Guard Dodger? (New ad Accuses Kerry of avoiding Ala. National Gaurd)

[Nambe]

Newsweek

A new Republican-financed negative ad is accusing Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry of fleeing to Vietnam to avoid serving in the Alabama National Guard.

The ad, airing in most of the so-called battleground states,
tries to contrast Sen. Kerry's alleged guard-dodging with the storied Alabama National Guard heroism of the Republican nominee, President George W. Bush.

In the ad, a narrator asks, "When the Alabama National Guard called young Americans to serve, where was John Kerry? Thousands of miles away, in Vietnam."

The commercial ends with a black-and-white freeze-frame of Kerry, over which the narrator asks, "John Kerry... reporting for duty?" ..

The attack ad is hitting the airways just as an organization of Kerry's swift boat comrades from Vietnam is holding its first annual anti-Kerry convention in San Diego. ..

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[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. It's satire..not news..but ya gotta love Borowitz

[jpgray]

4. Satire has to be further and further out there to work these days

You've robbed us of what may have been entertaining replies. :D

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

8. You are so right..I shoulda held back

DOH!

[eyesroll]

2. Hee hee.

This is satire, so it probably doesn't belong in LBN...still funny...

[rawstory]

3. Dude, this is satire --

The Borowitz report. I get these emails from my dad all the time.

[tom_paine]

5. This is satire. Pretty funny, too.

[Lefty48197]

6. Why won't Kerry "come clean" about his attempts to dodge the AL guard?

he's such a communist.

[ewagner]

7. Damn! You almost had me

'til I read the link!!!!

LOL That's an ad that moveOn.org should run!!!!!

[icymist]

9. This is satire, not LBN material.

It's sad when satire is taken as real news!