"OK, He's Not *Hitler*, Per Se..."

Last week, MoveOn.org - a group founded in 1998 to protect a middle-aged lothario from the consequences of his actions. and which has morphed into an anti-Bush hate group - issued an apology for the Hitler Ad flap.

One ad mixed images of Hitler and Nazi militarism with Bush taking the oath of office and equated German war crimes of 1945 with Bush's foreign policy. The other quoted Hitler and Bush as saying they acted in God's name to vanquish their enemies.

After being roundly denounced by Jewish leaders and Republicans, MoveOn.org issued a mea culpa saying the two ads were in poor taste. But the group said they had been displayed in error as part of a contest inviting members of the public to create and send in their own ideas for anti-Bush television spots.

Except, according to one of Hewitt's guests last week, it was no error - the clips of the finalist ads were numbered sequentially, said the guest, and two of the numbers in the sequence of finalist spots were missing (anyone have a link to that guy?)

But - according to Drudge - while they may be apologizing formally, MoveOn is still unstinting in its hatred of the president. Monday night saw their award ceremony - which turned into (or was designed from the beginning as) a Bush hate fest.

For example - formerly-funny comedienne Margaret Cho:

MARGARET CHO (Comedian) --

* "Despite all of this stupid bullsh-- that the Republican National Committee, or whatever the f--- they call them, that they were saying that they're all angry about how two of these ads were comparing Bush to Hitler? I mean, out of thousands of submissions, they find two. They're like fu--ing looking for Hitler in a hawstack. You now? I mean, George Bush is not Hitler. He would be if he fu--ing applied himself." big, extended applause) "I mean he just isn't."

's OK, Margaret. If you apply yourself, you might be Lea DeLaria someday, too.

Against that backdrop, Al Franken was almost funny:

"I'm Al Franken. I'm here to present the funniest ad award. I'm a last-minute substitution, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill was supposed to be the presenter, but unfortunately he was murdered."

I said almost.

UPDATE: Doh! Captain Ed wrote almost the same piece, last night.

"Team Coverage", I guess...

Posted by Mitch at January 14, 2004 05:37 AM