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To: LindyBill who wrote (23251)	1/6/2004 11:06:14 PM
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They should admit that "someone in their organization passed on the ads"? They have. Here is a quote: "[ We]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. They have also pointed out certain facts: [The RNC] repeatedly referred to the ads as 'the MoveOn ad' or 'MoveOn's ad,' implying that we had sponsored or perhaps even commissioned the ad. And he also claimed that we might spend $7 million to run it on TV. I think that a screener's bad judgment in posting that contest entry (never an "ad," btw), acknowledged as such and deeply apologized for by the organization, doesn't justify the twisting being done by the RNC, which is comical, if you read it closely. You'd sure never think to read their characterization that MoveOn had never sponsored such an ad, never would, had apologized for the appearance of that entry on its website and vowed to create a better filtering system in the future. Questions: Have you or others here ever commented with disapproval on the fact that Senator Clinton (for whom, incidentally, I did not vote) is routinely referred to by some on SI as "Hitlery"? Yesterday, the New York Post ran a long opinion column focusing exclusively on how much Presidential Candidate Howard Dean resembles Hitler, even calling him "Herr Howie." (According to MoveOn; I didn't read the column.) What should the RNC say about the Herr Howie Hitler comparison? What do you say about it? "When close RNC ally Grover Norquist repeatedly compared taxing the wealthy with the Holocaust" ... Shouldn't the RNC have made as big a thing of that? Was Norquist's repeated comment criticized on this thread? How about this, also pointed out by MoveOn? "in 2002, the RNC and its allies were silent when supporters of President Bush actually aired TV ads morphing the face of Senator Max Cleland, a triple amputee as a result of wounds sustained in Vietnam, into Osama bin Laden." They bought and paid for those ads, unlike MoveOn with the tasteless contest entries that didn't appear on TV. I think politicians on both sides try to make mountains out of molehills if they think the emotional freight of the accusation will obscure the factual situation, but we don't have to buy their two-faced manipulations.