Dirty doings - Just looking at the unbalanced scales;-)...\Stef

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Nathan Dintenfass <nathan () changemedia com>
Date: August 22, 2004 7:31:56 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Dirty doings - Just looking at the unbalanced 
scales;-)...\Stef

[I'm sure you'll get plenty of responses like this, but feel free to 
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Oh, the poor GOP.  Those unfair liberals spending their money to defeat 
Bush -- oh, the outrage!

Seriously, though, what Kerry is now complaining about is direct 
coordination between the Swift Boat Veterans and officials from the 
Bush campaign -- and that is expressly forbidden by the campaign 
regulations that the Washington Times editorial lauds.  Not to mention 
the blatant falsehood of the claims in the Swift Boat ad.

To say that MoveOn compared Bush to Hitler is such a tired falsehood 
that it strains decency to continue to spread this rumor.  As most of 
your readers know, MoveOn hosted a competition for which hundreds of 
anti-Bush ads were submitted.  One of those did draw parallels between 
the Bush Administration and the Nazis.  MoveOn did not make that ad, 
they did not air that ad, and they removed the ad from their web site 
when it was brought to their attention.  The most cursory of Google 
searches makes those facts clear, but as the Swift Boat Veterans 
demonstrate once again, the Bush team does not let Truth get in the way 
of their quest for power.

That so many grassroots fundraising efforts have succeeded in raising 
so much money to fight back against the Radical Right's take over of 
our country gives me hope.  That Kerry calling out Karl Rove for 
playing dirty is somehow a "flip-flop" (another tired falsehood) does 
not stand up to the most cursory scrutiny.

Nathan Dintenfass
nathan () changemedia com

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