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Bush and Kerry together to suppress speech?

The point of this article is that Bush has distanced himself from the ad by the Swift Boat Vets:

The White House yesterday distanced itself from a political ad that questions John Kerry’s Vietnam service …

So far, so good but:

…and called on the Democratic presidential nominee to join President Bush in demanding an “immediate cessation” of all advertisements by outside groups.

Free speech for me but not for thee.

Meanwhile, the partisan hacks are saying:

This episode just proved that when the going got tough, George W got dirty. Ask John McCain.

Update: Retraction by one of the vets. And then a retraction of the retraction by the same vet.

6 Responses to “Bush and Kerry together to suppress speech?”

  1. cube Says:

    “…and called on the Democratic presidential nominee to join President Bush in demanding an “immediate cessation” of all advertisements by outside groups.”

    they are talking about the 527’s like moveon.org and a republican group.

    it is not about free speech. It is about you started it (while although childish, it is still fair in my opioion)

  2. SayUncle Says:

    No, it’s about free speech and restricting what private people say.

  3. Manish Says:

    It’s politicing plain and simple.

  4. tgirsch Says:

    Political speech like this will always be a problem, as long as those who have money have vastly more speech than those who don’t. Even after campaign finance “reform,” it’s still all about money. I wish I knew what the solution was, but I don’t.

  5. smijer Says:

    But do we have any confirmation on the re-retraction, or is this just another Drudge/SBVT fabrication? I couldn’t find anything in the SBVT press release except “Additional documentation will follow.”

  6. SayUncle Says:

    Dunno. I haven’t placed much confidence in the SBV claims or Drudge. We’ll see.

    developing…

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