ADVERTISEMENT Ex-Bush adviser tells 'fib' about Michael Moore Rachel Oswald

Published: Friday March 6, 2009





Print This Email This Update at bottom: RNC didn't give Moore 2004 credentials 'Not me baby!' Steele rejects calls to quit Michael Moore waded into the churning media circus surrounding Rush Limbaugh's newly vaunted fame by proclaiming that he, unlike the conservative radio talk show host, truly represents the values of the American people.



In a Friday blog posting on The Huffington Post, Moore disputed comparisons of him as the liberals' version of Limbaugh.



"What I have believed in, and what I have stood for in these past eight years -- an end to the war, establishing universal health care, closing Guantanamo and banning torture, making the rich pay more taxes and aggressively going after the corporate chiefs on Wall Street -- these are all things which the majority of Americans believe in too," said the documentary filmmaker. "That's why in November the majority voted for the guy I voted for."



Mark McKinnon, a top adviser in President George W. Bush's campaigns shared with The Washington Post in a Friday article, compared the Democrat's new strategy of making Limbaugh the face of the Republican Party with the GOP's own 2004 strategy of turning the spotlight on Moore in an attempt to make him a divisive figure.



"We used a similar strategy by making Michael Moore the face of the Democratic Party," McKinnon said. "That's why we gave him credentials to cover the 2004 convention and then turned the spotlight on him."



Moore notes that they continued to try to use this strategy in 2008, though with much less success by running attack ads in a Michigan Congressional race that compared him to the Democratic candidate, Mark Schauer. Schaeuer went on to win the race, defeating Republican incumbent, Tim Walberg.



"Obama and the Democrats going after Rush is a good thing and will not do for him what the Republican attack plan did for me -- namely, the majority of Americans will never be sympathetic to him because they simply don't agree with him," wrote Moore. "The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda. Thank you, Republican Party. You helped us elect one of the most liberal senators to the presidency of the United States"



Steele says 'no' to RNC member's calls for resignation Republican National Committee chairman Mike Steele, said he has no plans to resign today while he guest-hosted Bill Bennet's conservative talk radio program Morning in America. Think Progress has the audio and quotes from that show here.



Responding to a caller to the program who said "I hope that Paul Bagalla and [Rahm] Emanuel and [James] Carville dont convince you to resign your position. Steele answered back, "Aww, trust me. Not me Baby! Nuh-uh. Not happening. No way, no how!"



In a recent memo, RNC member Ada Fisher's said that Steele was "eroding confidence in the GOP and that members of his transition team should encourage him to step aside."



Bush advisor falsely claims grand Moore scheme Raw Story has learned that Mark McKinnon's earlier claims today to The Washington Post of a Republican hatched plan to provide Moore with credentials to cover the 2004 Republican National Convention are actually false.



Moore did not receive his credentials from the RNC, but rather received them from USA Today as a guest columnist of theirs.



His four columns covering the political convention at the end of August 2004 can be read here.









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