogers, readers' representative for the paper. "I find this type of advertising anti-American and in poor taste," complained another reader.

[Phantom Lord]

If someone pays for the ad, let them say whatever they want.

I wonder how they would have handled Horowitz's reperations ad though.

[sauropod]

Mara Verheyden-Hilliard... Also on A.N.S.W.E.R. steering committee is she not?

[sauropod]

Mara Verheyden-Hilliard... Also on A.N.S.W.E.R. steering committee is she not?

[capt. norm]

I am becoming more and more convinced that Ramsey Clark has "toys in his attic".

That's the easiest way of becoming a liberal Democrat...by default! Just be too stupid, crazy or power-hungry and nature will take its course.

[sirchtruth]

$45k for a useless ad?

R. Clark and these communist wannbe's are dispicable miscreants.

[Lunatic Fringe]

The ad and the impeachment campaign are the brainchild of former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a controversial figure long associated with the political left.

Understatement of the year.

[Alamo-Girl]

Hmmmm .... sounds familiar. Thanks for the heads up!

[Lunatic Fringe]

In the course of the war in Iraq and the campaign against terrorism, the Bush administration has "ordered and directed the violent overthrow of sovereign states, disappearances, kidnappings, assassinations, summary executions, murders and torture," the ad continued.

This is downright SLANDER! And it was run by the SF Chronicle.... Allf our men should sue the paper and Clark....

[cardinal4]

Since when do the left care about the Constitution? Oh yeah, when it suits them.

[JaimeD2]

I've heard something about a fool and his money; I think it might apply here.

[syriacus]

Debra Sanders of the SF Chronicle wrote a column on Tuesday, March 6, 2001

Free Speech Dies a Bit In Berkeley

NOW YOU know what the UC in UC Berkeley stands for: University of Censorship. Last week, UC Berkeley's student-run paper, the Daily Californian, ran an ad, "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery Is a Bad Idea -- and Racist Too," written by author David Horowitz. Leftist activists promptly protested the paper's decision to run the ad. They stormed the paper with a list of demands, including that the paper "hire a person to review the paper for offensive racial context," that it run "two formal apologies" with photos of members of the paper's board and staff, that it run photos of students opposed to the ad, and that it run 10 columns, each rebutting one of Horowitz's 10 points.

Then, like good little Brownshirts, the activists stole all the remaining papers from their racks. ...[excerpt]

I think she would have run the Horowitz ad.

[meyer]

"There are people all around the country who strongly feel the (Bush) administration is conducting itself in a criminal fashion," she said. "They want to take back the Constitution."

How about we start with the second amendment, traitor b**ch. Oh, but an armed populace would interrupt your socialist plans, I guess.

Yes, there's a few idiots around the country supporting the cause - we call them traitors.

[hellinahandcart]

THAT's the woman I was talking about, whose name I can never remember. Tall skinny brunette with a perpetual scowl and a deep voice. She is a lawyer. She may or may not be on the ANSWER steering committee, but she DID go to Iraq with Ramsey Clark a couple months back.

[sauropod]

Yep. Saw her bloviate at the last C.A.N.S.W.E.R. rally in Dee Cee. 'Pod

[jigsaw]

For sanitary reasons, Ramsey Clark's headstone better be a urinal.

[dark_lord]

Hey, its just capitalism in action. Take their money.

[Ciexyz]

They're $45,000 in the whole. It's their loss, ruck 'em.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

I don't care that they ran an ad. I want to know where they get their funding.

[BossLady]

Looks like everythings for sale at the SF Chronicle.....even its integrity....