02-22-2005, 07:02 PM
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Crazy
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The AARP loves gays and hates America
Seems we've seen this kind of tactic so often now that we can start calling it the new norm for 21st century politics. A big-money right-wing organization is launching a major ad campaign to try and drag the AARP's name into their dungeon for the evil left. Looks like we've got a regular pattern here. Any time someone opposes you just trot out the same hate-mongering cliches about liberals and then play pin the tail on the donkey. Wonder who'll be next on the smear campaign agenda? Maybe the Salvation Army? Is anyone immune from this crap?
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The political hatchet men who brought us the Swift Boat ads in the last presidential election, today launched their avowed assassination attempt of the AARP with an ad showing an X over a soldier and a check mark over two kissing men which is labeled "The Real AARP Agenda." USA Next, a right-wing political group, is angry because AARP opposes the privatization of Social Security proposed by President Bush.
The ad first appeared today on the Website of The American Spectator, a conservative magazine. It was picked up by several bloggers and made the rounds of the Internet before appearing on some television news reports. The ad was then replaced. The new ad is a link to the Website of USA Next with several negative headline stories about AARP.
The lead story on the site is promoted with, "Top Story - Charlie Jarvis Appears on The O'Reilly Factor Charlie Jarvis, USA Next's Chairman & CEO, recently appeared on Fox News' The Factor with Bill O'Reilly to discuss why so many Americans are turning to USA Next as an alternative to the liberal AARP."
Reportedly, a spokesman for USA Next told news networks they were just testing public reaction to their first ad.
“The lobbying group, USA Next, which has poured millions of dollars into Republican policy battles, now says it plans to spend as much as $10 million on commercials and other tactics assailing AARP, the powerhouse lobby opposing the private investment accounts at the center of Bush's plan,” reported Glen Justice in the New York Times on Sunday.
Justice wrote, "’They are the boulder in the middle of the highway to personal savings accounts,’ said Charlie Jarvis, the group's president and former deputy secretary for the interior in the Reagan and first Bush administrations. ‘We will be the dynamite that removes them.’”
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