Posted on 11/30/2005 2:21:18 PM PST by Xanadu2112
(CNSNews.com) - The liberal political group MoveOn.org has yanked a video ad from its website after being criticized for using images of British soldiers to represent Americans in Iraq.
MoveOn.org displayed this storyboard of its anti-war advertisement before the video was removed from the website.The 30-second ad, which also began running on CNN and cable stations during the Thanksgiving weekend, stated that "150,000 American men and women are stuck in Iraq" this holiday season.
But the ad showed soldiers who were "not wearing U.S. uniforms," according to a Pentagon spokesman who was interviewed by Cybercast News Service Wednesday, approximately two hours before the Internet version of the ad was pulled from the MoveOn.org website.
"Some folks won't be home this holiday season," the 30-second spot declared before showing a video pan of a group of soldiers getting military rations. The narrator then stated that "150,000 American men and women are stuck in Iraq."
Todd Vician, a spokesman with the U.S. Defense Department, told Cybercast News Service after viewing the ad that none of the men featured in the photograph was wearing U.S. uniforms. "We don't have that style of desert camouflage," he said.
Vician noted that combat fatigues worn by the Marines and the Army have "a pixilated design," and Air Force BDUs (Battle Dress Uniforms) have a different pattern than the uniforms shown in the spot.
In addition to the men wearing foreign uniforms, Vician stated that he had never seen U.S. soldiers using meal containers like those shown in the ad.
A Nov. 21 press release from MoveOn.org Political Action indicated that the advertisement "echoes Democrats' calls for an exit plan from Iraq" and attacks Republicans for "failing to offer a plan to end the U.S. occupation" of that country.
The video ad itself concluded with the following: "Tell your representative. Support our troops. Bring them home."
Along with running nationwide on CNN, the spot was being aired on cable stations in the districts of GOP members of the House of Representatives who, according to the MoveOn.org press release, "launched personal attacks on Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), a decorated Vietnam veteran who last week called for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq."
MoveOn.org did not return repeated telephone calls from Cybercast News Service seeking comment for this article. It was unclear Wednesday afternoon whether the ad had also been pulled from television.
But the television ad has already reportedly drawn a sharp reaction from an Army captain who just completed his third deployment in Iraq, according to OpinionJournal.com.
James Taranto, the author of the OpinionJournal.com column, wrote that the Army captain was "an old friend" of his who emailed with his criticism. The captain was quoted as calling the MoveOn.org TV ad "completely offensive" and "a Bush-bashing ad" that "shows turkey and crying wives and blames Bush for it all."
As "the idiots from MoveOn.org ... pretend to argue on my behalf, they show a group of soldiers standing around a table in the Middle East," the captain reportedly wrote and added that the individuals in the photo were "actually British soldiers.
"One is in shorts (we don't have shorts as a normal combat uniform), and the others are all clearly wearing British pattern fatigues," the Army captain wrote, noting that people at MoveOn.org "don't even know what an American soldier looks like!"
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| Posted by ajolympian2004 On 11/30/2005 9:47:49 AM CST · 1 reply · 93+ views Michelle Malkin ^ | Wednesday November 30th, 2005 | Michelle Malkin THEY DON'T SUPPORT OUR TROOPS By Michelle Malkin · November 30, 2005 08:59 AM Lots of blog buzz over MoveOn.org's latest, noxious anti-war propaganda. First, check out the video here (in Quicktime). Notice this? Best of the Web reported yesterday on a sharp-eyed Army captain's reaction to that scene in MoveOn's fund-raising ploy: I just got back from my third deployment from Iraq on Friday, and I happened to be at the dentist and saw a completely offensive ad from the idiots at MoveOn.org this morning. Anyway, it is a Bush-bashing ad that pretends to be arguing for American soldiers... |
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How many ads have they had to pull now?
Not the sharpest shovels in the rack are they?
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Someone needs to email this reporter about the photoshopping of the shorts to long pants. He mentions a quote from someone mentioning shorts but fails to explin why the comment matters and fails to show the before and after pic.
DID THESE IDIOTS ACTUALLY THINK NO ONE WOULD NOTICE. OR IS IT THE USUAL LEFTIE dUM BELIEF THAT ALL AMERICANS ARE STUPID AND THEY NEED THEIR PROPAGANDA TO THINK THE WAY THE sOCIALIST/COMMIE/FASCIST/DUMS DO?
It is ironic that MoveOn is funded by George Soros, the Hungarian Jew who passed as a Christian to escape the Nazi net in Germany. After the war, unable to make it in Britain, he moved on to the USA where he played the predatory capitalist and made a slew of money. Tragically, he and his family are exceptions to the usual rule that American immigrants love their new nation.
Here's the thread about the first complaint at opinionjournal.com:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1530811/posts
and the visual evidence (post 13):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1530974/posts
CNS News is a very conservative paper. It doesn't matter that the article appeared because only people like us read it.
No liberal will ever see the article. No liberal will ever be told by the MSM that those were British soldiers.
We are basically under a Chavez style regime ourselves.
So they DO have some shame!
It's up on Drudge.
Lemme see if I can explain this to you:
You're pretending to show a group of American soldiers, but they're really not American soldiers - that's too obvious, since one of the guys is wearing shorts - so you photoshop the picture
The intent is to deceive, right? Or else you wouldn't have bothered with the pants?
Am I getting through here? You're really tryiong to fool folks witht the photo, maybe the rest of the message is deception too?
You following any of this?
agreed,
Buncha hate filled idiots.
Maybe because they photoshopped US camos on British soldiers who were wearing shorts? Would that do it for you?
The leftist idiots at Moron.org probably fell for the GI Joe kidnap victim too.
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