Republican Freedom Calendar - More tax dollars hard at work in propoganda

[BR_Parkway]

Don't know how much it cost to produce this Official Government Document, but Herr Goebbels would be extremely proud.

http://policy.house.gov/2005_calendar/

Two weeks into the New Year, conservative outlets continue to promote the 2005 Republican Freedom Calendar, a 12-month wall calendar "celebrating a century and a half of civil rights achievements by the party of Lincoln."

The stated purpose of the Republican Freedom Calendar is to promote the story, "as remarkable as it is untold," of "the many important Republican achievements in advancing civil rights." But actually the Calendar does a good deal more than that. Not only does the Calendar ignore the civil rights achievements of Democrats, it paints the Democratic Party as a perennial enemy of civil rights. The Calendar also omits the embarrassing chapters in Republican history.

One-sided history would be expected, I suppose, if the Republican Freedom Calendar were a campaign flyer. But the Calendar is a government publication prepared by the Policy Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. Like the Education Department's contract with black commentator Armstrong Williams, the Republican Freedom Calendar represents an alarming use of taxpayer dollars for Republican propaganda aimed primarily at African-Americans.

http://gadflyer.com/articles/?ArticleID=259

[pnorman]

1. "the party of Lincoln." (!!!!)

I was going to elaborate on that, but the irony of it speaks for itself!

pnorman

[ComerPerro]

2. Sad, isn't it? Lincoln is all they have, and they don't even have him

Even ignoring the fact that the parties switched between then and now (conservative and liberal), someone would have to be a complete moron to think that Lincoln would embrace the policies of this administration.

[Historic NY]

3. Hey do the Democrats have a "Policy Committee"

LEGAL DISCLAIMER: The 2005 Republican Freedom Calendar is a government document and was prepared and originally published by the Republican Policy Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. As a government document, it is not subject to restrictions on reproduction or use under the laws of the United States and may be reproduced in whole or in part without additional permission or fees, provided that authorship of the entire document or any excerpts is properly attributed to the Republican Policy Committee. Although the work contains copyrighted images, the Republican Policy Committee has obtained permission from owners of those images to allow reproduction of the work by any party who seeks to reproduce the work. Permission may be necessary if you wish to reproduce the copyrighted images separately.

I want a Democratic Freedom Calendar that I can download!!!!!

[markus]

4. Yes, the Dems have a policy committee

The GOP is so blatant, we have to remain encouraged that they will overstep themselves and bring about their own demise.

[mrfrapp]

5. Legallity

Is this not illegal? I'm not particularly knowledgable of election law but if memory serves, its illegal to use government funds for campaigning purposes. Even though there is no election going on at the moment I can't see how this can be interpreted as anything other than an attempt to bring people into the Republican fold. In other words, campaigning.

Could someone clear this up for me?

[BR_Parkway]

6. Besides the fact that the fox is guarding the hen house, they seem

to be sliding by on the law because they are discussing the history of the party, which is educational (in a Armstrong Williams sorta way). Similar to their plans to spend your retirement money to "educate" everyone on how desperately we need to "fix" Soc Sec. And the money they spend "educating" everyone on how great the Medicare Drug Bill was...

[BR_Parkway]

8. Actually, the calendar was released in Aug 2004, there was an

election going on at the time.

[BR_Parkway]

7. $50 million to advertise the Drug Card program

Anyone seen figures yet on what they want to spend to tell us all that Soc Sec is broke?

[roseBudd]

9. I just left "feedback" for the creator of the calendar...

I encourage other DUers to do the same...

http://cox.house.gov/html/contact_email.cfm