{"id":1349,"date":"2004-09-28T18:37:17","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T01:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/the-willie-horton-ad-of-2004\/"},"modified":"2004-09-28T18:37:17","modified_gmt":"2004-09-29T01:37:17","slug":"the-willie-horton-ad-of-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-willie-horton-ad-of-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Willie Horton&#8221; Ad Of 2004?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/article.aspx?docid=268\">FactCheck.org The &#8220;Willie Horton&#8221; Ad Of 2004?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republican group&#8217;s ad shows Osama, Kerry. It appeals to fear, and twists Kerry&#8217;s record on defense, intelligence, Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Summary<\/p>\n<p>An ad by the Republican group &#8220;Progress for America Voter Fund ,&#8221; mostly funded by wealthy GOP donors, suggests Kerry can&#8217;t defend against terrorists &#8220;who want to kill us.&#8221; It shows images of Osama bin Laden and the attacks of September 11, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>The ad claims Kerry has &#8220;a 30-year record of supporting cuts in defense and intelligence,&#8221; misleading charges that we&#8217;ve de-bunked before. It also accuses Kerry of &#8220;endlessly changing positions on Iraq,&#8221; a claim that is without factual basis.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry responded with his own ad, quoting a New York Times editorial calling the Bush campaign&#8217;s recent statements about Kerry and terrorism &#8220;despicable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FactCheck.org The &#8220;Willie Horton&#8221; Ad Of 2004? Republican group&#8217;s ad shows Osama, Kerry. It appeals to fear, and twists Kerry&#8217;s record on defense, intelligence, Iraq. Summary An ad by the Republican group &#8220;Progress for America Voter Fund ,&#8221; mostly funded by wealthy GOP donors, suggests Kerry can&#8217;t defend against terrorists &#8220;who want to kill us.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-willie-horton-ad-of-2004\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The &#8220;Willie Horton&#8221; Ad Of 2004?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}