Damage Control By NYT and MovOn.org

Hey folks,

Happy Monday to you. Well, while we await the words of wisdom by Little Hitler, there is another Moron in the news. That's right morOn.org is doing some damage control. So is the New York Times. Problem is, no one really cares about what they are attempting to rectify.

Now you all know that the Soros funded MoveOn.org, put a full page ad out calling the leader of the war in Iraq “General Betrayus” This wasn’t cute. It wasn't funny. It was traitorous. It was completely asinine. To besmirch this four star General with a history of intelligence, integrity and service was completely over the edge. Yet NYT ran with it. Which makes them no different than morOn.org. Congress, minus the 25 Democrats OWNED by Soros, voted to, and did condemn this ad.

Now there was a bit of a side story that MorOn.org got a discount. This was challenged by many other people that wanted to run an ad at the same price. I thought this whole concept was stupid to begin with. Why give the NYT any more money? But it seems that Rudy did get the same price. However, he was not allowed to pick the date to run it. It was explained at the time that the discounted rate was for a span of dates. Even though the MORON ad ran on the date they wanted.

So now? It seems that the NYT and morOn.org are doing some damage control. MoveOn.org Political Action released this statement yesterday.

In the Public Editor column of today's New York Times, the Times' vice president admits that, without the knowledge or consent of MoveOn.org Political Action, the Times "made a mistake" in charging MoveOn its standby rate of $65,000 for the advertisement run on Monday September 10. According to the Public Editor, the Times' vice president admitted that the company's advertising representative "failed to make it clear that for that rate the Times could not guarantee the Monday placement but left MoveOn.org with the understanding that the ad would run then." According to the Public Editor, "the group should have paid $142,083."

Now that the Times has revealed this mistake for the first time, and while we believe that the $142,083 figure is above the market rate paid by most organizations, out of an abundance of caution we have decided to pay that rate for this ad. We will therefore wire the $77,083 difference to the Times tomorrow (Monday, September 24, 2007).

We call on Mayor Giuliani, who received exactly the same ad deal for the same price, to pay the corrected fee also.

The Public Editor's column makes crystal clear that at no time did MoveOn have any reason to believe that it was receiving from the Times anything other than the normal and usual charge for the advertisement. And there is no evidence of any kind that the error in quoting of rates was in any way based on the content of the advertisement or the identity of its sponsor. Of course, MoveOn believed that it was engaged in an arms length negotiation regarding advertising rates with the Times and assumed that it was being quoted advertising prices consistent with the Times' usual and normal charge.

MoveOn continues, of course, to stand by the content of the advertisement and to urge citizens and their elected representatives in the Congress to focus on the continued dishonesty of the Bush Administration and the American blood and treasure being lost in a war for which the Administration has no exit strategy. Certainly that issue is more worthy of the attention of the electorate and the media than the mistake of an advertising representative or the wording of an advertisement.

Ok, one THEY do NOT care about the “American blood and treasure being lost.” They are using the “American blood and treasure being lost” for political gain. They do not care about the war. All they want to do is get Bush. News flash for MorOn.org, you are sick. You are mentally disabled. You are not in good company.

You may have been trying to make right about MONEY. But we care about the Troops. We care about America. You are traitors. Plain and simple. Your little ad was a slap in the face of every man and women in uniform. It was a stab in the back of America itself.

Of course they continue to stand by the asinine content. We would expect non-the-less from the loons. And to answer their last question, your traitorous, idiotic, and completely FABRICATED advertisement IS worthy of attention, and YOU are worthy of condemnation.
Peter

Source: MoveOn.org Political Action