American Elephants

Turns out that the New York Times published that despicable ad by MoveOn.org calling General Petraeus a liar and accusing him of betraying his country at bargain basement prices.

The fringe leftist group confirms they paid only $65,000 for the ad which according to the Times would normally sell for $181,682! That’s more than $116,000 off.

Citing the shared liberal bent of the group and the Times, one Republican aide on Capitol Hill speculated that it was the “family discount.”

“I’m surprised they had to pay anything at all for the ad,” the GOP staffer said. “They could have just asked the editorial page to run it and it wouldn’t have cost them a cent.”

But don’t call them biased!

Now Rudy Giuliani is taking on the Times, demanding the same deep discount. And Uncle Jimbo at Blackfive has filed a complaint with the FEC over the Times potentially illegal sales practices.

Freedom’s Watch, who have produced ads by Iraq war veterans and their families stressing the importance of winning in Iraq (watch the ads here), plans to run an ad rebutting moveon.org’s despicable smear. They say they were charged a great deal more for ads they have already placed with the times, but they intend to demand the same discount for their new ad.

Meanwhile, Democrats in congress refused to allow a vote condemning MoveOn’s smear of General Petraeus, nor would any of the Democrat presidential candidates condemn the ad.

Despicable.

Republicans should not let the issue go until Democrats condemn such vile tactics. Of course, that would probably require Democrats to stop using such tactics themselves first.