The DNC Pulls A DNC On Their McCain Attack Ad
Watch this
Now look at these picture via Confederate Yankee
The soldiers are on screen for just a split-second, just long enough for viewers to see that there was an explosion, but not long enough to know if the soldiers pictured survived uninjured, if they were wounded, or if they were killed.
And because it matters, both U.S. soldiers survive the blast
Where did the images come from?
Even more unbelievably, the IED clip comes from Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. It’s at about 1:35 in this trailer: Fahrenheit 9/11 trailers.
The ad is based on “a rank falsehood“:
The DNC’s message portrays McCain as bent on fighting an “endless” war in Iraq.
DNC: We can’t afford four more years with a President who fights an endless war in Iraq. … On the war, McCain scoffed at Bush’s call to leave troops in Iraq for 50 years, saying “Make it a hundred!”
That of course is a serious distortion of what McCain actually said to a town-hall meeting in New Hampshire back on Jan. 3. His actual words are posted in a video on YouTube. Far from advocating “endless war,” he said the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq would be “fine with me” provided that they’re not being killed or wounded. Here’s the full quote:
McCain, Jan. 3: Make it a hundred. … We’ve been in Japan for 60 years. We’ve been in South Korea for 50 years or so. That would be fine with me, as long as American, as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed. It’s fine with me and I hope it would be fine with you if we maintained a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al Qaeda is training, recruiting and equipping and motivating people every single day.
It should be noted that both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, despite their frequent talk of withdrawing from Iraq, have said repeatedly that they would maintain at least some troops in a combat role in Iraq for some time, possibly their entire term of office.
There’s little doubt that McCain is less eager than either Clinton or Obama to bring troops home without further suppression of insurgent attacks. But it’s a rank falsehood for the DNC to accuse McCain of wanting to wage “endless war” based on his support for a presence in Iraq something like the U.S. role in South Korea.
MM asks:
Follow-up question: Where did Michael Moore get the footage?
And another: Did the DNC just happen to use the same source or did they ask Moore for permission to use the clip from his movie?
If it wasn’t before, it should be abundantly clear why this party has an ass for a mascot!
April 29, 2008 - 12:56 PM on April 29th, 2008
Ah, yes, the fundamental modus operandi for the left: Misrepresentation, mischaracterization, and just outright lying. Now why, why in the world do they always resort to such tactics? If their argument so convincing, their facts so compelling, why the need to manipulate and distort?
The answer is that the truth is anathema to them, poison, like a cross to Dracula. They can’t stand the truth because it sheds the light of reality on them and their smoke-and-mirrors house of cards. It reveals their falsehoods. It shows them for the deceivers and liars they are.
Speaking of deceivers, now who was that who is also known as “The Great Deceiver, the Prince of Lies”? That’s right, the Devil. He is the Patron Saint of the Left. Gotta be.
April 29, 2008 - 05:54 PM on April 29th, 2008
Democrats Hit New Low With New Ad
f you thought the DNC could stoop no lower think again. In a new anti-McCain ad paid for by the Democrat Party shows US soldiers being blown up. This is being protested by veterans groups and the McCain campaign has called for the DNC to pull the ad….
April 29, 2008 - 06:50 PM on April 29th, 2008
they have hit a new low indeed!