Posted on 07/09/2004 7:48:01 AM PDT by Pikamax
BUSH/CHENEY: 'We call on Kerry to release the video of this event' Fri Jul 09 2004 10:37:52 ET
WASHINGTON, DC -- Bush-Cheney '04 Campaign Manager Ken Mehlman issued the following statement on John Kerry's fundraiser last night.
"We have seen John Kerry take two positions on the most important issues facing our country. Now we see him take two sets of positions on his own values.
"If John Kerry is going to praise last night's star-studded hate fest, and characterize it as the 'heart and soul' of America, he should share these values with voters everywhere.
"We call on Kerry to release the video of this event so that all Americans can see what John Kerry has called America's 'heart and soul.'"
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Wonderful - don't whine and demand an apology, simply ask that the tapes be released. Watch Kerry try to squirm out of this one!!! And he can't come back with "Cheney used the F-word," because Cheney admitted using the word and did not try to hide it.
Ha! If it involved the Hollywood crowd at a party event, odds are slim ;0)
ps - not just what Kerry said; but the who and what was said; Fox mentioned some celebrity going over the line in her criticism of GW; but I missed the story. . .
From the New York Post:
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/24791.htm
From the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/09/politics/campaign/09CND-KERRY.html
The stuff last night closely resembles what is on Howard Stern every day. All the filth was directed at the president.
Yeah, this is what creates the big breakout for Bush. Kerry will have several little Dukakis-in-a-tank moments as his poll numbers slide into oblivian. Heck, he still might have his special moment where he puts Dukakis to shame.
Another hole in the Dimocrat "boat" that is looking more, and more like a colander.
All ashore, who's going ashore!
CARMICHAEL/LOESSER
According to FoxNews the director of that movie is a Kerry donor:
In case you missed it in this column last Friday, you might like to know that the director of a new feel-good documentary called "America's Heart & Soul" — embraced by some right-wingers as the anti-"Fahrenheit 9/11" — has a secret for his new supporters.He's only made two contributions in the last decade to a politician, and that politician was none other than Sen. John Kerry.
Out of the blue last week came "America's Heart and Soul" from Disney, directed by a guy named Louis Schwartzberg, who has done cinematography for movies like "Men in Black" and "Any Given Sunday," but who has never directed a movie until now. This is the same Disney that rejected Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" and usually never releases documentaries anyway. ("F9/11" would have been a Miramax movie.)
Never mind. Last year, just as Disney was busy telling Miramax it couldn't release "F9/11," the Mouse House signed up "Heart & Soul" so it could play the patriotism card in case Miramax wound up having to release the Moore film.
A Disney publicist said the Schwartzberg film has been on its release schedule for over a year, but it had not a bit of media attention until a few days ago. Unlike every other god-awful Disney release this year, "Heart & Soul" never had what's known as an "all-media screening" for the press. It just sort of popped out of nowhere so that almost no critics could see it.
In the meantime, a conservative group called Move America Forward embraced the film as the anti-"F/911." Disney had a special screening for Move America Forward, the chairman of which is Howard Kaloogian, a former Republican state assemblyman in California who takes credit for starting the successful effort to recall Democratic Gov. Gray Davis.
But here's the punch line: I guess no one at Move America Forward looked into Schwartzberg's background before adopting him. It turns out that he's only made two political contributions in the last decade - and they were both to likely Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.
Schwartzberg, who lives in California, sent Kerry a check for $250 in 1997 and another one for $1,000 in 2002. When I asked Schwartzberg by phone last Thursday if he was a Kerry supporter, he replied, "I can't confirm or deny that."
On June 15, Move America Forward president Melanie Morgan wrote an article on the Web site called "Despite Hype, Movie Theaters Are Rejecting 'Fahrenheit 9/11.'" The film opened eight days later and broke the box-office record for a documentary.
As for "America's Heart & Soul," The Hollywood Reporter called the glossy 88-minute film a "flag-waving, unanalytical celebration of patriotism" and added that "the film would make a better fit on television or at one of Disney's theme parks." Reviewer Kirk Honeycutt concluded: "Had he [Schwartzberg] dug deeper into the individual stories and been willing to share in his interviewees' frustrations as well as their joys and triumphs, he would have presented a much more rounded portrait of what drives such eternal optimism."
Excellent. Even if they don't release it, for the next 72 hours worth of news cycles, the fact they demand it be made available will be "the" story. And by reporting it, some of the more vicious comments will be vetted before the public.
Some have suggested in the past several days the Bush/Cheney campaign isn't being aggressive enough. Sorry, I think they've taken it up a couple of notches since the moment the Edwards nomnination was announced.
This is just further proof of that.
And don't forget his statement concerning when life begins from this past weekend. Rush said on Tuesday that his choice of a VP was meant to decoy the media away from that statement. So far, it has worked.
What Whoopi Goldberg has to say sure isnt my heart and soul.
Same goes for the rest of those Hollywood Nuvo Riche'
Bush/Cheney taking the gloves off ping!
Well, I think his "I just don't have time..." quote on why he hasn't received National Security briefings was a stupid move, but yeah, I can see him having even worse and far more public moments... or, here's hoping anyway ;0)
They could have bought a ticket. Was it even taped?
Bump for the truth....to all voters....
It is my understanding that the Kerry campaign will release the tape before the don't release the tape.
True enough, my FRiend...
"We call on Kerry to release the video of this event so that all Americans can see what John Kerry has called America's 'heart and soul.'"
Zing!
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