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1 posted on 09/04/2008 12:20:01 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: Yo-Yo
The RNC did not respond to CBS News’ request for a comment.

Thats it - the election is over.

2 posted on 09/04/2008 12:23:36 PM PDT by skeeter
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Hello? Mr. Rieckhoff would suggest using footage from a real funeral? Or just no footage altogether?
3 posted on 09/04/2008 12:23:39 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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Almost as bad as the Rats running a Fake American for President.


4 posted on 09/04/2008 12:24:14 PM PDT by 230FMJ (...from my cold, dead, fingers.)
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Oh Hamburgers.

Next thing, CBS will insist the footage of the Continental Congress was produced with actors too...


5 posted on 09/04/2008 12:24:38 PM PDT by chrisser (The Two Americas: Those that want to be coddled, Those that want to be left the hell alone.)
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Actually The DNC and Media would have howled if the Repubs used a “Real” funeral...was it done in a respectful way..where the “Actors” wearing the correct uniforms? Then I agree with the above..B.F.D.


6 posted on 09/04/2008 12:26:13 PM PDT by conservativehusker (GO BIG RED!!!!)
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It was more real than most of cBS’s news coverage. Let me guess, the next charge. The guy in the audience who looked like Abe Lincoln wasn’t really him.


9 posted on 09/04/2008 12:27:47 PM PDT by mnehring
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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.

They are REALLY clutching at straws, now.


10 posted on 09/04/2008 12:29:25 PM 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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Military members are prohibited from participating in any partisan political events while in uniform.
11 posted on 09/04/2008 12:30:49 PM PDT by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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What a hoot!

The Left was probably origially hoping to kvetch about the partisan, political use of members of the military in the video.

I'd guess that when they found out they couldn't complain about using real members of the military, they flipped their argument to complain about the use of actors.

13 posted on 09/04/2008 12:33:40 PM PDT by syriacus (FIRST check out the Alaska state webpages. THEN tell me that governing Alaska is easy.)
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Yesterday, I didn’t think I could possibly get any angrier at the MSM.

I was wrong.


15 posted on 09/04/2008 12:35:10 PM PDT by mojito
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They used stock footage. Nothing wrong with that. Standard practice.

I would have preferred they use LiveLeak stuff or former members of the military.

16 posted on 09/04/2008 12:35:36 PM PDT by CE2949BB (McCain/Palin 08)
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“What it does reveal is a serious lack of understanding and a lack of personal connection to the military,” said Paul Rieckhoff, Executive Director of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.

And this organization might be...?

18 posted on 09/04/2008 12:39:09 PM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Sarah Palin...Unleashing the Fury of the Castrated Left!")
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There’s a reason - military members are NOT ALLOWED to endorse a candidate, morons! They’d be crucified by the media for appearing in an RNC video tribute of any kind...


20 posted on 09/04/2008 12:43:10 PM PDT by dandelion
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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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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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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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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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