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