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Sunday, March 07, 2004

What do Backdraft and Bush's ads have in common?

Answer: Actors portraying firefighters.
Another less-publicized aspect of the ad flap: the use of paid actors—including two playing firefighters with fire hats and uniforms in what looks like a fire station. "Where the hell did they get those guys?" cracked Harold Schaitberger, president of the International Association of Fire Fighters, which has endorsed John Kerry, when he first saw the ads.
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