"Bush campaign ads using team"

[RogueMage]

This tit for tat smear crap has to stop.

Your post illustrates how smear campaigns propogate: they flatten the details of an event into a provocative slogan that deliberately misrepresents the facts. When we dig deeper into your initial accusation:

Moveon.org compares Bush to hitler

We find that it was not MoveOn that produced ads that compared Bush to Hitler - it was a pair of third-party, rejected submissions to a MoveOn contest that did so. MoveOn did not attempt to publicize these submissions beyond the contest itself, it was the Republican Party that did so, in an attempt to start a smear campaign against MoveOn.

Ironically, the submission that MoveOn chose to broadcast during the 2004 Super Bowl was itself rejected by CBS, citing a policy that prohibits "advocacy" ads. The effect of this controversial act of corporate censorship was to create even more publicity for MoveOn than the ad itself would have, had it been aired (especially considering what actually was shown at Super Bowl XXXVIII ).