Look what the compassionate conservatives with family values are up to........
WASHINGTON - Adolf Hitler's image has surfaced again in the White House race. President Bush (news - web sites)'s campaign contains online video, removed from a liberal group's Web site months ago and disavowed, that features the Nazi dictator.
The Bush Internet (news - web sites) video, which was sent electronically to 6 million supporters, intersperses clips of speeches by Democrats John Kerry (news - web sites), Al Gore (news - web sites) and Howard Dean (news - web sites) with the footage of Hitler.
Democrats want the video pulled from the site. Campaign aides said it would remain.
Republicans had criticized the group MoveOn.org in January because it briefly posted an ad contest entry that linked Hitler and Bush. It showed images of Bush with text saying, "God told me to strike at al-Qaida," before turning to images of Hitler with the words, "And then He instructed me to strike at Saddam." The submission ended with the words, "Sound familiar?" on a black and white screen
The group later said the entry was in "poor taste" and pulled it from its site.
The 77-second video on the Bush-Cheney re-election site splices footage of Kerry, the presumptive nominee, and his 2004 rival Dean along with 2000 nominee Gore and film director Michael Moore. The spot calls them Kerry's "Coalition of the Wild-eyed." Clips of Hitler's image are seen throughout the spot.
"The use of Adolf Hitler by any campaign, politician or party is simply wrong," said Kerry's campaign manager, Mary Beth Cahill, who called on the GOP campaign to remove the Web video from its site.
"We're using the video from MoveOn.org to show our supporters the type of vitriolic rhetoric being used by the president's opponents and John Kerry's surrogates," said Scott Stanzel, a spokesman for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign.
The online spot begins with clips of Gore assailing the Bush administration. "How dare they drag the good name of the United States of America through the mud of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s torture prison," Gore shouts during a public speech.
It then cuts to an image of Hitler, followed Dean, Moore and Rep. Dick Gephardt (news - web sites), D-Mo., all bashing Bush. There are more clips of Hitler, Gore and then Kerry, before the screen cuts to the words, "This is not a time for pessimism and rage." Video images of Bush follow.
A disclaimer was added to the beginning of the Web spot on Saturday afternoon to explain that the video contains "remarks made by and images from ads sponsored by Kerry supporters." The disclaimer also accuses Kerry of failing to denounce those who have compared Hitler to Bush.
Full Version: Bush Campaign uses Hitler in Ad
The W reelection crowd obviously will dig as deep a gutter as possible to tarnish their opponents.
Moreover, Kerry's and the other Democrats' policies are about as far from the Hitlerian program as possible. If anything, Kerry and the Democratic ilk are politically closest to the very Social Democrats from whom Hitler seized power, while any number of W's associates, in manufacturing wars, promoting secrecy, jailing people outside the limits of constitutional law, vituperatively smearing opponents by calling them unnpatriotic, packing the courts with right-wing ideologues, attempting to institute one-party domination of the government, whose size they are steadily increasing, etc., are operating along pre-fascist lines at the very least.
Some of Joseph Goebbels' famous quotes--which appear to be Karl Rove's guiding principles:
\"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.\"
\"The most brilliant propagandist technique will bear no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly--it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.\"
\"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.\"
\"Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.\"
Of course, there is the added irony that W's grandfather was charged with several major violations of federal law during World War II involving trading with the Nazi regime, but of course this gets swept under the rug....
Moreover, Kerry's and the other Democrats' policies are about as far from the Hitlerian program as possible. If anything, Kerry and the Democratic ilk are politically closest to the very Social Democrats from whom Hitler seized power, while any number of W's associates, in manufacturing wars, promoting secrecy, jailing people outside the limits of constitutional law, vituperatively smearing opponents by calling them unnpatriotic, packing the courts with right-wing ideologues, attempting to institute one-party domination of the government, whose size they are steadily increasing, etc., are operating along pre-fascist lines at the very least.
Some of Joseph Goebbels' famous quotes--which appear to be Karl Rove's guiding principles:
QUOTE
\"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.\"
\"The most brilliant propagandist technique will bear no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly--it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.\"
\"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.\"
\"Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.\"
As MIb would say oh the hypocrisy!!!!!
I thought this topic was about people Chimpy idolized. Guess not.
Gee, and I would've thought they'd be using images of Reagan. Boy, those Bushies are nothing if not unpredictable! 
I remember Hannity just ranting all over it when an add was shown on moveon.org comparing Bush to Hitler.
Oh the Hypocrisy
Oh the Hypocrisy
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