Do people really fall for this shit?
Jul. 12th, 2004 12:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plutherusIn 1997, John Kerry wrote a book about organized crime.
The Bush admin now has an ad bashing the seven-year-old book as "ignoring terrorism".
"How can John Kerry win a war if he doesn't even know the enemy?" the ad asks. No mention, of course, that the book was about international crime, of which terrorism is only one part. No mention that the Bush admin turned down numerous requests from those lower in the chain of command to please do something about terrorism, and stated emphatically as late as August 2001 that it was "not a priority".
Apparently, though, such transparent attack ads do indeed work. Many people have responded to the ad by posting negative reviews quoting it in the Amazon forum for the book. Hmmmm.
The Bush admin now has an ad bashing the seven-year-old book as "ignoring terrorism".
"How can John Kerry win a war if he doesn't even know the enemy?" the ad asks. No mention, of course, that the book was about international crime, of which terrorism is only one part. No mention that the Bush admin turned down numerous requests from those lower in the chain of command to please do something about terrorism, and stated emphatically as late as August 2001 that it was "not a priority".
Apparently, though, such transparent attack ads do indeed work. Many people have responded to the ad by posting negative reviews quoting it in the Amazon forum for the book. Hmmmm.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
Yipes
Date: 2004-07-12 09:57 pm (UTC)Yipes
Date: 2004-07-12 10:03 pm (UTC)Browsing throught the links at amazon I found this. Note the irony in the headline:
Mr. ANGER MANAGEMENT PROBLEM
This 'Winning Back America', 'Howard Dean : A Citizen's Guide to the Man Who Would Be President', 'Howard Dean In His Own Words' neck-stunted, cautioning-to-explode-at-any-second Liliputian is feloniously lax as a parent. Dean’s teenage punk-bittch son was busted for burglary and breaking & entering. Dean’s a madman who voted AGAINST war, which arraigns him as AGAINST national security, AGAINST regulation of dictators contravening UN resolutions repeatedly and disallowing full disclosure of illegal weapons, and AGAINST correcting foul-playing countries like France and Germany who profited from dealing with Hussein. This fearsome ghoul plans to infect America with Universal Healthcare, a nightmare that’ll bar Americans from getting access to enough doctors, the most advanced medical technology, a wide range of drugs, expedience in seeing doctors and doctors who won’t strike because their pay is dwindling!!!!