What a great slogan to describe liberals. The Kerry camp is upset about a new Bush ad featuring the “wild-eyed” ranting and raving of Kerry, Dean, Michael Moore and Al Gore (in his infamous “black preacher” role) with MoveOn.org’s clips of Hitler’s ranting and raving mixed in. Eerily similar.
The Bush ads use the liberals own techniques against them, which is very effective. MoveOn.org compared Bush to Hitler, but the real comparison is between the Democrats’ rhetoric and Hitler’s. Kerry tries to disavow MoveOn.org, but it won’t work. As long as the group attacks Bush, Kerry will feel the heat. It may not be fair, but that’s politics.
The New York Times (registration req.) has something to say about it:
President Bush’s campaign Web site is featuring an advertisement casting Senator John Kerry and his allies as a “coalition of the wild-eyed,” blending clips of former Vice President Al Gore, former Gov. Howard Dean of Vermont and the filmmaker Michael Moore shouting about Mr. Bush. Interspersed twice are images of a shouting Hitler, drawn from a Web spot that MoveOn.org, the Internet advocacy group that runs anti-Bush advertisements, briefly posted months ago in a contest for advertisements about the president.
MoveOn.org quickly removed the advertisement from its site. But it resurfaces in the Bush-Cheney campaign’s compendium of clips, and the result appears to liken Mr. Gore’s and Mr. Dean’s shouting to Hitler’s.
The Times wants to make sure we know that MoveOn.org “quickly removed” the Bush-is-Hilter ads from its site, admitting they were in bad taste. They were also gracious/kind/objective (pick one or add your own) enough to include a quote from the other side:
Nicolle Devenish, a spokeswoman for the Bush campaign, said, “We share Senator Kerry’s outrage with what Kerry’s surrogates created in the form of a Web video that was on MoveOn.org’s web site.”
“The video was created to show our supporters what we’re up against,” Ms. Devenish said. “Team Kerry is an angry, rage-filled group that offers no positive vision for America.”
Devenish is correct. Liberals are filled with rage in their desperation to topple George Bush. Kerry and his campaign are boring, and the only time he appears in the news is to comment on negative news coming out of Iraq. Then he gets to complain and jump all over Bush’s policies. No creativity, no freshness and no message other than “I’m Not-Bush.”
In a related matter, David Horowitz has written a great piece about Democrats embracing a creator of fiction, Michael Moore, and his “Marxist” movie. This is how far the party has fallen. Bush’s people comment on the movie. From the Washington Times:
According to the Bush team, no one typifies the “coalition of the wild-eyed” more than Mr. Moore. Liberal columnist Christopher Hitchens has criticized Mr. Moore for “a film that bases itself on a big lie.”
“To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability,” he wrote in the online magazine Slate. “Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness.”
This is their idea of a legitimate debate in the political arena: a Hollywood movie. In their desperation to kick Bush out of the White House, they resort to promoting tripe like Fahrenheit 9/11 to help with their campaign. Sad indeed.
Update (12:00 p.m.): Based on the comment of a troll, I need to clarify this post. While the liberals at MoveOn.org practically called Bush Hitler by stating that “1945’s war crimes” are “2003’s foreign policy”, I’m comparing speech styles (groaning, shouting, arm-waving, preaching, screeching, etc.), particularly of Dean and Gore. Whether the substance of the speeches is similar, that’s another post for another day.
