[IP] Dirty doings - Just looking at the unbalanced scales;-)...\Stef
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From: Nathan Dintenfass <nathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 22, 2004 7:31:56 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Dirty doings - Just looking at the unbalanced
scales;-)...\Stef
[I'm sure you'll get plenty of responses like this, but feel free to
send back to the list if this adds anything beyond those....]
Oh, the poor GOP. Those unfair liberals spending their money to defeat
Bush -- oh, the outrage!
Seriously, though, what Kerry is now complaining about is direct
coordination between the Swift Boat Veterans and officials from the
Bush campaign -- and that is expressly forbidden by the campaign
regulations that the Washington Times editorial lauds. Not to mention
the blatant falsehood of the claims in the Swift Boat ad.
To say that MoveOn compared Bush to Hitler is such a tired falsehood
that it strains decency to continue to spread this rumor. As most of
your readers know, MoveOn hosted a competition for which hundreds of
anti-Bush ads were submitted. One of those did draw parallels between
the Bush Administration and the Nazis. MoveOn did not make that ad,
they did not air that ad, and they removed the ad from their web site
when it was brought to their attention. The most cursory of Google
searches makes those facts clear, but as the Swift Boat Veterans
demonstrate once again, the Bush team does not let Truth get in the way
of their quest for power.
That so many grassroots fundraising efforts have succeeded in raising
so much money to fight back against the Radical Right's take over of
our country gives me hope. That Kerry calling out Karl Rove for
playing dirty is somehow a "flip-flop" (another tired falsehood) does
not stand up to the most cursory scrutiny.
Nathan Dintenfass
nathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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