RNC Uses Fake Soldiers in RNC Video
On Tuesday night, 15-year-old Victoria Blackstone, a sophomore at the St. Agnes School in St. Paul, led the crowd at the Xcel Energy Center in the Pledge of Allegiance. The audience heard her 434-word essay, “Pledging myself to the Flag of the United States of America,” an essay she’d entered it in the “Wave the Stars & Stripes” essay contest and won. The RNC turned that essay into a three and a half minute video, a visually stirring montage rolling over Victoria’s words about sharing the Pledge with Americans who have stood at important moments in history.
There’s the Continental Congress…A real WWII vet…Photos of workers at Ground Zero. A close-up of a folded flag presented to a grieving widow at a military funeral… profiles of soldiers swelling with pride in slo-motion.
But CBS News found that the footage of the ‘funeral’ and soldiers is what is called ‘stock’ footage. The soldiers were actors and the funeral scene was from a one-day film shoot, produced in June. No real soldiers were used during production.
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- September 4, 2008
REAL??
That's because they were trying to go green. Best not to use "real" stuff.
No "real" heart beats in their chests.
No "real" concern for our soldiers.
No "real" thought beyond "winning the election"
No "real" policies against the terrorists
No "real" care for children between birth and enlistment
No "real" concern for the American middle class
No "real" concern for the poor
No "real" understanding of race relations
No "real" picture of McCain
No "real" picture of Palin
Maybe the Republicans just aren't "real"
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By deanrddSeptember 4, 2008 - 4:02pmWhere
Where was Fred , he's looking for a job.Wasn't there actors for the first responders at ground zero? Fake soldiers, fake first responders, phony solders, Is there anything real about these republicans?
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By getmad54September 4, 2008 - 7:21pmOf course they were fake you freaking idiots!!
You can't use an active duty soldier in a partisan political commercial. How stupid can you people be?
"When in danger, when in doubt...run in circles....scream and shout".
How the democrats plan to deal with the fact that the Republican VP selection has more executive exprience than their Presidential nominee
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By IlluminatiHottieSeptember 4, 2008 - 7:58pmBy IlluminatiHottieSeptember 4, 2008 - 8:58pm
Bullshit. Bush ran a ton of them in '04. Is your memory really that short-term?
Support the Troops.
End the Occupation.
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By Guy FawkesSeptember 4, 2008 - 9:34pmNo, Hottie
just likes calling people names. A true Repugnican, of whom her mother can be very proud.
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By blogbobSeptember 5, 2008 - 1:10amThat never stopped Cowboy-hat Oathbreaker
Shall we dig around YouTube and see how many of HIS we can come up with? There must be at least a dozen.
McCain/Palin '08: the also-rans.
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By nonexistent manSeptember 6, 2008 - 5:50amLOL - Phony soldiers
Rush will like that
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By f u bush2September 4, 2008 - 8:24pmThey did it again
This time it was Heart's song Barracuda. The republicans/cMcCain used it without permission and the band is pissed. This is the third time in a couple weeks that a and has spoken out to tell McCain to stpp using their song.
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By f u bush2September 5, 2008 - 1:20amBy f u bush2September 5, 2008 - 2:20am
Shit, they're gonna be reduced to using Ted Nugent & Toby Keith songs. Nobody wants to see/hear that.
Support the Troops.
End the Occupation.
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By Guy FawkesSeptember 5, 2008 - 1:26amOf COURSE the RNC was going to use FAKE SOLDIERS.
They and McBush's campaign can't find any REAL one's to put in their videos.
Obama beats McBush six to one in campaign contributions from the military ... could it be because even our soldiers believe Obama will end the Iraq war RESPONSIBLY? That he'd only put them in harms way if absolutely necessary and with a CLEAR AND CONCISE PLAN?
'Nuff said.
"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."
George Carlin
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By Pookie2112September 5, 2008 - 10:54am