Tuesday, 09 March 2004

Lying liars. A conservative group called "Citizens United" unveiled its first set of ads attacking John Kerry today. According to their web site, Citizens United stands for "complete U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations, defeat of the treaty to establish a permanent U.N.-controlled International Criminal Court, and rejection of one-world government," among other tinfoil-hat causes. (Watch out for those black helicopters, guys.)

Among the illustrious citizens who make up this civic organization are its Chairman of the Board, Floyd Brown. For those who don't recall the name, here's a refresher:

"When we're through, people are going to think that Willie Horton is Michael Dukakis' nephew." —Floyd Brown, September 1988

Brown was the producer of the GOP's most infamous attack ad, the spot that gave violent crime an African-American face and then used it to dump slime on Dukakis. He was one of the hit men who helped put Bush I in the White House, and spent most of the Nineties — along with Citizens United's president, David Bossie — cooking up lies about a real estate investment called Whitewater. Without the (ahem) "help" of men like Brown and Bossie, the Clinton years would have been a lot less interesting, and the government would have wasted a lot less money on politically motivated witch hunts.

So, if you get a chance to see those shiny new Kerry attack ads, just remember these three words: Consider the source.

- Posted by Scott Forbes at 10:01 am. comments.