ESPN.com: Bush campaign refuses USOC request to pull ad...

[DjTj]

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer04/gen/news/story?id=1868308

ATHENS, Greece -- President Bush's re-election campaign refused a request by the U.S. Olympic Committee on Thursday to pull a television ad that mentions the Olympics.

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The USOC asked the campaign to pull the ads on Thursday, committee spokesman Darryl Seibel said. The ad shows a swimmer and the flags of Iraq and Afghanistan.

[Ghetto_Boy]

1. This just in...the ESPB-SI poll...."BUSH SUCKS"

[cthrumatrix]

2. they are forbidden from using Olympic film and they "ignore" the USOC

typical "brown suit" mentality.

[ClintonTyree]

3. They'll do anythng.....................

or anybody to get their "message" across. They've never played fair, they'll always attempt to subvert Democracy, rules are for suckers. The GOP; evil personified.

[loathesomeshrub]

4. I hope their ass gets sued. It is illegal for them to use the olympics

name to benefit someone politically. I would sue them for such blatant disregard of copyright law.

[louis c]

5. By an act of congress

it is illegal to use the Olympics for political gain.

I heard that on Keith Ohlberman.

[Inland]

6. And the USOC can sue, since

it doesn't need to go through the worthless FEC, and it doesn't get a dime from the USG it is not susceptible to blackmail.

[jefferson_dem]

7. One wonders how this controversy plays

to the beer and chips apolitical set who tune in to sports but not campaigns, till they have to. We see it for what it clearly is -- sickening and exploitative. Chimpy and his henchmen are not concerned. They must be miscalculating.

[depakid]

8. What's even more appalling to me is the sheer disrespect

for the clear, unambiguous law- based on such a petty purpose.

An act of Congress, last revised in 1999, grants the USOC exclusive rights to such terms as "Olympic," derivatives such as "Olympiad" and the five interlocking rings. It also specifically says the organization "shall be nonpolitical and may not promote the candidacy of an individual seeking public office.

I honestly hope that the USOC goes after the campaign, but they'll probably be intimidated.

[Retrograde]

11. a bad law, IMHO, but

the law nonetheless. Personally, I think Congress was wrong to give the USOC exclusive rights to a millenia-old term, but they did make it the law and Bush did take an oath to uphold the laws of the United States.

The conclusion is left as an exercise for the reader.

[girl gone mad]

9. As usual..

they think they are above the law.

[PretzelWarrior]

10. BUSH IS A DIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKHEADDDDD!!

Don't you get it? He tortured cats as a kid. He loved killing people in Texas prisons--felt it was his calling.

Now he's having fun blowing the shit out of Iraqis and Afghanis every chance he gets.

The man is a pathetic piece of human waste just clogging up our way of life. We must realize the man is a sociopathic unreformed drunk who will do anything and everything to survive.

Other nations? Fuck 'em.

United Nations Org? Fuck 'em.

Popular opinion here and around the world? Fuck 'em.

International law? Fuck it.

Olympics? YEAHHH RIGHT. They can suck me. I'm the president of the Fuckin' USA and got more nukes than the US has gold medals.

I own them Iraqi players and I can exploi--I mean utilize them however I see fit. Just like I got a little midget here at the white house that I give snacks to only when he jumps and claps and recites all my nicknames for the people I despise.

I'm GEORGE W. BUSH and DON'T YOU FORGET IT

[wndycty]

12. Kick

:kick:

[Ell09]

13. Bush running a low class campaign

Even taking the Swift Vets out of the equation, Bush has now had two ads that have been asked to be revoked. First, he tried to own 9/11 with that shameful advertisement that the families got off the air, and now he's trying to own the Olympics and the hard work of Afghan and Iraqi athletes.

Maybe Bush will try to take credit for the sun coming up tomorrow?

Don't people understand that there are literally HUNDREDS of countries that would benefit from being "free" of an oppressive leader? If that's where we set the bar for going to war, then we'd be at war for the rest of our lives.

[mediaman007]

14. How about the repressive regime that we installed in Iraq.

Its just a matter of who has the keys to the cell block.