Sept. 11 Families Disgusted by Bush Campaign Ads

Yahoo (Reuters) ^ | 3/4/04 | Mark Egan

[Helms]

[VOA]

Let's hope they wear their "Better Saddam than Bush" T-shirts to all the Kerry rallies.

And that they get caught on-camera/microphone booing a Boy Scouts color guard...
like at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles in 2000.

[TC Rider]

Is it any surprise that the press would run to the 9/11 activists first for comment?

[smiley]

Hold on here.....depends on which news station you're watching...I've heard callers from New York say that they were very glad that President Bush had the 9/11 references in his campaign ads...their opinion was that President Bush was there for them during and after 9/11 and the other Presidential candidates were not.

Dems are stirring up mud again.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Frankly, I think the Bush campaign should be using images from 9/11 even more. It was the most important event of Bush's first term. It transformed the debate in this nation. The campaign can't not mention it.

In any case, there are people who lost loved one's in the terrorist attacks. But we are all 9/11 families.

[Waco]

If dingleberry kerryRAT had used the very same type add first, it would not be called bad, it would be used repeatedly, all this year till Nov. The genius of this is that knocks the add type out for the RATS. But then again RATS don't got no reason not to do the same thing, the way they think.

[VOA]

"Families are enraged," said Bill Doyle, 57

If TWO SECONDS of 9-11 footage enraged them...too bad 11 seconds of footage wasn't used.
Eleven seconds is about the time it took for a human body to traverse the distance
from the top of one of the WTC towers to the pavement below.

[redrock]

What happened on 9/11 is NOT the sole property of ANYONE...even those who lost family members.

The UNITED STATES was attacked....every last one of us..and as such...no one can decide who can or can't use the images of that day in an Election.

redrock

[Libertarian444]

At least they bothered to include one pro-Bush quote.

Yep, they managed to "squeeze in" one quote in support of the President in the last line of the story. I guess that's what passes for balance at Reuters.

[Steve Van Doorn]

"But here's a perfect example of why it's best to never talk with the Press when you are upset. When you are emotionally distraught you will always say something thoughtless and stupid. And the press will print it with glee."

I been debating libs for years. They are in general agreement. They would rather vote for a monkey then Bush. He might of been upset but this is what they think.

[an amused spectator]

Revived Media Shenanigans ping - "Reuters reporter Mark Egan is disgusted by Bush campaign ads."

On, Off, or grab it for a Media Shenanigans/Schadenfreude ping:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~anamusedspectator/

A tip of the Shenanigans shillelagh to Freeper Dr. frank fan.

[Ichneumon]

Ooh, Jonah Goldberg nails it:

THE BUSH ADS [Jonah Goldberg]

I'm sorry, but while I have a great deal of sympathy for the families of 9/11 victims, I think these complaints are nonsense squared. A lot more people died during Vietnam than on 9/11 and John Kerry has been running ads with footage from there for months. These families may have a unique relationship to 9/11 but they do not have ownership of that day, politically, culturally or otherwise and it would be absurd if this administration caved on this point, even though I'm sure the media will be delighted to exploit the personal tragedies of these families.

[Color emphasis mine, italicized emphasis in original.]

That's gonna leave a mark.

[isthisnickcool]

I'm sorry these people lost family members. It's sad.

George W. Bush went after those that helped kill their family members. He went after them. Across the planet he sent people to hunt the killers and bring them to justice.

Unlike the people complaining here George W. Bush did not lose any loved ones on 9/11. Also unlike the people complaining here because George W. Bush went hunting for the killers Bush and his whole family will be forever marked for death by the people responsible for the 9/11 murders. But these people are not thinking of that. Because they apparently can't think. If they could they would realize that George W. Bush made an amazing sacrifice. And that was to forever put himself, Laura and the rest of their family in danger. Forever. And one reason he did so was for the people complaining here and their family members they lost on 9/11.

[dead]

Those who are complaining the loudest are probably card-carrying Democraps.

Ron Willett’s son, who was killed in the WTC, and whose father would proudly vote for Saddam Hussein, was a Mel Carnahan political appointee who was defeated by a Republican candidate when he had to answer to the voters. Any journalist worth half a dime would point that out.

God rest the unfortunate son’s soul.

Screw the father who would attempt to score political points off his son’s murder, while at the same time minimizing the crimes of one of this century’s biggest mass murderers. Scumbag.

[AmishDude]

This Ron Willett is a real piece of work: A letter to the FTC.

The Willetts are not media shy, that's for sure. It does look like John, at least, was politically active at least:

John Willett served as the state's youngest county treasurer. Gov. Mel Carnahan had appointed him to the post at age 23 in 1996, the year after John received his bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He served 18 months before losing an election bid to keep the post as a Democrat in a predominantly Republican county. . (9/10/2003)

Boy, the parents love to stir up trouble. (10/9/2002) According to this the son was adopted.

But I think it is safe to say that the Saddam voters are hardcore Democrats.

[So Cal Rocket]

I'm disgusted... disgusted, I tell you, that a candidate for the Presidency of the United States would stoop so low as to use a painful event in our Nation's past - one where so many Americans paid the ultimate price with their untimely deaths - in a political ploy to get votes:

[nmh]

It is tragic but people need to be REMINDED that security and nation defense are VERY important.

I lost some loved ones there and I WANT people to KNOW and REMEMER.

[gov_bean_ counter]

If dingleberry kerryRAT had used the very same type add first, it would not be called bad, it would be used repeatedly, all this year till Nov. The genius of this is that knocks the add type out for the RATS. But then again RATS don't got no reason not to do the same thing, the way they think.

James Brady has been the poster boy for gun control for the last twenty years. Sarah Brady has made a fortune wheeling her husband around like some sort of circus attraction. Sick, hypocritical.

[veronica]

Is it any surprise that the press would run to the 9/11 activists first for comment?

Nope. The press is running harder against Bush than the Democrats ever will. Bush has to beat both the press AND the Democrats. It's all so odious.

[Prince Caspian]

Rhetoric from political hacks. Absolutely irrelevant. Ignore at will.