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Kerry Camp: MoveOn.Org "Disgusting"

Mary Beth Cahill, manager of Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign, just blasted out an email to supporters noting the Bush-Cheney campaign has placed an ad on its web site she finds objectionable:

Yesterday, the Bush-Cheney campaign, losing any last sense of decency, placed a disgusting ad called "The Faces of John Kerry's Democratic Party" as the main feature on its website. Bizarrely, and without explanation, the ad places Adolf Hitler among those faces.
The Bush-Cheney campaign must pull this ad off of its website. The use of Adolf Hitler by any campaign, politician or party is simply wrong.

The ad, which you can see at GeorgeWBush.com, is actually a compendium of attack ads and speeches used againt Bush earlier this year. The Hitler clips come directly from anti-Bush campaign commercials that MoveOn.Org hosted and made available on its web site.

The Kerry campaign issued no such critique when the ad clips were being used to attack President Bush, however. If Cahill missed what happened earlier this year with MoveOn.org, she need only ask Kerry campaign staffer Zach Exley. Exley was a top operative at MoveOn.org when the PAC gave its spotlight to the anti-Bush/Hitler ads. That fact didn't seem to bother Kerry when he hired Exley, though.

By Ed Moltzen · 25 June 2004

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Actually the Hitler ad was a submission to a contest sponsored by Moveon.org. It was one of several hundred submissions. It was also disqualified from the competition. However, the RNC *did* raise a very large fuss over the ad. Using it now to attack Kerry (who had absolutely nothing to do with it) is the height of hyprocrasy.

Posted by: Dave Derry at June 28, 2004 06:15 PM

I find it interesting that the "Kerry Camp" uses the phrase (who had nothing to do with it) is blaming President Bush for an ad produced by a much smaller 527 group that Bush clearly had nothing to do with.

How can Kerry and camp try to hold President Bush accountable for the donation of 2 Republicans, in the amount of $200K to the Swiftboat group and disclaim any responsiblity or accountablility for MoveOn.org that has spent over $170million in attempting to smear President Bush.

Seems a bit lopsided to me.

Posted by: Terry Dillon at August 20, 2004 09:51 AM