Hitler Image Used in Bush Campaign Web Ad

[mopaul]

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Published - Jun 26 2004 04:06PM CDT || AP
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.

"The use of Adolf Hitler by any campaign, politician or party is simply wrong," said Kerry's campaign manager, Mary Beth Cahill, who called on the GOP campaign to remove the Web video from its site.

"We're using the video from MoveOn.org to show our supporters the type of vitriolic rhetoric being used by the president's opponents and John Kerry's surrogates," said Scott Stanzel, a spokesman for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign.

[TexasSissy]

1. Someone ought to spit back at them what THEY said about the moveon.org ad.

It'll be interesting to see if this gets TV time. Both the ad and the fact that the Repubs had a hissy fit over the moveon.org ad.

But...it's a pretty weak video on the RNC site, IMO. Showing Kerry with his loudest, most emotional voice (which is still sooooo subdued) hardly makes any comparison to Hitler.

And WE are the ones in favor of free speech, pro-choice, helping the poor, etc. Again, no comparison to the Nazis.

The reason the moveon.org ad was so strong in appeal was that the comparison was so right on. Hence, the freeper attacks.

[Warpy]

3. The ad at moveon.org was a contribution in a contest

which had no official stamp of approval. It wasn't in the top 15, and it was pulled when people objected to it.

The ad on the Bush site is an official effort. It has the stamp of approval of the President of the US. People are objecting to it, yet they keep it there.

There's a big difference here, folks, between an amateur entry into a contest which was pulled, and an OFFICIAL STATEMENT which has not been pulled.

Bush is scum, and the continued use of this insult on his website is proof of it.

[Pachamama]

2. DUPE Post

Here's an earlier thread, same story

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