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Originally Posted by brianna
I still don't think you can claim that this makes the situations equal. moveon implies that they had a screening process to weed out offensive content (one assumes they didn't want child porn put up on their site) but it was very minimal and i suspect that the ads were not reviewed for content. but most importantly moveon.org did not make these ads, they did not choose the message, citizens did. Move on has also condemned the inflammatory ads that people submitted to their contest where as the swift boat group continues to purposefully release inflammatory ads of questionable merit.
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Move On only criticized and pulled the ads after it was obvious the message would hurt their cause rather than help it. The criticism of the Move On ads came from a broad spectrum of people not just the Move On regulars. That broad spectrum included the undecided voters Move On is trying to influence.
Had these ads been effective in mobilizing people against Bush they would have continued to promote them.