The best Bush* 9/11-TV Ad essay in print! "...the Flag as their G-string."

[displacedtexan]

The dead, the bad and the ugly: President's ad blitz bombs 9/11

By PIERRE TRISTAM
ESSAYS

Last update: 09 March 2004

It was never a question of whether, but of how President Bush would use the graveyards of Sept. 11 to season his re-election campaign. The question was just answered: By eroticizing the dead of that fateful day and using the flag as their g-string.

The first television ads of the Bush campaign released last week don't yet linger on the dead. They only dig one back up for a cameo in the 30-second spot that sums up the "challenges" Bush had to face after taking office... <snip>
That the administration is cashing in on the dead is not unusual.
<snip> President Bush has been doing it gracelessly and cravenly for two and a half years. The dead of Sept. 11 are his all-purpose security blanket. He's dug them up at every opportunity to call for another tax cut in the name of "economic security," another country to invade in the name of "national security," another reason to ignore the Bill of Rights in the name of "homeland security."

The dead of Sept. 11 have been just as easy to dump like 3,000 used up lemon rinds every time the Bush administration has snubbed the 9/11 Commission investigating the attacks.

much more...
http://www.n-jcenter.com/NewsJournalOnline/Opinion/Editorials/03OpOPN41030904.htm

[truth2power]

1. This is a powerful article.

Tristam doesn't let up on the Chimp.

I like this part: "When they're not hung up on political necrophilia, the campaign's ads are elegies to national and economic insecurity, Bush's towering twin legacies."

Can't say it better than that. Everything about this administration is pathological in one way or another.