9/11 Victims' Kin Angered by Bush Ads (Big time media bias alert)

AP (Associtated Pravda) | 3/4/04 | Liz Sidoti

[isthisnickcool]

It's outrageous the Anti-Defamation League uses the Holocaust to get their message out. It's outrageous that The Red Cross uses Doom and Gloom. And even children to get their message out.

It's outrageous that PETA users Abused Animals to get their message out.

It's outrageous that CBS uses All sorts of people to get their message out so they can sell advertising. They are motivated by pure capitalistic greed!

And what about the Democrats? Here is their largest "independent" group. Here is one site they link to. The DNC is trashing Bush much worse. Which is easy since Bush has not said a word about Botox Boy.

[So Cal Rocket]

I am simply aghast that a candidate for the President of the United States would use a war where thousands of Americans have died for political purposes.

[MizSterious]

You are exactly right. And President Bush is exactly right to run these ads. The people obviously need to be reminded of what happened 9/11/01, and what could happen again. A lot of people seem to have forgotten. (But not me.)

[OpusatFR]

Use the contrarian factor: if the media hates it, it has struck a chord.

The electorate is not the media no matter what they like to think.

[MizSterious]

These Bush-bashsers need to consider--very carefully--which party allowed this to happen. Bill Clinton had the chance (or perhaps more than one chance) to get bin Laden, and didn't.

[misterrob]

Go back and read my post.....

[TrueBeliever9]

9/11 was hardly a private event.

Thank you for posting the obvious! 9/11 was an attack against America; this looks like a clever orchrestrated hijacking by DeMocRATS!

[Cicero]

9/11 is out of bounds

I understand why you may have said that, but if you think it over you can see it's absolute nonsense.

Did FDR forget about Pearl Harbor during the Second World War? Of course not. He constantly reminded Americans of it, to remind them why they were fighting.

Do the Jews forget the Holocaust? Of course not.

We will remember 9/11 forever. The proper response for Kerry and his sycophant media is not that 9/11 is out of bounds, but that he remembers it too, and plans to do something about it. But the very thought is laughable. No wonder AP doesn't want Bush to talk about it.

[Howlin]

If Bush wants to make people aware then he should talk about the dangers of terrorism, the costs that we have paid and what the hell we are doing about it. He would be doing himself a favor by playing up how Clinton left us defenseless, how terrorism was plotted during Bill's reign and how Clinton's supposed moral code precluded us from taking the steps that we needed to in order to prevent terrorism.

And exactly how would he do that without mentioning 9-11?

[beachn4fun]

Have they forgotten?

Who took charge when this tragedy happened? How would they feel right now looking back had Clinton still been in charge?

Maybe we need to air the terror attack more so they can remember who flew our own planes into the towers & Pentagon. AND, who took charge of the matter, defied people, countries, the UN, took action without world-wide approval, and has sent our people around the world to root-out terrorist and those responsible.

HE SHOULD GET CREDIT! He has the right to remind people. Never Forget!

[anniegetyourgun]

Bingo. First it was can't talk landing on the Lincoln. Then it was can't talk about Kerry's record. Now it's can't talk about 9/11. When the Bush ads talk about lower unemployment rate, higher production, etc., they'll say he can't talk about the economy.

They are attempting to muzzle the White House on all issues, while challenging him to debate the issues and telling the electorate that Bush will be avoiding the issues!

[300winmag]

The left wants to pretend 9/11 never happened. That's why we rarely, if ever, see tape of the attacks on TV. I say F'em.

The coverage of 9/11 has been intentionally sanitized from Day One. After the first live feeds showing people jumping to their deaths to avoid burning to death, and the recovery of the first bady parts, we were never shown that again. Yet that footage is readily available to the rest of the world. The first and second anniversaries of the attacks (yes, we really are at war) are presented as great tragedies, like killer hurricanes and other natural disasters.

These are the same media rat bastards that are whining that they can't show American coffins returning home, or interview the families of the dead and wounded. This policy was instituted by the klinton regime to prevent embarrassment to them, but is actually a wise policy.

These leftist haters are trying to rewrite the history we all saw, just to benefit bringing the klintons and/or their flunkies back to power, forever. I say "F'em" is too good for what they've done.

[Crazieman]

Speaking of whiny media bias, has anyone noticed how they keep repeating over and over specifically about Bush's ads being "multi-million dollar TV spots"?

[beachn4fun]

Don't ya just love it when you can pull the rabbit out of the hat? Did you sent this to the newspaper?

[Digger]

I have to go with Dick Morris on this. GW needs to go negative now on Kerry. He needs to have him defined by Memorial Day. If he doesn't he could find the election very unpleasant.

[veronica]

The media has sunk to even a lower new low.

That's what you think. It's only March. They will sink far, far lower before all this is over. It's gonna be UG-LY.

[beachn4fun]

I heard some idiot on the radio going on about how disgraceful it was. I wanted to yank him throught the radio and ask him if he said the same SH*T when the DemocRATS aired their distasteful ads about Bush!

[george wythe]

I watched the ads, and I came up with a different impression than the AP article.

The ads were tastefully done, and the brief mention of 9-11 was in context.

Have you seen the ads?

[Paradox]

David Potorti, an independent from Cary, N.C., whose brother Jim died in the north tower, called the campaign's use of the images audacious.

Sorry, but this isn't some regular guy. He has a politcal bent (anti-Bush peace-nik), see below..

David Potorti, Author/Editor of "September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows: Turning our Grief into Action for Peace"

BUZZFLASH: Could you give our readers some background about how September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows got started?

DAVID POTORTI: I think we owe all of that to the Internet. After the bombing of Afghanistan began, the core members who would eventually form the group were bothered by the bombing campaign as a response to Sept. 11. I think we had an almost identical reaction........

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[veronica]

9/11 is out of bounds...

Baloney. It's the defining moment of Bush's 1st term. He absolutely needs to remind Americans of his leadership in that darkest hour.