Man, this video just sucked, and Will is normally a funny guy. Every lefty talking point lamely rolled up into one waaay to long poor excuse for a comedy clip. Hell, I'm surprised he didn't scream Abu Garhib Halliburton!!!!
Now, if you read into the site, you should get a kick out of the message.
Help stop the Republican’s fraud by joining ACT today and signing our petition to the FCC.
What a doozy! Now, the very same type of people who herald Michael Moore's Ferretfight 9/11 as the bastion of truth are denouncing Bush for bringing up information regarding Kerry's record. I'm not going to say that every Bush ad is 100% true because they follow the same basic premise of any commercial - tell the audience what you want them to hear. How many times do you hear 'See Retailer for More Information'? Same thing.
On the main ACT site (ACT are the nutjobs who are putting this thing together) claim the following
The Bush campaign is committing fraud. $78 million dollars worth of it. They have crossed a line - blatantly misstating facts about the record and policy positions of John Kerry. They plan to lie their way to victory. http://actforvictory.org/stopthefraud Newsweek says the Bush “word is no longer good”. The Detroit Free Press called the same ad “wrong”. George Bush’s ad says Kerry supports a $900 billion dollar tax hike. This is completely false, but the average voter has no way of knowing this—and every reason to trust that the FCC would keep false ads off the air. Bush’s ad also shows Kerry supporting a 50 cent gas tax—a powerfully damaging, and untrue, claim. Sign the petition against Bush’s fraud and pass it on: http://actforvictory.org/stopthefraud
The Bush campaign is committing fraud. $78 million dollars worth of it.
They have crossed a line - blatantly misstating facts about the record and policy positions of John Kerry. They plan to lie their way to victory.
http://actforvictory.org/stopthefraud
Newsweek says the Bush “word is no longer good”. The Detroit Free Press called the same ad “wrong”.
George Bush’s ad says Kerry supports a $900 billion dollar tax hike. This is completely false, but the average voter has no way of knowing this—and every reason to trust that the FCC would keep false ads off the air.
Bush’s ad also shows Kerry supporting a 50 cent gas tax—a powerfully damaging, and untrue, claim.
Sign the petition against Bush’s fraud and pass it on:
Wow! Kerry didn't support a $900 billion tax hike. That is true. What he says is that he wants to pay for 27 million American's health care which costs around $900,000,000,000.00. I know his Ketchup Mamma has some coin, but not that much. I seriously doubt Kerry is planning on paying for it himself....hmmmm... He'll need to get the money from somewhere. I wonder where?
Now the second part has a twist of irony in it. Kerry no longer supports that tax increase! So it is very misleading for the Bush campaign to pull something like this, especially when one of the President's own Council of Economic advisors has said a 50-cent gas tax hike isn't a bad idea. And it is just as misleading for ACT to act as if Kerry is a saint in the matter and that the claim is factually inaccurate. I'm willing to give a 'Shame on you' to the Bush campaign on this, but lying about lies doesn't garner a lot of sympathy on my part.
To add insult to injury, I had to go look all that information up myself. Took about 30 seconds on Google to find enough stories to mesh together what appears to be the truth. For a site so concerned with truth, you'd think they'd highlight the inaccuracies of Bush's ads to make it easier for people to find out. Instead, I couldn't find a single reference on the entire site. Smells like they're playing around with the facts and hiding something, doesn't it?
Is Bush's team playing fast and loose with facts? Appears so. Is Kerry? Yup. Does it make it right for either side? No. Politicians have gotten away with lying so much that we're all numb to it and actually expect it. But to sit there and pretend the other side is the only one playing dirty sure as hell makes you look like a fool.