More Anti-Kerry lies exposed

[Jeff Yu]

Found on another forum, so I can't take credit for this, but at least I can spread the news.

http://moveonforamerica.org/

The first ad will expose John Kerry’s role in securing freedom and parole for would-be cop killer who escaped a Massachusetts prison during a furlough, just like Willie Horton!!!

MoveOnForAmerica.org was created due to the Bush campaign’s largely timid ads against Mr. Kerry, and will air this first ad starting Tuesday Sept. 7th in the Washington D.C. market and in key swing states beginning Monday September 13th. Since the organization is a “non-connected” committee, the ads will run non-stop until Election Day, and are not subject to the McCain-Feingold ban during the campaign’s final 60 days.

The first ad will feature John Kerry’s role as a private attorney in 1982, when he secured freedom and parole for his client George Reissfelder who pled guilty to attempted murder of a police officer, bur never served his 15-year sentence because Kerry successfully secured his parole. The parole was in Florida because Mr. Kerry’s client had escaped during a furlough, just like Willie Horton. Once a free man, thanks to John Kerry, Kerry’s would-be cop killer client brazenly continued his life of crime as part of a Mafia-controlled drug ring.

MoveOnForAmerica.Org is a group of citizens created by its president, DC-based GOP political consultant Stephen Marks

Google quickly reveals the following:

The Guardian

Kerry spent the next two years in private practice, specializing mostly in medical malpractice and wrongful death litigation. He and his partner won a new trial and, eventually, freedom for George Reissfelder, who spent 15 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of murder.

The Boston Pheonix

George Reissfelder — sentenced in 1967 for murder in Suffolk County, under DA Garrett Byrne; released in 1982 when lawyers (including then–defense attorney John Kerry) brought 10 witnesses to affirm Reissfelder’s innocence, and a co-defendant confessed Reissfelder was not his accomplice.

MoveOnForAmerica.Org lied when it claimed that George Reisfelder never served a sentence.

The Boston Globe

He served seven years of a life term in Walpole state prison before he was granted a one-day furlough, and then failed to return to the prison. Three years later, a Florida police officer was trying to arrest him for writing a bad check when Reissfelder pulled a gun and it went off.

No one was injured, but Reissfelder pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted murder because he was already facing a life term in Massachusetts and he had been told the sentences would run concurrently, according to Kerry.

Kerry freed a wrongfully accused man from prison, and only excused him from an attempted murder charge for an incident in which no one even got hurt.

The amount of slander these days coming from the right is disgusting. Swift Boat ads, anyone? Remember, the price of freedom is eternal vigilence.

Edit: As for Mafia claims, a quick search on Google for "George Reissfelder" provides 143 links, the majority showing articles on his innocence. Searching "George Reissfelder mafia" gives only 6 links, none of which link him to the Mafia. I suspect this may be more frabrications and BS by the MoveOnForAmerica.Org mudslingers.

 

[Yom]

Mediamatters.com and www.factcheck.org also expose a lot of lies. Factcheck is nonpartisan and nonprofit. Media Matters is partisan, but also nonprofit and reliable. One myth constantly repeated by the Bush-ites is that Bush inherited the recession from Clinton. However, the recession didn't start until March 2001.

(I hope it's okay with the mods to provide links to these sites)

Edit: Wait a second...Moveon.org...Pro-Bush?!?!

Moveon was created specifically to make sure that Bush didn't get re-elected...wasn't it?

 

[Jeff Yu]

It's actually MoveOnForAmerica.Org. I'll fix it. Edit: Good catch, by the way.

 

[zorven]

Mediamatters.com and www.factcheck.org also expose a lot of lies. Factcheck is nonpartisan and nonprofit. Media Matters is partisan, but also nonprofit and reliable. One myth constantly repeated by the Bush-ites is that Bush inherited the recession from Clinton. However, the recession didn't start until March 2001.

Generally, it takes a long time for presidential fiscal policies to have an impact on the general economy (as in years). I don't subsribe to the practice of blaming ori crediting presidents for the state of the economy, but if you do, can you tell me what Bush did in 2 months on the job that caused a rececssion? (That seems to be what you are implying).

 

[Neomega]

I saw it in the Dean campaign.

McCain Feingold was a horrible bill.

Dean got slaughtered by a pair of 527 ads, one from the republican, and one from Gephardt and Kerry, which merged Dean's face into that of Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden.

So excuse me if I do not feel particularly sorry for Kerry.

Both are scum of the Earth. And this Bush ad is sick. Off course the Bush administration has made a habit of telling "lies of ignorance", acting like they didn't know they were lying when they were doing it.

So, once the damage is done, and it is exposed in a small press room meeting nobody notices, that the ads were false, Bush can just say, hey, "I didn't run those ads." And it will go away, in the annuls of history, as a minor event. even though these 527 ads are disturbing at best.

 

[amadeus]

They've got to be liberals. They used quicktime.

 

[Yom]

Those voiceovers are horrible and low-quality.

 

[BasketCase]

Ethical question on Bush's (alleged) lies.

This is directed to those of you who think Bush is a disaster for America, for the world. A modern Chernobyl, a modern Titanic, a modern Vanilla Ice:

Would you be willing to lie in order to get George Dubya out of office?

 

[Jeff Yu]

Ethical question on Bush's (alleged) lies.

This is directed to those of you who think Bush is a disaster for America, for the world. A modern Chernobyl, a modern Titanic, a modern Vanilla Ice:

Would you be willing to lie in order to get George Dubya out of office?

I think that would be a topic big enough for its own thread and an accompanying poll.

 

[BasketCase]

Good idea.

Scuse me a minute.....

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