NBC to tell about Bush/Hitler Ad

[newsguyatl]

they just teased it. coming up momentarily.


glad SOMEONE'S covering it :eyes:


if john kerry had this on HIS website, it would've been top news.

[tom_paine]

1. Top news for WEEKS

The deterioration of the Formerly Free Press is such that I suppose we should be thrilled it got any play at all.

[gratuitous]

2. Well, when you don't have the blast faxes like the RNC

It's difficult sometimes to get a story out. But I guess someone at NBC, way back in the darkest recesses of his or her mind, remembered the phony hoo-hah over the Move On ad contest, and decided that for once, what was good for the goose was good for the gander.

[stellanoir]

3. yeah but the tease implied that both candidates had

referenced their opponant as resembling Hitler.

I was fuming. The Hitler analogy on the Dem's side was during Moveon's contest, was submitted by a contestant and was not on Kerry's website. Whereas this image is currently on *'s website.

Waiting to see what they say.

[newsguyatl]

4. yeh, it'll be interesting to see how it's spun

i, too, take it from their tease writing, it'll be more of a "look what politics has come to" instead of "shame on bush"

[stellanoir]

14. Well not as bad as I anticapated. . .

especially from Lisa Meyers. (this isn't verbatum) They lingered on the * ad and then referenced the moveon ad without specifying that it was a contest. She did say they retracted it.

Best part was showing Kerry's good humored response, referring to Cheney's recent expletive and this ad, "well, I guess they're getting desparate." He was smiling. Then they said Dem's were encouraging people to go to *'s website to see how ridiculous their ad was in hopes that the ad would backfire.

[Rose Siding]

11. MoveOn wasn't even legally able to coordinate with

the Kerry campaign about any ad or anything else.

[Eric J in MN]

5. Republican Congresspersons compared Clinton to Hilter.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A8416-2000Jun27

For example, retiring Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage (R-Idaho), commenting on one of Clinton's national monument designations, said, "This president is engaging in the largest land grab since the invasion of Poland."

Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) went a bit further a couple of weeks ago when Clinton designated Arizona's Ironwood Forest a national monument. "I would draw a parallel to Hitler," Shadegg said. "He eroded the will of the German people to resist evil."

Our favorite is Arkansas Republican Rep. Jay Dickey's recent fundraising letter reminding supporters they can give him $1,000 for the primary and another $1,000 in the general election campaign. He doesn't want anyone to "later . . . say to me that I should have reminded you of the threats," he said.

"Just as people who read Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' and then later were surprised at the evils of the 3rd Reich ," Dickey said, "we have the blueprint for what the White House plans to do: defeat me! This is because I not only dared to vote my conscience on the impeachment issue, but dared to do it after a publicly expressed threat that I would lose the election if I did. Are we going to let an astounding abuse of power go unanswered?"

[nostamj]

6. "a NEW Low"

referring to the repukes!

[mopaul]

13. zieg frikkin' heil dubya!

go dubya go. never interfere when a man is hangin' his own stupid ass

[spanone]

7. going on now...the hypocrisy of these thugs.

[skooooo]

8. Tell us exactly what they are saying...

..for those of us on the west coast.

[newsguyatl]

12. well unfortunately the report

was filed by the rightwing lisa myers of nbc... but overall not too bad... just a basic tell of what the story was, good sound from kerry saying how desperate they're getting "first cheney uses the f word, now this." she followed it up by saying kerry TOO had used the f-word (though she didn't point out that IT wasn't directed AT someone, but rather, a description... bush "fucking it up"...)

overall, ok report. glad it got the exposure... made the bushco. look bad in my opinion.

[Cha]

16. Yeah, Kerry should have said ..first cheney

..tells Senator Pat Leahy to go fuck himself on the Senate Floor..ect, ect..}(

[derrald]

9. a whore piece

at the end they threw in the little "Let's not make Mr. Rove angry" piece by saying one of those classic little whore lines:

"Democrats claim they are outraged..."

Thank you, NBC, you little lying whores.

[tridim]

10. Does anyone else find it odd

that no one has come forward saying they made the MoveOn/Hitler ad? I would bet the farm that it was submitted by the RNC.

The odd thing is, one of my MoveOn ads was much worse than the Hitler ad, and nobody said a word. ;)

[symbolman]

15. No asks ME

and *I* originated this whole thing..

with my "Bush is Not a Nazi - so stop saying that..."

You can see it al http://www.takebackthemedia.com/bushnonazi.html

Pass it around.. I want to Play too!

[Andy_Stephenson]

17. Newsguy

did you get the pm I set to you the other day?

If not let me know and I will send it again.

[kaitykaity]

18. The one difference that

reporter-whore chose to ignore about the story.

The Thug ad comes directly from the B/C campaign, officially
sponsored by the fascist Republican Party.

The MoveOn.org ad was never affiliated with the Dem Party,
ever approved by a higher-up, never sanctioned by anyone.

Do you suppose the reporter-whore thought to point this
out?