SBVT'S PR Firm - a REPUBLICAN-funded "noise machine"

[newsguyatl]

"Creative Response Concepts" -- they're the ones doing PR for the Swift Liars, you know, that non-partisan group. cough.

Here's their website:
http://www.crc4pr.com /

While you're there, check out some of their clients:
-Media Research Center --> Brent Bozell operation
-National Republican Congressional Committee
-National Republican Senatorial Committee
-Regnery Publishing --> Rightwing publisher of O'Neill's book
-Republican National Committee


Just a few other tidbits:
-One of their former VPs works in the Bush administration --
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/12/20031209-5.html

-Obviously, the firm is strictly a Republican Consulting Group --
http://journals.aol.com/gracewatcher/GraceWatchersPoliticalViews/entries/78

-Their Chief Information Officer and Director was appointed by Bush in April to a Presidential Commission --
http://www.opm.gov/viewDocument.aspx?q=260

-The firm is run by former Pat Buchanan communications director Greg Mueller with the help of former Pat Robertson communications director, Mike Russell. (CBSNews.com 8/7/04)

Oh, and according to the Center for Public Integrity, Creative Response Concepts is also on the payroll of the Club for Growth, the Republican 527 funded in part by Richard Mellon Scaife.


So when O'Neill, Rove and others say this group has nothing at all to do with Bushco, they must be telling the truth, eh?


Anyway, here's a letter the Swift Vets, with help from Creative Response Concepts, sent to Kerry today, on the eve of his speech to the American Legion.


August 31, 2004



Senator John Kerry

901 15th Street NW

Washington, DC

20005



Dear Senator Kerry:



As you prepare for your address before the American Legion in Nashville, Tennessee, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth encourages you to use this opportunity to clarify your actions in Vietnam and your statements about your fellow Veterans and shipmates when you returned home. Since you have made your four-month tour i! n Vietnam the centerpiece of your campaign, we respectfully insist that you be truthful. The public is owed a full and honest accounting of your actions. Veterans are owed an apology from you and an acknowledgement that there was no basis in fact for the accusations you made against them.



We urge you to:



1. Apologize for your conduct once you returned from Vietnam. Your exaggerated testimony before the US Senate; the blanket indictment of your fellow veterans; throwing away medals and ribbons; all of these actions dishonored America and the armed forces. Your rhetoric and actions were not only wrong, they aided the enemy and brought great pain to POW's, veterans and their families.



2. Clarify the conflicting accounts involving the Bay Hap River incident of March 13, 1969 (Bronze Star and 3rd Purple Heart). You have now described three different versions of this incident. In the first version of this incident presented during the Democrat National Convention, you stated: "No man left behind," suggesting to the American people that you alone stayed on the river to rescue Mr. Rassmann. Later, when forced to acknowledge conflicting eyewitness testimony from fellow swift boat veterans, you said that your boat left the scene to return moments later to retrieve Jim Rassmann from the water. Yet, in another version of the same incident discovered in the Congressional Record, you reported that your boat struck a mine and Rassmann fell off the boat. Mr. Kerry, please explain to your fellow veteran s and the American people which version is the truth.



3. Affirm that the injuries for which you received your purple hearts never required any medical treatment beyond perhaps a bandage and that, in all instances, these injuries were self-inflicted and came from your own weapon. Further, that if any of these purple hearts were falsely awarded, that you would not have been eligible to leave Vietnam after serving only four months.



4. Acknowledge what your own biographer is now saying, that the Christmas in Cambodia claim is "obviously wrong," that you were never in Cambodia over Christmas or any other time during your brief, four-month tour in Vietnam and that your statements before the United States Senate in 1986 were false.



If you undertake these steps we will be satisfied that the American public has been sufficiently apprised as to these aspects of your career, and we will discontinue the media advertisements you have sought so fervently to silence.



Please know that Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are eager to close our own personal chapters on Vietnam and instead focus on the war we're currently fighting-the ongoing war on terrorism. In the absence of full public disclosure and a public apology, we will continue efforts to carry our message to an ever-expanding base of grassroots supporters.



Senator Kerry, we want to get Vietnam behind us. But, we can only do so if the truth is told.



We respectfully await your reply,



Swift Boat Veterans for Truth

Media Contacts



Sean McCabe

Creative Response Concepts

[e-mail]

703-683-5004 ext. 110



Steve Burke

Creative Response Concepts

[e-mail]

703-683-5004 ext. 108

[Fridays Child]

1. Remember the fragile thread that seemed to link Al Gore to the...

...Buddhist temple fundraising scandal? How long and loud did the pundits wail over it? Well, these people are all umbilically linked to the Bush, yet the media yawn and turn away.

Fuck.

[newsguyatl]

2. yeh exactly

and i like how they try this little letter giving stunt today, just to garner more media attn just before their new ad is due to air.