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MoveOn.org Caves in to the Cheney-Bush
Junta



Recently, MoveOn.org ran a political advertising contest for the best 30 second
spot on little George Bush. To be honest, some of the winning ads are quite good. What I can't find on their Web site, however, is any reference to the fact that they removed two of the most powerful ads. These were ones that compared Bush to Hitler.

You will find the full story (complete with links to the banned ads) on that invaluable resource, The Memory Hole. Here is what they discovered:

The liberal activist site MoveOn ran a contest, Bush in 30 Seconds, in which
people were invited to create and submit political TV ads critical of the Bush
Administration, with the winning entry to air in swing states and on national
television. (CBS has refused to air the winning ad during the Super Bowl, however.)

Over 1,500 ads were submitted. Out of them, two compared Bush to Hitler.
After years of talking about "feminazis" and "Hitlery" Clinton, the right wing suddenly felt that Third Reich references were absolutely indefensible. Republicans expressed new-found outrage, and the corporate media dutifully tsk-tsked.

MoveOn pulled the ads from their contest Website.

Those two ads are presented above.

(According to the rules of the contest, all ads are under the Creative Commons license.)

posted by Lorenzo 7:51 PM