The Republicans are right: Comparing George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler is grossly inaccurate and unfair! Adolf Hitler could speak simple sentences in public!
Hitlergate
I first became aware of Hitlergate yesterday when I got this e-mail titled "Disgusting":
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Dear Robert,
Yesterday, the Bush-Cheney campaign, losing any last sense of decency, placed a disgusting ad called "The Faces of John Kerry's Democratic Party" as the main feature on its website. Bizarrely, and without explanation, the ad places Adolf Hitler among those faces.
The Bush-Cheney campaign must pull this ad off of its website. The use of Adolf Hitler by any campaign, politician or party is simply wrong.
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Shortly thereafter, I got this e-mail, titled, "We Agree, It's Disgusting" (recall that I subscribed to BushCheneyCorp's "re"-election campaign's e-mail list so I that can see what the Dark Side is up to):
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Dear Robert,
On Thursday, the campaign launched a web video titled Kerry's Coalition of the Wild-eyed. The video featured Democrats who support John Kerry making negative and baseless attacks against the President. Interspersed in the video were segments of two ads that appeared on a website sponsored by MoveOn.org - a group campaigning for Kerry - in January.
On Friday night, John Kerry's campaign denounced our use of these ads, and called that use "disgusting."
The Kerry campaign says, "The use of Adolf Hitler by any campaign, politician or party is simply wrong."
We agree. These ads, like much of the hate-filled, angry rhetoric of Kerry's coalition of the Wild-eyed, are disgusting.
- Where was John Kerry's disgust when he hired Zack Exley - the man responsible for encouraging the production of these ads as part of a MoveOn contest - to run the Kerry campaign's internet operation?
- Where was John Kerry's sense of outrage when Al Gore, just yesterday afternoon, compared the Bush Administration to the Nazis saying, "The Administration works closely with a network of 'rapid response' digital Brown Shirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'"
- Where was John Kerry's anger when Al Gore in May spoke of "Bush's Gulag"?
- Why has John Kerry not denounced billionaire and Democrat Party donor George Soros for comparing the Bush Administration to Nazis. Soros stated, "When I hear Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,' it reminds me of the Germans. It conjures up memories of Nazi slogans on the walls, Der Feind Hort mit ('The enemy is listening')."
- Why has Kerry not spoken out against filmmaker Michael Moore who last October compared the Patriot Act to Mein Kampf. "The Patriot Act is the first step. 'Mein Kampf' - 'Mein Kampf' was written long before Hitler came to power."
We created this web video to show the depths to which these Kerry supporters will sink to win in November.
Is this the Democratic Party of Franklin Delano Roosevelt who reassured his countrymen we have nothing to fear but fear itself?
No. This is John Kerry's Coalition of the Wild-eyed, who have nothing to offer but fear-mongering.
Sincerely,
Ken Mehlman
Campaign Manager |
Yup. A big-ass battle was raging in my e-mail box yesterday.
(Note that initially the BushCheneyCorp "re"-election campaign's Web site, georgebush.com, did not explain its use of the Hitler images in its new online video spot. Reports The Associated Press: "A disclaimer was added to the beginning of the Web spot on Saturday afternoon [today] to explain that the video contains 'remarks made by and images from ads sponsored by Kerry supporters.'")
The RepubliNazis lose this battle, as they're going to lose the war on Nov. 2. The fact that George W. Bush is the most Hitler-like "president" of at least my lifetime* aside, I watched the BushCheneyCorp online ad, which, as I write this, appears on the upper left of the home page of the BushCheneyCorp "re"-election campaign's Web site. (As a blogger, I have to watch unpleasant videos such as beheadings and BushCheneyCorp "re"-election campaign ads so that I can report their contents to you. I sacrifice for you, Dear Reader.)
First of all, the sound bites the ad uses -- sound bites from Al Gore, Dick Gephardt, Howard Dean, Michael Moore and John Kerry -- are accurate, not at all "baseless," and are pretty fucking damning of the BushCheneyCorp, so why the BushCheneyCorp chose to use them is interesting. Gore, for instance, reminds the ad viewer about the Abu Ghraib prison abuse and torture scandal. Not something that I'd want in my ad if I were Bush.
Of course, I'm sane.
The biggest problem with the BushCheneyCorp's "re"-election campaign's use of the Hitler sound bite in its Web site ad is that the Kerry campaign had absolutely nothing to do with the MoveOn.org Internet ad that featured Hitler. If a right-wing nutjob group were to produce an outrageous anti-Kerry ad independently of the BushCheneyCorp "re"-election campaign, although the BushCheneyCorp would love the ad, it would emphasize that it has no control over what other organizations do. Yet the BushCheneyCorp "re"-election campaign refuses to cut the Kerry campaign the same slack.
A huge difference between the use of the Hitler sound bite by DragUsBackwards.org -- er, by the BushCheneyCorp "re"-election campaign -- and by MoveOn.org is that MoveOn.org did not prominently display the ad with Hitler in it at the top of its fucking home page, like the BushCheneyCorp "re"-election campaign does. Further, the Internet ad with Hitler in it that was accessible on MoveOn.org was one of many independently produced 30-second ads in MoveOn.org's "Bush in 30 Seconds" contest that MoveOn.org members were to vote for.
After the Republicans pissed and moaned about the Hitler ad being among the many 30-second ads to vote for, MoveOn.org apologized and pulled the ad from its Web site and from consideration.
The BushCheneyCorp "re"-election campaign ad tying the MoveOn.org ad to the Kerry campaign is grossly unfair and misleading (but then again, that's all of the BushCheneyCorp's ads; BushCheneyCorp couldn't get away with what it gets away with, such as election fraud and war crimes, if it were fair and truthful, could it?).
Nor is John Kerry fucking responsible for what others, such as Michael Moore and George Soros, say, as the BushCheneyCorp "re"-election campaign's Web site ad and e-mail falsely and dysfunctionally suggest. Michael Moore is responsible for what Michael Moore says and George Soros is responsible for what George Soros says. John Kerry is responsible only for what he and his campaign staff say.
But you know what? Fuck all of this shit and let's look at what I think is the scariest portion of the new BushCheneyCorp "re"-election campaign's Web site ad, which has nothing at all to do with Adolf Hitler (or only tangentially...).
The title of the BushCheneyCorp "re"-election campaign's Web site ad is "The Faces of John Kerry's Democratic Party: The Coalition of the Wild-eyed."
I like that. We Bush opponents, who oppose such things as oh, say, presidential election fraud and war crimes committed by our leaders, are pretty fucking crazy, as "wild-eyed" suggests, and boy, are we just a bunch of fucking pessimists!
Thanks to George W. Bush, Dick Cheney & Co. we have a record-smashing federal budget deficit that will take years to pay off; the economy will most likely remain stagnant for some time; and Iraq -- where thousands of people have died and billions and billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars have been guzzled up by the subsidiaries of BushCheneyCorp, such as Cheney's Halliburton, and for what? -- is now a breeding ground for terrorists (make an unprovoked invasion of and then occupy a Muslim nation and that just might create some terrorists!). So rather than protecting us from terrorists, which is the cornerstone of the Bush regime's "re"-election campaign, the Bush regime has made us incalculably more prone to terrorist attacks.
But hey, BushCheneyCorp should buy the rights to Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry, Be Happy" to use as its official "re"-election campaign song.
Ironically, the BushCheneyCorp ad itself is Hitlerian, even if you were to cut Hitler out of it.
The "argument" of the ad is that those who very patriotically make valid criticisms of what is certainly the worst presidency in my lifetime and probably in the history of the United States are "wild-eyed" "pessimists," whereas those who support the Bush regime are warm and fuzzy "optimists."
The end of the BushCheneyCorp ad reads, "This is not a time for pessimism and rage..." while a blurry, dark image of John Kerry is on the screen and ominous music plays. Then, a happy cheerful bright sunny picture of George W. Bush comes on the screen to happy cheerful upbeat music and the screen reads, "President Bush: It's a time for optimism, steady leadership, and progress."
Hitler's propaganda masterminds are fucking seething with jealousy in hell, OK?
Moreover, the BushCheneyCorp's "re"-election campaign's e-mail above uber-hypocritically talks of the "depths to which these Kerry supporters will sink to win in November" (!) and says that the Kerry camp has "nothing to offer but fear-mongering" (!!).
With the color-coded terrorist threat alerts -- since the creation of the retarded color-coded terrorist threat alerts, we have never been under terrorist threat alert level yellow, which means "elevated: significant risk of terrorist attacks" -- and his declaration that he is a "war president" (never mind that it was a war of choice), to give just two examples, the Bush regime's iron-fisted rule has been nothing but fear-mongering so that the masses are too petrified and divided to notice that while they cower in fear of the America- and freedom-hatin' sand monkeys coming over here to blow shit up, the Bush regime is diverting billions and billions of taxpayers' money to its cronies, most of them BushCheneyCorp campaign contributors and one of them, Halliburton, is the corporation of which Cheney was CEO before he was installed as vice president during the American coup of 2000.
Chilling.
Orwellian.
Hitlerian.
*Where to start? How about the 2000 election that he and his henchRepublicans stole from the American people -- recall that nationwide Al Gore got more than a half-million more votes than did Bush and that Bush's brother Jeb was and remains the governor of Florida, which Bush "won" by fewer than 550 votes, and that Katherine Harris, Florida's secretary of state at the time, also was the chair of George W. Bush's campaign in Florida.
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