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House GOP Cuts New Intro for 24
Eric already posted this over at EC, but it's worth repeating here. Here's a new web ad from the House Republicans about the current surveillance bill showdown.
I don't really have anything to add besides, "Wow." Do not watch that in the dark.
Remember that yesterday, Republicans made it clear that there will be no negotiating. So either Dems give in and award the telecoms immunity for cooperating with the administration's warrantless wiretapping program, or the Republicans will strive for even better produced efforts at fear-mongering.
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Comments (12)
Gotta love how they used the walkout for the Bolten and Miers contempt citations in this video.
Typical revisionist juxtaposition and misleading behavior again from the GOP.
February 22, 2008 5:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Brought to you by the Fearmongers' Store. Nothing scares an old, white Republican more than brown people with guns.
February 22, 2008 5:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
" This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is George W Bush himself, an unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes the nation with every lying word. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of lies and subversion has continued. I am convinced that we will again give support to a new leadership in these critical days."
Almost Franklin D. Roosevelt
February 22, 2008 6:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Be sure to catch Glen Greenwald's blog post on this from yesterday.
One of the commenters there posted a link to a Mark Fiore cartoon that provides the perfect counter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxKYG6KTK-M
February 22, 2008 7:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, at least they included Rockefeller. He is the expert when it comes to degredation.
How many times was he briefed on the illegal program, torture, kidnappings, maybe KSM's disappeared children, maybe a man frozen to death while George giggled his way through OLC opinions on why hypothermia isn't torture, etc.
As long as the expert on degredation is on the clip, I have confidence in it.
February 22, 2008 7:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
The next post has this quote—part of the fear mongering:
Aren't those misgivings because they've been spilling all their customers' information without warrants? That's what makes them liable.
But if there are warrants, then they have to cooperate. And if there are warrants, there will be no liability. If there are warrants, customers may not like it, but their information will have been given to the government legally, and they won't be able to sue. They can move to another phone company, but they won't be able to sue.
The Administration made the telecoms liable. The telecoms, by "cooperating" in an illegal activity, made themselves liable. And the way our civil justice system works, those who have been harmed by a company's illegal, volitional actions have the right to sue.
Drag this one out another 11 months, Dems. I really don't think that anything good for the American people and the country can be achieved until Bush is gone and more dead-weight Republicans are culled from Congress. I'm willing to wait, as long as the wait will be worth it.
February 22, 2008 10:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think the Democrats ought to run an ad depicting graphics of the invasion of Washington DC by the British during the War of 1812, the imminent presence of Confederate Army during the Civil War, images of Hitler and Stalin, and they ought to make the point that none of those threats were enough to cause the US Government to suspent the Bill of Rights.
Then they ought to show images of Bin Ladin in a cave and the Republicans scurrying out of the Capitol Building in abject terror.
February 23, 2008 2:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
For me, the greater danger is consevatives taking my constitutional rights away from me in the name of national security and family values...
February 23, 2008 6:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm still waiting for evidence... just because letters assert something, it doesn't make it true... bring it forward, present in public to the relevant Congressional committees and then, I will consider it... mere assertions from an Administration that has repeatedly lied are meaningless
February 23, 2008 6:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think the producers of "24" should have a chat with their copyright attorneys about this. Strikes me as pretty clearly a "derivative work." If the music wasn't straight off a "24" soundtrack, it was clearly meant to sound like it was.
Not that Joel Surnow is likely to take any action, since he's a famous kisser of Bush butt. Hell, maybe he produced the commercial; that would explain the resemblance.
February 23, 2008 7:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
This ad has done some good. It got all those fat, overweight, old guys to use the stairs instead of the elevators.
February 23, 2008 8:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Kind of makes me want to know how many of these people will recive money or a job from the phone companys in the future.
February 25, 2008 11:24 AM | Reply | Permalink