Comments on: Ugh http://www.bilherron.com/cryforhelp/clippings/2004/ugh/261/ A maddeningly reasonable take on the world Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:12:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Steve http://www.bilherron.com/cryforhelp/clippings/2004/ugh/261/comment-page-1/#comment-714 Steve Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 http://66.246.102.94/~bilherro/cryforhelp/clippings/2004/ugh/261/#comment-714 I've been very critical of the Swift Vets' attacks on Sen. Kerry but I have yet to find anyone on the left willing to debunk or condemn some of the more over-the-top allegations in the MoveOn commercials or, indeed, in Michael Moore's "please help make me fatter" conspiracy flicks. (I think that's the world's longest run on sentence...) It's hard to have sympathy on either candidate because they've both used surrogates to do their dirty work. And, that's just fine with me. This is America and MoveOn and the Swiftvets both have a right to be heard. If Kerry or Bush take issue with an ad, then let them counter it with one of their own. Negative ads have always been a part of the American political process and no campaign that includes Democrats and Republicans is ever going to be 'positive'. So we'd better just deal with it. As Mr Dooley said, "Politics ain't beanbag" I’ve been very critical of the Swift Vets’ attacks on Sen. Kerry but I have yet to find anyone on the left willing to debunk or condemn some of the more over-the-top allegations in the MoveOn commercials or, indeed, in Michael Moore’s “please help make me fatter” conspiracy flicks. (I think that’s the world’s longest run on sentence…)

It’s hard to have sympathy on either candidate because they’ve both used surrogates to do their dirty work. And, that’s just fine with me. This is America and MoveOn and the Swiftvets both have a right to be heard. If Kerry or Bush take issue with an ad, then let them counter it with one of their own.

Negative ads have always been a part of the American political process and no campaign that includes Democrats and Republicans is ever going to be ‘positive’.

So we’d better just deal with it. As Mr Dooley said, “Politics ain’t beanbag”

]]> By: Gabe http://www.bilherron.com/cryforhelp/clippings/2004/ugh/261/comment-page-1/#comment-715 Gabe Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 http://66.246.102.94/~bilherro/cryforhelp/clippings/2004/ugh/261/#comment-715 I'm trying to remember which MoveOn.org ad that was full of people with a big enough chip on their shoulder that they'd lie about something from 30 years ago and also got the left-wing pundits in such a tizzy of faux-outrage that they forced coverage of the ad on news programs and in the papers... Someone said the following about pundits, but I think it's true of these issue-ad people too: those on the left are liberal, but not necessarily Democrats; those on the right are Republicans before they are conservatives. I’m trying to remember which MoveOn.org ad that was full of people with a big enough chip on their shoulder that they’d lie about something from 30 years ago and also got the left-wing pundits in such a tizzy of faux-outrage that they forced coverage of the ad on news programs and in the papers…

Someone said the following about pundits, but I think it’s true of these issue-ad people too: those on the left are liberal, but not necessarily Democrats; those on the right are Republicans before they are conservatives.

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