TV ads push Iraq War support

[sabra]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-060228iraqads,1,7880593.story?coll=chi-news-hed

TV ads push Iraq War support

WASHINGTON -- In an early sign of the imagery that may flood the nation's television screens as congressional elections approach this fall, a conservative political group closely aligned with the Bush administration has launched a blitz of television ads to shore up sagging public support for the war in Iraq.

The television commercials feature vivid portraits of smoke pouring from the World Trade Center and the aftermath of terrorist attacks in Madrid and London as veterans of the Iraq war and parents of fallen soldiers make the case for continuing the U.S. military campaign in Iraq.

In what appears to be a test before the advertising campaign is rolled out to a broader audience, the political group Progress for America spent more than $1 million to air the commercials in Minnesota over a two-week period, according to a source familiar with the ad buy.

...

One of the ads includes complaints that the media coverage of the war has been misleading.

"You'd never know it from the news reports, but our enemy in Iraq is Al Qaeda, the same terrorists who killed 3,000 Americans on 9/11," the ad says.

[elehhhhna]

1. sue them for false advertising.

[Craig3410]

2. ...

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[xchrom]

6. what craig3410 said...

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[underpants]

3. The disinformation now has an official stamp on it

Nice.

Was alQaeda...oh never mind :grr:

[mymomwasright]

4. These people are the true enemies of the nation!!

Spreading fear! They have no legitimate ability to rule effectively, so they always "show the towers". :grr: :puke:

[Lochloosa]

29. Welcome to DU

Mom must have been a Democrat }(

[BlueManDude]

5. Advertising for a war - as low as it gets.

[myrna minx]

7. These ads have been bombarded upon Minnesota for about a month now...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=160&topic_id=17057&mesg_id=17057


They are truly despicable. :puke:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=160&topic_id=16994&mesg_id=16994

[lagavulin]

32. I've been subjected to these in Minnesota as well...

...they're incredibly misleading--probably criminally so. They're edited to expressly imply that Saddam was behind 9/11. Then they're basically just overly sentimental voice-overs of three or four Iraqi war vets saying how great the work they're doing in Iraq is. I heard rumor one of the featured vets was a desk-jockey through his whole stint in Iraq.

What really burns my ass though is that you could NEVER get a commercial on the air that advocated bringing the troops home immediately.

As a matter of fact, Adbuster has fought for years with various media corps to air or publish ads that advise American to rethink their consumption habits and the effects those have on the planet. They publish a sample collection of rejection letters on their website....

No one of any intelligence watches the TV news anymore (or reads newspapers for that matter).

[leQ]

35. i think they've been in iowa even longer

the local station even did a piece at the top of their news cycle because so many people were calling in complaining. evidently they 'checked' and every word was 'true' so they had to let it air.

yeah, right. it only goes to show how cunning the liars are getting.

[myrna minx]

37. Welcome to DU, lagavulin.

:hi: It is quite interesting that the likes of WCCO and KARE would air these ads, yet chose not to air negative ads against Pawlenty because they couldn't "verify" the ads. :eyes: So much for the "marketplace of ideas."
I feel like I lose IQ points when I watch TV news. How does on keep a job when the principle idea is to inform, but if their viewers come away from their "news" more uninformed then before. Welcome to bu$hworld.

Check out our Minnesota forum when you have a chance. We have quite a wonderful group. :hi:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=160

[acmejack]

8. Put their money where their mouths are-Send their kids!

Until they do that, STFU!

[raccoon]

38. I was thinking the same thing--and you know the

bastards would never do that.

[rodeodance]

9. When i lived in Minnesota it was blue--I fear for it now.

In what appears to be a test before the advertising campaign is rolled out to a broader audience, the political group Progress for America spent more than $1 million to air the commercials in Minnesota over a two-week period, according to a source familiar with the ad buy.

[Arkansas Granny]

10. And who funds Progress for America? Is this some more

government propaganda a la NCLB?

[myrna minx]

11. Research from another Duer...

See post # 3
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=160x17164

[Arkansas Granny]

13. Just as I suspected.

[soup]

20. Thank you for the link.

Nothing blatant about this, hey? :insertsarcasmtaghere:

An addition to Zookeeper's list:

Source watch's entry for 'Progress for America'
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Progress_for_America

on edit: where'd that smilie face come from? doh. fixed.

[Just Me]

12. Is there no legal means of challenging this group's intentional,...

,...misrepresentation of the facts? These misleading and, at times, totally FALSE ads MUST BE SUBJECT to some legal standard,...somewhere.

Does "free speech" include false/misleading/fraudulent speech? :shrug:

To me, these advertisements are the shit in the political toilet and they must be curtailed.

[hootinholler]

23. Not a lawyer, but...

It never stopped me from chiming in before.

I think if you can demonstrate that you've been damaged, Individually or as a group, then you have a case.

I agree with your sentiment.

-Hoot

[bpilgrim]

14. No Bravery (video)

http://nobravery.cf.huffingtonpost.com

I hope they air this one...

peace

[sheelz]

28. Thanks for sharing this!

:cry:

It needs a separate posting!

[tatertop]

30. I like that one

great video set to great music

[Bok_Tukalo]

15. The necessity of going to war should be self evident

Selling it like soap should not be required.

[AlCzervik]

16. now if only there was a paper trail showing that group got $$$ from the

gov. some lawyer would have a good case.

[Bigmack]

17. Now expect to see .....

... TV stations airing ANTI-war ads? Something from moveon.org, for example?

And then monkeys might fly out of my ass....!

[NMDemDist2]

18. good freaking grief! glad to give this the 5th Nom

what a bunch of @sshole lying MFers.....

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[newspeak]

22. The dangers of public relations industry

Hitler studied American public relations on how to "sell" to the people. This administration has honed PR to the nth degree. The pig farm was bought right before the 2000 election, the perception of Bush as a "home grown cowboy (when we know he's afraid of horses), using a "down home house" as a backdrop instead of his real sprawling ranch, selling the people the IRAQ war. Everything has been consumerized to feed to the unwitting public. I bet they spend millions or even billions on public relations. After all, Poppy hired a PR firm to sell his war with Iraq. For the people of the US, this modus operandi is very dangerous, very dangerous.

[BiggJawn]

21. What does War have to do with "Progress" for Murka?

Unless you're heavily invested in Raytheon or GE?

[fishnfla]

24. We started the war in Iraq because of London and Madrid

is that how it goes? Jolly good shit, this pre-emptive stuff, give me another toke.

Now we are entangled in a full-out civil war which nobody wants and 72% of our troops want out in a year (maybe they should see the advertisement too).

Motherfucking liars

[hang a left]

25. Off topic....kind of

What type of voting system does Minnesota have?

[expatriot]

26. If only we had had troops in Baghdad on September 10th, 2001....

The hijackers could not have boarded their flights on the morning of September 11th.

[Roland99]

27. Fits with a government that campaigns, not governs.

[daleo]

31. A Berlin tv ad, circa 1944 (if they had tv)

First, smoke pouring from a burning Reichstag.

Then voiceover: "You would never know it from the anti-German news reports, but our enemies in Russia are the same communists who burned the Reichstag."

(you can replace the term "Russia" with "France", "Warsaw", etc.)
(you can replace "communists" with "democrats", "Jews", etc.)

More propaganda.

[sakabatou]

33. How are these commercials funded

And how dare they tie in 9-11 to the Iraq war! That's a fucking lie!

[President Kerry]

34. Al Qaeda is in Iraq BECAUSE of the war.

Somebody please explain it to these idiots.

[shanti]

36. what ads?

i haven't watched network teevee in years.

[raccoon]

39. Would it help to call the stations that air these, and complain? nt

[Nutmegger]

40. Have to "sell" to "war"

Even if it's so wrong and evil.

And it'll probably work.

:puke:!!!!!!

[against all enemies]

41. Hope there's some "Mission Accomplished" footage. How about

"Bring Them On" or "One zs Two-zs". Go ahead start making the war an issue. Then they can defend their miserable record.

[MadMaddie]

42. I would say that False Advertising....

[Mugsy]

43. Looking under streetlight'cause light is better?

That last line about (paraphrase) "in Iraq to get al-Qaeda" reminds me of the guy that searches for the item he dropped beneath the streetlight eventhough he dropped it further away. His response: "The light's better over here."

Going after al-Qaeda in Iraq is like going after swordfish in your bathtub because going out to the ocean is too much trouble.