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Fox Rejects Super Bowl Ad Featuring Bible Verse John 3:16
By David Gibson - Politics DailySuper Bowl ad controversies have become nearly as interesting as the commercials that get on the air, maybe more so, and that's surely the case with the latest spot rejected by Fox Sports: A 30-second ad aimed at getting viewers to check out the familiar gospel verse, John 3:16. So far this year, Fox has nixed commercials over issues of bad taste and inappropriate content -- which is a pretty high bar, given the popularity of frat boy humor and double entendres in Super Bowl ads, or the single-entendre spots that focus the attention so intently on sexy women that viewers don't actually know ...
House Democrats Launch Ad Blitz Against 19 Republicans
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyIn case there was any doubt that the 2012 campaign season is well under way, House Democrats on Monday launched a week-long ad blitz targeting 19 Republicans facing reelection next year. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said the ads -- 17 on radio and two in print -- will hold the GOP lawmakers "accountable for choosing a partisan plan that will cost jobs and make America less competitive." The media campaign is part of the DCCC's "Drive to 25" grassroots endeavor that will also include web ads, phone calls, and emails in targeted districts. A radio spot calling out Rep. Ann ...
TV Ad Hits GOP Freshmen for Voting to Repeal Health Care
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyWell, that didn't take long. Almost immediately after the House voted to repeal Obama's health care law, a liberal-leaning nonprofit called the Public Campaign Action Fund announced it would air TV ads targeting a group of potentially vulnerable freshmen Republicans. The ads will air in the districts of Jim Renacci (R-Ohio), Jon Runyan (R-N.J.) and Tim Walberg (R-Mich.). "These three members of Congress sided with the insurance companies and their donors, and against their constituents yesterday," said David Donnelly, national campaigns director for Public Campaign Action Fund. "They were ...
Jerry Brown: 'The Most Interesting Man in California,' According to Ad
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyA new ad hit the Web late Wednesday: "When reporters interview him, they are known to get lost in his piercing brown eyes," a narrator intones. "He once balanced the state budget with only a stern look." Another one of those hilarious Dos Equis commercials, right? Nope. It's a spot for California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown. Click play below to watch: The minute-long ad was paid for by the state Democratic Party -- which would seem to be very confident in its candidate's chances, judging from the levity of the material with only six days until the election. A poll last week ...
Calvin Klein 'Rape' Ads Banned Down Under
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(Oct. 25) -- A racy Calvin Klein ad showing a nearly naked female model being straddled and held by the hair has been banned in Australia, where officials say it encourages rape and violence. The government's Advertising Standards Bureau has ordered the controversial billboards be removed after declaring the images were "demeaning to women by suggesting that she is a plaything of these men," Australia's Herald Sun reported. Calvin Klein This Calvin Klein ad was banned in Australia because it was deemed "demeaning to women." The black-and-white photo shows supermodel Lara Stone, wearing ...
NRSC Takes Responsibility for 'Hicky' Language in Casting Ad
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyAfter denying it had anything to do with the casting call for "hicky blue collar" workers for a controversial GOP ad targeting West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is now taking responsibility. The NRSC had repeatedly said neither it nor its production company, Jamestown Associates, were behind the "hicky" language that many found insulting, and instead blamed independent talent agent Kathy Wickline. The committee said Thursday it has severed ties with Jamestown Associates after learning the firm, not Wickline, was at fault. The NRSC issued a ...
'Mourning in America' Recalls Ronald Reagan's Famous Ad
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyIn 1984, Ronald Reagan's re-election was helped along by his now-famous series of television ads, which proclaimed it "Morning in America" and struck a sunny, optimistic chord with the electorate. Now a conservative grassroots lobbying group is invoking Reagan by offering a similar ad, but with a dour twist. Called "Mourning in America," the spot by Citizens for the Republic attacks President Barack Obama's "failed" policies, saying the country is "fading, and weaker, and worse off." "There's mourning in America. Today, 15 million men and women won't have the opportunity to go to work," the ...
Bandit Sign Haiku: The Latest Art Installation in Atlanta?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 14) -- Many American commuter roads are dotted with aesthetically ugly and morally dubious small advertisements for loaning agencies, weight-loss plans and other invitations to the gullible and desperate. "Bandit signs," they're called. Now, Atlanta-based artist John Morse has posted 500-some counter-signs throughout his home city, reports the New Yorker: [His] signs came with a unique twist: they were written in the form of a haiku, the traditional Japanese poem that consists of 17 syllables when written in English. Instead of images of nature and the changing seasons, Morse's poems ...
Ad Campaign Goes After Democrats Who Voted for Health Care Reform
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyDemocrats on Capitol Hill who voted for health care reform will be targeted in a multimillion dollar ad campaign by a conservative advocacy group. Revere America's plan was announced Wednesday by former New York Gov. George Pataki, who said the group hoped to spend $5 million to oust Congress members who backed the health care law put into place this year, The New York Times reported. Pataki, the group's chairman, did not name specific lawmakers who would be targeted by the ads, but he said at least one would be in his home state, the Times said. Revere America released an early TV spot ...
Hillary Clinton for President Ads Air in New Orleans, Will Run in Other Cities
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyWhile voters are being inundated with television spots for candidates in this year's midterm elections, viewers in some markets will also see an ad for the 2012 presidential vote with the slogan, "Where there's a Hill there's a way." The "Hillary Clinton for President" commercial began its run in New Orleans this week and the man behind the campaign, William DeJean, said he will also pay for it to air in Washington, New York, Los Angeles and possibly Houston, CNN reported. DeJean, a Chicago dentist, said he paid $5,000 to make the ad because he doesn't think "this country is headed in the ...
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