Anger over Bush Commercials

The American Mind ^ | 4 March 04 | Sean Hackbarth

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Some families of Sep. 11th victims as well as Democrats are upset that President Bush used some clips of Ground Zero in his new campaign ads. Watch them yourself and see if he really was exploiting the deaths of three thousand people. They were tastefully done. There were no pictures of the planes crashing into the twin towers, and there weren't any shots of the towers crashing down.

To critics it seems Sep. 11 has to fall into the memory hole, or only victims and their families have the right to use those horrible images. Lucy Willett said, "He [Bush] should not be allowed to use those images at all." That's poppycock! Sep. 11 was an attack on all Americans. It attacked our way of life, our freedom, and our prosperity. All who witnessed those horrible events will forever be scarred. All Americans have a claim on those images and memories. Also, that fateful day changed America's foreign policy in a profound way. The post-Cold War era ended, and the nation was at war. Our national innocence was lost when we realized there were people out there with the desire and capability to kill thousands of our fellow citizens. President Bush saw this change and reacted decisively. No longer was international terrorism looked at as a task for law enforcement. No longer would the U.S. tolerate nations that harbored and helped terrorists. Because of al-Qaeda's alliance with the Taliban, Afghanistan became the first point of response. That nation's people were liberated from oppressive rule. Next came Saddam Hussein's Iraq. She too was liberated. Libya read the writing on the wall and gave up its WMD development instead of risking being another causalty to Bush's muscular anti-terrorism strategy. In any evaluation and defense of the President's first term, Sep. 11 plays the pivotal role.

For an off-beat, yet correct perspective, read Michele's post. Now, let's take Bush's critics to their logical extreme. If Bush can't use Sep. 11 images, then John Kerry has to stop mentioning his Vietnam War record. No longer should either candidate use women, children, grandmothers, grandfathers, dogs, cats, baseball games, picnics, American flags, eagles, soldiers, policemen, cars, trucks, trees, sappy West Wing-type string arrangements, celebrities, mountains, valleys, lakes, rivers, clouds, flowers, bugs, newspaper headlines, or anything else as a means of persuation. The only ads that should run are 30 seconds of static with only the candidate blandly reciting a portion of his platform. (In the case of Kerry, he can't help but speak blandly.)

Not even a whisp of "exploitation" or "manipulation" should be allowed because voters are nothing more than helpless sheep incapable of analyzing what they're watching.

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View the ad.

http://www.georgewbush.com/tvads/

Read the response.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=1&u=/nm/20040304/pl_nm/campaign_bush_reaction_dc

http://rantingprofs.typepad.com/rantingprofs/2004/03/the_use_of_911_.html

Does this make sense to you?

Here's what another person thinks...

http://asmallvictory.net/archives/006148.html#006148

[Numbers Guy]

Bill Clinton spoke at the ruins in Oklahoma City during his 1996 campaign.

John Kerry uses footage from Vietnam, a war in which over 50,000 Americans died, in his campaign.

Sounds like selective indignation . . .

[.cnI redruM]

You know it!

[ardara]

Rush has fireman mike moran on this topic right now. he is doing a fantastic job!

[goldstategop]

You liberals are running on anger and hate. Keep it up.

[.cnI redruM]

Rush would make a great antidote to BowelMoveOn.org right now.

[Puppage]

Some families of Sep. 11th victims

Yeah.....THREE

[.cnI redruM]

It works. That's why they do it. They selected a candidate on his presumed ability to beat Bush because the need to beat Bush is the only think Democrats really have a strong alliance on. That and keeping abortion legal.

[AmishDude]

The Willets are activist RATs. The other oft-quoted one, Doyle is linked to "Bush knew"-type sites.

[Puppage]

Let's just NOT remember 9-11, shall we?

And, while we're at it let's forget...

Auschwitz or...

Ford's Theater or...

John John saluting or....

Ted Kennedy driving

[.cnI redruM]

If Jason Blair had penned the article, that 'number' would have been 'MANY!!!'.

[omniscient]

The Democrats are more upset about these ads than about 9/11 itself. And what makes them most upset of all is that it didn't happen during Clinton's term. It is driving them nuts that Bush might actually get some well-deserved recognition for his heroic reaction to the event. I hope enough voters will be able to see these Democrats for the cowardly traitors they are.

[Coop]

I agree. I got angry enough at the whiny libs to send in a donation to President Bush's re-election effort.

[freebacon]

It shows to what level they will stoop to produce even the most ineffective assault on the President. They exploit the death of a loved one to pursue a political end, and it speaks volumes about Democrats as a whole. It appears to me that Bush isn't the one exploiting the 9/11 attacks.. but the media IS. The Liberals are. And Americans see that, and they don't like it.

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If Jason Blair had penned the article, that 'number' would have been 'MANY!!!'.

[miloklancy]

I think the Dems have been waiting for a long time to pounce on Bush. I have seen the ad in question and I can't understand how anyone, even a family member of a victim of the attacks can find this offensive. When a coffin draped in an American flag is shown, it is clearly done in a very somber way. This is pure smear by the Dems, who use a strategy of supposed indignation to try to stop Republicans from raising legitimate issues. I hope Bush holds his ground on this one. Besides the worst television ad in the history of politics had to be the girl with the flower and the atom bomb explosion, which LBJ used to smear Sen. Goldwater and which many point to in restrospect as being a turning point in the 1964 election. LBJ or the Dems never apologized to Goldwater for this ad and clearly do not have the moral high ground on whether an ad is offensive or not.

[.cnI redruM]

No doubt. One of the major outcomes of the 9/11 attack has been to make people aware of why the US keeps a large and modern armed force. The Democrats have not been able to resolve their interparty conflict over the war. The GOP has.

[vanmorrison]

The election-year antics of the Democrats have long ago gotten to the point where you can't even have a rational discussion with these people. Their entire anti-Bush campaign of blind rage and mendacity is beyond belief. Why do we find it necessary to even address these phony put-ons thrown out by the Democrats and their media shills? Aristotle once commented on the utter futility of conducting an argument with anyone who denied the validity of basic logical principles. By continuing to bite into the cow pies of the Democrats, the Republicans are doing harm to themselves. Why doesn't anyone just point out that these kinds of exchanges are completely baseless and idiotic to begin with and leave it at that?

[maggief]

Here are a few familiar names:

Family Steering Committee (FSC) members

http://www.911independentcommission.org/members.html#

[AgThorn]

Key wording being 'some families'. When I heard a 'widowed' woman speak on NBC this morning I was getting very angry .. she was speaking Democrat party lines about Bush only giving the 911 commission one hour of his time, about it happening on his watch, etc.

I absolutely agree .. if anyone is exploiting 911, it isn't Bush, it's the Demonrats themselves ... and shame on this 'widow' to let them.