McCain: Can Obama 'help your family?'
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McCain: Can Obama 'help your family?'
Sort by First Read (Free subscription) - 08/06/2008
From NBC's Mark Murray A day after his campaign announced it was airing its first positive TV ad in weeks -- even though there were signs that there wasn't much money behind the ad, given the campaign's silence on where it's running -- the McCain camp is back up with a new negative TV ad. As with the Britney-Paris ad, it calls Obama "the biggest celebrity in the world" (despite McCain's own appearances...
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Two competing Olympic strategies
Sort by Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) - 08/15/2008
Both presidential campaigns have invested pretty heavily in television ads for the Olympics, with Obama reportedly spending $5 million, and McCain $6 million. Given reports on high ratings for this year’s games, it’s probably money well spent — a lot of folks will see the commercials. But it strikes me as interesting how the competing campaigns [...]
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John McCain & the Opening Ceremony at the Olympics
Sort by Daily Kos (Free subscription) - 08/10/2008
Leaving aside the pollution and the politics, the opening ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics, from the more than 2000 drummers that started the show, to gymnastic gold medalist Li Ning soaring around the top of the stadium before lighting the torch, were nothing short of spectacular. Simply unbelievable pagentry. And throughout the coverage, the advertisements were positive and upbeat, and often playing...
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Obama, McCain Air Olympics Ads
Sort by Washington Wire (Free subscription) - 08/14/2008
Susan Davis reports on the presidential race. Barack Obama's presidential campaign today released the second ad to air during the Beijing Olympics. Advertising Age reported in July the Obama campaign made a hefty $5 million ad buy to air ads during the games. Two weeks later, John McCain's campaign upped the ante with a $6 million [...]
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McCain Just Can't Help Himself
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Just a day after taking a break from mentioning Barack Obama in his campaign ad, John McCain goes back to the "Obama is the biggest celebrity in the world" well in his latest. But really, using images of your opponent being cheered by hundreds of thousands of people, is that really an effective way to attack him? The other day I mentioned how Steve Schmidt was using a visual motif from an ad he ran...
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"Family"
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John McCain released a new negative TV spot today that again pushes the Barack Obama -as-empty-celebrity line. As McCain's much-discussed Paris Hilton / Brittany Spears "Celeb" ad did last week, this one, too, features footage of Obama's Berlin speech. Female narrator: "Is the biggest celebrity in the world ready to help your family? The real Obama promises higher taxes, more government spending ...
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McCain Reiterates Obama Celebrity Attack
Sort by Queerty (Free subscription) - 08/06/2008
The campaign ads wars continue with yet another John McCain ad smearing Barack Obama as a celebrity. Asks the female narrator, “Is the biggest celebrity in the world ready to help your family'” And, no, Paris Hilton doesn’t make any cameos. McCain learned that lesson.
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McCain doubles down on ‘celebrity’ attack
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Arguably the most notorious campaign ad of the cycle, at least so far, was last week’s McCain campaign spot, comparing Barack Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. It was widely panned as spectacularly stupid. Today, McCain unveils the sequel, which leaves the young blondes out, but doubles down on the whole “celebrity” attack. “Is the [...]
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“Biggest Celebrity” Is Apparently McCain’s Strategy
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It may work, but I have my doubts since it’s the same “elitist” strategy that Republicans wage year in and year out against Dems. Here’s his latest ad… Effective? Maybe. But I have to say that given McCain’s continued campaign throughout the years for “PoliCeleb” status, all of these ads will ultimately ring incredibly hollow. It’s as [...]
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New McCain ad: "Family"
Sort by Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) - 08/06/2008
Barack Obama not only wants to raise income and capital gains taxes, he wants to raise energy taxes. Barack Obama Called For Tax Hikes On "Dirty Energy" Such As Coal And Natural Gas. Obama: "What we ought to tax is dirty energy, like coal and, to a lesser extent, natural gas." ("Q&A With Sen. Barack Obama," San Antonio Express-News, 2/19/08) Meanwhile, and I brought this up in a McCain campaign teleconference...
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He's Not For Anything, He's For Everything
Sort by BAGnewsNotes (Free subscription) - 08/07/2008
Forget "flip flopping" or "I was for it before I was against it." The McCain campaign is reaching for a whole new, supposedly hypocrisy-transcendent state known as: "all of the above" (...in which any policy, or picture, can simultaneously mean one thing and its opposite).
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New McCain Ad: 'Family'
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This new McCain ad asks in its opening line: "Is the biggest celebrity in the world ready to help your family?" (HT - RCC ):
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The latest McCain ad: “Family”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3DxDBH9nn4
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Celebrity 2.0
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McCain repeats a winning theme.
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McCain Ad: Obama Biggest Celebrity In the World
Sort by Politics on the Hudson (Free subscription) - 08/06/2008
John McCain’s new ad today called “Family” asks, “Is the biggest celebrity in the world ready to help your family? The real Obama promises higher taxes, more government spending. So, fewer jobs.” “While Barack Obama is the biggest celebrity in the world, that doesn’t do much to help American families who are hurting from higher gas [...]
