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» Candidate/Organization: Progress for America
» Year: 2006
» States: None
» Race: National Campaign
» Party: NP
» Funded by: Independent Group
» Disseminations: TV, Web

Ad Content

» Cues: Dead Bodies, Military/Soldier, September 11, Terror Attacks, Violence, Weapons/Military Equipment, World Trade Center
» Issues: Homeland Security, National Defense, War (Iraq), War on Terror
» Tone: Negative
» Types: Attack, Emotional, Issue
» Music: Ominous
» Characters: Osama Bin Laden, Soldiers, Terrorists
» Narrator: Male
» Language: English

Analysis

By factcheck.org: The pro-Bush group Progress for America is running a TV ad appealing directly to Americans' fear of terrorists, saying bluntly "These people want to kill us."

That's true enough. But the ad falsely attributes the recent thwarting of a hijack plot to the President's warrantless NSA wiretaps, when it was actually British authorities who uncovered it.

The ad also distorts the position of Iraq war critics, implying they propose to withdraw from "the Middle East" and not just Iraq.

And in a bit of bad luck, the ad cites the case of al-Qeda affiliate Zarqawi as evidence of the success of Bush's anti-terror campaign – one day before the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report saying Saddam Hussein considered him an outlaw and tried to have him arrested. More...