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Re: Campaign rage

Clarification on the Hitler ads, since I am sure someone who reads my blog will try to point out that the Hitler clips came from ads apparently aimed at Bush. The ads in question were not created by anyone associated with the DNC or the Kerry campaign. They were two amateur ads submitted along with over 1500 others online to a 30-second ad contest on MoveOn.org. As such, the creators optimistically, and inappropriately, even added the MoveOn logo at the end. But they were rejected by MoveOn as inappropriate and never even made it to the finals of the contest, let alone were they ever aired by any Democrat-friendly source. But not before the RNC made copies of them. The only place these ads actually lived on, and the only reason they received national attention, was through the Republican National Committee website and through the RNC, Drudge and others who then started a media uproar over them. In the uproar they glossed over the fact that these were amatuer ads never actually sponsored, supported or aired by MoveOn, Kerry, or the DNC. The Bush campaign, on the other hand, actually is using the Hitler images in national, official campaign advertising to attack their opponent. I wonder if the RNC and Drudge are going to rip into Bush now? Somehow, I doubt it. Frankly, there are a ton of both liberal and conservative websites out there that do some pretty hilarious, tasteless, or offensive things to make fun of the other side. But we should expect better of our national leaders. We shouldn't expect them to go combing the internet for the worse, extremist, individual examples and then using those as actual campaign ads. But if I had a nickel for every time I said "Bush shouldn't be lying like that," I'd be so rich I'd have to consider being a Republican. Respond to this posting

Posted by Randy Henderson at June 28, 2004 03:34 PM