Remember that MoveOn contest a few months back that asked for homemade for a political ad to run during the Super Bowl? Think back hard... The was around the time of "Nipplegate" and when everyone though Howard Dean was going to be the man.
Well, there was a particular submission which featured Bush being compared to Hitler (which has happened many times during this past Administration's reign). There was a huge outcry- how dare anyone compare Bush to Hitler! How wrong it is for Bush to be compared to Hitler. How what were these people thinking?
Well, MoveOn eventually took down the ad. Now keep in mind, MoveOn is an independent organization which is to get Bush out of office. Period.
Well guess what...
Hitler has come back again and you won't believe where.
In an Official Ad Sponsored by Bush-Cheney for 2004.
In this ad, they use a bit of the MoveOn.org's submission (that was yanked) that featured Hitler- Except in this ad, the Bush administration is comparing Kerry to Hitler.
Personally, I find the whole damn thing funny. It is of course offensive to some. I can understand that. What I find so damn amusing is that Bush is feeling the heat so badly to go there- comparing Kerry to Hitler after all complaining about Bush being compared to Hitler in an independent submission to and independent political site that is just behind whomever can oust Bush- be it Kerry, Dean, or a Teletubbie.
This was a bad choice on the part of the Bush campaign in my eyes. Not only does it show more hypocrisy on the part of Bush but its really taking the low road. Once again, MoveOn isn't funded nor supported by the Kerry campaign. In once case, it wasn't a cool ad to have, perhaps... but at least not of the candidates had made it nor endorsed it. In this case, the Bush-Cheney campaign made the ad and endorsed it.
Article comments
1 - michele
Did you watch the ad? No one was comparing Kerry to Hitler. The ad was showing what some of Kerry supporters have been saying about Bush.
Try again.
2 - Ms. Tek
Yes, I watched the ad and showing all the people who have run for president and michael more WITH a picture of Hiter...
THEN go back to hitler again?
YOU try again.
3 - Ms. Tek
Oh... and someone brought up a very good point...
The moment you bring up Hitler in any argument, then the whole conversation becomes pointless.
Had they only left the one move on clip in there, the whole ad, while still being dead wrong, would have more of a point... to include clips of Hitler in there twice? Then fade Kerry's last statement into the similar tint as the Hitler Speech? Sorry, that doesn't fly at all. Anyone with half a clue of how advertising works and how we associate colors and images to others to form subliminal mental associates. Its a common tool used in advertising all the time.
I didn't even have to work at an advertising agency to learn that. Hell, they even teach that in rudimentary psychology courses.
4 - bill
I find it hard to believe the author of the post actually watched the ad in question. Bush is not "bringing up" Hitler, he is complaining about being compared to Hitler and using his critics own words against them. Of course, their rabid, frothing demeanor as they make their charges hurts their case as much as their words; as Jeff Jarvis noted on CNN last night in regards to "Farenheit 9/11," you tend to back away when someone is screaming in your face. I hope everyone who reads the post will actually click on the ad and watch instead of accepting the authors word for it.
5 - Craig Lyndall
Regardless of anything else, the funniest part of this whole thing is the fade into cheesy music and the picture of the president. I was trying to watch carefully to see what was going on, and then I just had to laugh at that last frame.
I will say the same thing I said during the Moveon.org thing before. Comparing anybody to hitler in this campaign or those who are involved in the fringes of this campaign is completely and utterly ludicrous. The whole thing was silly when Moveon.org did it and while I am not sure there is an actual comparison going on in this ad, Ms. Tek is right that it is not only stupid, but hypocritical to have an ad that even mentions hitler.
6 - Ms. Tek
Yes. I hope that everyone sees that ad as well.
Here's the link again so you can see it for yourself.
7 - Ms. Tek
Yeah, the cheesy music made me laugh as well.
From a production standpoint, any 10 year old who knows how to use a mac could do better but that isn't the point.
They throw Michael Moore in there- Why? He's not a politician... He's not running for office. It would be the same if the Kerry camp were to do an ad about the GOP and throw in Rush "I'm A Junkie" Limbaugh or Ann "Horseface" Couter.
This isn't even on the level of a "smear ad". ESPECIALLY since Kerry had nothing to do with the Hitler ad, its especially heinous and disingenuous.
And that is the KEY point. Bush is up against Kerry- Not Moore, Gore, Gephart or Hitler. So if you want to run a smear campaign then make sure it focuses on the person that you are trying to smear instead of some stupid montage that looks like it came straight from Bevis and Butthead.
Oh wait... Bevis and Butthead. Nevermind. That explains it right there.
8 - bill
http://oxblog.blogspot.com/2004_06_20_oxblog_archive.html#108820881586829850
9 - Ms. Tek
*bump*
to get rid of the above comment stretching out that right column.
10 - RJ Elliott
"Yes, I watched the ad and showing all the people who have run for president and michael more WITH a picture of Hiter..."
Some editing is called for here, I think...
11 - Natalie Davis
For accuracy's sake, MoveOn did not create the ad. It was accepting submissions from the public for a contest. The Hitler ad was one created by a rank-and-file 'Murrican. Please stop blaming MoveOn for it; all it did was present the submissions it received. And the one that won was not the one comparing the Shrub to Hitler.
12 - JR
And that is the KEY point. Bush is up against Kerry- Not Moore, Gore, Gephart or Hitler. So if you want to run a smear campaign then make sure it focuses on the person that you are trying to smear...
Actually Bush is up against his own record. He'd be well advised not to focus on Kerry because that will just tell people who to vote for to get Bush out of office.
13 - Stu Johnson
It's so gratifying to see the left squirm when Moorish tactics are used against them. How does it feel to be the target instead of the shooter? If you hadn't tied your brains to Michael (the big, fat, stupid, white guy), you may have had a better chance of affecting Mr. and Mrs. Middle America. But, since the temptation was just too great, that opportunity is over. And your favorite son, John (Stealth) Kerry, is so pathetic in getting his (of course it depends on which way the wind is flopping) MESSAGE across, I'd speculate that you all are in a heap of trouble, eh?
A little Canadian friend of lefties.
14 - Matt Wear
You have missunderstood the Bush ad, the ad featuring MoveOn.org's ad comparing Bush to Hitler is not comparing Kerry to Hitler; the ad is stating that the left is so negative and pessimistic. This is why they show all these people the left so loves screaming about how bad everything is instead of how to fix things. The ad Bush has made shows that he is not a pessimist, but is ready with solutions.
15 - Matt Wear
One more thing, Ms. Tek, Please don't vote in November. You are too dogmatic to see the truth, and all your liberal politicians and propagandists know this and will continue to make stupid comments that will further mar your political views. Please stop falling for liberal propaganda and study the facts. (Sorry, Michael Moore does not convey facts)
16 - Greg Tagger
Actually.........Bush and the American people win; Kerry, Edwards, Soros, Moore, MoveON, Rock the Vote, etc..
lose.........great day to be an American.