Hitler Image Used in Bush Campaign Web Ad

[joeunderdog]

WASHINGTON (June 27) - Adolf Hitler's image has surfaced again in the White House race. President Bush's campaign contains online video, removed from a liberal group's Web site months ago and disavowed, that features the Nazi dictator.

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Democrats want the video pulled from the site. Campaign aides said it would remain.

Republicans had criticized the group MoveOn.org in January because it briefly posted an ad contest entry that linked Hitler and Bush. It showed images of Bush with text saying, "God told me to strike at al-Qaida," before turning to images of Hitler with the words, "And then He instructed me to strike at Saddam." The submission ended with the words, "Sound familiar?" on a black and white screen.

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The 77-second video on the Bush-Cheney re-election site splices footage of Kerry, the presumptive nominee, and his 2004 rival Dean along with 2000 nominee Gore and film director Michael Moore. The spot calls them Kerry's "Coalition of the Wild-eyed." Clips of Hitler's image are seen throughout the spot.

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http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/elections/article.adp?id=20040626170809990001


This is probably the only Chimp ad I'll ever be able to get through.

[joefree1]

1. Sign the petition

Sign the Petition
Tell President Bush to Remove the Outrageous Ad From His Website

President Bush is running a new ad on his campaign website that features an image of Adolf Hitler along with John Kerry and other Democrats. Bush has sunk to a new low in a campaign that has already relied entirely upon negative attacks.

Sign our petition today and demand that President Bush remove his disgusting new ad and apologize to Democrats for putting them on the same level as Adolf Hitler.
Sign the Petition

Dear President Bush,

You promised to change the tone in Washington, and the new ad on your website proves that you have been successful: Running Adolf Hitler's image alongside Democrats, including John Kerry, is a new low.

It is absolutely outrageous that your campaign would run an ad that puts Hitler's face alongside John Kerry and other Democrats. I am disgusted that you have decided to abandon a real debate on the issues facing the American people and instead drag this campaign into the gutter.

I demand that you remove the ad from your website immediately and apologize to John Kerry and all fair-minded Americans whom you have so grievously insulted.

http://www.democrats.org/action/200406260001.html?psc=actionalert

edit: just got this from the Democratic party in an e-mail.

[dedhed]

2. Bush campaign releases statement...

According to a press release, the Bush campaign has this to say to critics of the ad: NYAHH, NYAHH, NYA, NYA, NYAAHHHHHH!!

A disclaimer was added to the beginning of the Web spot on Saturday afternoon to explain that the video contains "remarks made by and images from ads sponsored by Kerry supporters." The disclaimer also accuses Kerry of failing to denounce those who have compared Hitler to Bush.

Always taking the moral high-ground, those loyal employees of Bush, Inc. are!!!

:bounce:

[rocktivity]

3. I myself hope they leave it up

It's the best pro-Kerry ad we've got. In fact, that's exactly what Kerry should say about it! And by including that disclaimer, they've blinked.



:headbang:
rocknation

[alfredo]

4. Notice they show bush giving a Nazi salute.

They even delivered some powerful messages about bush's failures.

[struggle4progress]

5. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=647591