Who has information about NAACP attack ad against *

[BeachBuckeye]

I need info on the ad and specifics as to whether or not it was fair or true.

Guy

[bossfish]

1. What ad?

I think the NAACP just has "said mean things" about the Chimperor

[BeachBuckeye]

2. It was an ad about....

about hate crimes. About a black man being dragged to his death behind a truck with a chain.

[nose pin]

3. Do you mean in 2000?

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5444317

"Anti-Bush ad in 2000
Bush is likely aware of NAACP leader Julian Bond's rhetoric. "Their idea of equal rights is the American flag and the Confederate swastika flying side by side," Bond said of Republicans in June. "They draw their most rabid supporters from the Taliban wing of American politics."

Bush also recalls the attack ad the NAACP National Voter Fund ran against him in the 2000 campaign, accusing him of callous indifference to the 1998 murder of Texan James Byrd.

The ad featured a re-enactment of the truck-dragging death of Byrd and the voice of Byrd's daughter, Renee Mullins, saying that when Bush refused to support hate crimes legislation in Texas, “it was like my father was killed all over again."

The hate crimes law to which Mullins referred would not have increased the penalties for the men who murdered Byrd, two of whom had already been sentenced to death at the time the ad ran."

[Yupster]

4. It was pretty bad considering

that two of the guys got the death penalty, and the third guy turned on the other two.

The ad said Bush didn't support hate crimes legislation while it showed a reenactment of the dragging death of James Byrd. Without hate crimes legislation, the guys got the death penalty. I don't know what hate crimes legislation would have done?

Anyway, the NAACP is supposed to be a non-partisan organization. What is it running ads like that during a presidential campaign for anyway.