Calling it “misleading,” a CBS-affiliate TV station in Washington, D.C., rejected a commercial that uses clips from a film about President Reagan’s tough stand against totalitarianism to highlight Sen. John Kerry’s consistent opposition in Congress to strengthening Ameria’s defense.
 Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale in their second 1984 debate |
As WorldNetDaily reported, the new documentary “In the Face of Evil,” has inspired a campaign ad produced by the 527 group Americans for Peace through Strength.
The 60-second ad is running Sunday through Election Day in battleground states, on cable news outlets and the Internet. It features the 1984 Reagan-Mondale debate, in which Reagan points out Mondale’s opposition to every proposed defense program. The spot gives many examples of how Kerry’s record has mirrored the Minnesota senator’s.
“Senator Kerry’s voting record on national defense is a matter of public record and there is nothing misleading about it, as WUSA implies. You can’t deny the facts,” said Phil Anderson, executive director of Americans for Peace Through Strength.
“We are running this ad campaign to spotlight the stark differences between the leadership President Reagan provided to win the Cold War and Senator John Kerry’s lifetime commitment to weakening our national defense.”
As WND first reported, the feature-length documentary is based on Peter Schweizer’s acclaimed best-seller “Reagan’s War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism.” The film recounts how Reagan arose in the middle of the bloodiest century in history — with as many as 200 million dead victims of totalitarian regimes — and called evil by its name, resolutely declaring in the face of scorn that the world had no other choice but to crush it.
The ad, “Footsteps of Giants,” was a reaction to Kerry aligning himself with Ronald Reagan in the first presidential debate.
It’s designed to show how Kerry opposed many, if not all of President Reagan’s defense programs during his administration, including Reagan’s strategic plan to destroy the “Evil Empire.”
During the Sept. 30 presidential debate, Kerry said, “We need to rebuild our alliances. I believe that Ronald Reagan, John Kennedy and others did that more effectively, and I’m going to try to follow in their footsteps.”
Kerry aligned himself with Reagan several more times in subsequent debates.
“This commercial is targeted to Reagan Democrats. Those Americans who crossed party lines to support a pro-defense Republican during the cold war’s moment of truth — the1984 election,” said Stephen K. Bannon, the writer and director of “In The Face Of Evil,” who also directed the television commercial.
Bannon said all other cable networks and broadcast media have agreed to run the ad.
“WUSA is balking because the commercial is devastatingly effective,” he said. “We know it … they know it and the public knows it.”
View the new Kerry-Reagan commercial.
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