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MO-SEN: Right-Wing Group's Ad: "These People Want To Kill Us"
You really have to see this one to believe it. A right-wing group called "Progress for America" has just taken the Bush "national security" strategy to a ridiculously lurid extreme: It's running a new TV ad just in time for the Sept. 11 anniversary which is almost comically desperate in its efforts to scare voters. The ad is running in Missouri -- where GOP Senator Jim Talent is fending off a tough challenge from Claire McCatskill. But get this: The ad doesn't say anything at all specific to Missouri. It just says that "these people want to kill us" (meaning terrorists) and that "some" want to "cut and run" from the Middle East. View it here.
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Ah sweet irony! They list FISA as the tool some want to do away with -- is that supposed to be a reference to the warrantless wiretaps?
September 8, 2006 11:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, that is an unimaginably over-the-top, manipulative ad. I wonder how well it works.
"they want to --- KILL! --- us"
i think it will scare voters.
September 8, 2006 12:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
I caught that too and thought, hmmm, aren't Dems for strengthening FISA?
The ad was definitely bizarre. But there's a saying in Texas and there's probably one in Missouri: Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice--...
September 8, 2006 12:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
The real question is how the McCaskill campaign responds to this sort of attack ads. Right now, it doesn't seem to be doing much of anything in the face of a massive Republican media blitz. Such a do-nothing attitude (and I should note that the McCaskill campaign is one of the ones specially sponsored by the DLC) is not going to win Congress back for the Democrats.
September 8, 2006 1:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that is 'catapulting the propaganda'.
I wonder if that is considered a 'family friendly' advertisment? Pictures of dead people?
"It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."Rumsfeld-Feb.2003
September 8, 2006 3:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Orwell would be proud.
What's interesting to me is how the right wing amplifies the actual capabilities of Islamic terrorists. The ad says these groups want to enable these medieval notions, but the implication is that they actually can, and the only thing stopping them is George Bush's foreign policy. I think the trends of recent public opinion polls indicate that the public has lost the narrative of Bush's "war on terror." They either don't think it's effective or don't trust the Executive to carry it out. An ad like this is not a threat to any Democrat running against any Republican this Fall. It will only appeal to people who listen to Rush Limbaugh and buy books by Coulter, Hannity, Malkin, Savage and other opportunist demagogues who profit solely from violence, hatred and prejudice.
September 8, 2006 4:13 PM | Reply | Permalink