OSC recommends we watch it before the election and I can't get it to play in the lab with broadband.
Given that the site has a background of Lenin and Stalin edit: and Hitler, I'm guessing this isn't about bunnies and duckies and will probably piss me off, but, like picking a scab, I just can't not know what it is.
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I'm having trouble too. Would like to know what is on it, or how to access it. Not sure if being behind a firewall is blocking it.
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Basically, its an AntiKerry add with Reagan during a debate with Mondale, pointing out he (Mondale) was against the F14A/F14D, the B1/B2 Bombers and cutting away to a picture of Kerry while those statements are made. Which as we already know, is an exaggeration of the records.
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Yes, all those things just make me like Kerry more-- I still don't like him much, but I do like him more after seeing that.
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Wow, it's actually linked to on the Hatrack River home page.
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So, what's the Hitler/Stalin/Lenin tie-in? They were all pretty gung-ho on the military, from what I remember.
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However, it's worth noting that I'm not going to stop hanging out in the Cards' living room because I disagree with a political link Uncle Orson recommends. If I stopped associating with people I disagreed with politically, I don't know that there would be anyone left on Hatrack that I could be friends with.
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Except that I think a more appropriate analogy might be a living room that the forum members spent a lot of time and energy on decorating and making a comfortable and friendly place that people want to hang out in.
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I don't think it's any less friendly when someone links to a political ad you don't like. Is that what you're implying? Far worse is said on Hatrack every day.
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I think this is one place where the living room analogy breaks down. Were OSC to advance it is not just acceptable but worthy to link Kerry to some of the greatest murderers in the history of the world, in his living room (with me as a guest), would drive me out of his living room immediately. Luckily, I am not in his living room, and I can go on for the most part ignoring the deplorable ways he goes about advancing his politics.
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Oh, and does anyone else find it funny that this is the same guy that railed against the Kerry campaign for what he alleges were vile and hurtful distortions of the truth about Bush?
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Inviting someone into my living room doesn't allow them to dictate what I keep on the walls of my kitchen
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Eh...it's a political propaganda ad the same as F9/11. Effective spin...but spin none the less.
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quote:to link Kerry to some of the greatest murderers in the history of the world
The ad is not linking Kerry to mass murderers.
The analogy is between (1) President Reagan's response to the danger posed to our country by Communism, and (2) way in which a President Kerry would respond to the danger of similar magnitude (terrorism) that our country faces now.
The ad is not comparing Kerry to Hitler, Stalin, Bin Laden, etc. It's questioning Kerry's ability to handle threats to the US of the magnitude of Nazism, Communism, and terrorism.
What's so terrible about what the ad actually says?
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I looked at that anti-Kerry ad the other day... I felt it was inaccurate in parts, but I couldn't figure out why.
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The imagery of the site definitely links him to communism and stalin. The suggestion is quite clearly that electing Kerry is the same as giving in to communism and stalin.
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That's because the movie is about reagan's battle with communism... which is somehow apparently connected to the war on terror and John Kerry in their minds. Enough so at least to warrant putting an anti-Kerry ad on the site.
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