Posted on 11/01/2004 11:01:40 AM PST by Cableguy
A wave of new television ads cropped up over the weekend after a Vietnam veterans group critical of Kerry's wartime service bought $500,000 of airtime in Minnesota alone for the final three days. The Swift Boat Veterans and POWs for Truth have spent $19.5 million nationwide questioning Kerry's service and his decision to speak out against the war after having fought in it.
The ad buy is huge by Minnesota standards. Political campaigns typically spend no more than $250,000 for a full week's advertising.
The ads brought a quick response from the Democrats, who brought in a former POW and onetime ambassador to Vietnam, Pete Peterson, to make two appearances Sunday on behalf of the Kerry campaign. He urged people in St. Paul and Rochester to dismiss the latest Swift Boat ads.
"The Swift Boat ads have been largely discredited, if not all discredited, and now having drawn in the former POWs into this thing they are attempting to steal the prestige of the POW community," he said.
Peterson, who was imprisoned for 6½ years in Vietnam, also narrates a new television ad released by the Kerry campaign over the weekend in response to the Swift Boat ad. The piece, which was produced a few weeks ago but held in reserve, was airing Sunday on the two network stations that had aired the Swift Boat ad, WCCO, Channel 4, and KARE, Channel 11.
Peterson said the ads unfairly portray Vietnam-era POWs as unified in their opposition to Kerry.
"There are others of us out here who feel very strongly that George W. Bush has in fact led America in the wrong direction, and we want a new regime change in the United States," he said. Peterson was the first postwar ambassador to Vietnam. His posting there ended in July 2001.
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Saw both "Unfit to Lead" and "Stolen Honor" here on local channels in Northeast Ohio on Sunday. Made the 18-year old first time voter in this household and her friends watch it. I think it was effective or should I say icing on the cake. Even they GET IT. :-)
AYE THAT!
He was NOT. Which makes it even sadder.
Those were on tv yesterday here in South Florida--it was kinda rainy so perhaps a few people saw it. Good stuff!
"The Swift Boat ads have been largely discredited, if not all discredited,"
You know, I hear this again and again and again from the left scum, but it's funny they have never said what specifically is discredited or who discredited it.
How could NO one have run an ad where Skerry admits to being a war criminal? What am I missing? Of all of the charges, I can't think of a single one more devestating than this one, and it's HIW OWN WORDS!????!!!!????
Am I the only one who thinks there is something greatly wrong with this phrase?
Or am I just reading too much into it?
The City of Pittsburgh is a cesspool politically and financially. The City is bankrupt, for all intents and purposes; has been run by Democrats since Moses walked Earth. It's dead, from a business standpoint. The current mayor is an absolute moron. Thank God I live in the 'burbs and never venture into the City unless I absolutely have to for business.
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