ADVERT WHICH COMPARES PRESIDENT BUSH TO HITLER
ADVERT WHICH COMPARES PRESIDENT BUSH TO HITLER
SECOND BUSH/HITLER AD APPEARS AT MOVEON.ORG
MON JAN 05 2004 10:27:51 ET
A SECOND ADVERT WHICH COMPARES PRESIDENT BUSH TO HITLER STREAMED ON MOVEON.ORG, THE DRUDGE REPORT HAS LEARNED. THE NEW HITLER SPOT FEATURED THE GRAPHIC 'SPONSORED BY MOVEON.ORG.'
[CLICK TO VIEW AD]
GRAPHIC: Nazi Flags In A Parade
GRAPHIC: Hitler
HITLER: (Speaking In German)
CHYRON: A NATION WARPED BY LIES
GRAPHIC: German Troops Marching
GRAPHIC: Hitler In Car In Parade
GRAPHIC: German Troops Marching
CHYRON: LIES FUEL FEAR
GRAPHIC: German Tanks
CHYRON: FEAR FUELS AGGRESSION
GRAPHIC: German Artillery Firing
GRAPHIC: German Planes Dropping Bombs
GRAPHIC: German Tanks Firing
CHYRON: INVASION
GRAPHIC: German Tanks Rolling Down Street
CHYRON: OCCUPATION
GRAPHIC: Hitler With Hand Raised
BACKGROUND: Sig Heil! Sig Heil!
CHYRON: WHAT WERE WAR CRIMES IN 1945
GRAPHIC: President Bush With Hand Raised At Inauguration
BACKGROUND: Sig Heil! Sig Heil!
CHYRON: IS FOREIGN POLICY IN 2003
CHYRON: SPONSORED BY MOVEON.ORG
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THE 30-SECOND VIDEO IS THE SECOND AD COMPARING BUSH TO HITLER TO BE STREAMED ON MOVEON.ORG. THE CLIP IS PART OF A CONTEST TO FIND THE BEST BUSH-BASHING AD.
A PANEL OF JUDGES, INCLUDING ACTOR-DIRECTOR MICHAEL MOORE, AND DEM CAMPAIGN STRATEGISTS DONNA BRAZILE AND JAMES CARVILLE, WILL SELECT THE WINNER.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, writes in Monday's WALL STREET JOURNAL: "MoveOn.org informed potential ad makers that 'we're not going to post anything that would be inappropriate for television.' Two of the ads posted on the group's Web site compared Adolf Hitler to George W. Bush. One ad morphed an image of Hitler into President Bush and says that, '1945's war crimes' are '2003's foreign policy.'" Rosen says MoveOn.org is "using the memory of that genocide as a political prop. Their comparison diminishes the reality of what happened, and their actions cheapen the memory of a horrific crime. It also does a terrible disservice to this country at a perilous time, when we need to examine the dangers we face with clarity and purpose." Leadership is "about confronting threats to freedom everywhere. President Bush has shown that leadership in Iraq, and our troops have liberated a people who were oppressed by another murderous dictator. MoveOn.org compares this liberation to the Holocaust. It deploys a picture of Hitler to vilify President Bush. Comparing the commander-in-chief of a democratic nation to the murderous tyrant Hitler is not only historically specious, it is morally outrageous. Comparing an American president, any American president, to Hitler is an outrage. The MoveOn.org ad was inexcusable. Political figures such as Al Gore, who have associated themselves with MoveOn.org, have a special responsibility to condemn these ads; donors to the group such as George Soros have the same responsibility. They owe it not just to the memory of the millions who died in the Holocaust. They owe it also as a simple matter of decency."]Dem Ad Morphs Bush into Hitler
Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Sunday Jan. 4, 2004; 12:50 p.m. EST
Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie is calling on the Democratic Party to disavow an 2004 presidential ad campaign that uses visual imagery to compare President Bush to Adolf Hitler.
Referring to the presidential ad contest currently being sponsored by the Web site MoveOn.org, Gillespie told "Fox News Sunday," "One of the ads submitted that they considered viable for airing . . . one of them morphed President Bush into Adolf Hitler."
"That's the kind of tactic we're seeing on the left today in support of these Democratic candidates," he complained.
Calling the spot "vile" and "heinous," Gillespie challenged all nine Democratic candidates to condemn any campaign commercial comparing Bush to the Third Reich dictator.
"Every Democrat at the [Iowa] debate tonight ought to repudiate that tactic," he told Fox.
A message on Moveon.org's Web site says finalists in the ad contest will be announced Monday. Included among the judges - notorious Bush haters Michael Moore and Janeane Garofalo, as well as actor Jack Black, comedian Margaret Cho and Donna Brazile, former campaign manager for Al Gore.
Over the last year Gore has developed close ties to the radical left-wing group.
In November, MoveOn.org's primary financial backer George Soros compared Bush to Hitler in an interview with the Washington Post.
Saying he believed the White House was guided by a "supremacist ideology," Soros complained:
"America, under Bush, is a danger to the world . . . When I hear Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,' it reminds me of the Germans . . . My experiences under Nazi and Soviet rule have sensitized me."
Before the interview, the Hungarian emigre announced that he was donating $5 million to MoveOn, the organization's single biggest contribution ever.
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Democrats Defend Bush-Hitler Ad
Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Monday Jan. 5, 2004; 2:41 p.m. EST
A Web site founded by former members of the Clinton administration is defending a presidential campaign ad created for Moveon.org that shows images of President Bush morphing into Adolf Hitler.
"Once again, the comparison of Bush with Hitler strikes terror in the hearts of Republicans - because they know how close it cuts to the truth," the Web site Democrats.com said in a report posted near the top of its political news roundup on Monday.
News that Moveon.org had already yanked the Hitler ad was "one more victory for GOP censorship, bringing us ever closer to a Nazi dictatorship," the Web site complained.
Democrats.com cofounder David Lytel was President Clinton's personal webmaster, the Web site boasts, saying he helped to develop and edit the White House Web site. [Lytel has since left Democrats.com and launched the Committee to Re-Defeat President Bush.]
Former Clinton pollster Stanley Greenberg sits on Democrats.com's advisory board, along with Dick Bell, formerly the head of the Interactive Media Department at the Democratic National Committee.
Jock Gill, another advisory board member, was Director of Special Projects in the Office of Media Affairs in the Clinton White House. He also helped develop the White House's Web site.
Democrats.com advisory board member Greg Simon was the chief domestic policy adviser to Vice President Al Gore.
Moveon.org was originally founded in 1998 in a failed bid to derail President Clinton's impeachment, and is now closely associated with former Vice President Al Gore.
Neither Bill nor Hillary Clinton has commented on Bush-Hitler comparisons by Web sites closely associated with their co-presidency.
Yesterday Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie called on Democrats to repudiate the Bush-Hitler ad - but so far the only reaction has been from Jewish groups.
"It is shocking that a mainstream political group like MoveOn.org not only allowed this vile and outrageous comparison of the American President to Adolf Hitler to be entered into its 'Bush in 30 Seconds' contest in the first place, but that they even went so far as to make it available to the public on the Internet," said Anti-Defamation League President Abraham Foxman.
"Those responsible for this contest at MoveOn.org should have immediately identified this advertisement as one going far beyond legitimate criticism and rejected it out of hand," he added.
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Critics Attack Efforts to Link Bush and Hitler
January 6, 2004
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
ASHINGTON, Jan. 5 — It sounded like a fun way to expand participation in this year's presidential election, at least for those opposed to re-electing President Bush. The left-leaning Internet group MoveOn.org sponsored a contest, "Bush in 30 Seconds," inviting people to submit television advertisements about Mr. Bush, with the best to be determined by a vote of visitors to the site.
But two of more than 1,500 submissions have outraged Republicans and leading Jewish groups for comparing Mr. Bush, in profile and policy, to Hitler.
"This is the worst and most vile form of political hate speech," Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said in one of several statements he issued. He urged the nine Democrats running for president to repudiate the advertisements.
Wes Boyd, a MoveOn.org founder, fired back, saying Republicans were "deliberately and maliciously" misleading the public by asserting that MoveOn.org had sponsored the advertisements. "None of these was our ad," Mr. Boyd said in a statement. "Nor did their appearance constitute endorsement or sponsorship by MoveOn.org Voter Fund."
On Monday, MoveOn.org said more than 100,000 visitors to the site had selected 15 finalists, none of them the Hitler advertisements. A panel of celebrities and political experts has been asked to pick a winner, which will be televised.
Mr. Boyd conceded that the advertisements were "in poor taste," and said he "deeply regretted" that they had "slipped through."
Mr. Gillespie and Jewish groups like the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center criticized MoveOn.org for posting advertisements that showed Hitler morphing into Mr. Bush. One asserted, "What were war crimes in 1945 is foreign policy in 2003."
"Their lack of discretion cheapens the level of political discourse in America." said Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League.
Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company
NEW VIDEO UNCOVERED: MOVEON.ORG FINALIST IS PRODUCER OF ANOTHER BUSH/HITLER AD
Wed Jan 07 2004 17:06:59 ET
One of the finalists of the MoveOn.org ad contest is responsible for another heinous web video that compares Bush to Hitler, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
An ad by "Take Back the Media" is one of 15 Finalists in MoveOn.org's Bush in 30 Seconds Commercial Contest. Produced by Michael Stinson [SYMBOLMAN], The ARMY OF ONE flash animation has been chosen out of over 1000 submission by nearly 3 million votes online.
But currently streaming on the Take Back site with ARMY OF ONE is another shocking advert produced by Michael Stinson [SYMBOLMAN] -- alleging Bush/Nazi ties!
http://www.takebackthemedia.com/bushnonazi.htmlMaybe Bush is Hitler
Monday, January 12, 2004
By Vox Day© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
In 1934, four years before Germany annexed his native Austria in the Anschluss, the economist Ludwig von Mises left Vienna for the safety of Geneva. The great enemy of socialism – his damning critique, "Socialism," was published in 1922 – had seen clearly how the winds were blowing with the rise of the National Socialists. In 1940, he emigrated to the United States, where he warned of the rise of quasi-socialist statism in his 1944 book, "Bureaucracy."
Unlike Mises, most people are taken by complete surprise when their government turns on them. This is the only explanation for how a person living under a democidal government in the 20th century was 143 times more likely to be legally killed by an employee acting on behalf of his legitimate government than to be murdered by a criminal acting on his own. But, as the example of Mises shows, this does not have to be the case. The future is no mystery to those who see with the eyes of history.
In my unfinished book, "The Red Hand of Government," I have developed a theory of socialist crisis. Not all governments turn on their people in a lethal manner, but 35 percent of the 191 United Nations member states have murdered at least 10,000 of their own citizens in the last century, with an average of 122,565 victims apiece. Socialist countries are particularly prone to slaughter, as 58 percent of self-identified socialist regimes have committed democide, and these socialist mortacracies are responsible for four-fifths of the 131.2 million victims of government murder in the 20th century.
Although the United States does not view itself as socialist, as I have previously demonstrated, it is a semi-socialist state by most measures. Furthermore, as the paper dollar approaches its 33rd year, the risk of a breakdown into the hyperinflation that has ended all previous paper money mechanisms increases. This would not be overly worrisome, were it not for the fact that constitutional protections for Americans have been egregiously weakened under the current administration.
While taking a break from destroying the social fabric of America, the United States Supreme Court has decided that there is no First Amendment protecting political speech. It has also tacitly upheld the Fifth Circuit's decision that there is no Second Amendment guaranteeing the right to bear arms. Meanwhile, in Texas, a federal judge conducts show trials, announcing that the word of John McBryde supercedes the written law as he openly directs the verdict in what is supposedly a trial by jury.
In other words, Americans no longer have the ability to protest against their government, they can no longer expect justice in their courtrooms and they will soon lose the ability to defend themselves against their government as well.
The handwriting is on the wall. Watch Brazil as a harbinger of things to come. Only months after electing the socialist da Silva to power, Brazil has passed a law requiring the registration of all private firearms, with a complete ban to be considered next year. If the socialists manage to consolidate their hold on power, there is a probability that some level of democide will begin there within 10 years.
I am not entirely pessimistic. It is quite possible that the danger can be averted. Perhaps the paper dollar will survive another 33 years without support. Perhaps the Federal Reserve can pull another economic boom out of its hat, after all, some of the nation's finest minds are hard at work trying to keep the machinery of the global financial system working smoothly. If there is no socialist crisis, there will be no bloody democide, merely more of the quiet drift toward total state control that we have enjoyed for the last century.
President Bush is not responsible for all of this. Indeed, it is ironic that he is attacked as a Hitler by those who advocate policies almost identical to those of the historical National Socialists. Unfortunately, George Bush has not only done nothing to reduce the danger from future Hitlers, on his watch he has allowed the danger from the enemy within to grow unchecked.
George Bush is no Hitler. But if he does not respond as vigorously to the threats posed from within the United States as he has to those without, he may prove to be Paul von Hindenburg.
For detailed information explaining the statistics and historical references cited in this column, visit Vox Popoli.
Vox Day is a novelist and Christian libertarian. He is a member of the SFWA, Mensa and the Southern Baptist Convention, and has been down with Madden since 1992. His weekly column is syndicated nationally by Universal Press Syndicate. Visit his web log, Vox Popoli, for daily commentary and responses to reader email.
