Veterans Groups Blast NRA’s Pro-Trump Benghazi Ad: ‘Don’t Use Our Dead to Score Political Points’
by Sam Reisman | 4:06 pm, July 1st, 2016
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“To date, the National Cemetery Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs has not received or approved any filming requests of this nature,” VA spokesman James Hutton told ABC News. “NCA did not receive a request from the NRA to film the subject advertisement. If we had received such a request, we would have denied it based on the partisan content.
Media Matters reported that representatives of other veterans groups were offended by the ad:
“Don’t use our dead to score political points,” Joe Davis, a Veterans of Foreign Wars national spokesman and an Air Force veteran of Desert Storm, told Media Matters. “We fought for everybody’s First Amendment rights and everything, but we don’t want any candidate using our dead to score political points.”
Jon Soltz, an Iraq War Veteran and chairman of VoteVets.org, responded with a statement that said, “This ad should be taken down immediately. It is insensitive to those buried at the cemetery — most, if not all, of whom died before Benghazi, and many of whom may not have been NRA supporters. Further, it violates Veterans Affairs policy. It should be taken down.”
The ad, which says nothing about firearms or gun control, is part of a trend of the NRA producing promotional videos that are more broadly focussed on conservative issues and do not address guns.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/veterans-groups-blast-nras-pro-trump-benghazi-ad-dont-use-our-dead-to-score-political-points/
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