{"id":609,"date":"2007-09-19T09:09:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T16:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=609"},"modified":"2007-12-01T17:22:36","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T01:22:36","slug":"giuliani-i-am-moveons-worst-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"Giuliani: I Am MoveOn&#8217;s Worst Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MoveOn advertisement challenging General Petraeus&#8217; congressional testimony is continuing to stir up dust. After drawing heat from Fox News war apologists like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,297044,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bill O&#8217;Reilly<\/a>, and taking fire from <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.baltimoresun.com\/news\/politics\/blog\/2007\/09\/cheney_joins_the_petraeus_defe.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Cheney<\/a>, and being threatened with deportation by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2007\/09\/14\/politics\/main3262322.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">John McCain<\/a>, and having GOP congressman <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/davis-demands-hearing-on-moveon.org-ad-2007-09-18.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Davis<\/a> call for hearings, now another Republican presidential candidate has weighed in with a unique fund raising scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Rudy Giuliani has already hit MoveOn with an ad that attacks both the advocacy group and Hillary Clinton. He has also made comments that trample that pesky Constitutional notion of free speech. Now he is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/rudy-claims-bump-from-moveon-ad-2007-09-19.html\" target=\"_blank\">on the attack again<\/a>, this time wrapping his assault in a plea for campaign donations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\">&#8220;Why is MoveOn attacking Rudy Giuliani? Because he&#8217;s their worst nightmare. They know Rudy is a Republican who can beat the Democrats.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Campaign08\/rudy-moveon.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>This radio campaign is accompanied by an Internet keyword campaign that delivers Rudy&#8217;s anti-MoveOn message when searching for either <em>&#8220;MoveOn&#8221;<\/em> or <em>&#8220;Hillary Clinton&#8221;<\/em> on Google.<\/p>\n<p>Many candidates are using Google AdWords in their ad campaigns. But Rudy is using keywords that are associated with his opponents to bring attention to himself. In fact, searching for keyword combinations of his own name return only ads for his campaign web site with no mention of MoveOn or Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Several weeks ago, the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usatoday.com\/onpolitics\/2007\/06\/edwards-attacks.html\" target=\"_blank\">media was aghast<\/a> that John Edwards would include appeals for donations after he and his wife Elizabeth were attacked by Ann Coulter, though his fund raising was limited to his web site and emails to his supporters. Do you think the press will respond with equivalent indignation now that a Republican candidate is doing the same thing in an even more brazen fashion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MoveOn advertisement challenging General Petraeus&#8217; congressional testimony is continuing to stir up dust. After drawing heat from Fox News war apologists like Bill O&#8217;Reilly, and taking fire from Dick Cheney, and being threatened with deportation by John McCain, and having GOP congressman Tom Davis call for hearings, now another Republican presidential candidate has weighed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,58],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-moveon","tag-rudy-giuliani"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-9P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":619,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=619","url_meta":{"origin":609,"position":0},"title":"Chilling Effects: Betraying Freedom Of The Press","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/24\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week the U.S. Senate voted to condemn the New York Times for running an ad that was critical of the administration and it's lackey, Gen. 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