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Big Third-Party Dem Group Airs First Ad Attacking McCain
Here's a first look at the first ad being run against John McCain by Progressive Media U.S.A., the new pro-Dem third-party group headed by David Brock that's planning to raise $40 million to bloody up the GOP nominee in advance of this fall's election...
The ad, called "Out of Touch," will be running on cable beginning tomorrow and can be seen in D.C. on CNN and MSNBC -- which is to say, it's a small buy aimed at an insider audience of potential future donors, political operatives, and the like.
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Excellent.
Lets unite with the one who has the best economic plans to give us hope for the future.
Hillary Clinton.
April 14, 2008 7:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Uniting by overturning the popular vote, delegate count, polls, and states won?
April 14, 2008 7:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
lol.do you spend ALL day online posting??
this guy posts a 100 times a day at huffpo.
lol
you getting paid?
i hope so.
tough to be with the lier in chief if you are not getting paid fot this.
CASH i hope!
April 14, 2008 8:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
lol.
you post all day!
hope your being paid (in cash!) for all this.
hard to do this for the 'lier in chief' all day for free.
April 14, 2008 8:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Of course GAL's being paid. How do you think he/she "got a life"?
April 15, 2008 9:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
was she hiding this fab economic plan from her finance committee? or is running out of money and stiffing businesses in state after state part of the hillary economic renaissance?
April 14, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Right on. Hillary knows what's best for regular Americans. That's because she is a regular American.
Not like that OJ-swilling, bitter-baiting loser Obama. I mean, come on, he's a graduate of an Ivy League law school! Could he be more elite?
April 15, 2008 12:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
Does someone actually own a TV like that? I'm clinging to hope we'd all get a free Government funded 48 inch 1080p wide-screen tv when Obama is POTUS or at least free guns.
April 14, 2008 7:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
excellent plan.
but anyways, clearly Hillary can't even afford her own bills, much less getting anything for anyone.
unless she also plans to keep on keepin on the mcsame plan of borrowing money you don't have and telling people to spend it recklessly. and then still not pay the bill when it is due.
April 14, 2008 9:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dude, you can use Bush's $600 handout for a brand new flat screen TV if you want. It's going on the national credit card anyway, so who cares, right?
April 15, 2008 12:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
$600- won't cover it (and I'm not getting any money back from the taxpayer funded giveaway). As GW Bush continues to print money and tank the dollar, the foreign made TVs are going to cost more (like everything else). I was just hoping our new POTUS with all his promises would give everyone a new TV. That analog set doesn't work well in the commercial so he can help David Brock out.
April 15, 2008 7:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
No sane black man is going to hand out free guns.
April 15, 2008 12:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
Very nice ad, and very nice use of the McCain/Bush comparison. I think that's the right way to go about McCain: he's just running for Bush's 3rd term.
April 14, 2008 7:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Run that puppy on national TV, please.
Gotalife, totally disagree with your conclusion, but I'm glad you appreciate the commercial.
Marginal Player? Thought you were a Republican troll. Your comment is evidence that I was right.
April 14, 2008 7:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Uh, I'd say the hammer-and-sickle Obama mock-up was evidence enough, wouldn't you agree? Keep ignoring it/him/her (this current comment notwithstanding, of course!)
April 14, 2008 7:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know, I know. I slipped up. Mea culpa.
(Oh crap. I just revealed my elitist and Marxist tendencies, didn't I?)
April 14, 2008 7:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's all good, CT. Happens to the best of us. Obama's on CNN Live right now addressing the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee. The room's going nuts. Check it out online.
April 14, 2008 7:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wooooooooooooooooo Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!
I fracking love it!
April 14, 2008 7:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary will be miffed with this Ad. She has already endorsed McCain, since he has crossed that threshold and is patriotic unlike Obama.
April 14, 2008 7:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not to complain about the ad itself, but the question remains from the stories about the Republican "third party" groups: Why again is it allowed for third parties to run attack ads on a candidate independently of the spending/fundraising restrictions on any of their proper opponents? Is this or is this not legal? Didn't both SBVT and MoveOn get fined for exactly this behavior in the last election? How is this different?
April 14, 2008 7:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
"The ad, called "Out of Touch," will be running on cable beginning tomorrow and can be seen in D.C. on CNN and MSNBC"
I guess Progressive Media U.S.A. can't afford a real network or a 21th century digital television. I guess they can't afford Fox, the highest rated cable news network. Fox has higher ratings than MSNBC and CNN combined.
April 14, 2008 7:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why am I not shocked that softy-head is a FOX sycophant?
Oh yeah, now I remember, it's because MP is an idiot GOP troll.
April 14, 2008 7:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
How stupid are you?
Why in the world would a Progressive group run this ad on Fox? The morons that watch Fox are the ones that still think Sadam Hussein was behind 9/11, that Cheney is an honorable man and that it's ok to crucify Democrats for guilt-by-association, but heaven forbid you do the same against a Republican.
Running the ad on CNN and MSNBC reaches Dems and more importantly Independent voters.
Your post only verifies that your stupidity is only superseded by...
..nope. Yor stupidity reigns supreme.
April 14, 2008 7:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Those FOX viewers also think that torturing people accused of being enemies of America protects America. FOX is not a place to find sane viewers. And I rather doubt that MSNBC is any better.
April 15, 2008 12:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
Might not be such a bad idea to run the ad on Fox. A lot of Republicans have also had it with Bush. Reminding Republicans that McCain means more of Bush could cause a few of them to stay home rather than vote for him. Maybe more than a few.
April 15, 2008 12:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
Greg,
The "and the like" folks, are they super delegates?
That "out of touch" I believe I heard somewhere recently!
April 14, 2008 7:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
You have to be a parody.
I'm watching you - that has to be a parody comment.
Nobody is that stupid.
April 14, 2008 7:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Scoreboard: Friday, Apr. 11
Prime: FNC: 1609 | CNN: 662 | MSNBC: 660 | HLN: 384
FNC beats almost all three other cable news combined. This was from Friday, without Bill-O. Mediabistro.com
Lawyers, liars...
April 14, 2008 7:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're missing the point...
why would a Progressive group bother wasting money to right-wing trogs that watch Fox???
Who cares what their ratings are???
Hannity, O'Reilly & Hume, oh my.
I don't know why ANY Democrat gives a crap about anyone that watches Fox. They're not going to vote for us anyway, so f*ck 'em (and you by extension).
April 14, 2008 7:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Besides, the ad would be pointless for Fox viewers.
McCain's being allied with Bush would be a positive in their eyes.
April 14, 2008 9:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not necessarily. Remember the great displeasure voiced when it appeared that McCain would be the only Republican candidate standing? Some of that angst was because McCain isn't seen as conservative enough, but some was also because he was seen as too much like Bush, and Bush is not too terribly popular among those in his own party right now. Might not hurt to run it a few times.
April 15, 2008 12:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
MP just doesn't get it, Tena.
April 14, 2008 7:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well the audience could be national as well, iam willing to bet tv networks will play the ad.
April 14, 2008 7:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm betting that the reason for the limited distribution is money. This as should be good enough for people with money to break loose their wallets and then Progressive Media U.S.A. will air it more broadly.
They're waiting to see what the impact this release has before sinking more money into it. This IS their first ad, and their are a lot of questions that need to be answered before the big money gets spent. there is also the question of what the right timing is.
With what it costs to air an ad like this, they want to get it right. You known the Republicans will when they start.
April 15, 2008 12:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
"The government's star witness at political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko's fraud trial says he attended a party at Rezko's home for a British billionaire where Senator Barack Obama and his wife were also among the guests."
Not an elite eh?
April 14, 2008 7:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
how many Billionaires do bill and hillary hang out with on a regular basis?
seriously.
get new material.
April 14, 2008 7:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am a "typical bitter white guy that clings to religion and guns". According to Obama.
I doubt these Americans are billionaires.
http://bp1.blogger.com/_UQPUzwdX51o/SAGBAm9YsPI/AAAAAAAAAHU/qtpQt3Gntao/s1600-h/r-HILLARY-DRINKING-huge1.jpg
Cheers to Clinton.
April 14, 2008 7:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.publicintegrity.org/clintonwalmart/
Hillary and a billionaire.
Touche.
April 14, 2008 7:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
So you are saying you would rather not talk about why you don't have a job, can't afford health care, or can't send your kids to college; and instead rather talk about gay marriage, school prayer, illegal immigration, and flag burning amendments?
April 14, 2008 8:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Look. The nomination race is over, and Hillary lost. The end game isn't going to change that. I know I started out for Edwards, went to Hillary when Edwards dropped out, and then at the last minute before voting in the primary decided Obama was better for Texas. it was roughly 51 - 49, and most of the White voters I have spoken to agreed on those odds when they voted.
Hillary and Mark Penn have consistently proven my last minute judgment correct. But the nomination race is over. Hillary is not going to miraculously pull out some kind of victory in the next few weeks. It's too close, she's too far behind, and her messages and her candidacy have been too irregular and disorganized since January.
She's lost a very close race, and she lost it when she voted for the war in Iraq. That created the opening that Barack has stepped into, and she can't close the gap and she never adequately dealt with voting for Iraq the way Edwards did.
It doesn't hurt that Obama is probably the finest natural politician on the national stage since Bill Clinton. But if Hillary had voted against the war, or somehow neutralized the toxicity of that vote, Obama would be looking for the 2016 election.
Now it's all over except for the Superdelegates who are going to ratify what the primary/caucus voters have already said. It was close, but Hillary has lost.
So give it up. Hillary and her camp mostly have.
April 15, 2008 12:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Bill Clinton told Billionaire Steve Spielberg not to make a big deal about protesting the Beijing Olympics.
Anyone's that's been in DC for more than 3 hours has been to Washington parties.
Stop trying to stir up shit that your candidate of choice is just as 'guilty' of doing.
April 14, 2008 7:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
CTVoter - my god, you're right. He/she/it really is that stupid.
wow.
April 14, 2008 7:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just have to say that it was always one of my biggest hopes that that picture of the sweaty hug, complete with George's Heil Hitler arm - which George is fond of - would be everywhere during the campaign.
This ad is damn near perfect. I hope it runs a whole lot.
April 14, 2008 7:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Swiftboaters for Truth was also "a small buy". It's far-reaching punch came from the cable networks willing to give the advertisements broad attention.
This is perhaps the first test of the cable networks. Will they give this ad the same attention that they gave to the Swiftboaters? Chris Matthews, we're waiting...
April 14, 2008 8:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
"I'm Hillary Clinton and I did not approve of this ad."
April 14, 2008 8:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why did they waste their money in a Democrat market?
April 14, 2008 8:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
DC isn't a Democratic market. It's not a Republican market. It's a donation market.
April 14, 2008 8:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain who?
April 14, 2008 8:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Say what?
There is no such thing as Democratic Market.
April 14, 2008 8:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
A. stop feeding the trolls. gotalife and marginal player and Matthew Weaver are not proponents of "their candidate". they are classic internet trolls, saying whatever it takes to rile up other posters. ignore them and they will go away.
B. it's too bad Democrats can't pivot to John McCain as a whole and start pushing against the dangerous absurdity that is his candidacy because Hillary Clinton refuses to step aside for the assured nominee. she would rather have Obama fight both of them than face John McCain early which would give him the fundraising and organizational head start that would be a big step towards crushing the Republicans in November.
everyone needs to keep in mind that the ONLY thing preventing Obama and the Democrats from pressuring and scrutinizing John McCain as a unified body is a candidate who cannot win the nomination by any reasonable, non-destructive means.
April 14, 2008 9:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
gotalife's happy horse hockey has a point . . .
How is going to effect corporate conspiritor Clinton's shot at a White House office?
Keeping fascist plutocracy safe from American people everywhere!
April 14, 2008 9:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, you are a prime example that Americans are whacked out on prescription drugs.
If you go back and read my posts from the start you will see I am always right.
It is called reality but you can't see it unless you get off the dope er hope.
Anyhoo, I noticed something obvious at the Huffington Post. They brought down Obama with bittergate and are trying like hell to bring down Clinton.
Looks like Arianna is still a neocon and helping the gop.
I hope this blog will not do the same because Clinton will be the nominee so stop bashing her.
You are helping the gop trolls.
April 14, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, I'm sooooo surprised that your FNC numbers watchin' type, hmmmmm, Hummmmmmmme, is that you?
April 14, 2008 10:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes indeedy.
April 14, 2008 10:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
We are Clinton supporters and you are the trolls now.
I tried to tell you but nooooooooo, you would not listen.
Can you hear me now?
Trolls, please refrain from attacking our nominee, Clinton.
You are helping the gop so unite, she brings hope for your future.
Yes, we can use hope and unity with Clinton.
April 14, 2008 10:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, GIVE IT A REST already. Goodness.
We get your point. You love Clinton. You hate Obama. Can we just stipulate that from now on so the rest of us can actually discuss the topics at hand without having to deal with you hijacking every damned thread?
April 14, 2008 10:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Plese find the hate in my posts.
Thanks in advance.
April 14, 2008 10:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary is toast. Time to tune that tired old forgetful,(per her husband) booze hound out. It is not Hillary saying all those crazy things; it is just the booze talking.
Time to focus on helping our nominee, Senator Obama, obliterate War Monger McCain; Who just happens to be one of Hillary's binge drinking buddies.
Arrange an nice room for Hillary at the Betty Ford clinic. She needs to dry out, while we get on with electing Senator Obama as the next President of the USA.
April 14, 2008 10:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
What is so impressive about the ad is the simple playing of the numerous times in which Bush and McCain use the exact same words and gestures.
April 14, 2008 10:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
This type of ad says it:
John McCain,
More of the same.
Devastating and effective.
April 14, 2008 11:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's just sweeter 'n Southern ice tea to me to see such an ad come out at this time in the campaign. Whether you support Obama or Clinton, it's good to know that some of us have seen the future and have already loaded out metaphorical guns with our true faith down here in the bitterness brigade and are firing our cannons at the R's instead of each other.
April 14, 2008 11:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rock on, braveheart.
April 15, 2008 12:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Love the video clips but the "Same Old Politics" tagline doesn't hit hard enough.
April 15, 2008 12:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Although I am embittered, this ad leaves me with a sensation of sweetness, something I haven't tasted in many, many years.
April 15, 2008 1:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Marginal Player is the brainchild (or brainfart) of Rupert Murdoch. He's not a Republican troll as much as he is a Fox Network troll. Notice all the cable news stats, this is the clue. MP is the next iteration of trolling, the movement from political trolls to commerical trolls.
Soon there will be trolls extolling the humble virtues and origins of Mug Rootbeer and smashing the elitism of Barq's (with that foreign use of the "q" instead of the American barK). Expect that avatar to be a Coke brand product with a hammer & sickle.
April 15, 2008 3:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
http://realclearpolitics.com/
Barry-O is 6 for 6 right now:
Early Morning Update
1. Trying to Figure Out What Obama Meant - John Dickerson, Slate
2. Candidate on a High Horse - George Will, Washington Post
3. Obama's 'Gaffe' and His Critics - Ed Kilgore, RealClearPolitics
4. Small Town Whites & the Super Delegates - Jay Cost, HorseRaceBlog
5. Loose Lips and Democratic Ships - E. J. Dionne, Washington Post
6. A Living Lie - Thomas Sowell, RealClearPolitics
Obama/Wright 2008
April 15, 2008 7:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
In a word, priceless. Good thing someone is working on McCain to counter Hillary's working for him.
April 15, 2008 3:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Look at it this way . . . If Obama gets the DEM nomination . . . People get a chance to vote for the true unity ticket.
Making Loe Lieberman just grandpappy's nursemaid.
April 15, 2008 8:54 AM | Reply | Permalink