WP: Ad Renews Charges of Bush-Saudi Ties

[kskiska]

Ad Renews Charges of Bush-Saudi Ties
By Howard Kurtz

Charges of excessive coziness between the Bush family and the Saudis, last seen in theaters during "Fahrenheit 9/11," have made it to the small screen.

Two new ads from the Media Fund, a liberal advocacy group, question whether the president's family and the "wealthy," "powerful" and "corrupt" royal family in Riyadh are "too close for comfort."

Admaker Steve McMahon says the effort is to tie Bush to a country that has some religious schools teaching anti-Americanism and is at least partly responsible for $2-a-gallon gasoline.

(SNIP)

The ad also invokes a former secretary of state: "Or was Bush helping Jim Baker -- a top adviser whose law firm is defending the Saudis in a lawsuit against the victims' families?" The second ad notes that "the Saudis have invested tens of millions of dollars in Bush business ventures."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45604-2004Sep23.html

[Dickie Flatt]

1. So that's what happened to the media fund

Wondered where they'd been, i havent heard much from them in a while.