TV Ad Demands Bush Get Allies to Cease Swift Boat Smear Campaign

[Nambe]

TV Ad Demands Bush Get Allies to Cease Swift Boat Smear Campaign; MoveOn PAC Ad Rips Attack on Kerry Heroism; Contrasts to Bush Failure to Appear for Duty (U.S. Newswire)

MoveOn PAC today released a new 30-second TV spot attacking George W. Bush for failing to call on one of his major donors -- a long-time associate of Karl Rove and leading Texas Republican funder -- to stop the smear campaign on John Kerry (news - web sites)'s Vietnam service being run by a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

The ads, which start running in three states and nationally Tuesday, call on the President to personally denounce the ads for their false and misleading attacks on Senator Kerry -- just as Senator John McCain has called on him to do.

Though the White House and the Bush-Cheney campaign deny involvement in the ads, SBVT is a clear Republican Party front. The group is funded primarily by Robert J. Perry, the largest donor to Republican causes in Texas, a long-time donor to George W. Bush, and a supporter of the political work of Karl Rove and Tom DeLay, among others.

"Karl Rove and the Republicans are up to their usual dirty tricks," said MoveOn PAC Director Eli Pariser. "Once again, they're funding and coordinating an outrageous smear campaign while denying their involvement and refusing to condemn it. John McCain knows what it's like to be on the receiving end of these attacks. Tactics like these should have no place in American politics, and, with one call, George W. Bush could stop them." ..

[unfrigginreal]

1. GEORGE BUSH Take that ad off the air!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: moveon.org

Edit to ad link to ad:

http://cdn.moveonpac.org/content/video/swiftresponse.mov

[Rose Siding]

5. I guess

"George Bush, take down that ad" woulda been over the top? But I heard its shadow in there!

[arwalden]

16. I Heard Echoes Of The "Mr. Gorbachev" Line Myself...

it could have worked... but it might also have been a distraction.

-- Allen

[Kierkegaard]

2. Outstanding

Way to go MoveOn! :yourock:

[Hegemony Cricket]

3. Remember to rate the article!

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[joefree1]

4. Yeah, rate the article!

You have given the news article TV Ad Demands Bush Get Allies to Cease Swift Boat Smear Campaign; MoveOn PAC Ad Rips Attack on Kerry Heroism; Contrasts to Bush Failure to Appear fo a rating of 5.
Its current average rating is 5.00 with 1 vote(s).

I'm the only one? :shrug:


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[arlib]

6. I rated it a 5...

...but it doesn't register as my having rated it. It says "not rated". WTF gives???

[w4rma]

17. About 40 people need to vote before press releases are rated. (nt)

[Massacure]

18. It doesn't show up until so many people rate it.

[w4rma]

20. …

[saigon68]

7. The rating doesn't work on this article

[Shallah Kali]

8. I am trying to rate it but it isn't registering

dang!

[unfrigginreal]

9. Interesting, it told me that the article was not rated

and "Its current average rating is 5.00 with 1 vote(s)" after I voted. This was after I read your post.

[dArKeR]

27. Attention: the link has CHANGED! I just went there and was the first to

rate the story at your above link! You all must vote again!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usnw/20040816/pl_usnw/tv_ad_demands_bush_get_allies_to_cease_swift_boat_smear_campaign__moveon_pac_ad_rips_attack_on_kerry_heroism__contrasts_to_bush


Wait wait, something is strange. I just clicked again on original link at it again says "Not Rated" so I vote and I'm the first to rate the story. Then again and it's the same thing, "Not Rated". ?????

[PROGRESSIVE1]

10. At this point the Democratic Meme has to be......

"President Bush has endorsed this ad"

[Got WMD]

12. FINALLY!!!!

Thank you MoveON. Someone, other than Kerry, has to forcfully take these fools on. The second Kerry starts talking about it, the "liberal" media will be all over him, claiming he elevated the debate on this story and it's now fair game. FINALLY!!!

I think a new group should look into *'s days as a male cheerleader.
Phillips Andover Male Cheerleaders for the Truth??? Are all of his claims as a pom-pom boy the truth... or fabricated??? An investigation is needed!!!

[progressivebydesign]

11. Great ad..

.. wish they had time in the ad to point out WHO is specifically paying for that ad. But for those with a short attention span, I think it hits the mark perfectly. Cool, we're fighting back.

[Fridays Child]

13. Time to send MoveOn a few bucks.

They do yeoman's work.

[Dems2002]

14. Yahoo Ratings

I just gave this a 5 and it told me my vote was 1 of 1. Something's screwed up here.

Dems

[Sporadicus]

15. Same With Me

Rating of 5 with 1 vote.

[R Hickey]

21. me too

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[DoveTurnedHawk]

19. Brilliant!

I love it!

DTH

[Voltaire99]

22. The whole thing is amusing!

Nobody on the left asked you to run like a goddamn hawk, Kerry. It was you and your foolish neo-liberal crowd that decided you'd try to out-hawk the Bushies--a stupid mistake in the hour of a phony war when the nation desperately needs military deescalation.

The Kerry who renounced the atrocities in Vietnam was the valuable Kerry. The Kerry who shrugs off that past honesty, and now goes around saluting and pretending that there was valor in helping to slay 3 million Vietnamese, is a man who forfeits my concern.

And now I should be outraged by one set of militarists sniping at another set of militarists? LOL! I don't think so!

[emulatorloo]

24. look at the internals on every poll

Kerry outpolls bush on all issues but terror / natl security

that is the sale he must close to get elected. Sorry that is the reality. he has to convince the undecideds that he will keep them safer than Geo Bush.

you can keep the country safe w/o being an idiot hawk.

[faithnotgreed]

23. fwiw, it just let me rate it (5 of course) and now it says it has 1 rating

who knows why but thats how it went

maybe try again. there is conflicting information about if you can or cant rate these press releases. this is my 3rd one today (kerry) and i havent had any problem with them but others have....

[Democat]

25. Make sure to sign their Swift Lies petition too

http://www.moveonpac.org/falseadvertising/

[dArKeR]

26. Hey, I helped pay for that AD!

[Keirsey]

29. Yahoo!!

I love it! About time we, media-wise, called * on the AWOL issue!!

[chimpy the poopthrower]

28. I tried getting to that article directly by searching yahoo news...

I did a search at news.yahoo.com for "moveon" and the article name came up:

TV Ad Demands Bush Get Allies to Cease Swift Boat Smear Campaign; MoveOn PAC Ad Rips Attack on Kerry Heroism; Contrasts to Bush Failure to Appear for...

Troy Record - 57 minutes ago

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- MoveOn PAC today released a new 30-second TV spot attacking George W. Bush for failing to call on one of his major donors -- a long-time associate of Karl Rove and leading Texas Republican funder -- to stop the smear campaign on John Kerry's Vietnam service being run by a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth...

...but when I click the link it goes to page on http://www.troyrecord.com that says:

"The requested article is not available."

:shrug:

[vwrcop]

30. Wouldn't Bush be breaking the law?

If Bush asked the Swiftvets to stop the add. Wouldn't that be co-ordination with a 527 and therefore illegal?

[Democat]

31. Absolutely not

Candidates condemn third party ads and tactics many times.

Bush is free to state his opinion on the ad.

If Bush broke the law, it was when his campaign put together this group and helped fund them in the first place behind the scenes.