Freedom’s Defense Fund is bragging that it is the first to ‘hit’ freshman Democrat, Tom Perriello (D-Albemarle). In what has to be embarrassing to anyone who considers democracy the ideal we try to live up to, this organization is now, only a little over a month after Tom Perriello was sworn in, choosing to call names and deride the efforts to save the economy in this country.
“Mr. Perriello promised to fight for the Commonwealth of Virginia while running for Congress,” said Todd Zirkle, Executive Director of the Freedom’s Defense Fund. “In his first critical vote, he instead sided with liberals like Nancy Pelosi, sanctioning the wish list long-desired by radical special interests.”
Despite bi-partisan opposition, Perriello voted for the $819 billion “stimulus” package. The package contained billions for wasteful projects including: arts funding; food stamps; television coupons; and sexually transmitted disease education. The ads will air on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC on cable systems throughout Perriello’s Congressional district.
Todd Zirkle is a well-known hack in Republican circles. He was responsible for one of the most disgusting ads of the 2008 political cycle. Remember this ad criticizing Obama? This is the horrible, grainy, negative ‘god damn America’ advertisement. As a bonus when you join the FDF, you get Jerome Corsi’s totally inaccurate hit job on Obama last year. “Obamanation” was instantly derided, and the only reason it was a best seller is that right wing authors like Corsi and Coulter have their books bought up by groups like this. Then they spread the hate by giving the book away as a premium for membership in their hate-filled organization.
The group has an informal cooperative arrangement with Jerome Corsi, author of The Obama Nation, a book criticized for being a largely inaccurate, innuendo-filled anti-Obama hatchet job. F.D.F. donors are rewarded with a copy of the bestseller as a bonus. Source
More press about the ad last year:
From Jim Rutenberg at The New York Times
STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — Hundreds of times in the past three weeks, cable television viewers here have been the exclusive audience for two of the roughest advertisements of the political season.
One links Senator Barack Obama to the former mayor of Detroit, Kwame M. Kilpatrick, an African-American whose political career unraveled in scandal. The other features Mr. Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A Wright Jr., also black, and his now infamous sermon marked by the words “God damn America.”
The advertisements, from a political action committee that is not connected to Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign, are running only here, in Macomb County, heavily populated by white, unionized auto workers, once considered “Reagan Democrats,” whose votes could largely determine which candidate wins Michigan, a state vital to both sides.
The advertisements point up the unusual nature of this year’s more potentially pernicious political attacks: They are not coming with the loud, nationally recognized cannon blast of the type launched by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth against Senator John Kerry in 2004, but, rather, as more stealthy, narrowly aimed rifle shots from smaller groups armed with incendiary material.
The claim of the FDF is that Tom isn’t being bipartisan enough. I am wondering what someone would call this ad then, a call for more ‘bipatisanship’?
The Rabid RepublicansTM do not want bipartisanship, they want to take the best offers and efforts of the current administration and then spit in the face of the other side. Sounds like schoolyard bully behavior to me.
Someone needs to ask Eric Cantor and/or Bob Goodlatte if they sign off on this kind of Republican message. After all, Eric has himself a leadership post in Congress now, so I imagine people would listen to his pleas for rational, thoughtful discussion of the issues.
Wait a minute….. nah, not going to happen.
Now THAT’s funny. This guy is merely a rubber stamp for the dems. He doesn’t think for himself. I’ll bet he was surprised too about the AIG bonuses…when it was WRITTEN into the bill by his own party. He voted for that crap…but did he READ it? NO! Thankfully we’ll only have to suffer this little fellow for 1 year 10 months cause he’ll be gone. Obama ain’t on the ballot in 2010. This lightweight doesn’t stand a chance without coat tails.
Perriello is an abject failure as a representative. He touts international experience…we did not elect him to represent internationals…we elected him to represent the 5th district. He is a failure in representing the 5th district. Pretty good at rubber stamping the president though. This kid has NO experience. Never was an executive of an organization…let alone one that was responsible for earning money! Never responsible for issues concerning money issuance (until now). Never had a child for whom he was responsible for. However a person who writes fictional stories endorsed him…I guess that makes it all good in this era of pop culture. 1 year 9 months thank God!
I just stumbled upon this…once again. I must have been distracted to ever respond to an inane hysterical post like this. God bless you all.
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Jack