Well, I don't know if you've heard about the big MoveOn.Org controversy, but let's lay it out for you.
MoveOn.Org is a liberal organization sponsored a contest entitled "Bush in 30 Seconds" in which you submitted ads explaining what President Bush is all about. Being a liberal website, they were of course negative ads (you can see the finalists here). They received over 1,000 ads and they posted most of them on their website, including two which incorporated Nazi Imagery. The MoveOn organization did not create or commission those ads, nor are there any plans to try to get them on the air.
Republicans are offended by the ads (and, I must admit, not without reason) but their reaction has been a little over the top and has, as you might expect distorted the issue a bit. Take Rush Limbaugh for example. Please.
"This group has "apologized" - but only by way of blaming the Republicans! The group claims that by expressing outrage, the GOP wrongly implied that MoveOn.org was attached to the ads.
Are they kidding? They posted these ads, and Soros has been out there saying Bush statements like "you're either with us or your with the terrorists" reminded him of the Nazi slogans of his youth."
No they are not kidding, Rush. They didn't produce or cause to be produced the two offending ads. I don't know what's hard to understand about that. Also they took the ads down and apologized; which of course gets them no credit whatsoever.
Rush also uses his magnificent psychic abilities to tell us what's really going on at MoveOn.Org. "I'll tell you what they're really ashamed of. They're ashamed that it didn't work. They're ashamed that everybody got on their case. They really thought this would score points. They really thought those two ads would put them on the map in a positive way."
Does Rush offer any proof? No, because none is needed. To Rush and his fans just being a democrat sets you apart as a purely evil person, to whom the most base and hateful motivations can be assumed. Proof? We don't need no stinkin' proof.
Joan Walsh, editor of Salon News, and presumably a liberal, had this to say on the subject. "And so MoveOn moves on. Its enemies won't, of course. That's why it's important that the group admitted it stumbled, a little, by ducking the admittedly tough task of vetting the ads for content before posting them to the site, and that it says it learned from the mistake. Of course, the RNC didn't apologize when Republicans ran ads that turned disabled veteran Sen. Max Cleland into Osama bin Laden, or Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle into Saddam Hussein. RNC chair Ed Gillespie hasn't yet demanded an apology from columnist Ralph Peters for his Monday New York Post Op-Ed comparing Howard Dean to Hitler. And he never will. Republicans smear without apology. And sadly, they mostly get away with it. "
But don't worry, there's more to this story. Part two, in which we look at the finalists in the competition and check in with Ben Shapiro, Boy Prognosticator
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