More about Ari Fliescher's "Freedom's Watch" ads:

[snappyturtle]

The following is from: www.democrats.org/blog.html (scroll down page)


White House Front Group Buys $15 Million in Ads In Support of Escalation
A new group called "Freedom's Watch" launched today with a $15 million, five-week ad campaign in support of Bush's escalation in Iraq.

Although president Bradley A. Blakeman called the group "grassroots," it is funded by an inner-circle of high-profile, high-dollar Republicans who have long been friends and supporters of President Bush. From The Politico:

The board consists of Blakeman; Fleischer; Mel Sembler, a Florida Republican who was Bush’s ambassador to Italy; William P. Weidner, president and chief operating officer of the Las Vegas Sands Corp.; and Matt Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
The donors include Sembler; Anthony Gioia, a Buffalo businessman who was Bush’s ambassador to Malta; Kevin Moley, who was Bush’s ambassador to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva; Howard Leach, a former Republican National Committee finance chairman who was Bush’s ambassador to France; Dr. John Templeton of Pennsylvania, chairman and president of the John Templeton Foundation; Ed Snider, chairman of Comcast Spectacor, the huge Philadelphia sports and entertainment firm; Sheldon Adelson, chairman of the Las Vegas Sands Corp. and ranked by Forbes magazine as the third-wealthiest American; and Richard Fox, who is chairman of the Jewish Policy Center and was Pennsylvania State Chairman of the Reagan/Bush campaign in 1980.


Freedom’s Watch has bought ads in 33 television markets. In many cases, the ads will air in the districts of Republican incumbents who have wavered in their support for the Bush administration's Iraq war policies.

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I also, just for fun checked out www.gop.com Quite an interesting site. Couldn't find any way to participate on their "blog"....saw Clinton and Obama's name more often than Bush. Good place to see where they're coming from. I'll follow this for a bit but I have a bad cold and am tired this evening. Enjoy! :sarcasm:

[AndyA]

1. It's pretty bad when you have to buy advertising to convince people

that your war, based on lies, that has killed thousands of innocent troops and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis is worthwhile. :eyes:

[snappyturtle]

2. They're buying air time to lie....again...remarkable. n/t

[Sarah Ibarruri]

5. It's pathetic. nt

[Hieronymus]

3. It was very telling when Ari was asked the name of the soldier in the ad.

He didn't know who that soldier was.:eyes:

[snappyturtle]

10. ......

:shrug: His mother must be proud. :sarcasm:

[illinoisprogressive]

4. Fleischer looked and sounded like a cult member tonight.

[rurallib]

7. I thought he looked remarkable after years under a rock.

Must've shed his old skin already this year.

[snappyturtle]

9. My chickens and doves are molting.....reptiles too? Thanks for the laugh.

[snappyturtle]

8. You know you're right...that's how he did sound. He was a

pathetic person not to know the soldiers name. Good thing he wasn't asked for all four names! Wonder if the participants of those "ads" now know they were used?

[spag68]

6. We can only hope

that there is a way for our side to take advantage of this obvious side run by the crime family to spout their lies. I honestly think that the general public,other then the 30% kool-aid drinkers will see this for the crap that it is and reject that guppy looking fleischer, and his cronies.

[snappyturtle]

11. This ad campaign coupled with *'s "remarkable" speech today

is a stroke of luck for the Dems....now we must USE it! It is almost as if they're saying, "Bring 'em on"!

[RockaFowler]

12. My area is airing the commercials

OK, I work for a TV station and we just started to air these spots today. When I first saw the spot this morning I nearly puked.
I work in Palm Beach County, FL where there are no republicans that I know of that are against the war. They are showing these ads in a predominantly Democratic area that is against the war.

[C_U_L8R]

13. Advertising only makes a bad product fail faster

a bad idea is a bad idea...
and no amount of PR, hype, cajoling
or even bribery can convince anyone otherwise.

[la la]

14. maybe blivet will

bring Ari back when tonysnowjob leaves.