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Posted on 08/16/2004 9:18:31 AM PDT by areafiftyone
TV Ad Demands Bush Get Allies to Cease Swift Boat Smear Campaign; MoveOn PAC Ad Rips Attack on Kerry Heroism; Contrasts to Bush Failure to Appear for Duty
To: National Desk, Political Reporter
Contact: Trevor FitzGibbon or Jessica Smith, 202-822-5200, both for MoveOn PAC
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- MoveOn PAC today released a new 30-second TV spot attacking George W. Bush for failing to call on one of his major donors -- a long-time associate of Karl Rove and leading Texas Republican funder -- to stop the smear campaign on John Kerry's Vietnam service being run by a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
The ads, which start running in three states and nationally Tuesday, call on the President to personally denounce the ads for their false and misleading attacks on Senator Kerry -- just as Senator John McCain has called on him to do.
Though the White House and the Bush-Cheney campaign deny involvement in the ads, SBVT is a clear Republican Party front. The group is funded primarily by Robert J. Perry, the largest donor to Republican causes in Texas, a long-time donor to George W. Bush, and a supporter of the political work of Karl Rove and Tom DeLay, among others.
"Karl Rove and the Republicans are up to their usual dirty tricks," said MoveOn PAC Director Eli Pariser. "Once again, they're funding and coordinating an outrageous smear campaign while denying their involvement and refusing to condemn it. John McCain knows what it's like to be on the receiving end of these attacks. Tactics like these should have no place in American politics, and, with one call, George W. Bush could stop them."
Called "Swift Response", the 30-second ad features footage of a young George Bush in National Guard Uniform, his medical form being stamped with his failure to appear, and footage of the young John Kerry in Vietnam.
The ad will run initially for one week in each market where the SBVT ad was shown -- in Toledo and Youngstown, Ohio; in Charlestown, West Virginia; and in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The nearly $200,000 buy will yield 400 Gross Rating Points (GRPs) in all four local markets.
MoveOnPAC will make the ads available to media today at http://cdn.moveonpac.org/content/video/swiftresponse.mov. Beta and VHS tapes are available by contacting Steve Smith at: SSmith@fenton.com or 202-822-5200 x243.
The script of the ad follows:
MOVEON.ORG PAC, 30 SEC TV, "Swift Response"
VIDEO
OPEN ON THE YOUNG GEORGE BUSH IN NATIONAL GUARD UNIFORM.
AUDIO
ANNOUNCER (VO): George Bush used his father to get into the National Guard, and...
VIDEO
CUT TO BUSH'S NATIONAL GUARD MEDICAL FORM BEING STAMPED WITH "FAILURE TO APPEAR".
AUDIO
ANNOUNCER (VO): ...when the chips were down, went missing.
VIDEO
CUT TO SHOT OF TV SHOWING "SWIFT BOAT" SPOT, THEN WORDS APPEAR ACROSS SCREEN, "FALSE ADVERTISING".
AUDIO
ANNOUNCER (VO): Now, he's allowing false advertising that attacks John Kerry...
VIDEO
CUT TO FOOTAGE OF A YOUNG JOHN KERRY IN VIETNAM.
AUDIO
ANNOUNCER (VO): ...a man who asked to go to Viet Nam and who served with dignity and heroism.
VIDEO
CUT TO HALF SCREEN PICTURE OF JOHN McCAIN. HIS WORDS APPEAR ON SCREEN NEXT TO HIS PICTURE.
AUDIO
ANNOUNCER (VO): Here's what a true Republican war hero has to say about the anti-Kerry ad: "I think the ad is dishonest and dishonorable...I think the Bush campaign should specifically condemn the ad."
VIDEO
CUT TO SHOT OF BUSH AND CLOSING DISCLAIMER COPY.
AUDIO
ANNOUNCER (VO): George Bush: Take that ad off the air. MoveOn PAC is responsible for the content of this advertisement.
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JUST THE FACTS: SBVT SWIFT BOAT ADS AND THE ROVE SMEAR MACHINE
FACT: "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" is a front organization for Karl Rove and the Republican party. SBVT is funded primarily by Robert J. Perry, a multimillionaire Texas businessman and the state's leading donor to Republican candidates and causes. Campaign documents and his representatives confirm that Perry has given more money to campaigns and political organizations in the last four years than any other Texan, over $5 million to scores of political candidates, including $20,000 to Bush's two campaigns for governor in the 1990s.
FACT: SWVT in its July 15 IRS filing reports raising $158,000 in total, of which Perry donated $100,000.
FACT: Media company behind Swift Boat ads produced anti-McCain ads in 2000. Spaeth Communications, listed as SBVT's media contact, has long and deep Republican ties. In 2000, Spaeth participated in producing ads for 'Republicans for Clean Air' which falsely attacked the environmental record of Sen. John McCain in California, New York and Ohio. The funder of that group turned out to be Sam Wyly -- another big Bush contributor and beneficiary of Bush administration decisions in Texas -- and his brother, Charles, another Bush "Pioneer" contributor."
FACT: The charges in the ad are directly contradicted by the men who were on Kerry's boat. The former Army lieutenant whom Kerry plucked from the water, Jim Rassman, backs Kerry's account. In an August 10 opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, Rassmann, a Republican, wrote that the ad was "launched by people without decency" who are "lying" and "should hang their heads in shame."
Some of those making the charges now are directly contradicting their own past public statements, and none of the veterans featured in the advertisements served on the river patrol boats Kerry commanded during Vietnam.
FACT: McCain Urges Bush: "Condemn this ad" ... Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has called the ad campaign "dishonest and dishonorable" and urged George Bush to "specifically condemn" the ad. Regrettably, George Bush has refused to do so. Said McCain: "I can't believe the president would pull such a cheap stunt.... It was the same kind of deal that was pulled on me." Asked if the White House knew about the ad or helped find financing for it, McCain said, "I hope not, but I don't know. But I think the Bush campaign should specifically condemn the ad." So do we.
FACT: George W. Bush Has Condemned Such Smear Tactics in the Past...In 1992, George W. Bush called on Republicans to denounce a similar smear campaign against Bill Clinton. According to the 7/14/92 Washington Post, George W. Bush wrote a letter in 1992 on behalf of his father's presidential campaign to 85,697 campaign contributors condemning an operation attempting to smear Bill Clinton and encouraging them not to contribute to the effort.
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I have ordered 5 copies of the book (from Amazon), and donated $250.00 to the Swifties, so far. I will donate more this Friday!
LLS
All he has to do is say he and Jane Fonda had a "thang goin' on" on Christmas while he was in Cambodia. Presto, then it's just about sex, and it'll all go away.
Broadcast never used Beta. They once used U-Matic, another Sony standard, but it was 3/4 inch tapes, larger than the VHS tapes.
Good news. Swift Boats is making headway.
What a bunch of whinny-a$$-crybaby morons. MoveOn.org is a consortium of nefarious organizations and people with dubious moral character. Any time anyone opposes anything Soros and his ilk have to say they start screaming about how Bush is behind it. This leftish trash doesn't seem to understand that in Fly Over Country people can read and think for themselves. We do not need a bunch of marxists telling us that the sky is green.
People who DO NOT care overmuch about the Presidential election are interested in the Swift Boat Vets and what they have to say. This interested is caused by the cloudy circumstances under which the 3 Purple Hearts were awarded. Kerry and his band of merry men want to parade around broadcasting their "rememberances" of Kerry's distingushed service of approximately 4 months and how he earned the medals, yet the voting public is not allowed to ask questions. Anyone with three functional brain cells can see that something is amiss in this happy little caricature.
/rant off
breathe deep, deep breaths, slow deep breaths.
The hypocrisy of this statement (George Soros) is mind-numbing.
My thoughts exactly!!
My thoughts exactly!!
It would be good if the WH Press Office said exactly this, in the same breath as saying it condemns all 527 activity.
Where's the evidence of that, moveo'weenies?
CUT TO BUSH'S NATIONAL GUARD MEDICAL FORM BEING STAMPED WITH "FAILURE TO APPEAR"
A non necessary physical since Bush couldn't fly with the Alabama Air National Guard
ANNOUNCER (VO): ...when the chips were down, went missing.
What "chips" ? Moveon cow-pie chips? The only thing that "went missing" was the sanity of the Dim party.
hahahaha ... Nothing giving the Swiftboat Vets more media attention
YEah-it would be so great to know how much the marxist SOROS has donated to Moveon.org! - have hear the number FIVE MILLION slung around. (And the tides foundation, as well, you know, Ter-AYE-Zah's favorite charity, has given to moveone.org <-----started by norman lear and ann lewis, to move everyone beyond klinton's intern porking and impeachment over lying under oath )LOL<p.I think Perry donated one hundred thousand to the Swift Boat Vets...sounds like Perry knows the truth when he hears it!
They're going nuts on the Swifties because they've had to suppress their natural hatred for the military for months and months. After all, every effing RAT and DUmbass in the country has had to say he/she/it "supports the troops" for fear of having the crap beaten out of them if they express their true feelings about our military. They see this as their chance to let it all out before their heads explode.
I prefer these three words to describe Soros;"AMERICA-HATING A**HOLE"!!There,Ive said it!!!I feel better already!!!!
That one needs to make the rounds for sure.
Rush just now said that the SwiftBoat story is really getting legs. Hahahaha
LOL -- "Those @$$holes should stop engaging in namecalling."
His "brothers" are now 99 other Senators. Protecting their own. Brand citizen americans as liars is part of protecting his "own."
They mean BetaCam tape, used by television broadscasts.
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