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More about the Bush Campaign ads...

Mar 7, 2004 2:01PM PST
Who, exactly, is behind these self-appointed full-time revelers in professional victimhood? Let's take a gander.

The loudest voice of "victims' families" is a left-wing outfit that calls itself
Peaceful Tomorrows. Not even John Kerry would publicly embrace its admitted mission, which is to respond to terrorist attacks with "nonviolent solutions."

Its Web site reveals a host of Jimmy Carter-style blame-America-first thinking: sponsorship of a lecture on "How Our National Tragedy Was Used to Launch an Unjustified War," scheming with anti-defense zealots and the latest from failed White House wannabe Dennis Kucinich. Get the picture?


Interesting to note that they are funded largely by Teresa Hines (yep, Kerry's wife) through Tides foundation. http://www.peacefultomorrows.org/contribute.html

And still more here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1091579/posts
(source is Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | 3/5/04 if you have something against freerepublic)

Now, about the Firefighters -- That union just happens to be endorsing Kerry.

But the firefighters themselves back Bush. Hero New York City firefighter Mike Moran, whose words of defiance against Osama bin Laden helped rally the nation in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, said Friday that he finds President Bush's campaign ads invoking the attacks "inspirational."

Politicizing? YES, but not by Bush.

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This is also interesting ...
Mar 7, 2004 8:29PM PST
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Yep, but notice how it isn't just the media keeping 'quiet' now? (NT)
Mar 8, 2004 1:43AM PST
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Re:Yep, but notice how it isn't just the media keeping 'quiet' now? (NT)
Mar 8, 2004 3:35AM PST

An ad is an ad and I think most people understand that its intent is to make them think positively about a product. This does not preclude telling the truth but it sure doesnt make it an absolute either. As a New Yorker I feel Mr. Bush and his spin team can say what they like. There is no way they are going to win this state anyway!

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Where's the outrage over Master Card....
Mar 8, 2004 3:52AM PST

MSNBC showed a Master Card that had a group of small photos on its face, including 9-11 firefighter images.
Where's the "outrage" over that? Edward, the anti-Bush forces are hiding in their bunkers. The public is supposed to forget about such things that embarrass the Democrats and Kerry. No such luck, not only did they lose the lock on the big TV network news coverage, but in this new era the big TV networks themselves have lost their former status as the primary way of how people get news.

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J, do you have more info re: MasterCard? -nt
Mar 8, 2004 3:59AM PST

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Here it on CNN...
Mar 8, 2004 4:18AM PST

Here is a link to a story about it on CNN:
http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/05/news/companies/mbna_cards/

Isn't it curious that you had never heard about it and the fact that we didn't see any "outrage" over it here when the anti-Bush forces were howling?
I'd suggest that you learn to do your own "leg work", you'll get your information faster if you don't wait while someone else finds it for you. It took me about 90 seconds to come up with that CNN story, even though it was down in their financial news.

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Thanks for the link
Mar 8, 2004 4:27AM PST

I'd say you didn't hear any outrage over it because by the time most people heard about it it was already canceled and apologized for. If bush had done the same it would have greatly limited the hue and cry over his outrageous actions.

I wasn't really in a hurry, but thanks for the tip.

Dan