NEW YORK — What MoveOn.org wanted was for people to submit 30-second ads that were critical of President Bush, but what the liberal-leaning organization got was a controversy over one entry that compared Bush to Adolf Hitler.
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Republican groups and Jewish organizations expressed outrage over the ad, which has been removed from the MoveOn.org Web site. The Republican National Committee called on all nine Democratic candidates to condemn the ads.
RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie called the ad, "the worst and most vile form of political hate speech."http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,107426,00.htmlMr. Gillespie and Jewish groups like the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center criticized MoveOn.org for posting advertisements that showed Hitler morphing into Mr. Bush. One asserted, ''What were war crimes in 1945 is foreign policy in 2003.''
''Their lack of discretion cheapens the level of political discourse in America.'' said Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League.http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/06/us/the-2004-campaign-advertising-bush-hitler-ads-draw-criticism.html