Here we go again....

I just got this alert from MoveOn.

MoveOn.org has come under attack from the Republican National Committee (RNC), which has launched a campaign of malicious misinformation to divert attention from the creativity and power of the Bush in 30 Seconds contest....

RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie launched the attack on "Fox News Sunday," and the RNC followed it with press releases and calls to reporters. The charges centered on two ads posted on the Bush in 30 Seconds website which compared President Bush's tactis with those of Adolf Hitler. Mr. Gillespie repeatedly referred to the ads as 'the MoveOn ad' or 'MoveOn's ad,' implying that we had sponsored or perhaps even commissioned the ad. And he also claimed that we might spend $7 million to run it on TV....

Not only is the RNC campaign deceptive, it's also totally disingenuous. Yesterday, the New York Post ran a long opinion column focusing exclusively on how much Presidential Candidate Howard Dean resembles Hitler, even calling him "Herr Howie." Of course, the RNC hasn't issued a condemnation of that. When close RNC ally Grover Norquist repeatedly compared taxing the wealthy with the Holocaust in an interview on NPR, the RNC was muted. And in 2002, the RNC and its allies were silent when supporters of President Bush actually aired TV ads morphing the face of Senator Max Cleland, a triple amputee as a result of wounds sustained in Vietnam, into Osama bin Laden. Given such a transparently partisan track record, the RNC's moral outrage doesn't mean a whole lot.

You can read about the RNC's latest attempt to use smear tactics and misinformation against MoveOn's formidable 1.7 million membership base in its entirety here.

While MoveOn has issued a statement correcting the false reporting, the RNC is still working the angle. The only place you can view the ads in question now is on the RNC website! You can help MoveOn track inaccurate reporting on this story
here. If you see reports in your local media, call them to give them hell for falling for such political bullshit.

Beyond that - bring it back around to the positive aspects of the contest that MoveOn intended it to be by sharing the link to the Bush In 30 Seconds contest and their finalists.

These ads reflect the courage, hope, and deep patriotism of our [MoveOn] membership. They're creative, passionate, and totally unlike most of the political ads that are out there. And perhaps most importantly, they were picked in a democratic way. Now that's a story.

posted by Unknown at 8:12 pm