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 Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 6:07 am Post subject: Outside Groups Add TV Presence to Political Contests |
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Interesting to note this VOA story asserting both the independence of the SVPT campaign from the Bush campaign and its impact on the election...2 points that Kerry diehards refuse to yield on to this day...(red highlight mine)
| Quote: | Outside Groups Add TV Presence to Political Contests
By Jeffrey Young
Washington
30 November 2007
Some of the TV ads for and against political candidates are not produced by the campaigns themselves. They originate with outside groups that some accuse of doing the candidates's bidding. In this segment of "How America Elects,' VOA's Jeffrey Young examines their impact.
A frame of a Swift Boat Veterans for Truth TV advertisement attacking John Kerry
In an 2004 Democtatic presidential campaign ad, nominee John Kerry said, "I am John Kerry, and I am reporting for duty!"
Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts was the Democratic Party's presidential candidate in 2004, running against incumbent Republican President George W. Bush. But in the months just before the November election, a swarm of attack ads critical of Kerry's Vietnam war military service, and his later opposition to that war, appeared on TV.
Switft (sic) Boat Veterans for Truth TV ad
Shelton White: "John Kerry betrayed the men and women he served with in Vietnam."
Joe Ponder: "He [John Kerry] dishonored his country. He most certainly did."
Bob Hildreth: "I served with John Kerry. John Kerry cannot be trusted"
These TV ads did not come from President Bush's re-election campaign. They were created by an independent political interest group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. And, political observers say, the ads played a part in John Kerry's loss to Mr. Bush.
Voice of America - cont'd |
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