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03/04/2004 Archived Entry: "MoDo's in a rut."
MoDo's in a rut.
Has anyone else noticed that the last half dozen column's Dowd has written read like carbon copies of one another? She's fallen into this thing of writing 'Kerry says this while he does that' or 'Bush does this while he means that' (see her third paragraph below for a perfect example). Tedious, repetitive, boring.
Despite her stylistic doldrums, she nails Bush on those new ads.
In scary/gauzy images, the president does his best to shift the blame, take the credit and transmit concern about regular folks — waitresses, welders, firefighters, black children, black seniors, middle-class families — when he really spends more time helping his fat-cat corporate friends.Mr. Bush continues to imply that we should be scared because we're not safe, so we need to keep him to protect our national security. Which seems like a weird contradiction. If he's so good at protecting us, why aren't we safe?
The president doesn't hesitate to exploit 9/11 in his ads, even as he tries to keep 9/11 orphans and widows in the dark about what really happened.
Mr. Bush's ad flashes a shot of firefighters removing some flag-draped remains of a victim from the wreckage at ground zero even as he prohibits the filming of flag-draped remains of soldiers coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan. You might call the Bush ads, an homage to Ronald Reagan's famous ads, "Mourning in America."
Nothing like hypocrisy with high production values.
They haven't even begun running yet, but it looks like what Bush is selling, people are not buying. Watch the ads go extremely negative, and fast. I predict within two weeks.
Replies: 2 people speak up
i actually saw some bush apologist (i dont remember which one) on CNN talking about how they want to only run positive ads untill they get bush's approval rating above 50%, then they will go negative. if using thousands of deaths (that he at least allowed if not caused) is positive, i cant wait to see what negative looks like.
Posted by justin @ 03/04/2004 10:17 AM NY
MoveOn.org should counter with "Morning in Iraq" - footage from Wendesday's motar attacks killing 250+ people and crowds chanting anti-american slogans.
Posted by elvis56 @ 03/04/2004 12:18 PM NY
