July 09, 2004

Bush Campaign Ad Invokes Hitler

The Guardian Weblog reports on the latest Bush campaign commercial and says "to describe it as crass would be an understatement."

'This is not a time for pessimism and rage ...' opens the latest George Bush campaign video. It's an extraordinary, ear-bashing piece of work which splices clips of John Kerry, Michael Moore and Al Gore speaking with footage of Hitler addressing a Nazi rally. Moore and Soros, say the Republicans, have both compared Bush to Hitler.

But their own anti-Bush hectoring makes them sound more like the Nazi dictator. The core message: Democrats preach a message of pessimism and hate. 'Disgusting,' ripostes the Kerry team: 'The fact that George Bush thinks it's appropriate to use images of Adolf Hitler in his campaign raises serious questions about his fitness to spend another four years in the White House.'


Democrats should realize that this is a deliberate ploy by Republicans to muddy the water on issues where Bush is sensitive: Fascism and Nazism. GOP posters on the Net regular call Islamic fundamentalists "Islamofascists" and even claim that Hitler was a Socialist (because his government supported the Volkswagen as the "peoples' car").

No comments:

Pages

Blog Archive