"I'm George W. Bush, And I Approve This Message"

From SFGate - a look at President Thunderlips' new teevee commercial:

The ad points out Kerry's vote in 2002 to authorize the Iraq war. It then seizes on his vote against a subsequent $87 billion spending bill to support military operations and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. The ad uses that vote to claim that the Massachusetts senator voted against giving troops body armor and higher combat pay, and reservists better health care.

It's true all of those issues were included in the overall bill, and that Kerry voted against it. (His campaign says it was because the bill included no-bid contracts for companies.) However, voting against the bill is not the same as voting against the individual issues. Viewers are led to believe Kerry cast separate votes on each issue, which he did not.

Left out of the ad is the fact that, long before the $87 billion vote, the Pentagon had been struggling with delays in the production and distribution of the latest armor to troops in Iraq, among other supply problems. In October, when the vote was cast, nearly one-fourth of the 130,000 American troops in Iraq still had not been issued the newest body armor, several months after the war had started.

President Flightsuit better be careful - his lapdog media are starting to sniff out the bullcrap.