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| Texas Paper Wants Kerry Apology for Use of Photos | |
| 2004-06-05 | |
| CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) The Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times is asking Democrat John Kerry to apologize for what it says was the unauthorized use in a Kerry campaign commercial of photos copyrighted by the newspaper. Editor Libby Averyt said Thursday that the ad, which is not running in Texas, appeared to use photos from "South Texas Heroes," a book on veterans published by the newspaper. "No request was made to the Caller-Times for any of the photos," Averyt said. The Spanish-language commercial began airing May 28 in six states -- Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Florida, Colorado and Ohio -- as part of Kerry's push to attract Hispanic voters. It describes Kerry as a Vietnam veteran and Democrat who "knows that in Washington, the World War II Memorial is a monument to soldiers with names such as Garcia, Chavez and Ortiz." It shows photos of Kerry in Vietnam, artist's renderings of the World War II monument and photos of Hispanic veterans, while listing last names. The newspaper's attorney, Jorge C. Rangel, on Thursday asked Kerry in a letter to stop using the ads and to apologize to the soldiers' families as well as to the Caller-Times. "As a decorated war veteran yourself, I hope you will join us in disavowing the use of the images of our brave soldiers as political props in this election. Their patriotism should not be politicized," Rangel wrote. Kerry spokesman Luis Vizcaino said the campaign has apologized to the veterans' families. He said the ad has been replaced with one that uses photos only of those veterans whose families have given permission for use of the images.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 Kerry, once again, completely disregards what he considers to be "the little people". DEMTHOUGHT: After all, according to Demo Orthodoxy, THEY know whats best for us, so the Dems need not even consult the peons aobut what they are doing for the betterment of the peons. And those people didnt have important names or political positions, so why bother talking to them before running and ad? The patrician arrogance of this man and his party is becoming unbearable. What every happened to the Democratic party that had the ideals of John F Kennedy? How did it mutate into this heirarchical, stratified feuadal system with such arrogant and blind collectivists at the top, motivated only by the urge to destroy the opponent, not by the long-term horizon betterment of our nation and liberty? I think the Kennedy New Frontier types, the optimists, individualsist, and patriotic Democrats all left the party to become Ronald Reagan Republicans - where its "Morning in America", and each person is captain of his own destiny. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-06-05 2:08:30 PM |
| #2 ...and all AMERICANS want an apology for the politicization of the WOT by the Dimorats and their surrogate band of traitors...Soros, Moore, Kennedy, Pelosi, Rangles et al and of course Hanoi John. |
| Posted by: Bill Nelson 2004-06-05 10:25:38 AM |
| #1 What do you expect from the chief American proponent of the Axis of Weasels? Not good enough to be a weasel, they're Pond Scum! |
| Posted by: RWV 2004-06-05 10:14:23 AM |