{"id":2832,"date":"2004-10-22T10:33:38","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T15:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2832.html"},"modified":"2004-10-22T10:33:38","modified_gmt":"2004-10-22T15:33:38","slug":"the-worst-ad-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-worst-ad-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"The worst ad yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve got to be kidding me<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[The Bush campaign’s new ad] shows a dense forest from above. Scurrying is heard as the camera plunges deeper into the woods and pans sunlight-speckled trees. Shadows move through the brush before animals are seen amid the forest.<\/p>\n

Then, the ad reveals the type of animal: a pack of wolves rest on a hill. As the commercial closes, the cunning and ruthless predators stir, crawling toward the camera.<\/p>\n

“In an increasingly dangerous world, even after the first terrorist attack on America, John Kerry and the liberals in Congress voted to slash America’s intelligence budget by $6 billion,” an ominous voice says in the ad. “Cuts so deep they would have weakened America’s defenses. And weakness attracts those who are waiting to do America harm.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Bush campaign’s desperation is becoming more readily apparent every day. Maybe we should compare it to a ravenous wolf, flailing around looking for food.<\/p>\n

First, ironically, this comes the same week the president accused Kerry of using “scare tactics.” It’d be hilarious if it weren’t so ridiculous.<\/p>\n

Second, and far more importantly, BC04 is, once again, indirectly accusing Republicans<\/i> of trying to weaken America’s defenses against those who would do us harm. Kerry proposed a five-year, $1.5 billion cut to the intelligence budget in 1995 (about 1 percent of the overall intelligence budget for those years) dealing exclusively with unspent money. At the same time, it was congressional Republicans<\/i> who voted for a $3.8 billion cut to the same budget<\/a> — over twice as big as the cut Kerry recommended. And it was Peter Goss, Bush’s hand-picked CIA director, who pushed for an even bigger cut<\/a> to the same intelligence budget.<\/p>\n

Maybe some enterprising young reporter can ask the Bush campaign why the president chose a CIA director who supported “cuts so deep they would have weakened America’s defenses,” even after “the first terrorist attack on America.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve got to be kidding me. [The Bush campaign’s new ad] shows a dense forest from above. Scurrying is heard as the camera plunges deeper into the woods and pans sunlight-speckled trees. Shadows move through the brush before animals are seen amid the forest. Then, the ad reveals the type of animal: a pack of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}