So it has come to this?

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I was going to post this a couple of days ago but didn't think Rich would let me get away with it cause it didn't have "gun" in it. Here is the response from the National Special Olympics people:

STATEMENT IN REGARDS TO DEROGATORY PORTRAYAL OF SPECIAL OLYMPICS ATHLETES IN POLITICAL FLYER



From the office of Timothy P. Shriver

Chairman and CEO, Special Olympics

We at Special Olympics are astounded and appalled by a political flyer being distributed in Tennessee, showing the head of President Bush superimposed on the body of a Special Olympics athlete, saying, "Even if you win, you're still retarded."

We see this communication as an egregious, gratuitous insult to our almost 2 million athletes in over 150 countries around the world and a stunning affront to the more than 200 million people in the world who have intellectual disabilities.

We cringe at the thought that any one of these capable and courageous athletes would ever have to endure the agony, embarrassment, pain and suffering that this flyer would certainly cause.

We hope that the person or persons responsible for this outrageous political advertisement would come forward, identify themselves, and explain to the people of Tennessee and everywhere else why they would choose to denigrate the spirit, courage, and accomplishments of the Special Olympics athletes.

Sadly, this type of ignorance and bigotry is not uncommon. Comedians in the United States regularly mock people with intellectual disabilities; a common playground taunt even today is “retard”; people with intellectual disability remain the last to be respected or included in our schools, health care institutions, and society at large.

Our commitment in this political season and in every other is to reverse this ignorance and bigotry and to replace them with the stunning realization that many people with intellectual disability are, in fact, among the most gifted within our communities. Their valuable skills for promoting acceptance and understanding are most desperately needed in the political process and in the world today.

There is no reasonable and legitimate defense of this hateful material. We would expect those responsible to make an abject public apology and a sincere, determined effort to clear the public domain of this offensive material.

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Kirsten Suto
Global Public Relations
Special Olympics, Inc.
1325 G St. NW, Suite 500
Washington DC 20005
202-715-1147
 
That's the problem

This story has been live since the first of the week and no national news outlet has touched it. I even sent a copy to the editor of our local paper (a libertarian) and asked him if he had the balls to publish. Not so far.I told the folks at SO that an apology wasn't enough, I wanted blood or at least a hefty donation!
 
Thanks for the assist, folks.
...nearly 400 views and still nothing from the anti-Bush
crowd here...not one effing post. Unbelievable. :(
 
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Wow-I have seen or at least read about every presidential election since Nixon's first term, but this is so vile that it is almost unbelievable-then I consider the source.

I have yet to hear a Kerry democrat say one decent thing about Bush-hey, he is a human being, and he is going to make mistakes like human beings do.

Apparently that is not good enough-his service in the guard is treated very badly. I'd like to know when it became shameful to be a reservist or national guardsman.

His faith has become an issue.

They seem to be more worried about Roe v Wade than any domestic issue, and what about that litmus test?

I think the days are gone when you could reasonably expect a candidate to argue their policy against their opponent-its all personal trashing now, and it seems like half the country is standing there with their hand out, waiting to see who will put the most grease in their palms.

God forbid you ask them to give service to their neighborhood, let alone their country.
 
Gee, the Democrat-Communists are getting ready to use Nazi style National Socialist "Health Care" to exterminate non-productive slave units.

What amazes me is that anyone is surprised.

Geoff
Who worries about these things. :barf:
 
dZ...
You can't possibly equate a poster accurately depicting the desire of our terrorist enemies to have John Kerry as president with one that is a base, morally bankrupt and cowardly attack on the mentally retarded. Do you actually defend 'using' the mentally retarded in this way? If so, I challenge you and everyone here who holds the same view to make yourselves known and defend your views.

This week, Kerry and the Dems have..

lost the third debate.
abused the mentally retarded.
scared voters with nonsense about a draft.
attempted to use lesbians to enrage to far right.
pandered to Blacks solely for their vote.
started lawsuits though no vote has been cast.
encouraged defeat and appeasement overseas.
continued to lie about tax/fiscal policy.
continued to lie about Kerry's war/senate record.

Why would anyone even consider voting for this pile of excrement?

Over 400 views...still waiting for Bush haters to stand up and say that abusing the mentally retared is an acceptable practice in political campaiging.
 
Let me get this straight, Gunslinger: It's illogical to ask for proof or at least corroboration of some unfounded assertion found on the net? OK, gotcha.
 
As I said, I wouldn't be surprised...

Tennessee Democrats Respond to Republican Dirty Trick


Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Randy Button released the following statement today regarding the Team GOP news release accusing Tennessee Democrats of distributing a flyer denigrating handicapped children and the Special Olypmics:

“ This disgusting flyer is a dirty trick by Republicans to try and smear Craig Fitzhugh and the Democratic Party in Tennessee. We are shocked and appalled that they would stoop to this level to try and score political points. Craig Fitzhugh is one of the most honorable, upright men in the Tennessee Legislature, and everyone who knows him knows that he is a champion of children and those with disabilities.

“ I am calling on Republican Party Chairwoman Beth Harwell, Craig Fitzhugh’s colleague in the House of Representatives, to put an end to this. We may not agree on politics, but Beth and I can both agree to the character and principles of Craig Fitzhugh. This is the work of shady Republican operatives, and is reminiscent of the Nixon-era Watergate burglaries. This is just the latest in a long history of dirty politics on the part of Republicans.

" Craig Fitzhugh has called on the District Attorney to investigate the source of this disgusting flyer. We have every intention of getting to the bottom of this disturbing incident.”
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Of course, this being written doesn't make it any more true than the allegation by the repubs that the some Dems made the flier (with or without an official connection to an actual campaign).

John Marshall, thanks, and that *might* be called "corroboration" but it might not - that is arguably just re-iteration of an accusation. Look at this relevant quote from that article:

At first I really did not believe that Fitzhugh and the Democrats would stoop to such gutter politics, but then people started bringing the flyer to me at the end of last week. I was shocked and disgusted
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Notice he said "but people started bringing the flier to me at the end of last week". Notably, he did not say "people FROM MR. FITZHUGH'S CAMPAIGN brought the flier to me", nor did he even attempt to ALLEGE that the people who brought it to him TOLD HIM that they got it from someone from the Fitzhugh campaign, or any OTHER democrat source. A glaring, radical lack of even an allegation that it came from Fitzhugh. He tries to IMPLY that, by linking this clause in the same sentence, with the prior clause that says "at first I didn't believe they'd stoop to this, but..." (paraphrasing). So that's an old smoke and mirrors trick of associating to things in people's minds without actually even claiming an actual connection, let alone a provable one.
 
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That is ENOUGH.

You will not speak of other members in such terms. Period. Full stop. I would normally send this kind of message as a PM, but there may be others here who think they can act the same way, and I want to make sure they see this. There will be NO PERSONAL ATTACKS.

The flyer is disgusting, so discuss the flyer. Even if you had posted any kind of proof that the Democratic party had anything to do with this flyer (and no one has, so far) that still doesn't give you the right to huff and puff as if TFL members created it just because they're not voting for your candidate.

God save me from the help of my allies.


Now, if this thread doesn't get back on the high road right now I'm going to close it and suggest the banning of the next person to step off said high road. That should be clear enough.
 
Wouldn't surprise me at all if it's a big sham propogated by the GOP folks - masquerading as a "pro-Kerry" ad. Supposedly it's from a Dem's campaign, but let's see the proof.
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That's what you said, but indulge my curiousity. What other "big sham propogated by the GOP folks" led to your lack of surprise?



Oh, and please, spare me Watergate. It was over 30 years ago, it's tired, it's hackneyed, the architect of it is dead and gone. Let's give that little gem a rest. What recent campaign "big sham(s) propogated by the GOP folks" led to your lack of surprise?
 
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I won't belong to a group that doesn't stand up for the least able among us.
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:confused: What thread are you reading, gburner? There's been a whole lot of outrage about this right here. No, we haven't heard from the usual Bush bashers, but we HAVE heard from plenty of others. <shrug> I guess I never considered those other people a real part of TFL.
 
So it has come to this?
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In many ways, yes, it has come to this.

Our country is three years into WWIII. And some people don't have a clue.

Democrat controlled counties in Florida are providing "provisional ballots" for people too stupid to know which polling place to go to. Some counties in America have more voters registered than they have residents of voting age. One major political party is in the middle of a meltdown that could give one of its prominent members (Howard Dean) a run for his money in terms of the public displays of insanity they are willing to make. And yet they believe that no one will notice. They count on Mikey Moore and "Hanoi" Dan Rather to keep us all bewildered.

So yes, it has come to this.

What else would anyone expect? Kerry is pretty much the last hurrah of the "Bring it all down man! Hey-hey Ho-ho U.S.A. OUT OF NORTH AMERICA!" crowd. For years the youth of our country have been subjected to the Oliver Stone and Michael Moore versions of reality. A group of people that have strained to destroy the human need for self-determination, find themselves at a cusp. They have grown so used to unchecked outrageous behavior that no straw seems too desperate a grasp.

The next couple of weeks will tell the tale. Will the "Not so bright side" (as Michael Medved so aptly calls it) win? Or will victory go to those who have always understood that liberty is more important than the will of the collective? Will the side that (for all its flaws) says the enemy must be hammered into the ground - "world test" be damned, win? Or will we go back to sticking our heads you-know-where when death-cult psychotics come to call?

For many years the good comrades in Hollyperv were able to do their work unchecked and unhindered, because the Publik Indoctrination Kamps were on the same page of the manifesto. Kids and adults alike learned to "Hate America First" in all cases. The relative safety of the Cold War helped to keep dimwits and blissninnies safe from having to face the cold hard realities of the human condition. Pacifism, nihilism, and dreams of anarchy are the easy refuges of pathetic people kept safe by the strength of will of others. The luxury of having only a handful of us stand up for freedom allowed cowards and liars to come to the fore.

But now we live in an altered state. Post 9/11 the pacifist "Hate America First" blatherings of Michael Moore have lost their cache. The complicity by a major news organization in the forging of documents to destroy a sitting President have more import than they once might have. Now that all of us have our asses on the line, more people pay attention.

And lo and behold! What better time in all of human history did any American have to pay attention than now? The predominant broadcast media, Publik Indoctrination Kamps, what we euphemistically call "higher learning institutions", Hollyperv - all of these and more - must compete with an almost infinitely powerful information tool, the internet. Can anyone imagine the Swiftboat Vets being given an opportunity to speak the truth 10 years ago?

Add to that the alternative outlets of talk-radio, and FoxNews, and there is a slight chance that enough people have put the last three years to good use in... shall we say... the seeking of, and getting of, a clue.

So yes, the exploitation of retarded children is completely in keeping with the outrageous antics of the far-left hatemongers. No more or less so than their putting Crucifixes in jars of urine, or of the use of domestic terrorism to futher their agenda, that they have visited upon our country since the days of the Weather Underground, or today's ELF.

And so yes, this is what it has come to.

In some ways we are fortunate that it has come to this. This catharsis has been desperately needed for decades. A nation cannot spit upon those who selflessly defended it, and not pay a heavy price. A nation cannot give vaunted positions of opulence, wealth, and celebrity to those who spew bile upon the valiant, and NOT PAY A PRICE! It is time that the hate and lies of the left be faced, and faced with courage and determination. Once faced, a choice MUST be made, or it will be MADE for us!


At no time (in my life at least) have the choices been so clear. Choose life and light, or choose what perhaps may become eternal darkness.

Choose.
 
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