Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SGJ who wrote (53381)	10/28/2008 7:34:18 PM
From: ManyMoose	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224729

I only hope Providence enters the hearts and minds of voters next Tuesday and exorcises the demon of Obama from them before they press the button on the ballot screen. I just wanted to see that again.

To: SGJ who wrote (53381)	10/28/2008 9:12:54 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224729

Heritage Foundation to Obama:Stop Misrepresenting Their Opinion of his Tax Policies by: Moe Lane Tuesday, October 28, 2008 The letter is below the fold: the very short version is that the Obama campaign is deliberately using misquoted material - material that they have already tried to use, and have already been called on - to misrepresent the opinion of the Heritage Foundation towards Barack Obama's tax policies. Heritage wants them to stop this now, and pull the advertisements in question. Shabby of the campaign, particularly since this isn't the first time that they did this; I wish that I could also say that it was unsurprising of them. Moe Lane, www.redstate.com The letter: Dear Senator Obama: Two recent campaign advertisements seriously misrepresent the views of my client, The Heritage Foundation. They suggest, quite falsely, that The Heritage Foundation and one of its analysts support your tax plan. The print ad on your Website [link: taxcut.barackobama.com - ed.] as well as your ad entitled “Try This” [link: youtube.com - ed.] reference a quote from policy analyst Rea Hederman. In fact, Mr. Hederman never said what is quoted there. Rather, the words you quote are from a New York Sun reporter who interviewed Mr. Hederman and summarized his views erroneously. That the reporter’s summary is erroneous is evident from the actual quotes from Mr. Hederman presented in the article, which make it quite clear that Mr. Hederman believes your tax plan would be bad not only for the country, but for the middle class. By omitting the direct quotes from Heritage that are contained in the article and attributing to Heritage a conflicting statement not made by its analyst, the advertisement appears to be an intentional attempt to mislead. Surely there can be no doubt within your campaign as to how Heritage truly views your tax plan. When one of your economic advisors, Jeffrey Liebman, made this same misrepresentation in a September 4, 2008 letter to The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Hederman promptly sent a corrective and very public letter. It appeared in the September 16 issue of The Wall Street Journal under the title: “A Bad Plan That Is Less Bad Is Still Not A Very Good Plan.” In it, Mr. Hederman strenuously decried Mr. Liebman’s blatant misrepresentation and set the record straight. The Heritage Foundation believes that your advertisements’ use of its name is not only not a fair use of its intellectual property, but is an intentional attempt to mislead and misinform voters. As a responsible candidate, you should insist that your campaign cease to run these false advertisements immediately. Very truly yours, Alan P. Dye