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Kerry Spokesperson Calls on Bush to Apologize for Using Images of Hitler on Website
NewsWire ^ | 6/26/04 | NewsWire

Posted on 06/25/2004 4:03:26 PM PDT by The Bandit

WASHINGTON, June 25 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Kerry campaign spokesperson Phil Singer issued the following statement in response to the Internet ad on George Bushs website featuring images of Adolph Hitler: The fact that George Bush thinks its appropriate to use images of Adolph Hitler in his campaign raises serious questions about his fitness to spend another four years in the White House. Adolph Hitler slaughtered millions of innocent people and has no place in a campaign that is supposed to be about the future and hope of this nation. The Presidents use of these images during a month that evoked the memory of World War II is remarkably insensitive to the sacrifices of the millions of people who lost their lives during Hitlers reign of terror.

The Bush Campaign should immediately remove these hateful images from its website and apologize for using them. The use of Adolph Hitler by any campaign, politician or party is simply wrong.



TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ads; apologize; bush; campaign; hitler; kerry; website; wildeyed
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To: Murtyo

during the upcoming debates, all GW has to ask is:

"Senator Kerry, do you support the claims of MoveOn.com"?

"and the rants of AlGore?"

then, I want him to ask Kerry,
"do you support reparations for African Americans"?


81 posted on 06/25/2004 7:32:21 PM PDT by bitt (a proud member of the AlmostSilenced Majority)
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To: The Bandit

Why didn't anyone ping me?

I'm on the 'Seig Heil" ping list, right?


82 posted on 06/25/2004 7:34:12 PM PDT by WhiteGuy (Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...)
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To: TomGuy

I agree that the ad might be too confusing - it is getting hard for even INTELLIGENT, INFORMED people to figure out what is going on...I think any future ads need to be much more blatant and less suggestive and artsy...

scr$w artsy...

next ad should say:

"The Democrats have had the support of many illegal campaign partners that place ads and create movies that suggest the President is racist, bigoted, and Hitler-like."

Then show MM and GORE and Kennedy going nuts and finally, fade to a dark screen, and then a quiet little Dick Cheney voice says...

"F*ck 'em".


83 posted on 06/25/2004 7:40:01 PM PDT by bitt (a proud member of the AlmostSilenced Majority)
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To: The Bandit
The talking heads better POUNCE on this dumbass statement by the Kerry campaign this weekend. This is just too good to pass up.
84 posted on 06/25/2004 7:40:23 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (In God We Trust. All Others We Monitor.)
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To: SandyInSeattle
Try http://www.georgewbush.com/Default.aspx It's right on the front page

It's a compilation of kerrys ads...........FRegards

85 posted on 06/25/2004 7:41:20 PM PDT by gonzo (I support a womans' right to choose! "So, what are they? Silicone or Saline??".........)
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To: Dog Gone

who has the link to Pelosi's name on the list of the "Democratic Socialist Senators"? This is actually an official organization! I am amazed ANY one would ADMIT to being a member of this group at all, much less a Senator (actually several)...i'll go google...


86 posted on 06/25/2004 7:42:45 PM PDT by bitt (a proud member of the AlmostSilenced Majority)
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To: bitt

I second that.

Clear, concise messages.

Artsy and avant garde may win awards, but they don't get the message over.

Right now, GWB NEEDS to get his message out. His PR has been abysmal. He doesn't need artsy to muddle the message.


87 posted on 06/25/2004 7:43:40 PM PDT by TomGuy (Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
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To: The Bandit

hey kerry!!! the Veep "cc"'ed you on the message he sent to leaky laheay!!

Deal with it mz kerry heinz!!! (sissy sub boy to the nth power)


88 posted on 06/25/2004 7:44:36 PM PDT by cajun-jack
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To: bitt
who has the link to Pelosi's name on the list of the "Democratic Socialist Senators"? This is actually an official organization! I am amazed ANY one would ADMIT to being a member of this group at all, much less a Senator (actually several)...i'll go google...

You may be thinking about the Progressive Caucus in the House of Representatives. [Pelosi and the Progressive Caucus members are Representatives, not Senators.]

Progressive Caucus has a website that lists its membership.

Progressive Caucus website link
89 posted on 06/25/2004 7:46:35 PM PDT by TomGuy (Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
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To: Pikamax

Am I wrong, but isn't that first red "Hitler" in that ad the one THEY used -- and isn't it George W. Bush?


90 posted on 06/25/2004 7:46:43 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: cajun-jack; TomGuy

I wish I had counted the time today I've said that same word while I'm listening to and reading this crap.........LOL.


91 posted on 06/25/2004 7:47:53 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Howlin

You are not wrong. Google this in the news and you will see that about half of the stories don't even mention that the images is actually taken from moveon.org.


92 posted on 06/25/2004 7:57:56 PM PDT by TankerKC (R.I.P. Spc Trevor A. Win'E American Hero)
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To: The Bandit
I knew this would happen when I saw the Bush ad. Remember that the Democrats DO NOT CARE whether their attacks on Bush are factual, because they are aiming their message at their base (approximate IQ: 80). To the average uninformed voter who has never heard of Moveon.org, the message is simple: Bush used Hitler in his ad, therefore Bush is a Nazi, therefore go vote Democrat and beat the Nazis. An explanation of "No, no, that was a Moveon.org ad!" isn't going to make any sense to the marginal voters.

Thinking undecideds (all five of them) might be impressed by the ad. But the Great Unwashed won't get it, and will just conclude Bush likes Hitler. The ad would have been more effective if it just used the Gore, Dean and Kerry footage (the Gore clip is great).

93 posted on 06/25/2004 7:58:02 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves
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To: bitt
Actually it is the "progressive" caucus in the House of Representatives, some 56 or so bolshevik democrats who have aligned themselves with admitted socialist Bernie Sanders. Pelosi is curently their "chaiman" or whatever the hell they call their grand poobah. The list appears on Sanders' web site.

The list was originally linked directly to the Democratic Socialists of Amerika web site, until it conveniently disappeared from there just before the 2000 election because they were being exposed for the closet communists they are by avenues such as World Net Daily, The WSJ, and by letter-writing efforts of FReepers all over the country.

Can't have the American public knowing about our Congressional Commies now, can they?

94 posted on 06/25/2004 7:58:32 PM PDT by Morgan's Raider
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To: The Bandit

the Kerry whackos put out "Bush is Hitler" pieces and when Bush / Cheney strike back by incorporating it within their other hate-filled speech - they cry foul? I'll let Dick Cheney express my reservations about that ROFLMAO


95 posted on 06/25/2004 8:39:57 PM PDT by Steven W.
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To: The Bandit

This is insanity.

Do the Kerry people not know that it is from MoveOn.org's ad as an example of leftist hate speech? Or are they deliberately lying and hope enough people get this hateful and vile message that it is the GWB campaign somehow using the image for some inconceivable purpose.

I vote the latter.


96 posted on 06/25/2004 8:58:02 PM PDT by cyncooper (Have I mentioned lately that I DESPISE the media?)
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To: Mr. Jeeves
An explanation of "No, no, that was a Moveon.org ad!" isn't going to make any sense to the marginal voters.
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If the ad was saturating the airwaves, how loud do you think the Democrats would protest? If they protest too loudly the networks would have to talk about it and how long do you think the media could talk about it without mentioning the fact that it was depicting a Democrat ad?

The only way that anyone would be left with the impression that the Hitler image originated with Bush is if they pull it now, become defensive about it or start whining about it by over-explaining the ad...let the rats bury themselves with disingenuous damage control as Republicans stand out of the way.
97 posted on 06/25/2004 9:02:21 PM PDT by Jim_Curtis
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To: The Bandit
The use of Adolph Hitler by any campaign, politician or party is simply wrong.

But use of phrases like "Digital Brownshirts" etc... by the leftist is A-OK, right John?

Tell ya what, Kerry you a-hole. When you disavow Gore's statements calling us Nazis then I'll agree with you... How 'bout it, BotoxBoy?

98 posted on 06/25/2004 10:32:04 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Custer was the first white man to wear an Arrow Shirt out West)
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To: The Bandit

Talk about chutzpah. As Kerry's people well know, the images of Hitler on the website were taken from the moveon.org website, where they featured an ad comparing Bush to Hitler. And now they have the audacity to complain that the Bush campaign is using those images in a web ad? Outrageous!


99 posted on 06/25/2004 10:33:04 PM PDT by NYCVirago
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To: Jim_Curtis
Thanks for the thoughts. I agree that whining isn't good and I hope that my "Bush should say this" thought didn't come off as whiny.

Here's the response from the Bush Campaign about this (I don't know if this has already been posted on FR --probably-- but I got if from the Bush email list)...

On Thursday, the campaign launched a web video titled Kerry's Coalition of the Wild-eyed. The video featured Democrats who support John Kerry making negative and baseless attacks against the President. Interspersed in the video were segments of two ads that appeared on a website sponsored by MoveOn.org - a group campaigning for Kerry - in January.

On Friday night, John Kerry's campaign denounced our use of these ads, and called that use "disgusting."

The Kerry campaign says, "The use of Adolf Hitler by any campaign, politician or party is simply wrong."

We agree. These ads, like much of the hate-filled, angry rhetoric of Kerry's coalition of the Wild-eyed, are disgusting. We created this web video to show the depths to which these Kerry supporters will sink to win in November.

Is this the Democratic Party of Franklin Delano Roosevelt who reassured his countrymen we have nothing to fear but fear itself?

No. This is John Kerry's Coalition of the Wild-eyed, who have nothing to offer but fear-mongering.
I think they said it better than I did. Not whining. And, just for those of us who have been a little sketchy about the campaign strategy, we can know that this campaign is measured and means business.
100 posted on 06/26/2004 10:33:11 AM PDT by mattdono (To President Reagan: Rest now. Look in on us. Enjoy eternity. I'll see you again some day.)
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