![]() But so did the editorial pages of many major newspapers. A similarly aggressive ad campaign called on Bush to fire Donald Rumsfeld over the Abu Ghraib scandal and a litany of other failures. , likewise, has pushed the envelope with edgy ads like the "Censure" campaign, calling for the official censure of Bush by Congress for taking the nation to war under false pretenses. So far as we know, and correct us if we're wrong, ACT has not spread blatant lies about President Bush. ![]() The lawyers may play similar "roles," but the work of the Swift boat vets and America Coming Together should not be equated. Bauer's," the Times story noted, leaving it at that. Ginsberg said his role was no different from Mr. Even the New York Times this morning, while reporting the Ginsberg-SBVT connection, pointed out pretty high up in the story that Kerry shares a lawyer, Robert Bauer, with America Coming Together. ![]() So far, this distinction has not been stressed enough in the media, which too often during the Swift boat debacle have suggested a tit-for-tat equality in the work of the anti-Kerry smear campaign and that of progressive groups like. The real problem, of course, isn't that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is a 527 group with a web of connections to Bush, but that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a 527 group with a web of connections to Bush, has been lying about John Kerry. But Ginsberg's posturing about 527s is a fig leaf, much like Bush's own repudiation of 527s earlier this week. While the law prohibits campaign strategists from coordinating with 527s, campaign lawyers can give the groups legal advice. and the Kerry campaign and Democrat 527's such as, the Media Fund and Americans Coming Together (sic)." In his resignation letter as quoted by the New York Times, Ginsberg said his work with the Swift boat group was conducted "in a manner that is fully appropriate and legal and, in fact, is quite similar to the relationships between my counterparts at the D.N.C. Ginsberg apparently resents that he's being shoved out the campaign door for advising the anti-Kerry 527 group when Democratic lawyers are assisting outside groups working to defeat Bush. It was predictable that, when Ben Ginsberg resigned from his post as outside counsel for Bush-Cheney '04 today after admitting giving legal advice to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, he couldn't help taking a parting swipe at Democratic 527s.
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