Posted on 04/29/2008 1:38:43 PM PDT by mdittmar
The following is being issued by the Republican National Committee:
April 29, 2008
Chairman Howard Dean
Democratic National Committee
430 S. Capitol St., S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20003
Re: DNC's Use of "Fahrenheit 9/11" Footage in "100" Ad
Dear Chairman Dean:
I write regarding the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) advertisement attacking Senator John McCain titled "100," which was released on Sunday, April 27, 2008.
As you are already aware, and as has been widely reported, the DNC's ad is troubling for at least two reasons. First, its message is factually false; the DNC is deliberately misleading American voters. Second, it constitutes an illegal excessive in-kind contribution from the DNC to its presidential candidates. Now the Republican National Committee has learned that the ad features footage from Michael Moore's 2004 conspiracy theory, "Fahrenheit 9/11."
According to ABC News, the ad features "an IED blowing up near US soldiers," an image ABC confirms that was used in "Fahrenheit 9/11." It is no coincidence that the same Democrat advertising firm that produced this ad also was responsible for producing over $6.5 million worth of Democrat political advertising using themes from "Fahrenheit 9/11" in 2004.
The DNC's combining its gross mischaracterizations with footage made famous by a movie director who meets with dictators and continually expresses caustic anti-American rhetoric only further reveals the DNC's utter lack of respect for Senator McCain and his service to our country. Further, "Fahrenheit 9/11's" director has compared Iraqi terrorists with American Revolutionary heroes. For the DNC to deploy such footage in a political advertisement suggests at best a lack of appreciation, and at worst a disrespect, by the DNC for the sacrifices America's brave men and women have made and continue to make to protect our freedoms on the front lines in the war against radical Islamic extremism.
As a national party chairman you have an obligation to be straightforward with American voters. Continuing to air this ad, and others like it, is inconsistent with that obligation. Your responses to the falsity and the prohibited financing of this ad demonstrate that the DNC does not feel constrained by the law from running the ad. I am hopeful, however, that in light of this new revelation, simple common decency will prevail upon the DNC, and you will pull this advertisement off the air immediately.
Sincerely,
Robert M. "Mike" Duncan
Chairman
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I am in receipt of your letter of April 29.
YEEEEAAAARRRGGGHHHHHH!
Sincerely,
Howard Dean
DNC Chairman"
Howard Dean, needs to be put on military tribunal. These traitors need to be put on death row.
And some here posted the RNC wouldn’t do anything.
Just lookie here at what they have done, wrote a leeter they did.
Bet the DNC is really upset now.
Heck this will make them pull the ad in 2-3 months or so.
Alternative statement from Howard Dean: “What ya gonna do about it, bozo? The FEC lacks enough board members for a quorum, and Harry Reid assures me that we won’t confirm any until after the election. So, stuff it.”
What do you suggest? Pistols at dawn?
What do you suggest? Pistols at dawn?
Can stern language be far behind?
Anyone who knows anything knows that prior to bringing actual legal charges, one fires a shot across the bow.
If that isn't respected, the next one may be to the prow =
but heck, why wait to see when you perceive yet another chance to knock republicans.
AlWhore used fake footage from “The Day After Tomorrow” for his fantasy film “An Inconvenient Truth”.
Falsifying data dissingh the military are two time-honored Democrat traits.
“but heck, why wait to see when you perceive yet another chance to knock republicans”
I am a Republican, I am knocking the spineless jelly-fish at the RNC and leading our party.
BTW - I haven’t heard Juan McCains outrage at this YET, have you?
But he wasted NO time jumping all over the NC GOP for the ads they are running.
Their souls are already dead, and firmly under Satan's control.
Ths is normal opening procedure in getting an organization to pull a phony ad. Next come legal papers.
What do you suggest? Pistols at dawn?
What a great idea.
It would only have to happen one time and then the rest of the morons in political office would not be as quick to act like morons............
Dear Chairman Duncan,
If you actually know anything about me or my party then you know that we are predominantly spineless vicious treasonous weasels committed to undermining America’s national security (we do like to have a few token sane people around just to make it appear that we are not all Code Pink whackjobs).
Why then would you imagine we would do anything except celebrate this ad and continue to attack America’s morale and security?
Oh, but don’t worry, we do support the troops, I assure you.
Sincerely,
Howard Dean
The letter is a waste of time.
A large percentage of rank in file Democrats nationwide believe that the US government was responsible for 9/11.
“Democrats in America are evenly divided on the question of whether George W. Bush knew about the 9/11 terrorist attacks in advance. Thirty-five percent (35%) of Democrats believe he did know, 39% say he did not know, and 26% are not sure.”
The letter is in no way expected to make the dems see the light. It's merely a legal formality - a shot across the bow...before a shot to the prow
We should counter with an ad using “300!”
There. Fixed it.
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