The Real USA Next Agenda

The agency that produced the Swiftboat Veterans for Lies during the 2004 presidential campaign is now being hired by the right-wingers to enter into the propaganda war over Social Security privatization. They produced an internet ad that has a heading of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) shows a soldier with a red X over it and a picture of two men kissing at their wedding. Although the group sponsoring the ad has already pulled it after lots of complaints, it does illustrate the lack of allegiance right-wingers feel for the truth (no Bill O’Reilly, I didn’t say troops). In order to bash the AARP and promote the privatization of Social Security, they suggest that the AARP works hard to promote gay marriage and hates the troops, all totally without merit or supporting evidence. It would be nice if this could be attributed to a few wackos in the far right wing but the neither the head of the Republican National Committee (RNC) nor the White House have come out and opposed the tactics or allegations made in this ad. Thus they are either actively connected to this ad or they are complicit in the spreading of irrelevant lies about the AARP.