Attack Ad Short on Facts

Fox News ^ | July 10, 2002 | Carl Cameron

[oldtimer]

I don't think we can realize how vicious, desperate and evil the rats are for power, redistribution of 'wealth', and the goal of the ultimate Socialist Workers Republic of the United States of America.

Our Country is basically clintoned unless a whole lot of sheeple wake up - and wake up soon.

[cincinnati65]

These ads ran in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Missouri and Michigan. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, American Family Voices spent $628,219 in August on advertisements criticizing George W. Bush.[1] A study by David Magleby of Brigham Young University found that 89 percent of respondents who saw the American Family Voices ad thought it was primarily aimed at persuading them to vote either for or against a candidate, while only 6 percent thought it was meant to promote an issue. [2] Only three of more than 700 respondents identified the sponsor of the advertisement. No one was able to identify the ultimate source of the funds for the ad.

The respondents could not identify the source, because the ads did not say that American Family Services’ main supporter was the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). Nor is that information available on AFV's website. AFSCME is one of America's largest and most politically active labor unions, with 1.3 million members. AFSCME's political action committee gave about $2.4 million to federal candidates in this election; roughly 95 percent to Democrats. AFSCME gave $4.4 million in soft money in the 1999-2000 cycle. [3] Not only was this more than any other entity gave in that campaign, but it set a new record for soft-money contributions.[4] AFSCME sent 270 delegates to the Democratic National Convention.[5] AFSCME president Gerald McEntee chairs the AFL-CIO political committee.

Let's play connect the dots with this.....

"I want to say a special thanks to Jerry McEntee," Clinton told the crowd. "He supported me when nobody else but my mother thought I had a chance. He's got a big heart, and if you were in a foxhole, you'd want him in there with you fighting for the future of your family. And I'm glad he's in there with me."

[CyberAnt]

Carville is lying when he says he doesn't know anything about it and didn't have anything to do with it. The guy who subbed for Rush today (Sullivan) was all over this story. He gleefully told who the people are that are involved in this organization. Once it's out on Rush's show, the public gets wise. These ads are not going to do anything but harm the dems - again!! Guess they never learn.

[terilyn]

I sincerely hope you're right!

[cincinnati65]

Typical Clinton formula: The Clinton "Brain Trust" (Carville, Lux, Lockhart) using OPM (Other People's Money) to advance the Clinton agenda.

[PogySailor]

Yes, but their buddies in the oh-so-impartial media will gladly dredge them up as "news". That way the ads get "run" by the media, not the group that funded them. That's pretty much what happened with the James Byrd ad.

[Intolerant in NJ]

This is why Fox News is attacked by leftwingers as being a "biased conservative news outlet" - they publish the facts the leftwingers omit from their reports (and don't want anyone to hear)......

[Demidog]

but makes no mention of the fact that an SEC investigation showed no harm

That's because the SEC investigation never showed any such thing.

In an interview this morning on NPR, Doty at first denied that the SEC's letter to Bush forbid him in writing to claim that by closing the investigation he had been exonerated.

The NPR announcer was prepared with a copy of the letter. He read the 1991 SEC letter to Doty, including the line he denied was in it.

Doty quickly explained that such statements are common language in all such letters. Unfortunately Doty's explanation may now cause Bush new problems.

"That statement is put in the letters to warn people that the SEC can reopen the investigation at any time if new information surfaces," Doty tried to explain. "and to let them know that that they are forbidden from using the letter to claim they had been exonerated."