Kerry Still Started It

In Tom Brokaw's conversation with Kerry Brokaw asks Kerry about the Radio City Music Hall hate fest. In answering Kerry claims his campaign has "run no negative advertising against George Bush:"

Brokaw: Let me talk to you about the tone and the language of this campaign. As you know, the Republicans are making a great deal out of the benefit for you at Radio City Music Hall in which you said the entertainers represented the heart and soul of America. Were you entirely comfortable with the language that was used that night and the behavior of some…

Kerry: No, I was…

Brokaw: … of the…

Kerry: ... uncomfortable with that. And I've said so yesterday. And I think some entertainers stepped over the line, Tom. And that happens. They don't speak for my campaign per se. They speak as individual Americans.

You know that sometimes people choose words that are inappropriate. Some of those words were inappropriate. But let's be clear, John Edwards and I, neither of us have run one negative advertisement in this campaign. Neither against each other nor against our opponents in the primaries. My campaign has run no negative advertising against George Bush.

GIVE ME A BREAK!

In March I posted about an article in CNN's "The Morning Grind" entitled "He started it!" According to The Morning Grind article:

What about September 3, 2003? Aside from being the Grind's birthday, that's when Kerry first ran a TV ad calling Bush's jobs record an "astonishing failure." Kerry promised in that ad to roll back Bush's tax cuts and to be a president, presumably unlike Bush, who's "on the side of America's middle class."

Or howzabout October 31? Aside from being Halloween, it's the day Kerry first aired a spot in Iowa saying Bush's administration "works for those at the top, not you," and has passed "the biggest tax cuts in history to the wealthy."

"George Bush and Dick Cheney let polluters and oil companies rewrite our environmental laws. They defend the loopholes that let corporations avoid taxes by moving jobs overseas," an announcer says in that Kerry spot, titled "Courage."

We could go on, really.

Not only has Kerry used negative ads he started the negativity. What part of negative doesn't Kerry understand?

Comments

[Dave]

Ah, but in Kerry's World, only Republicans can be negative, for to be Republican is to be negative and to be Democrat is to be positive!