Patriot Game Commercials
Fact and fiction have always been bedfellows, and that has never been more evident than when one examines the vast misconception that the regime of Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11. To this day, some six years after the fact - and long before Iraq was even on the public’s radar - many Americans still believe this gross, and entirely disproved, falsehood to be true.
As if that in itself isn’t worrisome enough, there are now television commercials being aired actually promoting that which has been disproved…
“The television commercial is grim and gripping: A soldier who lost both legs in an explosion near Fallujah explains why he thinks U.S. forces need to stay in Iraq.
“They attacked us,” he says as the screen turns to an image of the second hijacked airplane heading toward the smoking World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. “And they will again. They won’t stop in Iraq.”
Every investigation has shown that Iraq did not, in fact, have anything to do with the Sept. 11 attacks. But the ad, part of a new $15 million media blitz launched by an advocacy group allied with the White House, may be the most overt attempt during the current debate in Congress over the war to link the attacks with Iraq.”
It was written some time ago that truth is stranger than fiction. That’s because fiction is far more palatable than the truth, especially when you’ve dug a hole in it so deep that you’ve no way out.
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September 12th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Lame. This is like those retards who believe in the “9/11 Conspiracy” that, among other things, believes that Government controlled cruise missiles, and not one of the planes, hit the Pentagon. Hey, if theres one fact that’s constantly time and time again proven in the world it’s that people are fucking stupid. This is just the billionth piece of evidence.
September 12th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Ari Fleischer’s Freedom’s Watch bought a bunch of radio air time everywhere as well. I hear this line of total bullshit every morning on the way to work now.
it goes something like this:
Woman speaking: “Al Kaiduh blewed up the Twin Towers, and now the democrats want to blow up all of you people too. we gots to stay in tha Iraq for some darn reason. Git in yer 17 cylinder dino burner and git down ta tha wal-mart and vote with yer dollers. Buy up some Chinese made flags and shove ‘em up Al Gore’s poop chute. git’er done! …..oh and Al Kaiduh is in Iraq now too, that’s bad. And Iran too. Iran go boom!!”
Announcer type guy: “paid for by Freedom’s Watch, tick tick ticking in your ear like a timebomb baby!”
Well, that’s what it sounded like anyway.
September 12th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
I cannot STAND those commercials. Blind faith propaganda idiot tools. “They” attacked us - you know, them brown people, they’re all the same right? Go kill ‘em! Support our president! Don’t think!
All of that aside; the one ad spot that grates on my nerves the most is this woman with a whiny nasaly voice, who pleads at the end: “We already had ONE nine eleven, we don’t need ANOTHER one!”
GAH.
September 12th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
[quote comment="26040"]Lame. This is like those retards who believe in the “9/11 Conspiracy” that, among other things, believes that Government controlled cruise missiles, and not one of the planes, hit the Pentagon. Hey, if theres one fact that’s constantly time and time again proven in the world it’s that people are fucking stupid. This is just the billionth piece of evidence.[/quote]
Read “The New Pearl Harbour” by David Ray Griffin and answer the 40 questions he poses in there. If you can answer any of them without once using the phrase: “but it says in the 9/11 Commission Report that…” then, you can get back on your high horse.
Fact is, those “retards” and “fucking stupid” people you refer to are sadly, just too trusting, naive and miss-lead regular folks.
September 12th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
[quote comment="26043"]I cannot STAND those commercials.
Blind faith propaganda idiot tools. “They” attacked us - you know, them brown people, they’re all the same right? Go kill ‘em! Support our president! Don’t think!
All of that aside; the one ad spot that grates on my nerves the most is this woman with a whiny nasaly voice, who pleads at the end: “We already had ONE nine eleven, we don’t need ANOTHER one!”
GAH.[/quote]
Yep, that’s the one Sarah, hate it.
September 12th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
If you have enough money you can convince people of almost anything, remember the 2004 election when two draft dodgers made a Vietnam veteran look like a coward because he wasn’t wounded enough to deserve the Purple Heart he got.
America needs media reform as much as political reform, this is nuts.
September 12th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
IS this going to be another one of those extremely one sided WWII propaganda ads? Are they going to make us buy war bonds? And who knows? that Iraqi at the party last night could be a spy, or a terrorist. this is such bullsiht made for hicks by hicks and by a hick president who says “nukular” instead of “nuclear”.
on a side note, with the trillions of dollars being poured into war, and this kind of propaganda, maybe we could have fed the starving African union forces to help stop the genocide in Darfur, or maybe the US could’ve paid back its debt to the world bank……
September 12th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Is this going to be another repeat of the WWII propaganda campaignswhere all Germans were horrible saboteurs and Japanese Canadians were put into camps. Iraqis in my school are already being treated like terrorists, the vice-principal suspended a kid who was wearing a t shirt with an Islamic saying on it. IF we have more ads like this, we will be buying war bonds.
September 12th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
*sigh*
I detest the amount of complete crap that other people have swallowed in their rationalizations for the Iraq war, and the subsequent deaths of the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment and the writ of Habeus Corpus. Not to mention the swearing in of an AG who referred to the Geneva Conventions, on many occaisions, as “quaint”
Even people who paid (fleeting?) attention to the news, or the 9/11 Commission Report should be well aware that the group who committed that atrocity were all tied to Saudi Arabia. But, of course, we don’t have the sack to go root them out in their native countries. They’re one of our main sources of imported crude.
But then, I also have the misfortune of living in TX half my life, and most of the radio stations here are country. You can pick your Classic Country, your Eighties/Nineties country, or your Here Today, Gone Tomorrow Country. To get a decent rock station, I usually stream KBPI out of Denver, CO. Of course, I grew up with it, and even like some of it, but some of it I can’t stand.
The one most relevant to this argument of willful ignorance is Darrel Worley’s Have You Forgotten? , which complains about those who are against the war, and uses 9/11 as the basis of that argument. Bear in mind, this song came out within months of us fighting, not in Afghanistan, but in Iraq (mid-late 2003, if I remember correctly)
I’m pissed off and disillusioned that while there are good musicians who use their forum for doing good in the world (You’re one of them, with your stance on human rights, Bono from U2 another, with his AIDS outreach), there are far too many that are more than happy to cater to the lowest common denominator, and are seemingly proud of the same willful ignorance that they sing from the stage.
Having said that, sadly, I can’t say that I’m surprised.
September 12th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Don’t forget kids, Saddam also had Weapons of Mass Destruction and was a imminent threat to the US.
But don’t worry. America is a safer place because of US military action over there.
Now shhhhhh. It’s time for bed. Don’t ask questions, and go to sleep. Until November 2008.
September 12th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Thats funny.
Quite sad in its entirety.
But funny.
Ha.
September 13th, 2007 at 3:26 am
and those willing to serve can be fooled - as those eligible to enlist were only in junior high when the attack on WTC occurred….know your demographic: young and dumb.
September 13th, 2007 at 6:50 am
Oh, man. Everyone else has to listen to those radio ads too? The ones here in DC make my skin crawl.
September 13th, 2007 at 8:33 am
[quote comment="26043"]“We already had ONE nine eleven, we don’t need ANOTHER one!”[/quote]I suppose, to this woman, “one nine eleven” is worth one every day for “them”.
September 13th, 2007 at 9:16 am
[quote comment="26063"]and those willing to serve can be fooled - as those eligible to enlist were only in junior high when the attack on WTC occurred….know your demographic: young and dumb.[/quote]
Not necessarily young and dumb … history shows that more often than not it is the poor and impoverished that are thrust into the front lines.
Sure we see these young men that appear to be gung ho to be off to war … don’t be to sure they aren’t just trying to convince themselves
September 13th, 2007 at 10:30 am
[quote comment="26068"]Oh, man. Everyone else has to listen to those radio ads too? The ones here in DC make my skin crawl.[/quote]
And now, you know why my TV is only turned on for the NFL (specifically the Denver Broncos) or CSI. I really haven’t found anything else worth watching
September 13th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Not necessarily young and dumb - true. My point is that those serving now are in a demographic that is susceptible to manipulation by advertisements and too young to have followed the game at the time of the occurence with an aim to having a more balanced point of view before enlisting.
For example: I liked the idea of wearing a blue helmet when i joined in the 90’s. Now MOOTWA is considered for pussies.
I am a pussy.