Rudy is demanding he get the same discount from The New York Times for his ad that will appear tomorrow.
Yes!-- Here's the TERRIFIC AD...
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"WHO SHOULD AMERICA LISTEN TO?-A decorated soldier's commitment to defending America, or Hillary Clinton's commitment to defending MoveOn.org?"
The Hill reported:
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) said Thursday that he is asking The New York Times for the “same heavily discounted rate they gave MoveOn.org” for his campaign to run an ad in Friday’s paper.Hat Tip Sean Hannity Show
Giuliani, calling MoveOn.org’s controversial “General Betray Us” ad “abominable,” said his campaign is asking the paper for a comparable rate for an ad to run following President Bush’s speech on Iraq.
The former mayor said his ad “will obviously take the opposite view” from MoveOn.org, which argued in its ad that Gen. David Petraeus is “cooking the books” on Iraq and cherry-picking facts that support his recommendation to keep a large number of troops in Iraq for some time.
Giuliani continued to include Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in his criticisms for her comments that it would take “a willing suspension of disbelief” to accept at face value Petraeus’s report on the situation in Iraq. Giuliani interpreted Clinton’s remarks at a hearing earlier this week as questioning the general’s integrity.
“We think that her attack on Gen. Petraeus was a follow-up to the MoveOn.org/Times attack,” Giuliani told reporters in Atlanta.
Giuliani reiterated that he agrees with Petraeus’s assessment of the Iraq war, and called MoveOn.org’s ad attacking “an American general in a time of war” unprecedented.
** FRED THOMPSON also attacked the Democrats and MoveOn for their campaign against General Petraeus today:
Fred Thompson fired back on Hillary and democrats for their despicable attacks on General Petraeus:
"It’s more and more apparent to me every day that the average 20 year old who is serving us in Iraq knows more about national security than many of the 20 year veterans in Congress."Amen.
And... The GOP came out with an ad today against the democratic attacks on Petraeus:
HotAir has the video.
** Here's the latest disgusting Leftwing attack on Petraeus!
MORE... Senator John McCain also left a message for democratic presidential candidates, via Instapundit and The Corner:
"If you're not tough enough to repudiate a scurrilous, outrageous attack such as that, then I don't know how you're tough enough to be President of the United States."Or, FOX News for that matter!
UPDATE: Blackfive files a complaint with the FEC over the "betray us" NYT ad!
UPDATE 2: Hugh Hewitt has more from Rudy.
Hat Tip Larwyn
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ReplyDeletethanks for the round up GP..
i'll be sure to pass it on.. :)
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ReplyDeleteWOW.. that's some ad!!
way to say Rudy!! (thumbsup)
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Amen!!
ReplyDeleteIt rocks!
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ReplyDeleteRudy is on Hugh Hewitt right now.. and he said he's not going to let it go until Hillary apologizes to General Petraeus!! (thumbsup)
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Oh, but Hillary, whould the need arise, merely has to be against Petraeus before she was for him.
ReplyDeletebg & GP, I saw Rudy and McCain talking about the ad and the candidate of the progs. I'll be forced to make a choice darn it. I thought that the race was over and they both start looking like they have backbone. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteI think it's time for massive retaliation against Clinton Inc. on her "suspension of disbelief" smirking condescension to Petraeus.
ReplyDeleteI hope Fred gets out of his rocking chair & starts to lumber into action. Rudy is already taking the kid gloves off. She needs a lot of beating about the head & shoulders.
Meanwhile, the nutroots are in their bubble-boy echo-chamber mode on MoveOn and simply want their Pavlovian lock-step solidarity unbroken by realists and non-fantasists—a dying breed in the Dem Party, sadly.
Estrich and other veterans of REAL campaigns disturb the nutroot stoned/slacker torpor or excite their meth-fueled thrashings and gnashing of teeth.
Reality is something the ultra-left Kossack-nutjobs resolutely ignore, and when it rears its head among them, they react by flight or fight.
Good for them; these democrats make it so easy.
ReplyDeleteToo bad "kiss-ass war criminal who sacrifices your children for oil" doesn't rhyme. "Betray us" is so vague that EVEN a congressman can make it sound trite.
ReplyDeleteHere's what Gen. Petraeus thinks about conterinsurgency operations, in his own words...
ReplyDeleteSource: Chris Bray at HNN blog, Cliopatria (9-10-07)
"The Vietnam experience left the military leadership feeling that they should advise against involvement in counterinsurgencies unless specific, perhaps unlikely, circumstances obtain -- i.e. domestic public support, the promise of a quick campaign, and freedom to employ whatever force is necessary to achieve rapid victory. In light of such criteria, committing U.S. units to counterinsurgencies appears to be a very problematic proposition, difficult to conclude before domestic support erodes and costly enough to threaten the well-being of all America's military forces (and hence the country's national security), not just those involved in the actual counterinsurgency."
David Howell Petraeus, The American Military and the Lessons of Vietnam: A study of military influence and the use of force in the post-Vietnam era. PhD Dissertation, Princeton University, 1987. Page 305.
Flopping Aces found a great ad at Redstate that Moveon might have done attacking Eisenhower in WW2 had they been around.
ReplyDeleteI swiped it:
http://mikesamerica.blogspot.com/2007/09/if-moveonorg-were-around-during-world.html
Glad to see Rudy and Fred taking the lead on this issue. Sounds like a winning ticket with both geographic and ideological balance.
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ReplyDeletehey anon @ 4:59 PM
i hear tell Petraeus updated his "that was Vietnam, this is Iraq" evaluation and scripted a brand new counterinsurgency manual.. it's obvious he's learned a few more lessons during the past 2 decades, cause it's more than apparently working, go fig..
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ReplyDeletebwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaha!!
thanks for the laugh COLON @ 12:02 PM, i
would have used (_o_), butt it didn't rhyme..
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bg,
ReplyDeletePlease post link or reference to said update.
anon