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Fake Soldiers Used In RNC Video (Barf Alert)
CBS News ^ | Sept. 4, 2008 | Michael Rey

Posted on 09/04/2008 12:17:25 PM PDT by Yo-Yo

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To: Yo-Yo

Not a scandal. The Left has been using phony soldiers to confess to observing war crimes.

If the RNC had used footage of a REAL funeral, the media would be decrying it as “exploitation” of a man’d death.


21 posted on 09/04/2008 12:48:36 PM PDT by weegee ("We now know far more about Sarah Palin in just 4days than we've learned about B.Obama in 17 months")
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To: dandelion

Don’t let the truth get in the way of the liberal MSM attempt to make conservatives look like phonies.

This is just another case of “projection”.


22 posted on 09/04/2008 12:53:55 PM PDT by Mr. Jazzy (The United States Marines. The finest and most feared fighting force in the history of mankind.)
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To: weegee

You nailed it.


23 posted on 09/04/2008 12:55:18 PM PDT by Eagle Eye (She has a stronger resume than Obama. She's been a real mayor, he hasn't. She has been a real govern)
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To: Yo-Yo

Filmmakers for the RNC use stock footage!!! Vote Obama!!!

Makes about as much sense as anything else that have to offer.


24 posted on 09/04/2008 12:55:35 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: 1rudeboy
- It would be tasteless to use a real funeral in a political context like this.

- It is unauthorized for a soldier to make political statements or campaign in uniform. The author of this piece is ignorant. Of course they use “fake soldiers.”

However, I know what most soldiers will vote for. I know what party has backed the soldier historically and not abandoned them in this war............ But to a liberal, even if it's gossip or made up news, as long as it fits into their world view it's very important and a legitimate argument.

25 posted on 09/04/2008 12:57:43 PM PDT by Red6 (Come and take it.)
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To: mbynack
Thank you very much...that needs to be said loud and clear:

Military members are prohibited from participating in any partisan political events while in uniform.


26 posted on 09/04/2008 1:00:04 PM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: dandelion
You nailed it!

Soldiers are not allowed to make political statements endorsing a candidate or campaign while in uniform etc.

Out of uniform I could do things, but in uniform, no way! This is essentially a “made up” scandal.

27 posted on 09/04/2008 1:00:21 PM PDT by Red6 (Come and take it.)
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To: mbynack
Military members are prohibited from participating in any partisan political events while in uniform.

Thank you, also to have used real footage from a funeral would have been in poor taste for a political convention.

28 posted on 09/04/2008 1:08:51 PM PDT by usurper (Spelling or grammatical errors in this post can be attributed to the LA City School System)
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To: skeeter

You mean those weren’t real civil war soldiers who dropped by for the film.


29 posted on 09/04/2008 1:15:59 PM PDT by Carley
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To: Yo-Yo
I'm willing to bet they researched this because they wanted to slam the RNC for exploiting the death of a soldier for a campaign advertisement.

Instead they found out that the ad appropriately reenacted a funeral rather than use footage of a real funeral for one of our fallen heros for political ends.

Funerals for our fallen soldiers are private events for their families and loved ones, not political props or a place for extremist liberals to go and protest the war.

This is something the RND did right.

30 posted on 09/04/2008 1:27:00 PM PDT by untrained skeptic
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To: spodefly
The media was not concerned that John Kerry went BACK to Vietnam to stage “historical” footage of him “on patrol”.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39707
Kerry flip-flop on war footage?
Defensively said 2 years ago ‘no intention’ to use Vietnam film for campaign purposes (Posted: July 29, 2004)

On the defensive for filming himself during the Vietnam war, John Kerry once told a reporter he had "no intention" of using the footage for campaign purposes, but some of it will be featured tonight in a video of introduction before his Democratic presidential nomination acceptance speech.

31 posted on 09/04/2008 2:09:27 PM PDT by weegee (Better to support a pitbull in lipstick than to be in a party that is putting lipstick on a pig.)
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To: Yo-Yo; untrained skeptic; Carley; usurper; Red6; ravingnutter; spodefly; Eagle Eye; Mr. Jazzy; ...
Ping to post #31.

The media forgets that Jean Kerry staged footage of his "heroism" in Vietnam for later political use...


32 posted on 09/04/2008 2:17:36 PM PDT by weegee (Better to support a pitbull in lipstick than to be in a party that is putting lipstick on a pig.)
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To: Yo-Yo

So they didn’t intrude on someone’s funeral for a campaign video. That was a good thing unlike the Democrats trying to make the coffins and funerals into campaign and anti-war propaganda.


33 posted on 09/04/2008 2:24:54 PM PDT by airedale ( XZ)
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To: airedale

Remember Kerry crashing the line at the Reagan memorial to get his picture “saluting” the casket (the Congressional viewing was on the other coast).


34 posted on 09/04/2008 2:42:23 PM PDT by weegee (Better to support a pitbull in lipstick than to be in a party that is putting lipstick on a pig.)
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To: JennysCool
I use stock photos daily in my casino marketing work, and I’ve never had anyone ask if that photo of the hot chick at the craps table is one of our actual customers.

Not unlike the lesbian porno's with hot blonde chicks when in reality the lesbians in real life are ugly 300 lb b*tch dykes with a scowl on their faces and hairy armpits?

35 posted on 09/05/2008 9:36:01 AM PDT by am452 (Pres Bush: Why more importance on protecting Georgias border than our own?)
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To: am452

Ha! Pretty much!

Except we do occasionally have real, live hot chicks at our craps table!


36 posted on 09/05/2008 10:37:25 AM PDT by JennysCool (A man who served his country well vs. a walking Che poster. Is it really that tough a choice?)
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