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Sean Bielat's Barney Shuffle Attack Ad Goes Viral
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct. 22) -- With some deliberately crude animation and a kitschy soundtrack, Sean Bielat is bringing new meaning to the phrase "dancing around the issues." The Republic challenger for Barney Frank's Massachusetts 4th Congressional District seat recently released a risky campaign advertisement featuring the 70-year-old Frank strutting his stuff on the dance floor. Although Bielat realizes that the ad may backfire for his campaign, he's willing to take the risk on the basis that "at least it's not boring." This is certainly true. And without further ado, Surge Desk presents the Barney ...
Joe Manchin Guns Down 'Cap and Trade' Bill in New Campaign Ad
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News
(Oct 11) -- Joe Manchin, West Virginia's governor and a Senate candidate, is taking aim at the notion that he's just another Democratic candidate running at a time when Democrats are not doing so well. In his latest campaign advertisement for the 2010 Senate race, Manchin gets decked out in full hunting gear for a back-country excursion to vent some frustrations against the Washington status quo -- specifically cap and trade. See the video for yourself: While he didn't exactly obliterate the cap-and-trade bill as he had hoped, Surge Desk nevertheless commends Manchin on his excellent ...
Coons Counters O'Donnell Witch Ad With Facebook and Twitter Icon
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 5) -- She says she is not a witch, but her opponent says she's not you, either. On Monday, in an attempt to reintroduce herself to Delaware voters, senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell released a now (in)famous ad that opens with the memorable line, "I'm not a witch." The spot comes after an old video clip surfaced of O'Donnell proclaiming that she had "dabbled in witchcraft," and concludes with the candidate proclaiming, "I am you." Not surprisingly, O'Donnell's opponent in the race, Democrat Chris Coons, has seized on the ad, and in less than 24 hours has launched a social ...
Attack Ads: In the Screening Room
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Campaign Attack Ads: As Old As the Edsel
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyIt has been lost in the mists of political history, but a 10-second clip from the 1956 presidential campaign is America's forgotten film classic, the primitive black-and-white precursor of the modern TV attack ad. Cynically exploiting the fears raised by popular President Dwight Eisenhower's heart attack, the cash-strapped Adlai Stevenson campaign aimed its TV arrows at Ike's gutter-fighting vice president. The brief commercial begins with a grainy photograph of a callow-looking Richard Nixon while an off-screen male announcer asks, "Nervous about Nixon? President Nixon?" Spooky ...
Ads Not Adding Up
By Caleb Howe - Politics DailyRedstate's California Yankee has an article up about the DNC attack ad I mentioned here yesterday. The entire controversy surrounds the Hundred Years Roar I've blogged about several times here at Political Machine. It seems that the non-partisan FactCheck.org has looked into the new DNC ad and found it, and another DNC ad, factually wanting. "The ad twists the sense of McCain's words by showing images of war, when he was really talking about a peaceful troop presence. Imagine how different the ad would seem if it showed images of, say, American troops walking the streets of Tokyo or Seoul ...
Dems Plan $40 Million Mac Attack
By Faye Anderson - Politics DailyJohn McCain campaigned in Brooklyn today. Earlier this week, Democrats reportedly were plotting against McCain in the Manhattan apartment of billionaire George Soros. Ben Smith of Politico reports:Wealthy Democrats are preparing a four-month, $40 million media campaign centered on attacks on Senator John McCain. And it will be led by David Brock, the former investigative reporter who first gained fame in the 1990s as a right-wing, anti-Clinton journalist. The planned campaign is the product of a shakeup in the top ranks of the struggling independent Democratic groups. Brock, now best known as ...
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