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01/05/2004 Archived Entry: "RNC moans about 'Bush-Hitler' ad - then hosts it."
RNC moans about 'Bush-Hitler' ad - then hosts it.
Talk about trying to have it both ways - Drudge has an article up whining about one of the entries in the MoveOn 'Bush in 30 Seconds' contest that compares Bush with Hitler. He notes the GOP's outrage at the ad, blah, blah, blah....
And he has a link for you to view the ad - which is hosted on the RNC's web site.
Come on, RNC - if the ad is so repulsive, why do you have Drudge sending people to your site to see it? Hypocrites.
Replies: 6 people speak up
and it's not even one of the finalists, so they are whining about nothing, the big babies
Posted by preznit giv me turkee @ 01/05/2004 07:59 PM NY
It was a good one. I notice the RNC didn't sue them for factual errors...
Posted by Old Fashionedf Patriot @ 01/06/2004 12:56 AM NY
Ed Gillespi was on CNN Crossfire yesterday and James Carville got in his face big time, saying moveon.org had pulled the ads and asking "where is the only place you can see the ads, Ed? Huh Ed? Tell us where is the only place you can see them on the internet?" Gillespi finally admitted that they had put them up for a day but now they were gone. I just checked, and yes, they are gone, but they have been replaced by a transcript. What a bunch of assholes.
Posted by skb @ 01/07/2004 03:19 PM NY
The tide is turning. I can see now the republican party getting a bit squirmy after the "Hitler" ad fiasco that Ed G. at the RNC is raising a "stink" over. I put it in quotes because it's such an ACT!
"What, Bush A Nazi?! How DARE YOU! How DARE >>throat clear<< you tarnish our great president's reputation as a fine upstanding American! Comparing Bush to Hitler is the ultimate throat clear<< insult! Hitler was evil and invaded other nations without provocation! Hitler waged a campaign of fear and manipulation to scare his people into believing his propaganda. Hitler was backed by his corporate cronies who held the highest levels of power in his reich! How DARE YOU compare BUSH TO HITLER!"
So that is happening in "Amurka"
Posted by Jack @ 01/07/2004 08:11 PM NY
I'm disappointed in MoveOn. They disavowed the right of free speech by saying they didn' t have the proper "filter" to weed out inappropriate submissions. C'mon, just because the ads are controversial doesn't mean they are "inappropriate". Obviously the voters found the ads too radical for their tastes and didn't vote them in to the final 15. I wouldn't be surprised if the Bush campaign used those ads somehow.
Posted by e.jay @ 01/10/2004 02:50 AM NY
It is difficult to understand all of the self-righteous and sanctimoneous blather about those ads. First, for years we have heard the right call anyone left of a right slanted middle a communist, a socialist, a traitor, or all three (see Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, Rush Windbag, Joe McCarthy, etc)
Where is it written that those who bear ever so slightly left can be compared to Stalin, a killer of well in excess of 20 million, Pol Pot,killer of several million, or any other engine of left wing terror, while comparisons to the mass murdering creator of a particualrly noxious and destructive form of the corporate-state, aka facism are beyond the pale?
Moreover, go back and take a look at political cartoons in the first 50 years of the republic. A good source is old American Heritage publications. They put to shame the most virulent of the current crop, but did not appear to doom democracy in the country.
We would not need the 1st amendmant if all political debate was polite and tightly circumscribed. I believe it was before the Australian parliment that Bush, when jeered by a member for his war efforts, condescendingly mocked "I love free speech". Well, then, give him more of it.
Posted by Christopher Heard @ 01/10/2004 08:28 PM NY
