Deceptive ads target veterans (Soros at work)

Research on the Internet | October 3, 2009 | Me

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

There is an advertising campaign on right now for an organization called IAVA. Its website is given as CommunityOfVeterans.org. It sounds very high minded.

But it was started as an organization called “Operation Truth” during 2004 as part of the Kerry campaign.

This organization is funded by George Soros and is designed to make veterans think they are victimized by the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and persuade them to support liberal candidates for office and anti-war measures.

They claim to be non-partisan, but if they are, why were all the candidates they supported for election to federal office in 2006 Democrats?

Now they are advertising on Glenn Beck’s show. (Or the Ad Council is running their crap on Fox News.)

My husband saw a bunch of their billboards in the poorer area of Fresno and started wondering what was going on. I started researching and had to dig, but when you finally get to the military blogs, they are very aware of these phonies (and very angry about it).

This campaign is linked to the White House through a man named Phil Carter. Here is what BlackFive said about this guy:

...IAVA... lists Phil Carter, of Intel Dump, as a Founder. We took issue with Phil, as Director of Veterans for Obama, passing off the IAVA scorecard without disclosing that he is a Founder of the IAVA. The scorecard is clearly slanted in favor of Democrats and Senator Obama.

http://www.blackfive.net/main/2008/10/time-for-honest.html

Here’s how Phil Carter came to work in the White House:

http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=8453

Phil Carter was a lawyer and a Washington Post columnist before getting called up to the Obama campaign as the candidate’s veteran adviser. [He filed an amicus brief in Hamden vs. Rumsfeld!]

“If you read our posts last Fall about Carter and his connections to both the campaign and the IAVA, you already know that IAVA and Phil Carter colluded to split veterans and active duty service members from the McCain campaign by ginning up a phony “scorecard” that made it appear that politicians like Duncan Hunter had a worse record of support than Baghdad Jim McDermott. Well, that worked well for Carter, because he’s now the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs.”

This issue is all over the military blogs.

Some of Carter’s articles for the Washington Post:

Petraeus Overplays His Hand http://voices.washingtonpost.com/inteldump/2008/04/the_reality_is_it_is_hard_in_i.html

Irrelevant Exuberance - Why the latest good news from Iraq doesn’t matter. http://www.slate.com/id/2171510/

The Road to Abu Ghraib The biggest scandal of the Bush administration began at the top. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0411.carter.html

The Case for the Draft http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2005/0503.carter.html More from the MilBlogs:

http://www.snooperreport.com/snooper-report/2009/4/10/copy-cat-frauds-of-the-iava.html

http://www.thevfw.blogspot.com/2009/05/iava-chief-rieckhoff-disses-vietnam.html

I found out from Google that the co-founder Paul Rieckhoff was on Rachel Maddow’s show this year: ‘The Rachel Maddow Show’ for February 26, 2009 - Rachel Maddow ... ...Coming up: Paul Rieckhoff from Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America will join us. ..... Number two, check out IAVA’s “CommunityofVeterans.org. ... www.msnbc.msn.com/id/.../msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/

I hope Fox can refuse to air these ads. This campaign is reprehensible.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

This is reprehensible! Do you guys see these ads in your area? The commercial I've seen shows a soldier in the middle of an empty street, all alone, looking very distressed. Finally a guy comes along, says "Welcome home," shakes the soldier's hand, and then there is a lot of traffic on the street.

[dalebert]

bump

[Ax]

In my town, at one of the major intersections, there are usually guys dressed in camo, purporting to be for some veterans organization. They say they’re collecting money for wounded warriors, but I just get the feeling they’re running some kind of scam.

[dalebert]

must be community organizers....look out

[12Gauge687]

Go to blackfive.net, where a lot of vets vent, including the founder, Matt Burden. While some IAVA members may really be recent combat vets as Matt has noted in the past, the agenda of the organization is somewhat suspect.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

They’ve copied the look and feel of the real veterans association, Veterans For Freedom:

http://www.snooperreport.com/snooper-report/2009/4/10/copy-cat-frauds-of-the-iava.html

Before last year’s election they gave liberal members of congress like Maxine Waters and Jim McDermott ‘A’ grades and Duncan Hunter a ‘C.’ A broadcast email that went out linked to a site called Democracy in Action (http://www2.democracyinaction.org/) which is another lefty outfit run by Soros. More below at the This Ain’t Hell blog.

http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=3758

These people are evil!!

[G-dzilla]

Wonder if this is the org for which “newsradio” stations run a “public service ad” about 50 times a day (”PSA” has these various voices, supposedly of veterans...)

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

I’d be interested if they say the website ‘communityofveterans.org.’

[bubbacluck]

I’ve heard the same radio ads. Something about getting help if you are an Iraq war vet.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Last year they were promoting Obama bigtime:

Obama outscores McCain in veterans’ group’s report card (Another Phony Leftist Group)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099669/posts

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Here is their video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDbqLul97Fg

[Ax]

Will do, 12Gauge. Thanks.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

Old article bump.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Now Miller is on this bandwagon with their “reverse delivery driver” going to a baseball game to join veterans enjoying the game, and then doing a PA announcement for the “Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan!”

You’re supposed to send in a bottle cap and Miller donates to “send veterans to a ball game” or some such. The IAVA logo is shown on the closing moments of the video.