Just got an email from TrueMajority with a link to a clever video...
With a funny nod to the now-famous "Bush: Worst Disaster in American History" news crawl, it features a portion of Bush's Besmirch Veteran's Day speech with the helpful addition of a faux news crawl providing the appropriate factual rebuttals to his claims...
Here's a screenshot:
Here's the text of the email:
Did you catch Bush's Veterans Day speech? The speech has been called the "worst of Bush's presidency," 1 and we couldn't bear to hear the lies anymore. So we thought we'd have some fun with it.
Our news video shows who's REALLY "rewriting the history" of the Iraq War. It's the same speech, but now with actual facts (that's right, facts!).
It's pretty cool, so check it out at:
http://www.truemajority.org/....
Forward it widely, too: your family and friends will get a kick out of it.
Enjoy,
The TrueMajority Team
1 "The Worst Speech of Bush's Presidency." David Kusnet, The New Republic. 11/13/2005.
There are so many lies and mischaracterizations floated by Bush here, it's kind of a primer on Republican responses to the major uptick in public distrust of Bush and the Iraq War. And I think True Majority cuts through all the parlor tricks to quickly expose the lies.
We must get ahead of the spin machine to make sure that Bush's assertions don't become ingrained in the public's mind as fact.
Pass it on...