Posted on 07/20/2004 6:55:26 PM PDT by weegee
Artists back effort to unseat Bush
Several leading Norwegian artists are donating works to a local campaign aimed at driving US President George W Bush out of office. The campaign, called "Tellhim.no," is raising money to place an ad in the Washington Post just before the US election in November.
The artists include painter Frans Widerberg and photographer Morten Krogvold. One of Widerberg's paintings, for example, will be auctioned in August over the campaign's web site, with proceeds from a sale going towards efforts to unseat Bush.
"We are frustrated and shaken over what's been going on," Widerberg told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK), referring mainly to the war in Iraq. The campaign wants to inform Americans through the ad in the Post that a majority of Norwegians opposed the Bush-led invasion of Iraq.
Campaign leader Torgeir Knag Fylkesnes told NRK that the text of the ad will be "polite," and will contend that the war against terror in Iraq merely creates more terror.
A full-page ad in the Washington Post costs around NOK 700,000. The campaign has raised about NOK 140,000 to date.
Skepticism Geir Lundestad of the Nobel Institute in Norway is skeptical about the campaign, and thinks its message will be lost in the media frenzy leading up to the November election. "I have little faith that such an ad will have any effect in the US," he said.
Lundestad noted, however, that this election is "special" in Norway, because there's "never been an American administration that almost the entire Norwegian power elite is skeptical towards."
"Everyone is asking me, 'do you think we'll get rid of Bush in November?,' and that's a completely new situation," Lundestad said.
He added that the Norwegian-American population in the US, however, seems to have shifted to the right and many support Bush. "Earlier, Norwegians in the US were outsiders, but now they're part of 'the establishment' and completely integrated," Lundestad said.
The campaign "Tellhim.no" is a non-partisan organization but was launched at the initiative of the Socialist Left Party (SV). Supporters include the charitable organization Norwegian People's Aid and Grandmothers for Peace.
Is this legal softmoney?
Oxymoron?
Damn! I just took my daughter's 2 Parrots back to her house in California. A missed opportunity for cage bottom lining.
Man, I just hope Norway doesn't stop their exports to the U.S. of... uh... umm...uh
MoveOn.org was accepting foreign contributions for ad campaigns until they got caught.
They still accepted foreign produced antiBush ads (including the one they tried to air during the Super Bowl, I think that they eventually put those out on DVD).
Pong
This was way back in the mid 1600s.
These people should be ancestral to a substantial portion of the American population.
True enough there were a handful of Norse ship-jumpers who came later on in the Twentieth Century, and they did vote for the Democrats, but the earlier Saami Norwegians are undoubtedly ALL REPUBLICANS!
Just what do those guys teach in their schools over there?
WHAT! The Norwegian ARTISTS are against the war on terror" DANG, if I would have known that....
Dweebs...
Sounds like a faggot that turned down by a male member of ABBA.
FMCDH(BITS)
FMCDH(BITS)
Funny how I've never seen any reports of these antiAmerican freaks running ads denouncing Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro, or other dictators who won "100%" of the vote in their countries.
The friend of my enemy is not my friend. Socialists suck.
Hey, norwegian jackass - go suck on a salmon you lazy socialist f***
I don't want to live in a world without flobaden.
This is patently illegal, especially during war time. Why do you think Berger is burgling docs? Can you say massive fine and deportation?
peace....D
Lutefisk?
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