Propaganda in the good old USA
Conservative activist group launches PR campaign in support of Iraq war
WASHINGTON — A new conservative activist group, Freedom’s Watch, has teamed with former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer to launch a $15 million, five-week advertising campaign featuring military veterans that is aimed at retaining support in Congress for President Bush’s policy in Iraq.
The TV, radio and Web ads, running in 33 markets including Georgia, Florida and five other Southern states that Bush carried in his 2004 election, are drawing fire from critics who say they conflate the war on terrorism with the war in Iraq and use soldiers for political purposes.
One of the ads features a soldier who lost both legs in Fallujah in December warning that “everything I’ve given and sacrificed will mean nothing” if the United States pulls out of Iraq. Another features a woman recalling how she lost an uncle on Sept. 11, 2001, and a husband in Iraq and warning that “it will mean more attacks in America” if the United States withdraws from Iraq.
This is just sick. You have to wonder what kind of real good could be done with that 15 million, but I suppose that isn’t the way we work here. Why affect real good when you can scare people and make them cry? Shame on Ari Fleischer and Freedom Watch, emotional manipulation should not be something anyone does on purpose.
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