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| Liberal Ads Are Ludicrous Lies | ||||||
| The Internet is rife with Web sites dedicated to ridiculing, mocking, and hating President Bush, and many of you reading this now probably have these kinds of sites marked in your favorites folder. �Sites like www.michaelmoore.com and www.indymedia.org thrive on presenting skewed and slanted views on things, painting a picture that depicts Bush as the tyrant and us as the persecuted victims of his wrath. �In fact, this idea has actually been the basis of a new contest called "Bush In 30 Seconds," and I for one am appalled by the brainwashing messages these ads promote. | ||||||
| Sponsored by every Bush hater's favorite Web site, www.moveon.org, contest entrants were encouraged to create 30-second political ads to "expose the failure of President Bush's policies." �The ads, which can be viewed on the contest's Web site, www.bushin30seconds.org, are yet another sorry attempt by liberals to bash Bush, and can be accurately referred to as propaganda at its finest. �The winning ads have been posted on the site, and I encourage you to go and view them and see for yourself how ridiculous they really are. | ||||||
| One ad, entitled "Bring It On," depicts a man walking in a field talking to the camera in a one-sided rant that can only be described as comical. �"Our soldiers [are] in the hotbed of hate and you say 'bring it on' to people who accessorize with dynamite," the man says to Bush, referring to the current war with Iraq and his view that the soldiers are fighting under a ludicrous fa�ade. �He goes on to say that Bush is hiding some sort of evidence in "daddy's library," whatever that means, and raves about Saddam, jobs and Osama bin Laden, but what is he really stating? �Absolutely nothing.�The funny thing is that this sorry piece of political commentary actually won the award for "Best Youth Ad"! �Perhaps the more appropriate prize title should have been the "What The Hell Was The Point Of That? Award". | ||||||
| The award for "Best Animated Ad" went to a spot entitled "What I Been Up To..." �This ad features a tired-and-done-before caricature of President Bush explaining what he has been doing during his presidency by flipping through various slides detailing issues from the economy to the war in Iraq. �Bush, voiced by a lame impressionist, says, "I invaded two countries, made a joke of the United Nations, [and] broke the Geneva Conventions." �Allow me to make some much-needed corrections: the ad absurdly insinuates that the two countries that were invaded (Afghanistan and Iraq) were done so for no reason; the United Nations was already a joke; and the U.S. broke no Geneva Convention laws (the Iraqis captured were "unlawful combatants," not prisoners-of-war, rendering them not subject to the Geneva Conventions). �So much for the ads telling the truth. | ||||||
| My favorite and most preposterous ad, however, is the runner up to the "Overall Best Ad," entitled "What Are We Teaching Our Children?" �In this submission, kids are seen as presidential candidates in a school play, where they make promises to the audience about what they will do, should they win the presidency. �The first child boldly says, "If elected, I'll lie about weapons of mass destruction as a pretext to invade another country," then obnoxiously grins. �Um, junior, where is the proof that Bush lied about anything? �The fact is that Iraq was not forthcoming with whether or not they did have these weapons, so we were forced to assume that they did. �The weapons inspectors were supposed to be led to the weapons so that they could actually inspect them, remember? �It sure seems like Iraq was hiding something. �Each child in the ad makes a similar claim or leap, one more bogus than the last, and the ad ends by superimposing on the screen the question, "What Are We Teaching Our Children?" | ||||||
| All in all, this Web site and the over 20 ads it features does nothing to further the liberal argument; in fact, it only hurts it. �Maybe if liberals such as these could stop making asinine conjectures and rewriting history they would give themselves a better image, but I suppose basing evidence off of facts is too much to ask. | ||||||
| Copyright Gerry Wachovsky, 2004, and Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. | ||||||
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