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N: Ryan, Editor

Ryan, it was a pleasure speaking with you. Here is a link from the Pittsburgh Tribune Review to get you started on the connection between Heinz and Peaceful Tomorrows.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/s_169770.html

Rita Lazar, a spokeswoman for the group, was a volunteer then a paid worker in Clinton's first campaign.

NY POST STORY:
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/20231.htm

WALL STREET JOURNAL:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004797

Joe Farah's piece:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37244

If Paul C. Campbell wants to have a career in journalism, he is going to have to learn to research a story. Pursuant to our conversation, I hope he will do a followup. It will be a good homework assignment.

Have him check on the Tides Foundation and the boards on which Teresa Heinz sits. They try to disguise it very nicely. Have him discover that this outrage was ready to go and that moveon.org helped set this up. How does he think these people were all over the media saying the same things? They appeared on NBC with Katie Couric immediately. If Paul checks, I think he will find that the ads did not even run in New York. Look at the language of the people involved. They were using talking points. From where does he think they received those talking points? The outraged firefighters were actually union people. Try reaching a friend of mine, fireman Mike Moran, who lost his brother at the WTC. Mike is the guy who got up on the stage at the Concert for New York and told Osama bin Laden to "kiss my royal Irish ass." Mike will tell you how the firefighters feel.

Here's another hint. In 1984, John Kerry filmed and used a TV commercial with the Vietnam Memorial as the backdrop. That was in violation of the law and contrary to the wishes of the Park Police.

I appreciate hit pieces and creative criticism that are well researched. They can be funny and thought provoking. This piece, however, was sloppy journalism and not even worthy of a junior high school newspaper.

Another thing you might ask Paul Campbell to explain, Doug.

If the Bush campaign's 9/11 ads are as repugnant and inappropriate in the public's eye as he says, then why is the campaign continuing to run the ads? Any advertising expert worth a lick will tell you that if you put out a total bomb of an ad that only offends your customers, the first thing you do is pull it, and then determine how much damage was done and how to fix it. The 9/11 ads are still running almost a week after the media-concocted outrage story broke. Is the Bush campaign really so inept that they would continue to run an ad that's killing them?

nice, DFU.

The dems came out screaming quickly when the first faint hint of 9-11 was used in a campaign ad, figuring that a screechy offense was preferable to a whiny defense.

They have NO CREDIBILITY on defending America, and they know it. Acknowledging that the lamestream press will instinctively back the dem position, the GOP has a decision to make: back off or surge ahead.

The only reasonable response is to surge ahead, show the WTC ruins, the firefighters, the cleanup, the solemnn funerals. Make it known that if the screeching protests persist from the Left, the GOP will turn up the heat by showing celebrating Palis, planes impacting the towers, bodies jumping, the whole disgusting TRUTH of 9-11.

America will go crazy, and 80% of the fallout will favor Bush. Regardless how much the left wails.

Hardball.

You don't have to play it, just promise you can... if pushed.