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newsday.com - 8/22/2008
Conservative group places ad questioning Obama relationship to 60's radical William Ayers -
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WASHINGTON (AP) _ A conservative nonprofit group with a past link to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign wants to spend $2.8 million on an ad questioning Democrat Barack Obama's relationship to a founder of the 1960s radical group Weather Underground. The ad, which is expected to begin airing Thursday in Michigan and Friday in Ohio, focuses on William Ayers, whose Weatherman organization ...

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All:  "Daisy" schmazy: THIS is the best. ad. ever.

Nice Deb:  Fox Refuses To Air Anti-Obama/Ayers Ad

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"Daisy" schmazy: THIS is the best. ad. ever.
All — Even FOX is balking at airing this, so please send it around to your pals. Every word in this ad is true; if all Obama can complain about is "tone" (yawn), he's toast:

Fox Refuses To Air Anti-Obama/Ayers Ad
Nice Deb — ... What the heck? What the point of having good, hard hitting ads if stations aren’t going to air them? In case you haven’t already seen it, the ad is awesome: Sure, Obama spokesmen are calling the ad despicable, as expected…but why would a news agency have a problem with it? The truth is the truth. Did Fox give a reason for its refusal to run the ad? No. A Fox spokesman would not say why the network declined to run the ad, which was scheduled to run yesterday, and today in Michigan and Ohio. ...

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