Posted on 11/21/2005 3:28:10 PM PST by Miami Vice
From : Tom Matzzie, MoveOn.org Political Action Subject : Deadline: Push back on Bush's Iraq smears.
A real debate about Iraq has broken out in Congress but Republicans are lashing out at war critics. Don't let them get away with that. Push back by helping to put our new TV ad on the air. We need to raise $250,000 TODAY to get the ad up before TV stations close their ad departments for Thanksgiving. Will you contribute?
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Dear MoveOn member,
Last week a real debate about how to change course in Iraq started in Congress. Now Republicans and the Bush administration are lashing outtrying to smear their critics. They called former war-supporter and Vietnam veteran Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA) a "coward."1 A new Republican TV ad attacks Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid in his hometown.2
To make sure the Republican offensive doesn't silence critics we've put together a new TV ad. But to put the ad on the air, we need to raise $250,000 today. Just $50 from 5,000 of us will make a big difference. Will you contribute? Click below.
https://political.moveon.org/donate/thanksgiving.html?id=6395-5096225-kcrUHg3DdaqbaFbVtQKleg&t=3
We will only be able to run this ad if we raise the money today because the ad departments at TV stations close earlier for Thanksgiving week.
Even a small contribution will put the ad on the air if we all chip in. If we beat the goal, we can expand the ad to the hometowns of Republican members of Congress who are pushing these smears.
This is a critical moment. The Bush administration and the Republicans in Congress are backed into a corner and trying to slash their way out by casting war critics as cowards. We've got to stay on the offensive.
Together we can encourage voters in these representative's hometowns to let them know they want a plan for getting out of Iraq. With the president's approval ratings below 40 percent and the Iraq war more unpopular than ever, we're finding that Americans are with us even in towns historically supportive of the war.
The TV ad can make a big difference if we act quickly. MoveOn is entirely member funded so it is up to each of us. Please take just a minute to click on the link below and make a contribution to put the new ad on TV.
https://political.moveon.org/donate/thanksgiving.html?id=6395-5096225-kcrUHg3DdaqbaFbVtQKleg&t=4
The ad, titled "Home for the Holidays," uses the backdrop of a Thanksgiving dinner to remind viewers that their representative should support a plan to bring the troops home. (Check out the story board in this e-mail.) The ad closes by urging people to call their representative and ask him or her to "Support the troops and bring them home."
If we can swamp them with thousands of calls from the ads they'll get the message that smearing leaders who are working to get us out of Iraq is the wrong choice.
Democrats in Congress did their part by starting a real debate about Iraq. Now it is our turn with this new TV ad. It will help end the war and make clear that, in 2006, we need to change course in Iraq and change course on Election Day.
Thanks for all you do,
Tom, Rosalyn, Eli, Jennifer and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team Monday, November 21st, 2005
Sources:
1. "'Mean Jean' Goes to Washington, and Invites a Firestorm," The New York Times, November 20, 2005.
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1172 2. "Attack on Critics: RNC ad targets Reid," Las Vegas Review-Journal. November 18, 2005.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Their propoganda. Fiction. Will revolt most Americans.
Our Response. The truth.
Americans died a slow and horrid death on 9/11.
America was attacked by ruthless exteme Muslim groups.
We must not allow this to happen again.
NEVER FORGET.
Thank God we had a president with the fortitude to finally stike back at terrorists.
There were naysayers predicting doom AFTER we defeated Nazi Germany. They are still striving to gain defeat following the victory over Sadaam's Iraq.
Where did you get that photo and the Dos Passos piece? Could you send it to me?
I guess you know Dos Passos was a red. Another example of unibased juornalism like the Pulitzer Prize winning Walter Duranty who said there was no slaughter by Stalin and the other Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for the Philly Daily News Will Bunch who said the Iraq War and Bush tax cuts caused the New Orleans levees to break.
Front Page writer Michael P. Tremoglie disproved this by going to the actual source. Oh and he didn't get a Pulitzer.
Tells you something about journalism awards
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