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bigtree

(85,915 posts)
Thu Apr 18, 2013, 10:09 AM Apr 2013

They didn't call 9/11 families 'props' when Bush deployed them

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Again, #GOP didn't call 9/11 families "props" when Bush deployed family advocates for policy & politics http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/20/loc_campaignad.html … @DomenicoNBC


Wednesday, October 20, 2004

'The Hug' becomes a TV ad for Bush


It's _ the most expensive TV ad campaign of the presidential election.

The commercial, unveiled Tuesday by the Progress for America Voter Fund, will run on cable stations and in nine states - Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Iowa, New Mexico, Nevada, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Missouri - at a cost of $14.2 million. Among the group's major contributors are Reds owner Carl H. Lindner and Cintas chairman Richard T. Farmer.

The 60-second spot goes hand-in-hand with 2.3 million direct mailings, e-mails, phone calls and a Web site.

It centers on Ashley, whose mother, Wendy Faulkner, was killed in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

The ad details the events of May 6, when Ashley, her father, Lynn Faulkner, and neighbor Linda Prince waited eagerly to shake the president's hand during a campaign stop at the Golden Lamb Inn in Lebanon.


read more: http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/20/loc_campaignad.html


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They didn't call 9/11 families 'props' when Bush deployed them (Original Post) bigtree Apr 2013 OP
Pretentious hypocrisy is the Hallmark of Republicans. n/t Triana Apr 2013 #1
and ignorance bigtree Apr 2013 #2
Bush hadn't washed his arm pits in days aint_no_life_nowhere Apr 2013 #3
I did cthulu2016 Apr 2013 #4
I don't remember that ad, but that photo says it all. Brickbat Apr 2013 #5
The deep, anti-humanist malevolence of the gunners knows no limits alcibiades_mystery Apr 2013 #6

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
3. Bush hadn't washed his arm pits in days
Thu Apr 18, 2013, 11:09 AM
Apr 2013

so he could impart the maximum scent of Chimp, with all its magical healing powers.

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)
5. I don't remember that ad, but that photo says it all.
Thu Apr 18, 2013, 11:11 AM
Apr 2013

Instead of paying attention to the young lady, he's checking the camera to make sure it gets every angle of his "compassionate" face, which he practiced in the mirror on the way to the photo op.

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
6. The deep, anti-humanist malevolence of the gunners knows no limits
Thu Apr 18, 2013, 11:12 AM
Apr 2013

Gunners are despicable people - whether they're Republicans or "Democrats."

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