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2004-03-05 Home Front: Politix

Kerry blasts "savage, militaristic imagery" in ads

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(2004-03-05) -- As Democrats assailed the Bush campaign yesterday for airing TV ads that include brief images of the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks, Sen. John Kerry lashed out at his own presidential campaign for employing "savage, militaristic imagery" in his ads.

"Whereâs the respect for the families of the victims of the Vietnam war?" asked the presumptive Democrat nominee as he viewed his own ads, apparently for the first time. "Images of a man toting a weapon, of gun boats on patrol, descriptions of battle scenes...these must be tremendously upsetting to the Vietcong vets and to the tens of thousands of American war protestors like me who fought valiantly for a despicable cause."

Mr. Kerry called upon his campaign to end its "jingoistic media assault which tries imply that a 60-year-old man has foreign policy savvy because he fought in a war 36 years ago."

The Kerry 2004 campaign refused to pull the ads, or even to respond to the senatorâs remarks.

John Hawkins, of Right Wing News has a look at the relatives of the victims who were bitching in yesterday's article and finds AP guilty of a political setup.

-- Coleen Kelly who is a member of an anti-war group called "Peaceful Tomorrows" & spoke at an anti-war rally with Susan Sarandon.

-- Jeff Zack & Harold Schaitberger are the spokesman and president of the International Association of Fire Fighters Union who "gave Kerry an early endorsement in the presidential race".

-- Like Colleen Kelly, David Potorti is part of Peaceful Tomorrows: "I feel like the foreign policy of the Bush Administration is almost like a second assault on us. We had this terrorist attack and now it's almost like we have this other attack from our own government which is doing things which clearly are not in our interests, and clearly are not reducing the chances of another terrorist attack happening again. Sometimes I feel quite assaulted from all quarters. And it's just a very odd place to be -- to feel like your own government is not operating in your best interest."

-- Kristen Breitweiser has been claiming for quite a while that the Bush administration is covering up/refusing to investigate 9/11. Read more about it in this 2003 article called "Four 9/11 Moms Battle Bush" -- and yes, Breitweiser is one of moms battling Bush.

Posted by Steve from Relto 2004-03-05 11:02:41 AM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Absolutely freakin' hilarious.

Kerry - and the Donks who nominated him - is P-A-T-H-E-T-I-C!

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-3-5 11:05:44 AM|| 2004-3-5 11:05:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Not nearly as hilarious as watching the "perky -yet pious" Katie Couric decry the ads as distasteful, and then as NBC went to a commercial break, what comes up but a commercial for NBC Nightly News about how helpful NBC was as news organization on 9/11( ... NBC and Tom Brokaw were there....)

So, its distasteful for the prez to mention 9/11, but for NBC its apparently ok to use 9/11 to sell ad time, sandwiched in between viagra ads.

Posted by Frank Martin 2004-3-5 11:20:53 AM|| 2004-3-5 11:20:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Frank - that's hilarious.

If this is the best the left has got, they are really in bad shape.

Posted by B 2004-3-5 11:56:53 AM|| 2004-3-5 11:56:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 If the Democrats think Kerry is their Quarterhorse... They've got change comin'!

Posted by Jack Deth 2004-3-5 12:00:29 PM|| 2004-3-5 12:00:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 this just tells me how kerry will deal with our enemies - we were fucking attacked big time -

Posted by Dan 2004-3-5 12:12:09 PM|| 2004-3-5 12:12:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Reminds me of the Florida ballot fiasco. Dems like to cause a ruckus and blur the facts.

ABC radio news yesterday chimed this as the lead story all day. Every thirty minutes. Useing faked concerned voices. Pure crap.

Posted by Lucky 2004-3-5 12:14:15 PM|| 2004-3-5 12:14:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I never watch the Today Show (it's for morons only), but did she really call the President's ads "distasteful?"

Posted by Lou 2004-3-5 12:30:23 PM|| 2004-3-5 12:30:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 If the Democrats think Kerry is their Quarterhorse...

He's half a horse. The butt half.

Posted by Steve from Relto 2004-3-5 12:57:51 PM|| 2004-3-5 12:57:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I was forced to watch CNN yesterday at the gym. You'd think with all the world news excitement here at rantburg, that they just couldn't fit it all into 30 minutes.

But instead endless ....drip droolingly boring panel discussions about Laci Peterson (does ANYONE, anywhere actually care about this case?)...gay marriage (fair enough) and updates every 5 seconds telling us that the Martha Stewart jury had still not reached a verdict.

Oh yeah, and a mention of the "uproar" over Bush using 911 imagery in his ads (they actually ran it, wonder if they did that for free). Then briefly, they reported some Iraq news, focusing mostly on the Shia massacres and how the US was blamed for lack of security and other important things like Michael Jackson has entered rehab.

Do you think we could sue them for torture??

Posted by B 2004-3-5 1:08:21 PM|| 2004-3-5 1:08:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 "Not nearly as hilarious as watching the "perky -yet pious" Katie Couric decry the ads as distasteful"

Ah, yes, Al-Qatie Couric the perky-burqa. Remember when she appeared in mourning the day after Saddam's capture?
Black, nehru-collar dress, stern tight-lipped expression, and a near-hysterical rant about the event's alleged non-significance?
Her onetime sidekick, the arrogant but stupid Bryant Gumbel, has been reduced to doing UFO pseudo-docs on the sci-fi channel. May Al-Qatie soon join him.
(During an interview between Gumbel and an Interpol official some years ago, the interviewee referred to the practice of treating terrorist outrages as "common-law crimes" rather than as acts of war. It was obvious from the following exchange that Gumball had no idea what was meant by a "common-law crime.")

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-3-5 3:25:55 PM|| 2004-3-5 3:25:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Well well, looky here:

According to their contributions page, âPeaceful Tomorrows is a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.â

The Tides Center, in turn, is substantially financed by none other than Teresa Heinz Kerry.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-3-5 3:43:26 PM|| 2004-3-5 3:43:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 "Well well, looky here:

According to their contributions page, âPeaceful Tomorrows is a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.â

The Tides Center, in turn, is substantially financed by none other than Teresa Heinz Kerry."

Tapâ¦ tapâ¦ Surprise meter didn't budge.

Posted by Korora 2004-3-5 4:09:44 PM|| [http://basementburrow.blogspot.com] 2004-3-5 4:09:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Was It Katie? hard to tell, perky girlies pretending to be reporters all look the same to me. Margaret Bourke White was a news photographer, Ernie Pyle was a reporter and a journalist. William L. Shirer was a journalist. To my knowledge, none of them was a crazed right winger, but they all loved America and the power of liberty and freedom to transform people everywhere lives for the betterment of all mankind. Shirer wrote about the evils of Nazism from within Germany "Berlin Diaries" should be one of the formative books of all people who love liberty, Pyle showed the voice of American men overseas fighting against a nearly unspeakable evil. Boys dying in the islands of the pacific and their families at home knew that the man reporting on their situation did not have an axe to grind, but a story to tell. Margaret Bourke White showed in pictures men in aircraft that were dying in large number in defense of liberty. Does anyone think Couric would have that job if she had a 6 inch duelling scar on her cheek?

She can talk all she wants, she can have all the opinions she wants, just dont call it journalism. That bothers me. Good men and women have died to preserve the right of a free press and hacks like "the today show" have ruined a once proud industry.

Entertainment yes, but journalism? I hardly think so.

IF NBC or CBS or nearly every single radio station in America wants to run ads proclaiming their station as the news leader, while they show images or sounds and voices of the 9/11 massacre, then the president can put it in a video about why he should be president.

And Kerry is free to put it in his ads as well.

Posted by Frank Martin 2004-3-5 7:13:44 PM|| 2004-3-5 7:13:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 9.2 Frank. Excellent.

Posted by Shipman 2004-3-5 7:46:51 PM|| 2004-3-5 7:46:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 ABC news radio is giving kerry free time disquised as news. Running his commentary as though it's news. Thats cool, no fairness doctrine and all. But let it be known that Disney is cheating. Why?

Posted by Lucky 2004-3-5 11:46:29 PM|| 2004-3-5 11:46:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 "Was It Katie? hard to tell, perky girlies pretending to be reporters all look the same to me."

Some of them grow up to be Senators from Texas!

Posted by Rawsnacks 2004-3-6 9:58:47 AM|| 2004-3-6 9:58:47 AM|| Front Page Top

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