Online Contest Attracts Hundreds Of Anti-Bush Ads (MoveOn.Org on AP)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Winning Ad To Air During Bush's State Of The Union Address

POSTED: 9:55 PM PST January 5, 2004

SAN FRANCISCO -- Ask liberals to participate in an advertising contest dubbed "Bush in 30 Seconds," and you'll get more than a few negative entries.

Children toiling on a grocery checkout line to pay the bill for the nation's budget deficit. Faces of American soldiers killed in Iraq paired with video of President George. W. Bush making the case for war. An elfin Bush impersonator taking money from the elderly and delivering it to a corporate doorstep.

These are just some of the images from the 15 television ads selected as finalists Monday in the contest sponsored by the liberal online advocacy Web site, MoveOn.org. The contest generated some 1,500 submissions from amateur videographers critiquing President Bush and his policies.

"Our purpose was to tap into the huge creative pool outside the Beltway, and from that perspective, it totally succeeded," said Eli Pariser, Campaigns Director for the MoveOn.org Voter Fund. "We were amazed at the amount of new thinking we saw."

more: http://www.nbc11.com/politics/2743152/detail.html

on edit: USA today picks it up as well!
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/2004-01-06-moveon-ads_x.htm

[Guaranteed]

1. During the State of the Union??

OOHHHHH SNAP!!

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

2. Don'tcha just love it! n/t

[Just Me]

21. YES I DO,...

,...I have great confidence in those guys/gals. They bring people together and bring out the best in them.

[symbolman]

3. YEAH

We'll be glad to do that with our entry ARMY OF ONE, but if someone else wins, we'll let THEM kick his ass :)

It's ALL GOOD and that's what counts!

How much to run them all at Super Bowl Half Time?

[stevedeshazer]

5. It's all good

I'm a fan of your stuff who thinks all of the coming flood of anti-Bush media is great. Bring 'em on.

[Indiana_Dem]

9. Hey I just saw your "Army of One"

It is really good! It's one of my final 3!

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. Anti-Bush overkill blackens worthy site (Toronto Star - Related)

What a pity that the liberal American grassroots group MoveOn (http://www.moveon.org) exposed a flank to critics waiting for an opportunity to discredit this burgeoning organization.

The Web-based MoveOn made its misstep last month when, as part of its brilliant campaign to unseat President George W. Bush next November, it invited people to submit political TV ads. The best would get big time airtime in primetime, to fight against the well-oiled Bush re-election campaign. (A record-breaking $200 million U.S. war chest so far — and no rival Republican candidate in sight!)

More than 1,500 contending ads were delivered to the Web site (http://www.bushin30seconds.org) where the 15 finalists can now be viewed. Among them, animation of the Bush administration singing "Our polls and the Nasdaq looking grim/Took a lesson from my daddy and bombed a Muslim" and graphic depictions of the cost of the attack on Iraq.

The winner will be determined next Monday in New York City at a public screening before a panel of celebrity leftish-libbers that includes Michael Moore, Jack Black, Janeane Garofalo, Al Franken and Margaret Cho.

more: http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1073344207897&call_pageid=968867495754&col=969483191630

Read on, it actually diss's Bush & comes off good.

[Guaranteed]

6. I hope it's "What Are We Teaching Our Children."

I really believe that that's the best one. It's highly effective while still not seeming too angry.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. Loved it. There were several great ones....

I'm glad I don't have to make the decision.

[Melodybe]

10. That is my favorite too, the kids are great and it is the mostly to

actually get airplay.

[jonoboy]

8. some finalists are terrific

[Gingersnap]

11. "hundreds" of ads?

What about "a thousand" or "over a thousand"?

[T_i_B]

12. BBC article

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3370221.stm

Online activists in the United States have selected 15 finalists for a political advertising contest. The liberal MoveOn site challenged its readers to develop television messages that "tell the truth" about the policies of US President George W Bush.

The contest was condemned by supporters of Mr Bush when one entry compared the president to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

The winner will be aired during the week of the president's State of the Union address in mid-January.

The liberal advocacy group said traditional campaign advertising looked and sounded so similar that voters had tuned out, even when there were important issues at stake. It said it wanted entries that would engage and enlighten viewers.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

13. Good piece. Thanks for posting it. n/t

[Gin]

14. they were all great....I also liked the polygraph....I could see him

taking the polygraph in my mind, and the needle racing with the lies.
Too cool.

[goforit]

16. Hmmmm....Clinton never had that comparison of Adolf Hitler.

Geee...Maybe because he respected other cultures.

And used weapons of goodwill to humanity and the environment.

[myuu]

20. Google Hitler+Clinton

While the similarities aren't even close to Bush and Hitler, people have.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&c2coff=1&safe=off&q=hitler+clinton&spell=1

Everyone gets compared to Hitler by their opposition, probably even Carter, scary thing is this time we might be right. (Plus the fact that the Bushs actually have ties to the NAZI party.)

[nolabels]

15. Come on people, lets have some fun at this!!!!!!!!!

I see this stuff and go to to



http://bushandcheneysuck.com/links.htm

and put winamp on repeat since a couple set of lips seem to be in a holding mode anyway

[truthspeaker]

17. I love 'em all! n/t

[myuu]

18. I agree, air them all ;P

I really like the 'In My Country' one...I was obvious where they were going with it from the start, but the way he said 'my country is the United States Of American'...i dunno, it was like it just drove in the point. Hard to put words to it.

Dang this woulda been fun to do...

[BuckeFushe]

19. I just sent this to Tweetie at msnbc

Dear Mr. Matthews,

Tonight on the show, you allowed Ed Gillespie time to voice his disapproval over the Moveon.org contest ads, specifically about the commercial associating Hitler with Bush. Not only did you forget to ask anyone from MoveOn to come on the show, you conveniently forget to bring up the ads linking Max Cleland with Bin Laden, and Daschle with Saddam, sponsored by the Family Research Council, associated with the RNC.

How dare you. You might as well admit that you've become a Republican. You have forgotten what the press is all about, free expression of opinion and news.