Bush Ads Exploit 9/11 Victims

ANOTHER CAMPAIGN FIRST: Bush's first round of ads became immediately famous for using images of Ground Zero and a flag-draped body being carried away from the rubble of the World Trade Center.

His newest spot, "100 Days," might soon become famous for another campaign first. It is the first ad to use the image of a dark-skinned man who is obviously meant to be a terrorist.
http://www.tnr.com/blog/campaignjournal?pid=1440

I know, I know, there's nothing wrong with that, stop yelling at me.

Not even a picture of a real Arab, just a generic swarthy-type.
 
Administration sources tell TIME that employees at the Department of Homeland Security have been asked to keep their eyes open for opportunities to pose the President in settings that might highlight the Administration's efforts to make the nation safer. The goal, they are being told, is to provide Bush with one homeland-security photo-op a month.
http://www.time.com/time/election2004/article/0,18471,600858,00.html
Taxpayer money diverted from security to re-election campaign.
 
More controversy about Bush ads

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/15/MNGPG5KODH1.DTL

Congressional investigators are scrutinizing television segments in which the Bush administration paid people to pose as journalists praising the benefits of the new Medicare law, intended to help elderly Americans with the costs of their prescription medicines.

The videos, a hybrid of advertising and journalism, are intended for use in local television news programs.

The materials were produced by the Department of Health and Human Services, but the source is not identified. Two videos end with the voice of a woman who says, "In Washington, I'm Karen Ryan reporting."

But the production company, Home Front Communications, said it had hired Ryan to read a script prepared by the government.

Lawyers from the General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, discovered the materials last month when they were investigating the use of federal money to pay for certain flyers and advertisements that publicize the Medicare law.

In a report to Congress last week, the lawyers said those flyers and advertisements were legal, despite "notable omissions and other weaknesses."
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I know we will hear the old "Clinton did it too" so let's get it out of the way. That don't make it right.
Using taxpayer money for an election campaign should anger everyone.
 
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