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It sounded like a fun way to expand participation in this year’s presidential election, at least for those opposed to re-electing President Bush. The left-leaning Internet group MoveOn.org sponsored a contest, ”Bush in 30 Seconds,” inviting people to submit television advertisements about Mr. Bush, with the best to be determined by a vote of visitors to the site. But two of more than 1,500 submissions have outraged Republicans and leading Jewish groups for comparing Mr. Bush, in profile and policy, to Hitler. ”This is the worst and most vile form of political hate speech,” Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said in one of several statements he issued. He urged the nine Democrats running for president to repudiate the advertisements. Wes Boyd, a MoveOn.org founder, fired back, saying Republicans were ”deliberately and maliciously” misleading the public by asserti
The anti-Bush website Moveon.org has featured a second potential TV ad comparing President George W. Bush with Adolf Hitler. The latest ad features images of the German military and dictator with the words “What were war crimes in 1945 is foreign policy in 2003,” reports the Drudge Report. The final two frames include Hitler with his hand raised and then a shot of Bush with his hand up taking the oath of office. As WorldNetDaily reported, Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie called on the nine Democrat presidential candidates to repudiate the first Bush-Hitler ad that was posted on Moveon.org. That ad has since been removed from the website. Adolf Hitler “This is the worst and most vile form of political hate speech,” said Gillespie. “These candidates have a chance to repudiate this pollution of our political process by repudiating these ads at this afternoon’s debate in Iowa.”
