Bush Ad Distorts Again!

I really adore Annenberg's unbiased Fact Check. Today's winner(loser?) is a Bush attack ad that uses previously debunked material as well as new distortions. Who says you can't have it all?

Quick analysis:

Bush released yet another attack on Kerry April 1, an ad appropriately named "troubling." The Bush ad recycles a couple of bogus claims we've de-bunked before -- a misleading claim that Kerry voted for "higher taxes" 350 times and a claim that "Kerry's plan will raise taxes by at least $900 billion." We pointed out previously that the 350-vote figure is so off base that it actually counts some Kerry votes for tax cuts as votes for "higher taxes." And as we said earlier , the only tax "plan" Kerry has proposed is to repeal Bush's tax cuts for those making $200,000 a year or more, while giving some additional tax breaks to those further down the income scale.

The Bush ad also regurgitates the old refuted themes of the "50 cent per gallon" gasoline tax, and social security tax increases.

Obfuscations all. But, if you repeat a lie loudly and often enough, it becomes the truth. That was before this internet thing.

If you're interested in what Kerry really has to say about his economic initiatives, he delivered a major address yesterday at Georgetown(no relation to "W") University.