Friday, August 20, 2004
SwiftVets Launch Second Phase of Advertising Campaign
New Round of Television Ads Debuts in Selected Markets
This phase centers on a new commercial, available for viewing at SwiftVets.com.
The latest Swift Boat ad focuses on Kerry’s verbal attacks on many of his shipmates by featuring actual testimony from Kerry to the US Senate in 1971 and the reaction from his former Vietnam War comrades.
"When John Kerry returned to this country after his highly abbreviated tour of duty in Vietnam, he disgraced his uniform, he insulted his shipmates and fellow veterans and he greatly aided the enemy's ability to torture and humiliate American prisoners of war," said Admiral Roy Hoffmann, founder and chairman of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. "What John Kerry did made Jane Fonda look like a Red Cross volunteer. It was terribly demoralizing,” he continued.
“American POWs and veterans felt betrayed by Senator Kerry’s remarks about the soldiers serving in Vietnam,” said John O’Neill, author of Unfit for Command. “Many veterans have contacted us and are coalescing for this campaign,” he continued.
One of the veterans featured in the ad is Mr. Paul Galanti who served as chairman of the John McCain campaign in Virginia and was active in the organization “Veterans for Mark Warner,” Virginia’s current Democratic Governor.
The advertising buy will be more than $600,000 and the spots will be broadcast in three states where Kerry has touted his military service. Ads will start running on television stations on Tuesday of next week.
Media is asked to direct queries to media@swiftvets.com. Send feedback for Swift veterans to latch@swiftvets.com, and web site questions to admin@swiftvets.com.
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Sincerely,
Thomas C. Wyld
SwiftVets Communications
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