AARP: Hates the troops, loves the gays.

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Yep, thems the gay-marriage lubbin, soldier-hatin old folks.

Yep, that's the REAL AARP agenda there.


At least according to the Swift Old Folks for Truth.

Er.... USANext, actually. Founded by the same politcal smear ...er media consultants who created er.... GAVE VOICE to the legitimate concerns of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

That ad started running on righty websites, and then was pulled when people realized it went too far.

Of course, there are also these ads:

Exposing the secret liberal agenda of the AARP.


Who is this group seeking the truth? It's got a lot of names, the United Seniors Association, USA UNited Generations.

According to the Washinton Monthly, USA is actually a slush fund channelling money from pharmaceutical companies to the Republican party.

Then there's the benignly-named United Seniors Association (USA), which serves as a soft-money slush fund for a single GOP-friendly industry: pharmaceuticals. USA claims a nationwide network of more than one million activists, but, just like Progress for America, listed zero income from membership dues in its most recent available tax return. USA does, however, have plenty of money on its hands. During the 2002 elections, with an "unrestricted educational grant" from the drug industry burning a hole in its pocket, the group spent roughly $14 million--the lion's share of its budget--on ads defending Republican members of Congress for their votes on a Medicare prescription-drug bill.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0405.confessore.html

To help set USA Next's strategy, the group has hired Chris LaCivita, an enthusiastic former marine who advised Swift Vets and P.O.W.'s for Truth, formerly known as Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, on its media campaign and helped write its potent commercials. He earned more than $30,000 for his work, campaign finance filings show.

Officials said the group is also seeking to hire Rick Reed, a partner at Stevens Reed Curcio & Potholm, a firm that was hired by Swift Vets and was paid more than $276,000 to do media production, records show.


For public relations, USA Next has turned to Creative Response Concepts, a Virginia firm that represented both Swift Vets - the company was paid more than $165,000 - and Regnery Publishing, the publisher of "Unfit for Command," a book about Senator John Kerry's military service whose co-author was John E. O'Neill, one of the primary leaders of Swift Vets.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/21/p...bb47479ad&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=login


That dastardly AARP, let's SWIFT BOAT 'EM!!!!!

 

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Here's what USA Next is actually doing.

Their website isn’t designed to persuade ordinary citizens and expand the organization’s grassroots appeal; it’s meant, just like their more gonzo advertising, for journalists. Just like the Swift Boat campaign, the idea is to use outré slash-and-burn attack ads to ensure ample news coverage. They can be as nasty as they want to be, and as brazenly cynical, given that their sole job in this fight is to carry out a White House-deputized hit operation by exploiting the he-said, she-said strictures of the mainstream press.

http://www.prospect.org/weblog/archives/2005/02/index.html#005547

The real purpose of "USA Next" is for the moment at least to ensure equal time press coverage.

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The AARP will now become the "liberal AARP," and it will be fair-and-balanced by "USA Next."

He said/She said journalism. It's balanced!

 

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First the Dems sabotaged Michael Moore's Oscar, and now the Bushies are going after their staunch supporters the AARP...

Some days, it just doesn't pay to support ANY venal, corrupt, lying, politician...

Oh wait a minute....

That's what I've been saying all along!!!