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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey didn't call 9/11 families 'props' when Bush deployed them
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Again, #GOP didn't call 9/11 families "props" when Bush deployed family advocates for policy & politics http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/20/loc_campaignad.html
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Wednesday, October 20, 2004
'The Hug' becomes a TV ad for Bush
It's _ the most expensive TV ad campaign of the presidential election.
The commercial, unveiled Tuesday by the Progress for America Voter Fund, will run on cable stations and in nine states - Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Iowa, New Mexico, Nevada, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Missouri - at a cost of $14.2 million. Among the group's major contributors are Reds owner Carl H. Lindner and Cintas chairman Richard T. Farmer.
The 60-second spot goes hand-in-hand with 2.3 million direct mailings, e-mails, phone calls and a Web site.
It centers on Ashley, whose mother, Wendy Faulkner, was killed in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
The ad details the events of May 6, when Ashley, her father, Lynn Faulkner, and neighbor Linda Prince waited eagerly to shake the president's hand during a campaign stop at the Golden Lamb Inn in Lebanon.
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They didn't call 9/11 families 'props' when Bush deployed them (Original Post)
bigtree
Apr 2013
OP
Triana
(22,666 posts)1. Pretentious hypocrisy is the Hallmark of Republicans. n/t
bigtree
(85,998 posts)2. and ignorance
profound ignorance
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)3. Bush hadn't washed his arm pits in days
so he could impart the maximum scent of Chimp, with all its magical healing powers.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)4. I did
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)5. I don't remember that ad, but that photo says it all.
Instead of paying attention to the young lady, he's checking the camera to make sure it gets every angle of his "compassionate" face, which he practiced in the mirror on the way to the photo op.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)6. The deep, anti-humanist malevolence of the gunners knows no limits
Gunners are despicable people - whether they're Republicans or "Democrats."