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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (192436)6/29/2004 8:04:15 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1576080
 
No. This double-standard is a poor excuse for Moveon.org giving themselves a license to throw mud, circumvent campaign finance laws, and hypocritically act "non-partisan."

<font color=brown>More rightie nonsense......you're slipping into the DR category and could fall further to the Harris level.....best be careful. ;~)

Now this is what moveon put out when they heard that the RNC was gunning for them on this issue.......I have highlighted the important parts to help those [not you] with reading comprehension problems. Unlike the Bush campaign, they did not sponsor any Hitler adds:<font color=black>

"ADS ATTACKED BY RNC CHAIRMAN ARE NOT MOVEON.ORG VOTER FUND ADS

MoveOn.org Voter Fund Regrets Screening Process Allowed Ads to Slip Through

Statement by Wes Boyd, Founder of MoveOn.org Voter Fund:

The Republican National Committee and its chairman have falsely accused MoveOn.org of sponsoring ads on its website which compare President Bush to Adolf Hitler. The claim is deliberately and maliciously misleading.

During December the MoveOn.org Voter Fund invited members of the public to submit ads that purported to tell the truth about the President and his policies. More than 1,500 submissions from ordinary Americans came in and were posted on a web site, bushin30seconds.org, for the public to review.

None of these was our ad, nor did their appearance constitute endorsement or sponsorship by MoveOn.org Voter Fund. They will not appear on TV. We do not support the sentiment expressed in the two Hitler submissions. They were voted down by our members and the public, who reviewed the ads and submitted nearly 3 million critiques in the process of choosing the 15 finalist entries.


We agree that the two ads in question were in poor taste and deeply regret that they slipped through our screening process. In the future, if we publish or broadcast raw material, we will create a more effective filtering system.

Contrast this with the behavior of the RNC and its allies when supporters of President Bush used TV ads morphing the face of Sen. Max Cleland (D-GA) into that of Osama Bin Laden during the 2002 Senate race.

MoveOn.org and the MoveOn.org Voter Fund exist to bring the public into the political process and produce a more fact-based election process. We regret that the RNC doesn't seem to embrace the same goals.

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