Check the facts first…
by 1115 at 7:44 am on November 24th, 2003 in PoliticsYou just have to love the right.
One right-wing blogger tracked back to one of Jason’s posts about the RNC. This guy must be a real prize; he even has a timer on his site counting down the seconds until the assault weapon ban expires. Sorry, we just can’t pass up the opportunity to slam people who think that the second amendment was written to give them Uzis, AK47s, rocket launchers, and Streetsweepers. How will you feel when the ban expires and someone air-conditions your head with an automatic rifle?
we’ll shed few tears. Way to misinterpret the 2nd amendment, chief.
A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
What part of “well-regulated” is throwing you?
But back to the point.
Many people have complained that the new RNC ads try to paint the Democrats
as weak-willed and perhaps unpatriotic. Mr. Uncle disagrees, calling our
take on this issue as “scaremongering”. He says:
“The authors are intimating that the GOP is questioning patriotism of Dems (which wasn’t done); that the GOP is accusing the Dems of supporting
terrorism (not done), and the GOP is intimating that opposition to the war
is disloyalty (not done). Somehow, they see this in that sparsely quoted NYT
article.”
Well, we can’t speak for others, but we didn’t base our views simply on a single NYT article. If you do the research, you’ll find that these initial ads are only the first shot of a larger campaign undertaken with the full authority and approval of George Bush as head of the party, and carried out by RNC chairman Ed Gillespie.
The strategy will involve the dismissal of Democrats as the party of “protests, pessimism and political hate speech,” Ed Gillespie, Republican
National Committee chairman, wrote in a recent memo to party officials — a
move designed to shift attention toward Bush’s broader foreign policy
objectives rather than the accounts of bloodshed. Republicans hope to
convince voters that Democrats are too indecisive and faint-hearted — and
perhaps unpatriotic — to protect US interests, arguing that inaction during
the Clinton years led to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Boston Globe 11/12/03
The ads that are running play to the fear (created by the administration) of terrorism, and continue a theme (painting Dems as weak and indecisive on foreign policy) that Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie has been pushing for a few months now on every talk show that will have him. Mr. Uncle maintains that it is an important point that it is the RNC that is running the ads and not the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. 1) we’re sure that the Prez doesn’t think the Dems are weak and indecisive and 2) Is it rocket science to understand that an incumbent President controls his party?
“Second, they will continue to pursue a weak and indecisive foreign policy. They are opposed to preemptive self-defense and prefer an aftermath policy. If we don’t wage the war on terror in Baghdad and Kabul we will be forced to fight it in Boston and Kansas City,” said Gillespie in an RNC press release on 10/24/03
We’ve been hearing this more and more lately. The fact that the press passes this on without calling bullshit is further evidence of their complacency. The enemies of this country will attack us when they want, where they want. It’s not an either/or situation. The fact that the RNC and the administration are trying to justify their mistakes with this flypaper theory is lower than low.
There’s an old saying:
“If the facts are on your side, bang on the facts. If the law is on your side, bang on the law. If neither the facts nor the law is on your side, bang on the table.”
There has been a whole lot of table-banging going on lately. But, that’s better than psychos with assault weapons…
Say Uncle on 24 Nov 2003 at 8:18 am
Attack Ads Redux
Seems someone doesn’t like my take on the RNC ads. Go here and you can read about other articles regarding the ads. They link to…