Posted on 01/20/2003 2:08:44 PM PST by Peacerose
01/20/2003
The left wing propagandists at ABC News are promoting a "public service" advertisement that implies that President Bush is taking an extremely dangerous path in his approach to disarming Saddam Hussein. Here is how they described it on the Thursday's ABC World News Tonight, 01/16/2003.
Peter Jennings: "An anti-war group called 'MoveOn.org' that's organized primarily over the Internet, today started airing a television commercial opposing war against Saddam Hussein. The ad remakes one of the most notorious political attack ads ever, and it is supposedly airing in 12 cities, though its creators are probably also hoping for a lot of free publicity. Here's ABC's Brian Rooney."
Brian Rooney: "For many Americans who remember the'60's, it's a familiar image. The little girl with the daisy overshadowed by war spinning out of control."
Clip from ad: "Maybe the unthinkable, Maybe that's why Americans are saying to President Bush, 'Let the inspections work'."
Rooney: "It is a remake of that famous 1964 commercial Lyndon Johnson ran - just once - to say Barry Goldwater might lead the country to war. This new version is made by a group called 'Move On' that espouses political causes over the Internet."
Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org: "The goal is really to start a national conversation about these important issues that we're facing."
Rooney: "Like a protest in Los Angeles today in which 17 people were arrested, the anti-war movement is still relatively small but appears to be growing with a lot of help from the Internet. Organizations are posting pages and linking with each other."
Alistair Millar, Winning Without War: "We can show strength and raise money by just sitting at a computer rather than having to go out in the street."
Rooney: "Organizers say they're reaching a lot of working adults who are making connections through Web sites."
Stephen Fine, Neighbors for Peace and Justice: "It's not like the entire anti-war movement has shifted to the Internet, no. It's just become another tool."
Rooney: "The $100,000 to air the new 'daisy ad' was raised over the Internet. The anti-war movement has gone from the streets to the information highway. Brian Rooney, ABC News, Los Angeles."
Interestingly, neither Jennings nor Rooney had much to say about the 'countdown to nuclear war' content of the advertisement. This suggests to me that they found it sane, sensible and above board. Rooney found it interesting that groups are raising money and organizing over the internet. [Wow! What a concept! Who'd a thunk it!] Notice, too, that these groups are presented as generic, middle-of-the-road citizen-activist groups. Judge for yourself. The links to their web pages are below.
Let's step back to October 27, 2000. Aaron Brown, then an ABC reporter, did a story about an independent group using a very similar daisy-girl countdown to nuclear war to express outrage with former Vice-president Gore's sell-out of national security for campaign donations from China. Brown and his ABC News producers were upset.
Brown: "It mimics a 1964 ad on whether Republican Barry Goldwater could be trusted with nuclear weapons. In '64 the ad's sponsors never intended to pay much money to place it on television. It ran only once. The news media gave it all the play, and here we go again.
"We've been able to confirm only four stations that have actually run the ad at a cost of about a thousand dollars. Nevertheless, the ad has received extraordinary attention. It was the subject of an article in today's New York Times. It aired in part on Good Morning America and on cable channels, and it's all part of a plan buy its producer, Carey Cramer, to get attention for nothing…The Bush campaign has asked that the ad be pulled. Cramer's group, whose address is a Texas mail drop, will decide tonight. But then, the ad will have been seen by millions for free and without much analysis."
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dean of Annenberg School for Communication: "It's hoping that by getting aired without commentary about its inaccuracy and its hyperbolic nature, that the ideas will seep through in news and thus have an impact."
Hmmm - heard by the public without much analysis, without commentary about its inaccuracy. Evil, indeed!
BUT - only evil if applied to a Democratic candidate for the presidency shortly before Election Day. Apply the same treatment to the current Republican president and it's just fine and dandy. Even without analysis!
I invite you to share your thoughts with the left wing hypocrites at ABC World News Tonight. Below is the contact information.
ABC News/World News Tonight
77 West 66th Street
New York, New York 10023
Phone (212) 456-4040
FAX (212) 456-2795
Read more here:
MRC CyberAlert, 01/17/2003: ABC Showcases Anti-Bush "Daisy" Ad, But in 2000...
MRC CyberAlert, 10/28/2000: Daisy II
MRC CyberAlert, 10/28/2000: Text and Visuals of Anti-Gore Ad
Winning Without War: Sensible Security Options for Dealing with Iraq
Neighbors for Peace and Justice
Back in 2000:
"A different example of nastiness is coming from a mysterious group that has produced a new TV ad that suggests Gore could draw the U.S. into nuclear war. The ad mimics Lyndon Johnson's infamous daisy commercial and accuses the Democrats of endangering the U.S. by giving nuclear secrets to China. At the end of the ad, a nuclear explosion is shown, followed by the words, 'Vote Republican.' It's not known who put up the money for the ad." - Antonio Mora, 10/27/2000, ABC's Good Morning America
And now in 2003:
"Starting today, Americans are going to see something new on television in major cities all across the country, brought to you by an anti-war movement, a group claiming its membership doubled in the last month. It is a TV ad campaign in 13 major cities inspired by a famous anti-war ad from the '60s. We'll take a look at the new one, but first, the one you remember." - Diane Sawyer, 01/16/2003, ABC's Good Morning America
Later, while interviewing a backer of the ad, she asked, "Think this is sensationalistic? That original ad back in the'60s only ran once. It was pulled off the airwaves…"
Daisy II is "nastiness" coming from "a mysterious group". Daisy III is "inspired" at best and "sensationalistic" at worst. The leader of the group that produced it is given a platform to promote his cause.
Once again, hypocrisy at ABC News burbles to the surface. Here is Good Morning America's contact information.
ABC News/Good Morning America
77 West 66th Street
New York, New York 10023
Phone (212) 456-5900
FAX (212) 456-7257
Read more here:
MRC CyberAlert, 01/17/2003: GMA: Anti-Gore Ad “Nasty”, Anti-Bush Ad: “Inspiring”
Baloney! They are BEHIND Hillary Clinton!
kcvl will be along to post the information, I'm sure.
kcvl!!! Paging kcvl!!!
Joan Blades is the co-founder of MoveOn.org, a political action web site dedicated to finding and promoting common-ground solutions to public policy issues. Although only launched September 22 of this year, MoveOn.org has garnered 300,000 petition signers, 3000 active volunteers, and generated more than 1 million communications to Congress. Going beyond "virtual" action, moveon.org organized events in 219 congressional offices in 44 states on October 29th, and a get-out-the-vote drive that reached 4 million people on the day before the election.
Ms. Blades is a software industry veteran, having founded a leading entertainment software company, Berkeley Systems. Berkeley Systems is best known for Flying Toaster screen savers, and You Don't Know Jack, an online game show. She is also the co-founder of Cavort Learning Systems, an Internet education startup.
Prior to her work in consumer software, Ms. Blades taught mediation at Golden Gate Law School, wrote a book on Divorce Mediation published by Prentice Hall, and practiced mediation. She is a non-active member of the California and Alaska bar associations. Ms. Blades is also an artist, with works published on greeting cards and software packaging.
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Wes Boyd is the co-founder of MoveOn.org, a political action web site dedicated to finding and promoting common-ground solutions to public policy issues. Although only launched September 22 of this year, MoveOn.org has garnered 300,000 petition signers, 3000 active volunteers, and generated more than 1 million communications to Congress. Going beyond "virtual" action, moveon.org organized events in 219 congressional offices in 44 states on October 29th, and a get-out-the-vote drive that reached 4 million people on the day before the election
Mr. Boyd is a software industry veteran, having founded a leading entertainment software company, Berkeley Systems. Berkeley Systems is best known for Flying Toaster screen savers, and You Don't Know Jack, an online game show. He is also the co-founder of Cavort Learning Systems, an Internet education startup.
In the 1980s, prior to his work in consumer software, Mr. Boyd authored software for blind and visually impaired users allowing full access to Macintosh computers, for which he received the ComputerWorld-Smithsonian award for technical innovation. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Mr. Boyd served at the University of California as a senior staff programmer on research projects.
She is absolutely THE best researcher on the internet!
April 30, 1999, 5:00 PM PT
MoveOn.org, the Web site that made news last year when it drew some 450,000 signatures to an online petition calling for Congress to "censure President Clinton and move on," on Friday announced a new online lobbying initiative: a gun control petition.
In the aftermath of the school shootings in Littleton, Colo., MoveOn.org co-founder Wes Boyd said the site's "Gun Safety First" petition pressures Congress to regulate guns for safety like other consumer products, institute child safety standards for gun manufacturers and force gun show operators to check buyers' backgrounds.
For Blades and Boyd, their foray into e-politics began with a sense that Congress was ignoring public opinion as it investigated Clinton's White House escapades.
MoveOn provided a gateway to mounds of information and in a short time, she was swapping e-mail with Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y.
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