It was just a joke, an aside in a monologue last week by talk show host David Letterman.
President Bush “is asking Congress for $80 billion to help rebuild Iraq,” Letterman cracked. “And when you make out that check, remember there are two L’s in Halliburton.”
But the quip has found a second life in a new television ad campaign attacking the Bush administration’s connections to the oil industry giant. The Democratic-leaning activist group American Family Voices uses the line in a spot accusing the administration of cronyism and Halliburton of profiteering.
“Billions of tax dollars going directly to Halliburton through sweetheart, no-bid government contracts,” the announcer in the ad says, after quoting the Letterman joke. “Meanwhile, our soldiers are being asked to sacrifice — and here at home, budgets for education, health care, even veterans’ benefits are being slashed.”
Just another example of how these types of people try to distort fact with fiction – - which in my eyes has earned them the “Smack of the Week”.
Don’t they realize that to use a joke in this manner really only points out how much of a joke they are?
Does it get more pathetic than this? Sadly, I’m sure it does because there will be those who believe it.
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