Posted on 10/27/2012 4:05:27 PM PDT by 11th_VA
A group of Republican-leaning Navy SEALs is battling with movie mogul and Democratic donor Harvey Weinstein for voters' attention Nov. 4, just two days before Election Day.
The Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund, a political action committee made up of former special operations and intelligence members, says it will air an anti-Obama ad in key swing states during the prime-time debut of Weinstein's new "Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden."
The dramatic film, which prominently features President Obama's role in the raid that killed bin Laden, will debut on National Geographic and release on Netflix the following day.
OPSEC's ad, called "A Bump in the Road," is narrated by the group's president Scott Taylor, who says the Obama administration didn't "tell the truth about what happened" in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya in September. That attack killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and two former Navy SEALs working as security contractors there. "And the president says it's just 'a bump in the road,'" Taylor says. "There is nothing acceptable about playing politics with national security and American lives."
"A Bump in the Road," which is already airing in the swing states of Ohio and Virginia, echoes criticism from Mitt Romney and a number of other Republicans upset that Obama told 60 Minutes the protests in the Middle East after the attack in Libya were a "bump in the road" to democracy.
Taylor says OPSEC decided to buy spots for the ad beyond just Ohio and Virginia after realizing Weinstein was involved in the SEAL film, and that the film was airing on National Geographic just two days before the election.
"It's a political move and it's disappointing that National Geographic is running it," Taylor says. "In response to that we decided to sandwich the film with our ad."
Neither National Geographic nor the Weinstein Company immediately responded to request for comment about the film.
But the New York Times reported Tuesday the original version of Weinstein's film had been recut to include a more prominent role for Obama. "The star turn is virtually certain to bolster claims that the approximately 90-minute film amounts to a political stunt," the Times wrote. Weinstein told the Times the scenes with Obama were added to give the film a greater sense of realism.
This is not the first time OPSEC has accused Obama of politicizing the death of Osama bin Laden. In August, the group released a documentary short film called "Dishonorable Disclosures" on the issue. That documentary has now been viewed 4.7 million times and has raised approximately $2 million since its release, according to OPSEC.
The traitor Harvey Weinstein should be given the option of selecting the destination city of his choice to leave America, or we can throw his fat traitor ass onto a tramp steamer heading one-way to North Korea.
I am very, very tired of giving these Hollywood Nazis and commies a free ride in America,
Your free speech does not allow you trailer trash maggots in Hollywood to enslave Americans.
If we need to puncuate the above statement with bullets and bayonets, that can be done.
There are the same disgusting democrats who screamed over and over that Bush should not politicize 9/11. I’ve had it with National Geographic. I hope they go the way of Newsweek. Another less political entity will pick up what’s good about the National Geographic portfolio, and leave the rest of the crap to die on the vine.
Go SEALs.
SEALs and SWCCs are great.
Thanks for the link! I made a contribution, also.
The ad they are running is on the web site — very powerful!
Taxman Bravo Zulu! to whomever came up with this image!
Needs to go viral!
Way to go!!!
“And some “stupid video” isn’t going to change that.”
Wouldn’t it be something if this Weinstein video were to cause an uprising, here!
Obama just looks absolutely pathetic these days.
I’d cancel my subscription to National Geographic except I already did years ago. I notice the ads don’t show Obama at all but I suspected that the show was going to be propaganda just by the date it was being shown.
Fantastic!
As we know, something bigger might have been at stake here and this wasn’t an act of cowardice but a cover for something else. However, since there is no other explanation the people can understand, I stuck with cowardice. Obama is sacrificing generals, so just what the Hell is going on that was worth killing Americans, yet, no flag ranks understand why either?
I’ll repeat:
Taxman Bravo Zulu! to CodeToad!
Needs to go viral!
Re: sacrificing flag officers. Military and civilian employees of the federal government are Oath Keepers, and their pledge to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic will eventually come into play.
There soon will be a lot of Whistle Blowers, and Obongo Bozo’s October Surprise will well and truely turn out to surprise HIM and his LIBeral Lackeys!
Justice with Judge Jeanine 10/27/12 - CIA talks about latest news about Benghazi coverup
Judge Jeanine speaking with Charles Woods, father of Benghazi slain SEAL Ty Woods
Boycott
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