Thread: Bush 2004 Hispanic Campaign Video

On April 2, 2006, the Los Angeles Times published an article entitled "Immigrant Issues Are Personal for Bush", and the online version of the article can be found here:

http://www.latimes.com/news/printeditio ... ory?page=1

You might have to register, however, registration is free, and only takes seconds.

The article is divided into four pages on the web.

On page 3 the article mentions a Hispanic campaign video.

"During the 2000 election, Bush previewed a campaign video from ad-maker Lionel Sosa that used emotion-laden themes to woo Latinos.

As he watched, Sosa recalled, Bush's face lighted up.
"How much do you need for this?" Bush asked as the two men sat with Rove in the governor's mansion in Texas, Sosa said.

Sosa replied that it would take $3 million. According to the ad-maker, Bush then turned to Rove, saying: "Give him five."

Four years later, Sosa produced a variation of that video for the 2004 campaign that was mailed to Latino voters across the country.

The video includes images that would probably rile those who today are calling for the most restrictive immigration laws. At one point, Bush is shown waving a Mexican flag. The footage was shot, Sosa said, during
a Mexican Independence Day parade in San Antonio in 1998, when Bush was running for reelection as governor.

The five-minute video, narrated by Bush, opens with an image of him fishing on his property near Crawford, Texas, as he essentially described millions of Americans who populate his home state as the true
foreigners in someone else's native land.

"About 15 years before the Civil War, much of the American West was northern Mexico," Bush says in the video. "The people who lived there weren't called Latinos or Hispanics. They were Mexican citizens, until all that land became part of the United States.

"After that, many of them were treated as foreigners in their own land," Bush adds."

If you have a fast link, and would like to take a look at this video, you can find it here:

http://ia201103.eu.archive.org/0/mov...NCHispanic.wmv

Expensive video, if the LA Times account is right, it cost 5 millions.
That's about a million a minute.

Listen to it carefully, and keep in mind, this was shot for and APPROVED by a sitting US president.
And, again, according to the LA Times account, he LOVED this video!

The video was shot in San Antonio, TX (except Crawford shots, and some shots in office settings).
You know, where some guys called Bowie, Travis, Crockett and 184 others gave their lives for Texas independence, at the Alamo ...

Well they have taken it down, that did not take long.