"Bush campaign ads using team"

[kandrathe]

If this was just a case of agreeing on what's in poor taste, that would have been the end of the matter. As it happened, it was not MoveOn that promoted the videos with wider media exposure beyond the contest's web page, it was their opponents, attempting to use it to discredit and silence MoveOn's criticism.

Reminiscent of the current SBVT issue. If the major media hadn't pumped it up, it would have been just another bad taste political meme popular with the afficiendado's of that particular political flavor. It still dodges the point. SBVT, moveon.org, and any number of other 527's should take responsibility for the content of their sites, before they publish. Maybe they could have reworded the contest. Totally outragreous poor taste Bush bashing ad's The "Oops, sorry, I accidently published an outrageous potential advertisment." doesn't wash in my opinion. It was either intentional or irresponsible, and both should be condemned with equal vigor. Another opinion.

And that's what this is all about, isn't it? Silencing the opposition.

No. It's about taking responsibility for your speech. With free speech comes the responsibility of standing behind and being judged by your words. 527's are a cheap way for the RNC or DNC to covertly fund a group that says the hateful, hurtful, and semi-slanderous. We have a multi-tiered BS deliver system here. First the candidate's campaigns, then the respective National political apparatus, then the PAC's, then 527's.

No, let's have free speech. But, let the people who fund it, produce it, and publish it be responsible for the content so that we can hold them accountable for it.

BTW, in my search for those links I discovered that moveon.org did not remove that content, they just made it harder to find. And then finally after Drudge kept digging it up off their site did they finally remove it. Do you work for moveon.org (George Soros) or are you just a career apologist for the left? I'm against propaganda generated from any extremists, whether they be George Soros or Karl Rove.

It’s incredibly ironic that George Soros is trying to create a more open society by using an unregulated, under-the-radar-screen, shadowy, soft-money group to do it. George Soros has purchased the Democratic Party. - Christine Iverson