Ick

Required reading.

From The Daily Mislead

As the nation headed for war last year, President Bush "clamped down" on the media, extending and expanding a controversial policy that banned reporters from photographing flag-draped caskets of soldiers killed in combat. The White House said the policy was enforced to "spare the feelings of military families." Yet, in the very first television advertisement of his 2004 campaign, the president has blanketed the nation's airwaves with an image of "firefighters carrying a flag-draped body" from the 9/11 wreckage at Ground Zero.

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It's one thing to exploit the 9/11 tragedy in a cheesy TV ad. It's another to do so while contradicting your own, propaganda-driven, rules. Hypocrites. Manipulative, arrogant hypocrites. And the scary part is, I think they'll win.

By the way, I saw the controversial Bush ad this morning. It looked like it was produced by the same folks who do the Vioxx ads. Given the behavior of the Bush administration, I'd be embarassed right now if I were a true Republican. Then again, Bush (I mean Rove) knew he never had my vote so he doesn't give a shit what I think.