An Open Letter To The Kerry Campaign (Bush/Cheney Campaign Release)

Bush/Cheney ^ | 7-12-04 | Mary Beth Cahill

[talleyman]

Tape-gate bump! "Show us the tape!"

[Corin Stormhands]

To allay the other concern you relayed to the news media, Bush-Cheney '04 pledges to refrain from using audio, video or transcripts of the event for any television, cable, satellite or radio advertising.

Course we won't use it there. It'll be a fund raiser!

I'd buy one (or two).

[scooter2]

Move the big guns in?

Literally, and aim them at Whoopi's house as a starting point.

[nuffsenuff]

WOW!

Now if we could only get the Major News outlets to read the letter, IN ITS ENTIRETY, on the air waves.

/wishful thinking

[Stag]

Anticiapted/predicted Kerry Campaign reply:

Dick Cheney violated the sanctity of the Senate Chamber and used the F word on the Senate floor just last week. That is much worse. The Senate is place where the American people are robbed of their hard earned money to fund numerous...ahem...progressive programs. The sanctity of the Senate must not be violated with such vile language. Not only will we not provide you with the information you requested, we will support true American values by demanding Dick Cheney be replaced as Vice President immediately. (/sarcasm)

[cake_crumb]

I believe the RNC has already got a copy of the...uh...performance, and is planning to release it.

[cake_crumb]

You want the INTEL released?

[Grampa Dave]

There are two excellent threads on FR at this time. Apparently the NY Post basically copied what a Freeper posted.

Below is the link and the thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1170425/posts

GOPers WANT WHOOPI'S FAST EXIT (FR MENTIONED)
The NY Post ^


Posted on 07/13/2004 8:14:22 AM PDT by sdk7x7


July 13, 2004 -- WASHINGTON — Some Republican activists are launching a boycott of SlimFast diet products to protest SlimFast spokeswoman Whoopi Goldberg's X-rated rant against President Bush at a New York fund-raiser for Democrat John Kerry last week. Chat pages on pro-Bush Web sites like FreeRepublic.com are posting links for complaints to SlimFast or parent company Unilever, along with reports from angry consumers about what they wrote in their complaints.

A typical one: "Realize that when Goldberg insults our president, particularly in such a vulgar fashion, she alienates half the country . . . Can SlimFast really afford to lose half of their potential market?"

SlimFast executives yesterday didn't respond to questions about whether they intend to keep Goldberg as spokeswoman. Company president F. Daniel Abraham is a major Democratic donor who, with his wife, has given $1.2 million to groups working to defeat Bush.

In this thread and the other thread, there is data re the president of Slime Fast being a big time rat donor.

Also, there are phone #'s and emails to contact Slime Fast and Unilever, the UK company that owns Slime Fast, Lipton Tea of the Dixie Whining Chickens and Ben and Jerry's the libs who sell the artery clogging liberal ice cream.

Deborah Orin


Excerpted - click for full article ^
Source: http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/27252.htm

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1170425/posts

[IrishGOP]

To allay the other concern you relayed to the news media, Bush-Cheney '04 pledges to refrain from using audio, video or transcripts of the event for any television, cable, satellite or radio advertising.

So then what's the point of releasing it?

[Reagan79]

This release will be ignored by the media and Kerry campaign. Good tactic though.

[jmstein7]

Good -- they're not going to let this one go.

[Republican Red]

I agree.

I want the tape released in order to produce a wonderful campaign commercial.

I am actually surprised Bush-Cheney '04 hasn't done some sort of commercial yet. This is better than the "I voted for the $84 billion before I didn't" slip. I'd show Kerry saying he didn't have time for National Security briefings and then cut to two hours later with the clips they do have of the concert. Then I'd put Whoopi Goldberg's picture up with a string of bleeps and then show Kerry saying she is the heart and soul of America.

They really don't need the tape, just pretend. Democrats have been doing it for years.

[dpwiener]

To allay the other concern you relayed to the news media, Bush-Cheney '04 pledges to refrain from using audio, video or transcripts of the event for any television, cable, satellite or radio advertising.
So then what's the point of releasing it?

The Bush campaign knows Kerry won't release it, so it costs nothing to make that pledge and thereby undercut Kerry's excuse. However, in the unlikely event that the video tape was released, there are any number of independent expenditure committees and conservative PACs which would be happy to use it in their advertising (and of course would not be bound by the Bush-Cheney '04 pledge).

[cake_crumb]

"Company president F. Daniel Abraham is a major Democratic donor who, with his wife, has given $1.2 million to groups working to defeat Bush."

Even without Whoopi's lewd rant, that should be reason enough to boycott Slimfast. No socialist ought to benefit from the free market.

[cake_crumb]

"So then what's the point of releasing it?"

It says why in the letter: they want the news media to run it so Americans can decide for ourselves if the fundraiser shananigans really ARE examples of American values.

[SF Republican]

i would also like to know if they served kool-aide at the event - do you mean kool-aid as in the Electrical Kool-Aid ACID Test? My preference would be the Jim Jones Guyana kool-aide for this group

[IrishGOP]

The media won't run it because it'll make Kerry look bad, the media is not going to cooperate with republicans, (maybe Fox). The tape should be used for commercials and print ads and radio ads -- it would be priceless.

[LincolnLover]

"We look forward to seeing this spirited display."

LOL...love that line! Keep it up!

[kevkrom]

What about print media and internet? :-)

Shhhh!

(He also didn't mention the RNC or any "527" groups, but don't point that out either!)