Move America Forward ad campaign to resell the war. C-Span2 10 AM

[TayTay]

C-Span is televising a news conference from the Move America Forward Foundation about the new ads campaign they are launching to win support for the Iraq War. (If you can stomach this, here is the website for this extremist RW group: http://www.moveamericaforward.org/index.php/MAF/AboutUs) This is on C-Span 2 at 10 AM.

News Conference
War in Iraq Advertising Campaign
Move America Forward
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
ID: 197197 - 03/19/2007 - 1:00 - No Sale

Johns, Deborah Mother
Dixon, Robert Acting Executive Director, Move America Forward
Argel, Debra Director, Move America Forward, Military Outreach

Move Forward America announced its "Win in Iraq" advertising campaign.

www.c-span.org

[sutz12]

1. Another Vietnam reminder...

I remember posters with pictures of Nixon on them.

Caption: Would you buy a used war from this man?

[TayTay]

2. Same old ads

They kind of look like the weird ads that Santorum came out with late in his campaign last year.

Scary narrator voice, we can support the troops and our President or we can die from Iraqis who will follow us home. (Complete with footage of a mushroom cloud bomb.)

How 2003.

[TayTay]

4. They are modelling their ads on the famous Daisy ad from 1964

The Islamic Terrorists are so horrific that we can't ever, ever, ever leave the War. Ever. It would make the terrorists feel too good.

Obviously, no mention of US deaths, the cost of the war, or the cost of the Iraqi people.

[soup]

3. "The choice is clear...

We win in Iraq OR face this here.

BOOM!!!!!"

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and they're off.

[TayTay]

5. Well, at least they will be wasting money on this

and not on candidate support. But, yeah, these ads are a subtle as a bag of hammers falling on your head. Be afraid, be afraid all the time and let us take care of everything. (Go buy something already.)

[soup]

6. Doesn't logic dictate

Since they say we're safe as long as we're there - (fighting them there instead of here) - that we don't need no steenkin' Dept. Of Homeland Security?

don't worry - be happy

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Oh geeze, she's emphasizing the word 'moron'.... regarding supporting the troops but not the war - being an oxymoron...

Don't think I can take much of this.

[TayTay]

7. I know. But these RW extremists need to be watched

They are constantly trying to move the goalline and make it seem like they represent the mainstream of thought in America. They do not. These views being expounded at this news conference are held by about 30% of the American public.

[Catchawave]

8. Deborah Johns Does NOT SPEAK FOR ME

I'm the daughter and wife of Marines, and I call her on her bullsh*t.

What obnoxious propaganda....who's "funding" this group?

[Catchawave]

9. Gold Star mom - troops are dying for us like Jesus did !?

Oy...

[Catchawave]

10. Camera just pulled back...nobody there?

Nor were there any questions ?

Deborah Johns now calling for "pen pals" for Iraqi children.

[paulk]

11. what does "winning" mean in the context of the disaster

that is Iraq?

These right wing types seem to think war is a like a football game - it ends, everyone goes home...

I don't have the stomach for watching this sort of thing anymore.