Political Chewtoys

The White house's Press Secretary, Ari Fleischer, has began leading a white house front group in order to defend Bush's escalation of the war. The group has recently spent millions (probably our tax dollars) to air this tv ad for their cause:



Then when old Ari was on MSNBC's show Hardball and the host of the show asked the simple question "What was the soldiers name in your pro-war ad?" all he could reply was "Well, I don't have his name in front of me right now..."

Can anyone tell me how utterly pathetic that is? If you're going to use a veteran who has lost both of his legs in a thus far fruitless war, have the common courtesy to know the guy's name. What a slap in the face to all veterans that have served in this 'war on terror', that the administration has no problem using you to promote their agenda when they screw up and look bad, but they don't care to remember what your name is.

Check out the article on this at ThinkProgress