"Move America Forward" sinks to new low... and that's saying something.
My old buddy, Robert Dixon, the Executive Director for the slime machine known as "Move America Forward", was kind enough to send me an email outlining their newest slime campaign. Oops, a correction on the last sentence... he's now the "Acting" Executive Director. Apparently, he's been demoted from chief scumbag to acting chief scumbag.
Anyway, I'll save you the salacious details of the campaign, but here's the gist of it:
> > BILL CLINTON REBUKED!
> >
> > New Television Ad
> > Targets Bill Clinton's Failure
> > To Fight Terrorist Threat
> >
> > "No more rewriting history, Mr. President"
>
It's funny... while the Republican leadership is choosing to cover their collective asses on the Mark Foley scandal by saying "I didn't know nothin' about nothin'.", or even blaming the victims; or Faux News, who is erroneously & misleadingly putting a (D) next to Foley's name on their broadcasts; Move America Forward has chosen a much more traditional neocon tactic... misdirection.
Well, of course, I couldn't just let this one go without telling Mr. Dixon what I thought of his new ad campaign. Here's my response to him:
"Spreading lies again Robert? I'm surprised you're not blaming Clinton for Mark Foley's fall from grace...
Or perhaps that's what this is all about. Yep, right from the neocon playbook. When in doubt, misdirect."Pay no attention to the Republican pedophile behind the curtain. Oh! Look over there!"
It's too bad the Republicans and Conservatives don't actually have any real ideas to propose. Perhaps then they wouldn't spend so much time blaming others for their own failings.
So I'm curious Robert, when the neocons lose both houses of Congress this fall and the White House in '08, what's your fall-back plan? Selling Amway?
Cause you know that spewing rightwing lies and being the cheerleader for hate-mongering will no longer be a profitable vocation.
America is tired of you and your ilk Robert. They are tired of being lied to by the people who promised to protect them, who promised we could trust them. They are tired of the arrogance and the "win at all cost" mentality, irregardless of truth, common sense, and common decency. They are tired of our brave men and women coming home in body bags because the party in power is too proud and too stubborn to admit they screwed up.
That light you think you see at the end of the tunnel Bob... that the oncoming train known as the will of the American people. You see, one of the big differences between us progressives and you neocons is that you don't trust and you underestimate the American people. We, on the other hand have never lost faith in the greatest blessing our nation has... its wonderful citizens.
So full steam ahead Bob. Keep barreling down the tracks towards the light. Just remember what they say... it's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end.
Sweet dreams Bob."
An addendum to this one... Someone had mentioned to me that Faux News putting a (D) next to Mark Foley's name was "news to them". Well here it is, in all it's glory:
Thanks to bradblog for that one.
Labels: conservative, politics, right-wing lies
posted by Marlipern @ 10:22 AM
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Well said Bigdog.
Personally, I don't think this was a set up on the part of the Dems. The latest rumor - and it is exactly that - is that someone in the Justice dept. leaked the emails and IMs to Brian Ross at ABC because they were sick and tired of the Attny. Gen. telling them to "stand down" on the investigation about this.
We'll see how it plays out.
Wow - is this "All flamethrowers on high all the time"? Where to begin?
You remind us that "After all folks, the founding fathers were not only liberals, they were radicals." Perhaps I am not recalling it properly but I don't remember Thomas Jefferson referring to John Adams as a scumbag - though I do seem to recall they didn't care for each other much at least until they reached their dotage.
If anyone has an "R" after their name they're a neocon? In case you're not aware of it, calling a Republican a neocon in some circles can be construed as fighting words. That's a pretty broad brush you're working with there Marlipern!
"It's too bad the Republicans and Conservatives don't actually have any real ideas to propose." What? It would seem that shoe fits the left better than the right.
Deep breaths, Marlipern, deep breaths.
Pardon my lack of civility on the subject of politics these days Country Squire, but I'm sick and fed up with the lack of honesty and integrity from those roaming the halls of the Capitol. There have been way too many lies, misrepresentations, and half truths coming from both sides of the aisle, but disproportionately and most notably from the Republicans.
Adams and Jefferson were indeed more civil to each other. But that was a more civil time in our nation's history, and they were indeed better men than I. But I stand by my statement that the founding fathers were radicals, at least in the eyes of those in power (the British). And there certainly was no love lost between those radicals and the Brits.
It's interesting that you mention having an "R" next to a politician's name, what with Faux News putting a "D" next to Foley's. You're really not going to try to tell me that was honest mistake, are you?
Feel free to toss out any novel "ideas" proposed by the Republicans, and I'll be more than happy to share double that number offered up by the democrats. This is one area where you can't "fake it", though it seems most of the Republicans would like to believe so.
Deep breaths? Not yet. I'll breathe much easier when the Democrats take back Congress. T-minus 31 days and counting.
Marlipern, if you're looking for honesty and integrity, Congress is not where you go to find it. Not now, not ever. And neither party can claim the high ground. I believe this is why we call them politicians, not statesmen.
My comment about Adams and Jefferson was merely an attempt to cajole you into putting your flame thrower down. I fear you’re generating more heat than light and I know you possess a vocabulary that would enable you to call a politician a scumbag without coming out and saying it. I am merely suggesting a return to civil discourse. As for their time being a more civil one, these radicals as you are so fond of calling them, were quite frequently fighting each other when they weren’t busy fighting a common enemy.
Regarding Fox News calling Foley a Democrat (which is news to me) I find it hard to believe that there is a soul on this entire planet that does not know Foley is a Republican. If it wasn’t a mistake is Fox still “standing by their story” or have they corrected it?
Republican ideas, let’s start with these topics:
1. Win the war.
2. Cut taxes.
3. Install originalist judges on the Federal bench and the Supreme Court.
4. Control illegal immigration.
5. Reduce spending.
If you want to know why Bush’s poll numbers dropped so much earlier in the year it was a combination of the Harriet Miers nomination, Bush’s stance on illegal immigration and the guest worker program coupled with out of control spending. The poll number drop was the conservative base losing their collective patience with Bush which caused the numbers to crash. I do not recall saying that I agreed with the President all of the time. George Bush is not a conservative so there are plenty of opportunities for me to disagree with him. But I am much more likely to agree with him than Kennedy, Reed, Pelosi, Clinton et al.
And as far as your breathing condition is concerned, we’ll discuss the disposition of the Congress if/when the Democrats succeed in taking it back. One of my favorite quotes from Casey Coleman had to do with what a team looked like on paper. He said “That’s why we play them on grass.” See you on the field.
OK - so you managed to get a screen shot of Fox making a mistake. So what.
Now, I'll ask again - are they still standing by their story, ala Dan Rather, that Foley really is a Democrat, or have they corrected it?
So what? So, this is either an amateurish gaffe, or a deliberate distortion, coming from the "fair and balanced" news source.
Fox's comment on the goof?
"Once it came to our attention, we removed the incorrect chyron immediately," said David Tabacoff, executive producer of the Fox News Channel show hosted by Bill O'Reilly... "We didn't run a correction per se."
Perhaps they'd like to correct their newest "accident"...
In covering the Rhode Island Senate race between Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D), sure enough they did the same thing, listing Chafee as a Democrat and Whitehouse as a Republican. This way, it looked like the Republican was trouncing the Democrat in the polls, 50% to 39%, when in actuality, the opposite was true.
I'm merely pointing out a pattern here. I hear the term "liberal media bias" tossed around by the same people who make Faux News their primary (in Cheney's case, his only) source for news.
Nuff said.
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