Posted
11:20am, Thursday, October 7, 2004
Amazing.
Look at
this incredible
video edited together by Brennan Houlihan. Apparently, it was sent
to friends and made its way around the web. A perfect example of how
the GOP uses fear to spread its message.Here's a post on an online chat
forum:
Houihan: Wow, that's my video!
Submitted by Brennan Houlihan on Mon, 10/04/2004 - 2:08pm.
Imagine my surprise when I found my video here. I
stumbled on it after following a link on Cursor.org.
I recorded all the main speeches from the Republican
Convention put the video together in during the weekend that followed.
After uploading it, I invited about 15 friends via email to view it.
Since then, it has spread around the internet like wildfire. It's
really amazing.
By the way, Oliver, thanks for posting this on your
blog. At the outset, I encouraged people to distribute this any way
they can. I am glad it is getting the exposure.
In answer to some comments:
"I thought it possible once or twice that the
tonal quality had been tweaked, but as long as it was what they actually
said, it meets the fake but authentic test." - dhartung
No there was no audio tweaking. Everything was as
they said it. There were no repeated clips either. They really said
those things that many times. In fact, there were even more instances
of these words that I didn't use because the camera had cut away to
audience reactions.
As to the rest of the comments, thanks for the positive
feedback. This is the first political video I've ever made, so it's
great to know it's been well received.
- Brennan
“Now, in my capacity as vice president, I am
the president of Senate, the presiding officer. I'm up in the Senate
most Tuesdays when they're in session. The first time I ever met you
was when you walked on the stage tonight.”
– Dick Cheney to John Edwards,
Vice-Presidential Debate, October 5, 2004
“Congressman Wamp, Senator Edwards, friends
from across America, and distinguished visitors to our country from
all over the world: Lynne and I are honored to be with you all this
morning.”
– Dick Cheney to John Edwards,
Senate prayer breakfast, February 1, 2001
This is
so great.
Unable
to contain the spin that Cheney said he never met Edwards, the GOP is
now taking a different tact. They're saying Cheney said that he never
met Edwards AT WORK.
First off,
that's NOT what Cheney said. Second, as AmericaBlog points out, how
is meeting Edwards on the Senate floor not work?
So now
campaign spokesmen
are saying the prior occasions were not "meetings", but "casual
encounters".
The best
part is that the DNC was able to spin this lie, a minor one at that,
as the focal point of the debate. Rather than letting it go, the GOP
is actually fuelling it by countering with the lamest spin I've ever
seen.
This
is so great, part II.
Dick Cheney
was so eager to brand Edwards a liar that he sent viewers to factcheck.COM
to refute Edwards’s accusations against Cheney’s involvement
with Haliburton. Only problem was that Cheney gave the wrong URL. He
really meant to send people to factcheck.ORG.
Well, the
owners of factcheck.com thought they’d make a political statement
by redirecting visitors to the website of George Soros, a billionaire
financier who has made it his personal mission to get Bush and Cheney
defeated this fall.
The headline
for visitors at GeorgeSoros.com?
President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting
our vital interests, and undermining American values.
DAMN.
A factcheck.com
representative said Soros was chosen because he could afford the cost
of a surge in visitors to his site. He is, after all, a billionaire.
But factcheck.ORG
was not amused by Cheney’s false claims of innocence either. On
Wednesday morning, they posted
this:
"Cheney ... wrongly implied that we had rebutted
allegations Edwards was making about what Cheney had done as chief
executive officer of Halliburton. In fact we did post an article pointing
out that Cheney hasn't profited personally while in office from Halliburton's
Iraq contracts, as falsely implied by a Kerry TV ad. But Edwards was
talking about Cheney's responsibility for earlier Halliburton troubles.
And in fact, Edwards was mostly right."
Priceless.
"He's
not the prettiest man in the race”
-George W. Bush on his VP Dick Cheney, 7/30/04
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